Five Minute Briefing - Data Center
November 17, 2025
Five Minute Briefing - Data Center: November 17, 2025. Published in conjunction with SHARE Inc., a bi-weekly report geared to the needs of data center professionals.
News Flashes
Flex, a global manufacturing leader and innovator in data center infrastructure solutions, is partnering with LG Electronics (LG) to jointly develop integrated, modular cooling solutions that address the escalating thermal management challenges of AI-era data centers.
Fortinet, a global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, announced the Secure AI Data Center solution, an end-to-end framework purpose-built to protect AI infrastructures. Designed to secure the full AI stack—from data center infrastructure to applications and large language models (LLMs)—the solution delivers advanced AI threat defense with ultra-low latency and reduces power consumption on average by 69% compared to traditional approaches, according to Fortinet.
The OpenSearch Software Foundation, the vendor-neutral home for the OpenSearch Project, announced that IBM, a leading provider of global AI, hybrid cloud, and consulting expertise, has joined the Foundation as a Premier Member.
Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech is opening its Quantum Data Center, the first multimodal quantum infrastructure in Europe. Located in Barcelona's innovation district, the center marks a major step forward for Europe's technological progress and positions Catalonia as one of the world's leading hubs in quantum computing, the company said.
Think About It
Technical debt is a concept most IT professionals are familiar with, but too often it is discussed primarily in terms of application code. Yet, databases are equally susceptible to technical debt, and for DBAs, ignoring it can be costly. Over time, shortcuts in design, hasty implementations, and deferred maintenance accumulate. The result is a database environment that becomes increasingly fragile, expensive to manage, and resistant to change.