Five Minute Briefing - Data Center
June 8, 2026
Five Minute Briefing - Data Center: June 8, 2026. Published in conjunction with SHARE Inc., a bi-weekly report geared to the needs of data center professionals.
News Flashes
IBM and Google Cloud are launching a new Google Cloud Practice, designed to help organizations more quickly scale AI into production and modernize core systems. According to the companies, the new practice combines IBM's deep industry expertise and IBM Consulting Advantage—the company's AI-powered platform that helps IBM teams design, build, and deploy AI solutions faster using agents and industry workflows—now with Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, cybersecurity, and data capabilities.
IBM and Red Hat are collaborating on Project Lightwell, a $5 billion commitment backed by new frontier AI capabilities and a global force of more than 20,000 engineers to help enterprises secure open source software. Together, these investments will establish a new model for enterprise use of open source software, from upstream development through production environments, according to the companies.
IBM Cloud is introducing IBM Cloud Sovereignty Risk Profile, a new tool designed to help give enterprises the visibility, evidence, and operational control needed to demonstrate how they are addressing digital sovereignty requirements with greater confidence.
Parameter and Rotork, market-leading global providers of mission-critical infrastructure monitoring systems and flow control and instrumentation solutions, are combining their respective technologies to improve leak detection, isolation, and mitigation in liquid-cooled data centers.