Five Minute Briefing - Data Center
June 30, 2025
Five Minute Briefing - Data Center: June 30, 2025. Published in conjunction with SHARE Inc., a bi-weekly report geared to the needs of data center professionals.
News Flashes
IBM and RIKEN, a national research laboratory in Japan, today unveiled the first IBM Quantum System Two ever to be deployed outside of the United States and beyond an IBM Quantum Data Center. The availability of this system also marks a milestone as the first quantum computer to be co-located with RIKEN's supercomputer Fugaku—one of the most powerful classical systems on Earth, IBM said.
Kioxia Corporation, a world leader in memory solutions, announced the prototype development and demonstration of its new KIOXIA CD9P Series PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs. These next-generation drives are the latest SSDs built with Kioxia's 8th generation BiCS FLASH TLC-based 3D flash memory.
Parsons Corporation, in partnership with IBM, is being tapped by the government to offer a brand new, state-of-the-art air traffic control system. By combining Parsons' deep FAA experience, proven large-scale program delivery success, and systems engineering and integration capabilities with IBM's federal government and cross industry, systems integration experience, the collaboration aims to lay the foundation for a safer, more resilient aviation ecosystem.
Wind River, a global leader in delivering software for the intelligent edge, today announced that Nidec, the world's leading integrated motor manufacturer, has selected Wind River Linux for the secure development of its latest AI-driven data center liquid-cooling system.
Think About It
Inside any database management system (DBMS), one can designate a specific data item as "null." The null represents the "existence" of a non-value, the nonexistence of a value, or…nothing. This sounds a bit like an oxymoron, a nonvalue value, but there it is. Each DBMS has its own implementation of null support, so what it does to be able to share with you that "there is no value" can differ. For example, rather than a value, there may be a group of bit flags associated with an individual data element, with one of those bits being an "I am null" flag. And because every DBMS has its own way of doing this, it is best not to think that by using a null, one is greatly saving on space usage. Space may be saved, or maybe not so much.