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High Frequency Traders Hedge Bets With IBM Power
Banks, hedge funds, high frequency traders, and other players in the capital markets have a need for speed. IBM thinks that its Power-based systems are better suited for running ...Full Article
HP Will Chase IBM Accounts To Grow Datacenter Biz
Sales of servers, storage, switching, software, and services at Hewlett-Packard's Enterprise Group were up a smidgen in its most recent quarter, but like its peers in the IT space, ...Full Article
Stacking Up Xeon E7 v2 Chips Against The Competition
Since Intel entered the server market formally in 1993, it has used its prowess in manufacturing and its ever-expanding sophistication in chip design to knock countless competitive chips out ...Full Article
Google Tests Homegrown Power8 Servers
Ever since Google joined as one of the first members of the OpenPower Consortium that IBM started last year, everyone has been wondering what Google is up to. The ...Full Article
First X86 Servers, Now IBM Wants Out Of Chips?
IBM may be looking to part ways with its semiconductor manufacturing business. Citing a person familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal reports that IBM is considering selling ...Full Article
IBM Jumpgate: An OpenStack Translator For Proprietary Clouds
While the OpenStack cloud controller has certainly garnered lots of praise and enthusiasm in the past couple of years, there are still not that many public clouds based on ...Full Article
IBM System x GM Talks About The Future With Lenovo
It has been almost a year since the first rumors surfaced that IBM was looking to sell off its X86 server business and that Lenovo Group emerged as the ...Full Article
Inside IBM’s SoftLayer Cloud Build Out
Big companies like to orchestrate their announcements, and it is probably not a coincidence that IBM announced its plan to build out its SoftLayer public cloud just ahead of ...Full Article
Cloud Price War Rages As Microsoft Cuts Azure Storage Prices
Microsoft promised last year it would compete head-to-head with Amazon Web Services for compute and storage capacity on its public cloud, and it has made good on that promise ...Full Article
Lenovo Enters Datacenters With $2.3 Billion IBM X86 Server Deal
The many thousands of large enterprise customers, government agencies, and supercomputer labs that depend on IBM System x, BladeCenter, iDataPlex, and PureSystems servers will soon have a new partner: ...Full Article