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.

Shipments of servers powered by x86 processors will not grow as fast as previously forecast, but x86 will remain the dominant chip design, IDC said in a report Tuesday. The market researcher has ...

Practical X86-virtualization, as pioneered by VMware, has profoundly changed IT, in a way that no other technology advance has ever done before. Once perfected, the insertion of a thin virtualization ...

The Boston Viridis ARM based servers will use the Breeze tool of Cambridge software company Ellexus to migrate x86 applications to ARM. “Our software, Breeze is being promoted by Boston and ARM as a ...

Hey all, I have a print server running Windows 2003 R2 Standard x86. I'm slowly testing some x64 Win 7 Pro clients in this environment. Is there anything tricky about adding x64 print drivers for the ...

Hewlett-Packard Co. is considering a different route to 64-bit technology than it has previously discussed, opening the door for HP servers based on processors that use extensions to the x86 ...

Computer tech company Lenovo is set to soon complete its US$2.1bn acquisition of tech giant IBM’s x86 server business that will make Lenovo the third-largest operator in the global x86 server market.

The first set of comprehensive benchmarks on serious ARM server hardware are in -- and they're impressive. While the Cortex-A9 isn't suitable for every workload, it challenges Intel in some ...

IBM on Tuesday used the CeBIT trade show in Germany to unveil its new eX5 line of servers which allows memory to scale to up to four times that of existing servers, said Roland Hagan, vice president ...

Sales growth for x86 servers slowed in the fourth quarter of 2006 as buyers adopted virtualization technology and waited for quad-core processors, according to a Gartner report released Thursday.