{"id":10123,"date":"2014-01-28T12:05:43","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T12:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2014\/jan\/28\/ibm-refocuses-hardware-strategy-on-high-value-technologies\/"},"modified":"2014-01-28T12:05:43","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T12:05:43","slug":"ibm-refocuses-hardware-strategy-on-high-value-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/ibm-refocuses-hardware-strategy-on-high-value-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM refocuses hardware strategy on high-value technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Roy Illsley, Principal Analyst, Ovum Software<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>IBM has announced that it will invest more than $1bn in the new IBM Watson Group, as well as $1.2bn to expand its global cloud computing footprint to 40 data centers worldwide in 15 countries across five continents. On January 23, 2014, IBM also announced that it has reached a definitive agreement with Lenovo to sell the Chinese company the majority of its x86 server business in a $2.3bn deal that includes System x, BladeCenter and Flex System blade servers and switches, x86-based Flex integrated systems, NeXtScale and iDataPlex servers and associated software, blade networking, and maintenance operations.<\/p>\n<p>This represents the biggest ever technology acquisition by a Chinese company, and sees IBM exit server manufacturing in all but the System z mainframes, Power Systems, Storage Systems, Power-based Flex servers, and PureApplication and PureData appliances markets.<\/p>\n<h3>Is Lenovo IBM&rsquo;s strategic partner for &#8230;<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Illsley, Principal Analyst, Ovum Software<br \/>\nIBM has announced that it will invest more than $1bn in the new IBM Watson Group, as well as $1.2bn to expand its global cloud computing footprint to 40 data centers worldwide in 15 countries across five co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}