Corporate venture capital arms like to crow about how they nurture ecosystems by investing in technologies that support their parent’s products. IBM Corp.’s VC unit hasn’t sunk a cent in a galaxy of startups that develop technology built around the tech giant’s BladeCenter servers, but it has more reason to brag than most rivals.
IBM has climbed to the No. 1 market position in blade servers — thin computers that can be slid in and out of racks, share fans and power supplies, and enable businesses to rapidly add processing power when needed. IBM’s engineers designed energy-efficient servers that, unlike those of some key rivals, are backward-compatible with previous blade technology — a critical factor when a business wants to add cutting-edge computing power to a rack of older servers.
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