Five Minute Briefing - Data Center
May 5, 2025
Five Minute Briefing - Data Center: May 5, 2025. Published in conjunction with SHARE Inc., a bi-weekly report geared to the needs of data center professionals.
News Flashes
Box, Inc., a leading Intelligent Content Management (ICM) platform, and IBM are partnering to help organizations accelerate the adoption of enterprise-level AI for content-driven workflows using IBM watsonx and Box AI.
IBM announced plans to invest $150 billion in America over the next five years to fuel the economy and to accelerate its role as the global leader in computing. This includes an investment of more than $30 billion in research and development to advance and continue IBM's American manufacturing of mainframe and quantum computers.
IBM is creating a new Microsoft Practice within IBM Consulting, building upon a multi-year partnership aimed at delivering stronger and more measurable business outcomes for clients who are navigating complex AI, cloud, and security transformations.
Mission Critical Group (MCG) a leading provider of innovative solutions specializing in design, manufacturing, delivery, and service of electrical system solutions, is acquiring DVM Manufacturing, LLC (DVM Power + Control), a premier manufacturer of low- and medium-voltage electrical distribution equipment—significantly expanding MCG's manufacturing footprint and service capabilities in electrical systems for data centers, industrial facilities, and other mission critical applications.
Think About It
Everyone knows and loves the first three normal forms. We go through the process of normalization to remove redundancies in our data structures. But the redundancies we remove have nothing to do with trying to save space. Instead, the desire is to prevent maintenance anomalies. The normalization process involves stepping through the evaluation of normal forms that decompose a data structure into multiple structures based on the needs of these normal forms.