Lenovo buying IBM’s x86 server business last year had a significant impact on both vendors, with IBM being the only major server OEM to lose revenue (a 42.8 to 44.6 percent drop), while Lenovo ...

Alternatives to the x86, such as the EPIC (explicitly parallel instruction computing) architecture in Itanium processors from Intel and Hewlett-Packard, RISC architecture in Sun’s Sparc and IBM ...

IBM and Lenovo closed on the sale of IBM’s x86 server business to Lenovo two years ago. It’s hard to find examples where the transfer of assets between two direct competitors work out well for ...

The EX5 servers take a step away from traditional x86 server architecture in which processors and memory are locked together. The new server architecture decouples memory from the processors into ...

While the 40-year-old x86 architecture is king of public cloud today, ... Windows Server 2016 provides deployment configurations for Nano Server VMs, ...

Following a three-year engineering effort to develop dramatically more scalable, workload-tuned computing on the x86 platform, Armonk, NY-based technology giant IBM detailed Tuesday its eX5 servers ...

But it is also breaking some new ground because it was built around Sun Fire V20z, Sun's first Opteron processor-based server. Sun claims the V20z is the industry's fastest secure Web server. Also, ...

Based on revenue, the x86 enjoyed 50% market share in 2006, Bailey said. By 2011, x86’s revenue market share to will increase to 56%. Virtualization is technology that allows a server to run ...

When IBM sold its x86 server business to Lenovo in 2014, the company exited the enterprise Intel architecture business. The company had helped define this market for over three decades with the ...

IBM's new eX5 x86-based server architecture moves the server memory into a separate drawer and drastically increases the amount of memory available for improved scalability, especially in ...

AMD broke its reliance on the x86 architecture in October last year when it announced that it had licensed ARM’s 64-bit architecture and would sell ARM-based server processors next year.