Five Minute Briefing - Data Center
August 25, 2025
Five Minute Briefing - Data Center: August 25, 2025. Published in conjunction with SHARE Inc., a bi-weekly report geared to the needs of data center professionals.
News Flashes
Fluke Networks is launching its Versiv Data Center Kits that are designed to keep data centers up and running by identifying copper and fiber network connectivity issues before they happen and troubleshooting them quickly. At a time when artificial intelligence and data center business is expected to more than double to $622.4 billion by 2030, these kits will equip data center technicians, engineers, and operators with the necessary future-ready equipment to maintain and manage the new technologies of hyperscale and enterprise data centers coming online in the next decade, the vendor said.
IBM and NASA are unveiling the most advanced open-source foundation model designed to understand high resolution solar observation data and predict how solar activity affects Earth and space-based technology. Surya, named for the Sanskrit word for the Sun, represents a significant advancement in applying AI to solar image interpretation and space weather forecasting research, providing a novel tool to help protect everything from GPS navigation to power grids to telecommunications.
Relativity Networks, a leading at-scale provider of next-generation fiber-optic technology, announced an oversubscribed $6.1M seed funding round, validating and reinforcing the company's ability to produce and deliver, at scale, the hollow-core fiber (HCF) cable increasingly in demand by operators of the energy-intensive data centers required for the AI economy.
StorONE, developer of an efficient storage platform, announced a major milestone in its long-standing partnership with Storage Guardian, a leading managed service provider (MSP)—by consolidating its infrastructure with StorONE's unified software-defined storage platform, Storage Guardian reduced its physical storage footprint from nine full cabinets to just two, while expanding the range of services it delivers.