Lenovo plans to acquire IBM’s x86 server business for $2.3 billion, the companies said today. With the deal, Lenovo gets IBM's System x, BladeCenter and Flex System blade servers and switches, NeXtScale and iDataPlex servers.
Suzhou PowerCore licenses IBM POWER technology to develop and market chips for servers in China, Cirrascale makes power infrastructure improvements to its BladeRack 2 F-Series platform, and Tolly Group testing finds Fusion-io ioControl outperforms...
IBM is kicking cloud expansion into high gear this year, planning to invest $1.2 billion in expanding its cloud infrastructure to 15 new data centers worldwide.
IBM's latest iteration of its Enterprise-X architecture includes Flash and a modular design, making it suitable to move big, intensive applications to the cloud and extending the life of the server through hot swapping capabilities.
Soflayer, an IBM company, now hosts over 130 million gamers worldwide. The company continues to enjoy good traction amongst the gaming vertical.
IBM announced an agreement to acquire Emeryville, California-based Aspera, which helps companies securely speed the movement of massive data files around the world.
IBM and Business Partner Bechtle AG have won a $115-million contract with the European Commission for System x and Flex Systems servers and services.
In a move that could help expand the market for graphics processing units (GPUs), NVIDIA and IBM will collaborate on GPU-accelerated versions of IBM's wide portfolio of enterprise software applications on IBM Power Systems.
ARM secures new processor licensing agreements with IBM and Chinese semiconductor provider Spreadtrum to continue its worldwide growth in network and communications markets.
IBM has a new patent which dynamically moves virtual machines to a new cloud node with available network capacity once the system senses a network bandwidth shortage.