Database software
With the volumes of digital data used by businesses growing at exponential rates, having the right information management and database software becomes key to corporate decision-making. While established products such as Oracle, DB2 and Informix remain widely used, open source alternatives such as MySQL and Ingres offer potential alternatives for IT managers. We examine the issues around choosing the right products and strategies for your organisation.
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News
09 Sep 2024
How MongoDB is driving AI adoption in ASEAN
MongoDB field CTO Boris Bialek delves into how the company is supporting ASEAN organisations in their AI journey, highlighting the importance of data governance and real-time capabilities in driving successful adoption Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
18 Jul 2024
Neo4j eyes GenAI workloads in APAC
Neo4j is targeting GenAI workloads in the fast-growing APAC market by leveraging knowledge graphs to improve the accuracy and explainability of large language models Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
15 Oct 2024
Hillingdon Council commits £9m to tech revamp in digital strategy
Hillingdon’s three-year digital strategy will see the council fund attempts to modernise its systems and infrastructure, change how residents interact with the local authority and make better use of data Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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Blog Post
04 Oct 2024
Green coding - Nutanix report: Energy efficient datacentres could save billions
The green coding imperative is real and it stems from the ground up (i.e. the command line) and from the cloud down. As we continue to pursue initiatives in this space, it’s worth reflecting upon ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
01 Oct 2024
Neo4j on ISO GQL: A defining moment in the history of database innovation
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Philip Rathle in his role as chief technology officer at Neo4j. Neo4J offers developer services to power applications with ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
24 Sep 2024
NetApp Insight 2024 - Live show report: day zero
Intelligent data infrastructure company NetApp staged its annual user, practitioner & partner conference this week in Las Vegas. Attending a “day zero” pre-event session of briefings before ... Continue Reading
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News
23 Sep 2024
Metro Bank outsources IT to Infosys to cut costs and digitally transform
Indian IT services giant taken on to support Metro Bank’s digital transformation in multi-year deal Continue Reading
By- Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA
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Definition
13 Sep 2024
What is NoSQL (Not Only SQL database)?
NoSQL is an approach to database management that can accommodate a wide variety of data models, including key-value, document, columnar and graph formats. Continue Reading
By- Kinza Yasar, Technical Writer
- Craig S. Mullins, Mullins Consulting
- Jack Vaughan
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Definition
12 Sep 2024
What is a data fabric?
A data fabric is an architecture and software offering a unified collection of data assets, databases and database architectures within an enterprise. Continue Reading
By- Kinza Yasar, Technical Writer
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Feature
11 Sep 2024
Storage technology explained: Vector databases at the core of AI
We look at the use of vector data in AI and how vector databases work, plus vector embedding, the challenges for storage of vector data and the key suppliers of vector database products Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
10 Sep 2024
Oracle lauds customers and cloud collaboration at CloudWorld ’24
Oracle’s leadership was in celebratory mood opening its annual CloudWorld jamboree, and with its announcement of a new cloud partnership with AWS, multicloud futures were high on everyone’s agenda Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
09 Sep 2024
At CloudWorld, Oracle completes hyperscaler trifecta with AWS
Oracle opens up its annual CloudWorld event with a plethora of announcements, launching a partnership with cloud giant AWS and expanding previously announced tie-ups with Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
09 Sep 2024
How MongoDB is driving AI adoption in ASEAN
MongoDB field CTO Boris Bialek delves into how the company is supporting ASEAN organisations in their AI journey, highlighting the importance of data governance and real-time capabilities in driving successful adoption Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Feature
28 Aug 2024
Updating taxation: Can AI and data analysis help with HMRC’s human resources problem?
HMRC resources are currently thinly spready in the aftermath of Covid and Brexit. Could automating systems using generative AI help HMRC’s digital transformation? Continue Reading
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Definition
27 Aug 2024
What is Structured Query Language (SQL)?
Structured Query Language (SQL) is a standardized programming language that is used to manage relational databases and perform various operations on the data in them. Continue Reading
By- Kinza Yasar, Technical Writer
- Peter Loshin, Former Senior Technology Editor
- Jessica Sirkin
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News
13 Aug 2024
Oracle Exadata Exascale: Big architecture shift for small workloads
Exascale is multitenant architecture for Oracle Database that promises performance equal to dedicated infrastructure and savings compared with existing products, with AI workloads in mind Continue Reading
By- Gaétan Raoul, LeMagIT
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Blog Post
01 Aug 2024
Hazelcast adds vector search
Hazelcast has made sure it keeps its platform progression evolving in line with current major trends and now introduced vector search. As TechTarget reminds us, vector search (sometimes referred to ... Continue Reading
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News
30 Jul 2024
How India is driving road safety with technology
Traffic departments, law enforcers and new-tech players are betting on technology tools such as AI-powered drones and mobile apps to improve road safety across India Continue Reading
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E-Zine
30 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike blue screen bug serves a stark warning
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we analyse the lessons from the global IT outage caused by the blue screen bug in CrowdStrike security software. We talk to the data chief of Barilla, the €4bn pasta maker, about the benefits of asking, “So what?” And we find out how Finland is taking a lead on quantum computing. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Definition
29 Jul 2024
What is denormalization and how does it work?
Denormalization is the process of adding precomputed redundant data to an otherwise normalized relational database to improve read performance. Continue Reading
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Feature
29 Jul 2024
Cloud databases: Base jumping for the bigger picture
In the era of cloud-native computing, graph and NoSQL have emerged as two alternatives to the relational database model Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 Jul 2024
Overture Maps Foundation charts open maps datasets
The Overture Maps Foundation is described as a “collaborative effort” to enable current and next-generation interoperable open map services and products. The organisation has now announced the ... Continue Reading
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Tip
24 Jul 2024
Cloud database comparison: AWS, Microsoft, Google and Oracle
Here's a look at the rival cloud database offerings from AWS, Google, Microsoft and Oracle based on their product breadth, migration capabilities and pricing models. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
24 Jul 2024
Snowflake goes massive on Meta LLM for open source inference difference
Snowflake says it will now host the Llama 3.1 collection of multilingual open source large language models (LLMs) in Snowflake Cortex AI for developers to build AI applications. The Data Cloud ... Continue Reading
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News
23 Jul 2024
Innovations to power secure-by-design development
Secure Code Warrior unveils technology designed to help CISOs and AppSec teams ensure their projects remain safe and free of coding errors and vulnerabilities – a big issue following the CrowdStrike incident Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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Blog Post
23 Jul 2024
Cohesity CTO: Turning 'backup into heads-up' through generative AI
The Computer Weekly Developer Network sat down this month with Mark Molyneux, EMEA CTO at Cohesity to examine the methodologies, principles and practices that underpin a more proactive ... Continue Reading
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Feature
22 Jul 2024
Riding the cloud database wave
There is set to be a surge in demand for cloud databases, driven by new use cases and greater decentralised IT spending Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
18 Jul 2024
Neo4j eyes GenAI workloads in APAC
Neo4j is targeting GenAI workloads in the fast-growing APAC market by leveraging knowledge graphs to improve the accuracy and explainability of large language models Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Definition
17 Jul 2024
What is a vector database?
A vector database is a type of database technology that's used to store, manage and search vector embeddings, numerical representations of unstructured data that are also referred to simply as vectors. Continue Reading
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Video
15 Jul 2024
An explanation of CIA triad
In information security CIA stands for confidentiality, integrity and availability. Continue Reading
By- Sabrina Polin, Managing Editor
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E-Zine
09 Jul 2024
How data drives decisions at BAE Systems
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to the chief data officer of one of the UK’s biggest manufacturers, BAE Systems, about data strategy and diversity. Microsoft’s claims over sovereign cloud for government IT are under scrutiny – we examine the issues. And our latest buyer’s guide looks at trends in cloud databases. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Opinion
27 Jun 2024
Databricks bids to marry AI and BI
At its recent Data+AI Summit, data platform provider Databricks introduced a product that might be a harbinger of a new wave of AI-backed Business Intelligence Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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Definition
25 Jun 2024
database management system (DBMS)
A database management system (DBMS) is a software system for creating and managing databases. Continue Reading
By- Kinza Yasar, Technical Writer
- Craig S. Mullins, Mullins Consulting
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Blog Post
18 Jun 2024
Confluent: Embrace data streaming to accelerate AI development
Data streaming company Confluent likes to talk about, well, data streaming mainly. In something of an effort to validate its position in the data streaming market, the company’s 2024 Data Streaming ... Continue Reading
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Definition
31 May 2024
CQRS (command query responsibility segregation)
CQRS (command query responsibility segregation) is a programming design and architectural pattern that treats retrieving data and changing data differently. Continue Reading
By- Rahul Awati
- Kinza Yasar, Technical Writer
- Matt Heusser, Excelon Development
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News
20 May 2024
DataStax launches on-premise GenAI in ‘hyper-converged’ format
NoSQL database specialist adds generative AI for datacentre deployments where cloud is a no-no for cost, security or compliance reasons, with a focus on vector storage Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
14 May 2024
NetApp upgrades AFF all-flash as it targets AI storage
New AFF arrays offer performance boost for artificial intelligence, while NetApp trumpets its advantages as a provider of sustainable and intelligent infrastructure for all kinds of workloads Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Definition
01 May 2024
database administrator (DBA)
A database administrator (DBA) is the information technician responsible for directing and performing all activities related to maintaining and securing a successful database environment. Continue Reading
By- Kinza Yasar, Technical Writer
- Craig S. Mullins, Mullins Consulting
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News
29 Apr 2024
Inside Oracle’s cloud adoption journey
Oracle CIO Jae Evans outlines the company’s approach to migrating its own infrastructure and applications to cloud and what customers can learn from its cloud journey Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Podcast
25 Apr 2024
Podcast: How to prepare your data for digital transformation
We talk to Chris Gorton, EMEA managing director at Syniti, about how to prepare data for digital transformation Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
17 Apr 2024
ODI and Arup collaborate on data-sharing initiative to help companies reach net-zero goals
The built environment is responsible for 40% of the UK’s carbon footprint. Better data sharing could be the key to reducing that Continue Reading
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News
16 Apr 2024
CW Innovation Awards: Gleaning data insights with AI
Hong Kong-based Citic Telecom CPC has built a data platform that leverages large language models to generate insights and speed up data retrieval and analysis Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
10 Apr 2024
Salesforce helps customers establish bug bounty programmes
Salesforce has added new learning content to its Trailhead platform designed to help customers develop their own bug bounty programmes Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
28 Mar 2024
HM Treasury builds out its data science team
Team of data scientists expands as Treasury looks to drive ‘data transformation’ across department Continue Reading
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News
27 Mar 2024
Generative AI: Databricks unveils open source large language model
Enterprise customers are shifting to open source options to build customised generative AI tools using their own data, says Databricks Continue Reading
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Feature
26 Mar 2024
Different types of database management systems explained
The various types of database software come with advantages, limitations and optimal uses that prospective buyers should be aware of before choosing a DBMS. Continue Reading
By- Craig S. Mullins, Mullins Consulting
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News
20 Mar 2024
Oracle Cloud: A discussion about public cloud, dedicated regions and Alloy
We speak to Oracle cloud chief technical architect Pradeep Vincent about cloud deployment scenarios Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
20 Mar 2024
SAP S/4HANA data migration beset by poor and fragmented strategy
Survey finds customers transitioning to S/4HANA lack strategic thinking and skills, can’t access data, face challenges in data duplication, can’t use AI, and worry about compliance Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Blog Post
19 Mar 2024
DataStax drives high-performance RAG for AI
DataStax appears to have changed its name. Once the enterprise database company, the organisation then became the real-time vector database company… then, after a while, it became the real-time AI ... Continue Reading
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Definition
15 Mar 2024
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that supports a wide variety of transaction processing, business intelligence (BI) and data analytics applications in corporate IT environments. Continue Reading
By- Rahul Awati
- Adam Hughes
- Craig Stedman, Industry Editor
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Blog Post
06 Mar 2024
Cockroach CEO: Resilience breeds robust scalability for regulated data zones
Spencer Kimball knows the City of London. He makes it his business to be in town (typically) at least once a year to meet with the company’s customers in the UK and European financial markets. As ... Continue Reading
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News
30 Jan 2024
Oracle to fine-tune AI for the enterprise
Oracle AI developments aim to blend enterprise data and LLMs across its technology stack and SaaS portfolio Continue Reading
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Definition
25 Jan 2024
Google Bigtable
Google Bigtable is a distributed, column-oriented data store created by Google Inc. to handle very large amounts of structured data associated with the company's Internet search and Web services operations. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
23 Jan 2024
Knowledge Management 2.0: have we found a way to make KM work?
This is a blogpost by Jim Webber, Chief Scientist at Neo4j, on how tech has finally caught up with ideas. To a computer, classifying things in the real world can be a bit of a puzzle. We’ve taught ... Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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Feature
11 Dec 2023
ERP’s storage requirements and options in the cloud
We look under the hood at enterprise resource planning and its databases, the storage needed to support ERP’s I/O requirements, block, file and object storage, and ERP in an era of hybrid cloud Continue Reading
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Blog Post
04 Dec 2023
Actian forges IaaS links to bridge data silos
Actian is the data and analytics division of HCLSoftware. HCLSoftware itself is a Texas-headquartered cloud-native company that styles itself as a so-cal;ed ‘solution factory’ for enterprise ... Continue Reading
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News
08 Nov 2023
SAP touts Business Technology Platform as foundation for S/4Hana migrations
SAP claims its Business Technology Platform can help customers ease their transition to S/4Hana and lay the foundation for artificial intelligence initiatives Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
02 Nov 2023
How the UK crime agency repurposed Amazon cloud platform to analyse EncroChat cryptophone data
UK crime agency repurposed AWS-based analytics platform to triage EncroChat data and identify threats to life in messages sent on encrypted phone network Continue Reading
By- Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly
- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
02 Nov 2023
SAP lays out generative AI strategy
SAP is incorporating generative AI capabilities into software development and the Hana database, prioritising data privacy and use cases that drive efficiency and cost savings for customers Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Blog Post
01 Nov 2023
From groundfrost to cloud, Cohesity puts SmartFiles on Snowflake
Data management matters, whether the process involved with locking down its existence are executed in the permafrost (on-premises) or in the frozen mists of the troposphere (cloud) as they circle ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
31 Oct 2023
DataStax LangChain integration builds new link to gen-AI for developers
The open source Apache Cassandra database of course has given rise to DataStax, the company known for commercially supported services related to the database itself. Now describing itself as the ... Continue Reading
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News
19 Oct 2023
How AWS is building a tech stack for generative AI
Olivier Klein, chief technologist for Asia-Pacific and Japan at Amazon Web Services, dives deeper into the technology stack the company has built to ease GenAI adoption Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Blog Post
18 Oct 2023
Airbyte snaps on vector database connectors
Data scientists loves vector databases, this year more than ever. Why is this so? Because vector databases have the ability to detect and identify relationships in data, so their usage has become ... Continue Reading
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News
16 Oct 2023
Oracle’s Steve Miranda: Customers nearing inflection point with Fusion
In a Q&A with Computer Weekly at Oracle Open World, applications head Steve Miranda discussed how its customers are moving from project-driven to business-driven approaches, and how GenAI is for real Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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Blog Post
12 Oct 2023
DataStax HQ Study Tour 2023
It’s always good to speak to real software engineers inside the actual organisations that they work within; as such, getting away from the formalised staged sessions that make up the annual ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
26 Sep 2023
Confluent Current 2023: A journey around the data streaming universe
Data streaming company staged the Current 2023 conference and exhibition this month in the heart of Silicon Valley in San Jose. Keen to explain how its platform has expanded its core ... Continue Reading
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Feature
20 Sep 2023
Toyota car plant outage shows database capacity planning is vital
How could database deletes and re-organisation take out car production for 36 hours at 14 plants? We drill down into the details of database capacity planning Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
15 Sep 2023
Microsoft to offer Oracle cloud database on Azure
Oracle and Microsoft have trumpeted an expansion of their joint activity with the launch of Oracle Database@Azure. Microsoft will be the only other hyperscaler to offer OCI services Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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Podcast
12 Sep 2023
Podcast: ‘Data first’ a key principle of digital transformation
Chris Gorton of Syniti says organisations should put data first during digital transformation projects, and that means getting data quality, access rights and governance right Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
05 Sep 2023
London Stock Exchange plans blockchain-based market
The London Stock Exchange plans to have a blockchain-based trading venue available in the next 12 months Continue Reading
By- Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA
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Blog Post
04 Sep 2023
Dremio: Understanding Apache Iceberg (the data lakehouse backbone)
This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Alex Merced in his capacity as developer advocate (and data lakehouse evangelist) at Dremio - as explained here the Dremio ... Continue Reading
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News
18 Aug 2023
MongoDB secures IRAP certification
MongoDB’s certification from Australia’s Information Security Registered Assessor Program will pave the way for federal government agencies to use its Atlas database service for protected workloads Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Blog Post
11 Aug 2023
What to expect from Current 2023
Hosted by Confluent, Current 2023 is all about data streaming. Respectfully not even putting its company name in the title of the event to show deference and honour to the open source mantra that ... Continue Reading
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News
01 Aug 2023
Vast Data Platform aims at storage everywhere for AI/ML workloads
Vast Data to offer storage with data lake and warehouse functionality built in natively, in anticipation of a huge surge in AI/ML workloads and a need for ever-larger data stores Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Blog Post
24 Jul 2023
CWDN series: Dev-eXperience – Cockroach Labs: Building for the 99% in day 2
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jordan Lewis in his capacity as senior director for cloud engineering at Cockroach Labs. Lewis writes in full as follows... ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
24 Jul 2023
Yugabyte: Decoding the claim of PostgreSQL compatibility
This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written in full by Karthik Ranganathan, co-founder and CTO, Yugabyte. Yugabyte is known for its distributed SQL database for what the ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 Jul 2023
Neo4j gens-up in Google Cloud LLM
Neo4j is a graph database & analytics company that says its mission is to help organisations ‘find hidden relationships and patterns’ across billions of data connections. The company recently ... Continue Reading
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News
05 Jul 2023
Allo Bank taps Tencent Cloud in digital banking
Indonesia’s largest digital lender is tapping Tencent Cloud’s TDSQL database management system and cloud infrastructure to provide digital banking services for six million customers Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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E-Zine
04 Jul 2023
How data is beating heart disease
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we find out how a new data strategy is helping the British Heart Foundation to raise money and support medical research. We examine the benefits of using AI in advanced malware detection. And we reveal why the Information Commissioner is under fire for weak responses to serious data breaches. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
27 Jun 2023
Snowflake Native App Framework heats up developer distribution & monetisation
Known for its love of data engineering, toboggans, polar bears and information-centric application monetisation platforms, the Computer Weekly Developer Network team needed little persuasion to ... Continue Reading
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News
25 Jun 2023
Aussie-built database migration tool makes global debut
MongoDB’s engineering team in Australia has built a database migration tool to help customers migrate traditional relational databases to its document database Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Blog Post
22 Jun 2023
MongoDB developer capabilities target ‘operational overhead’
Project lead: Let’s build some data-centric apps! Developers: Hmm, you sound too keen - and anyway, how screwy is the requirements-gathering process and what crazy requests have we got from the ... Continue Reading
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News
21 Jun 2023
Software spending grows fastest as finance firms spend $652bn on tech in 2023
Banks and investment firms are increasing their spending on IT despite gloomy economic outlook, but priorities have changed Continue Reading
By- Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA
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News
12 Jun 2023
Progress Software releases patch for second MOVEit Transfer vulnerability
Progress Software releases a patch for a second MOVEit Transfer issue, which was uncovered by third-party security specialist Huntress Security during post-incident code scanning Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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Blog Post
05 Jun 2023
Couchbase Capella extends developer platform integrations
Cloud database platform company Couchbase has broadly extended its Database-as-a-Service Couchbase Capella. Capella is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Auriga - the branding gang ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
23 May 2023
Cohesity: team-up to toughen up, new alliance members & sharper integrations
Data management is the lifeblood of applications, obviously, along with the core software application code substrate from which apps are built and developed in the first place, the need to form ... Continue Reading
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News
16 May 2023
APAC digital leaders score wins in innovation awards
The region’s top industry innovators were recognised for their digital transformation efforts at the Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2023 Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
16 May 2023
CW Innovation Awards: SensorFlow reaps returns with re-architecture
Smart building management specialist SensorFlow re-architected its entire platform to reduce cost, complexity and implement a real-time business intelligence dashboard for its customers Continue Reading
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News
15 May 2023
CW Innovation Awards: How open source mapping is bringing clean water to Andhra Pradesh
The state government of Andhra Pradesh has digitised information on water supply pipelines and implemented a geographical information system to help deliver clean drinking water to rural communities Continue Reading
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News
21 Apr 2023
UK biometrics watchdog questions police cloud deployments
The UK biometrics commissioner has warned that policing and justice bodies must be able to demonstrate ‘immediately and unequivocally’ that their cloud deployments are lawful Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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Blog Post
14 Apr 2023
Percona engineering lead: Into the ‘open’ database universe
This is a guest post written for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Barrett Chambers in his capability as director for solutions engineering at open source database specialist company ... Continue Reading
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News
13 Apr 2023
How Agoda is shaping up to be a technology powerhouse
Agoda’s CTO Idan Zalzberg explains why the online travel agency with a massive technology footprint prefers to run things in-house and not rely too much on public cloud services Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Blog Post
06 Apr 2023
Auto-tech series - Cockroach Labs: IaC shifts the path for (automation-driven) data availability
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Rob Reid in his position as technical evangelist for Cockroach Labs, maker of the enterprise-grade distributed SQL ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
04 Apr 2023
Auto-tech series - Cohesity: How diverse threads of automation tighten the data fabric
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written in full by Mark Molyneux in his position as EMEA CTO for Cohesity - a firm known for its data management platform ... Continue Reading
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News
30 Mar 2023
Wales is building a dragon of an NHS app
As NHS Wales is due to launch the public version of its own app, Computer Weekly takes a deep dive into the technical aspects of the Welsh NHS app, future plans and whether the expectations for the programme have stacked up to reality Continue Reading
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Feature
27 Mar 2023
How APCOA is using big data to reinvent car parks
Car park operator APCOA is using big data to transform traditional car parks into mobility hubs that will offer electric vehicle charging, space for small businesses and depots for delivery companies Continue Reading
By- Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly
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Feature
17 Mar 2023
Vast Data’s ‘Act 2’ builds data management layer on QLC flash
Vast Data offers QLC flash bulk storage with a rapid cache I/O layer. Now, it has embarked on offering big data, analytics and application access to highly available data stores Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Podcast
10 Mar 2023
Podcast: Why DBaaS and what problems does it solve?
We talk to Tobias Ternström of Nutanix about how the enterprise landscape has seen thousands of databases from multiple vendors mushroom and how database as a service can help manage that complexity Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Definition
07 Mar 2023
MongoDB
MongoDB is an open source NoSQL database management program. Continue Reading
By- Alexander S. Gillis, Technical Writer and Editor
- Bridget Botelho, Editorial Director, News
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Feature
27 Feb 2023
Unstructured data and the storage it needs
We look at unstructured and semi-structured data and find increasing amounts of production workloads that have their own storage hardware – file and object – needs, including flash Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
22 Feb 2023
Institute for Government cautions government to draw right lessons from pandemic
The Institute for Government has published a policy document warning government not to draw wrong lessons from data sharing during pandemic Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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Blog Post
13 Feb 2023
DataStax builds Astra Block for Web3
Apache Cassandra enterprise database company has pushed its focus on what it calls real-time AI development further outwards with a new Web3-focused creation. The organisation’s Astra Block is a ... Continue Reading