Five Minute Briefing - Data Center
June 22, 2026
Five Minute Briefing - Data Center: June 22, 2026. Published in conjunction with SHARE Inc., a bi-weekly report geared to the needs of data center professionals.
News Flashes
Apptio, an IBM Company, is introducing significant updates to its solution suite—including the launch of Conversational Insights, currently in preview, and new capabilities for hybrid IT cost management and cloud optimization—designed to turn technology investment into measurable business outcomes and establish best practices for the financial governance for AI.
IBM is introducing a variety of AI tools to IBM SQL Data Insights Pro (SQL DI Pro), generally available as of March 2026, offering semantic search, similarity discovery, anomaly detection, and unified analysis of structured and unstructured data in Db2 for z/OS.
IBM is continuing to innovate mainframes to address and combat the technological challenges of the future—announcing the general availability of three new Z software tools designed to not only meet clients where they are, but to start addressing future challenges such as frontier model attacks.
IBM and ServiceNow are expanding their partnership to address two of the biggest barriers blocking enterprise AI at scale: the AI-ready data problem and the legacy application layer.
Think About It
In many environments, there is a quiet compromise that gets made every day. It rarely shows up in project plans or architecture diagrams. No one formally approves it. But it happens, nonetheless. "Good enough" SQL gets promoted to production.