Vendors and Providers

Microsoft unveils new betas for SQL Server 2016, Azure Data Lake services

Announcements are another step in the company's big data push

Outlook for iOS and Android gets a subtle redesign as Microsoft moves to unite email apps

Sunrise Calendar will be subsumed into the app in the future

IBM snaps up Weather.com and more in Watson IoT push

Also this week IBM announced six new partners using Watson to develop new apps

Cisco acquires a third company this week

1 Mainstream has a cloud-based video service networking giant needs

Oracle’s Larry Ellison decries poor state of security, says he’s fixed it

Ellison claims Oracle's new servers would have stopped Heartbleed in its tracks

First look: Microsoft Azure Active Directory Domain Services puts it all in the cloud

Microsoft’s advice: Hang up on tech support scammers

'We've got to put somebody in jail for these folks to take us seriously,' counters Sen. McCaskill (D-Missouri)

LTE-U: A quick explainer

Cisco buying Lancope for $450M

Network analysis tools bolster Security Everywhere initiative

IBM stirs Spark-as-a-service into IBM Bluemix

The new IBM Analytics on Apache Spark service is designed to allow developers to infuse applications on the Bluemix cloud platform with real-time analytics.