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.

Practical X86-virtualization, as pioneered by VMware, has profoundly changed IT, in a way that no other technology advance has ever done before. Once perfected, the insertion of a thin virtualization ...

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 ...

Back at the end of July, we had a discussion with CPU maker AMD and the topic of conversation was hybrid cloud. In the course ...

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 ...

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Sun Microsystems Inc. this week plans to announce new x86-based server products, including one that can support up to eight dual-core chips. In doing so, Sun is betting that IT managers will ...

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 ...

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 ...

Say goodbye to underpowered SBCs and noisy desktops. There's a new contender in town for your Jellyfin server.

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 ...