Why did IBM abandon the server plate and put it into intelligent middleware

IBM is reportedly negotiating with Lenovo on the sale of its server business. Where is IBM going to create new wealth by abandoning the hardware of the commodity again? The answer is: Move clouds and big data.

It enterprise tides have turned. Although the sales server is still making money, but more is reflected in the continuous innovation of products. Recognizing this, IBM is determined not to fight for a shrinking or stagnant market share, and henceforth, he will focus on the future and work to get out of the industry's "vicious circle".

Analysts and journalists are speculating that IBM may be talking to Lenovo about selling its server business. In fact, as early as 2005, IBM has been with Lenovo on the personal computer business sector transactions, and this meeting is only the last business continuity, the outcome of the talks may soon appear. Another news, recently Lenovo Group has confirmed that an inconvenience to the identity of the buyer to carry out the application of shareholder filing. And from the Friday morning Wells Fargo analyst Bill confirms:

We believe that, like Lenovo's acquisition of a PC business, the acquisition could make Lenovo more powerful, offering higher margins or delivering huge benefits to customers with lower price capabilities. Conversely, in our view, this may further lead to competitive pressures within the industry and have a negative impact on Dell and HPQ. For IBM, this will be the stripping of the business of similar goods to maintain its historical strategy. While we will fully anticipate some of the commitments made by IBM, this may herald a long-term trend, that is, IBM will no longer work around x86 and focus more on solution based system P products.

Because few customers are willing to pay for the hardware manufacturer's profit margin, they want to split the server business and bring him closer to becoming a commodity. While Dell is trying to privatize, HP has also lowered the http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/7921.html "> Enterprise Services similar to the Lunar IPO project (which is not one of the Webscale vendors), from the view , IBM is looking for a new future.

So what is the blue giant's eye? It has been told that in most cases: moving clouds and large data.

IBM has spent billions of of billions of dollars on the survey. It is studying how to drive chip memory and new processing types more suited to the real-time flow of information, and it even constructs an intelligent system similar to Watson's, which has been buying companies like Worklight and Castiron systems to achieve cloud-based applications and ensure acceptance of federated world applications.

IBM is currently building two things. A short-term strategy that can be thought of as a next-generation middleware, primarily for mobile applications, the underlying mobile (wired network) and cloud-integrated approach that will give enterprise customers the sense of responsibility they need. IBM is working to improve the performance of the service level agreements and the collateral that are difficult to meet in order to ensure the reliability of the API.

In the long run, the company is struggling to find new processors like IBM's new memory chips and the brains of humans working. Watson, which eventually delivers a cloud-based mobile application and relies on some middleware-related knowledge, is the first step in IBM's long-term plan. Mr. Manoj Saxena, the main head of IBM's Watson Department, says this is called the four-wave calculation.

At the same time, there will be rich server forms in this vision, they will not look like today's chassis, they certainly will not be profit center. The value will be in the service itself, the hard work of integration, perhaps in the new silicon platform (or graphite or based on DNA) all of these things are in idle condition. Today's seemingly obscure middleware may usher in a huge market revolution tomorrow.

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