HP Systems Get A Bump Thanks To IBM-Lenovo Deal
The expected drawn-out regulatory approval process for IBM's sale of its System x X86 server business to Lenovo Group has put some bounce into the X86 server line from ...Full Article
Uncle Sam Approves IBM X86 Server Biz Sale To Lenovo
Big Blue has cleared the last major hurdle block its proposed $2.3 billion sale of its System x X86 server business and the licensing of key software and storage ...Full Article
Oracle Cranks Up The Cores To 32 With Sparc M7 Chip
Say what you will about Oracle co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison, but when the software giant bought Sun Microsystems more than four years ago, for $7.4 billion, he said ...Full Article
Applied Micro Plots Out X-Gene ARM Server Future
At the Hot Chips 26 conference being hosted in Silicon Valley this week, upstart ARM server chip maker Applied Micro is presenting details on its roadmap for its X-Gene ...Full Article
AMD Details “Seattle” ARM Server Chip
The annual Hot Chips conference is underway this week in Silicon Valley, and there is not much on the enterprise front on day one. Japanese supercomputer makers NEC and ...Full Article
Dell Sees Server Uptick, Awaits Demand For ARM
Dell is no longer a public company, so we can't look at its quarterly financial results to get a sense of how its various business units are doing. But, ...Full Article
IBM Chip Talks Stall as Focus Shifts to R&D
IBM Microelectronics' fire sale of its flagging semiconductor unit has yet hit another snag after talks between the company and potential suitor Globalfoundries reportedly broke down over how much ...Full Article
The Beginnings Of Hyperscale At Google
Fifteen years ago, Google did what every startup on the Internet dreams of: It closed its first round of venture funding, put out its first press release, and took ...Full Article
MLB Goes Virtual As Stat Apps Enter The Lineup
The cloud and networking technology behind the business of Major League Baseball is increasingly based on virtualization that is replacing the monolithic, physical infrastructure built up over the last ...Full Article
Shared Memory Clusters: Observations On Processor Virtualization
In the preceding articles on Shared Memory Clusters, I have been making a distinction between truly distributed systems – those that must explicitly copy data between systems – and ...Full Article
