Five Minute Briefing - Data Center
July 14, 2025
Five Minute Briefing - Data Center: July 14, 2025. Published in conjunction with SHARE Inc., a bi-weekly report geared to the needs of data center professionals.
News Flashes
Empower Semiconductor, the world leader in integrated voltage regulators (IVRs), announced a partnership with Marvell Technology, Inc. to develop optimized integrated power solutions for Marvell custom silicon platforms. By integrating power delivery with advanced processors, Empower and Marvell enable hyperscalers and infrastructure providers to maximize their performance, efficiency, and return on investment (ROI) of artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud data centers.
GitLab and IBM are expanding their partnership to bridge mainframe and cloud-native development with seamless integration, CI/CD runner support, end-to-end visibility, and cost efficiency. GitLab and IBM are collaborating to solve a fundamental disconnect in enterprise development: enabling mainframe developers to work with the same modern tools, workflows, and collaboration features as their distributed counterparts.
IBM is unveiling IBM Power11, the next generation of IBM Power servers—redesigned with innovations across its processor, hardware architecture, and virtualization software stack. According to IBM, Power11 is designed to deliver the availability, resiliency, performance, and scalability enterprises demand, for seamless hybrid deployment on-premises or in IBM Cloud.
Siemens Smart Infrastructure is partnering with Microsoft to transform access to Internet of Things (IoT) data for buildings. The collaboration will enable interoperability between Siemens' digital building platform, Building X, and Microsoft Azure IoT Operations enabled by Azure Arc.
Think About It
Indexes are fundamental to database performance, but too often, they're treated as "set it and forget it" structures. As the data landscape evolves—with hybrid cloud deployments, real-time analytics, and machine learning workloads—so too must our approach to indexing.