Five Minute Briefing - Data Center
May 18, 2026
Five Minute Briefing - Data Center: May 18, 2026. Published in conjunction with SHARE Inc., a bi-weekly report geared to the needs of data center professionals.
News Flashes
Druva, a leading provider of data security, is introducing a new integration with Dell PowerProtect Data Domain to enable enterprises to extend their Data Domain environments with SaaS-powered cyber resilience.
Fortinet, the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, is accelerating the FortiAIGate solution with NVIDIA's AI platforms and software technologies—protecting AI workloads, data, and autonomous agents in real time in data centers and the cloud, enabling organizations monitor AI usage, and securely build, deploy, and scale agentic AI without compromising performance or governance.
LogicMonitor, the AI-first platform for Autonomous IT, is partnering with IBM to integrate IBM watsonx and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with automation coding assistant into Edwin AI, LogicMonitor's AI Agent for IT Operations.
IBM, in partnership with Red Hat, is offering two new managed services, Red Hat AI Inference on IBM Cloud and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Service on IBM Cloud—to help enterprises accelerate AI adoption and run security-forward, scalable and predictable virtualization environments.
Think About It
Most organizations spend a great deal of time thinking about database performance. DBAs tune SQL, design indexes, and monitor workloads to ensure that applications run quickly and efficiently. Performance is important, of course, but there is another attribute that can be even more critical: resilience.