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.

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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 ...

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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 ...

Susan Whitney, the executive who for six years has overseen IBM's attempt to bring some brawn to x86 servers, is retiring. Whitney, 56, was replaced Thursday by Rich Hume, formerly general manager of ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. this week plans to announce new x86-based server products, including one that can support up to eight dual-core chips. In doing so, Sun is betting that IT managers will ...

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 ...