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 ...

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Silicon Graphics Inc. last week added low-cost options, including an x86-based server, to its product line, as it continues its effort to return to profitability after its bankruptcy filing in May.

Big Blue on Monday said it is OEMing its System p Application Virtual Environment (System p AVE) software from Transitive, a Los Gatos, Calif.-based company that develops technology that allows ...

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 ...

Shipments of x86 servers grew 9.5 percent during the third quarter as Unix server shipments fell, though some companies reported increased Unix revenue As adoption of x86 servers increased globally, ...

Comstar can repurpose any OpenSolaris-based x86 server into a block-based storage device capable of emulating the physical characteristics of a storage array Sun Microsystems is set to unveil Friday ...