Five Minute Briefing - Data Center
February 23, 2026
Five Minute Briefing - Data Center: February 23, 2026. Published in conjunction with SHARE Inc., a bi-weekly report geared to the needs of data center professionals.
News Flashes
BMC, a global leader in software solutions, has signed a strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help companies orchestrate application workflows and data pipelines at scale.
Cloudera, the only company bringing AI to data anywhere, is expanding Cloudera AI Inference and Cloudera Data Warehouse with Trino to on-premises environments, enabling customers to harness advanced AI and analytics directly from within their data centers.
IBM is unveiling the next generation of IBM FlashSystem, co-run by agentic AI, ushering in a new era of autonomous storage. By enhancing FlashSystem's existing AI capabilities with agentic AI, IBM is redefining resilience through sustained protection, autonomous threat analysis, and customized recovery recommendations, the company said.
Trane Technologies, a global climate innovator, announced it will acquire LiquidStack, a global leader in liquid cooling technology for data centers, enhancing the company's data center thermal management solutions. LiquidStack solutions are engineered to meet the unprecedented demands of generative AI and hyperscale computing.
Think About It
As agentic AI continues to expand across the IT landscape, many processes are being automated. However, some processes are still better managed by humans than by machines. Rather than thinking of applying AI wherever possible and over-automating, leaders should think about the most beneficial uses of the technology and begin implementation of the technology in those areas first before expanding further.