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 ...

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 ...

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If Apple were to make an x86 edition of Mac OS X Server, how would it compare to the likes of Windows 2000 Server and Linux? Would it be worth porting over, since it's not really marketed towards ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...