IT Today: Intel, ARM and AMD - The Microserver Market Takes Shape By James Alan Miller December 13, 2012 11:39 AM Tags : Hacker iPad Malware Management Job Market Mobile Storage Style Motherboards Internet Policy Android Security Processors Laptops Infrastructure Hardware Power How To AMD Opteron Data Center Connectivity Amazon Converged Infrastructure Graphics Tablets Load Balancing Healthcare It Ibm Database Windows Burner Devices Apps Blackberry Enterprise Hacking Hewlett Packard Microsoft Data Center Convergence Open Source Office Big Data Certification Software Phones Cloud Computing 3D Surface Servers Gadgets Analytics Video Virtualization Hardware & Software Linux Intel Data Management Today On Tom's IT Pro: The Microserver: Three Key Players, Three Different Views, Rackspace Adds Services to Open Cloud Platform, HP Licenses Stackato Virtual Application Manager for Cloud PaaS, IBM Releases Cloud Office Suite, Slideshow: Top Ten Major Security Breaches of 2012 The Microserver: Three Key Players, Three Different Views The thought that processor architectures we are using in our phones and everyday appliances could power very specific portions of the future data center is intriguing. 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He is a veteran technology journalist with over seventeen years of experience creating and developing magazine and online content. Founding editor of numerous business and enterprise computing sites at the internet.com network, James headed up the After Hours section at PC Magazine, as well as hardware and software sections of various Windows publications. See here for all Tom's IT Pro articles written by James. Take your big ideas off the back burner with Converged Infrastructure Recent IT VideosVIDEO: How Secure Are Your Mobile Devices?Enterprise mobile devices are proliferating like rabbits in the spring. 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