When Curt Schumacher began working at the Chicago Board Options Exchange nearly a quarter century ago, the question of what hardware platforms to use to support the business was relatively simple.

One of the reasons why Dell spent $60 billion on the EMC-VMware conglomerate was to become the top supplier of infrastructure in the corporate datacenter. But even before the deal closed, Dell was on ...

IBM, which sold its PC and ThinkPad notebook business to Lenovo nine years ago, has now agreed to sell its x86 server business to the Chinese computer giant in a $2.3 billion blockbuster deal. The ...

The $2.1 billion deal ups Lenovo's enterprise offerings, as it takes the No. 3 spot in the x86 server market behind HP and Dell. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former ...

IBM is using the formal unveiling of the next-generation Xeon processors from Intel today to launch a new high-density architecture that will provide a foundation for a broad range of forthcoming IBM ...

Lenovo and IBM on Thursday said they finally came to a deal under which Lenovo will acquire part of IBM's server business for about $2.3 billion in cash and Lenovo shares. The headlines, and much of ...

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Advanced Micro Devices had no plans to release low-power x86 server chips until the release of its ARM-based servers in 2014, but sagging server fortunes have changed the company’s direction. The ...

I was hoping we'd hear about a new high-end x86 core since there hasn't been a completely new performance or server core from AMD in several years, but the company didn't announce one. Michael is CIO ...

AMD’s move three years ago to rely on ARM for server chips is turning out to be a big mistake. The company is putting its faith back in x86 chips as it seeks a reboot in servers, a market in which the ...

Software company SAP disrupted the database and application markets with the first release of Hana in 2010. Five years later, IBM and SAP disrupted the market again by introducing the database ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about disruptive companies, technologies and usage models. Basically, China wants their “own” hardware and software for ...