Five Minute Briefing - Data Center
November 3, 2025
Five Minute Briefing - Data Center: November 3, 2025. Published in conjunction with SHARE Inc., a bi-weekly report geared to the needs of data center professionals.
News Flashes
Daikin Applied, a global leader in commercial and industrial HVAC solutions, announced it is redefining the future of data center cooling technology with precision environment designs for the world's most advanced facilities—where reliability, scalability, and asset protection are non-negotiable.
IBM is acquiring Txture GmbH, a company with software assets that help businesses migrate, modernize, and optimize their hybrid cloud estates. According to IBM, Txture brings powerful assets that complement IBM Consulting's Application Migration & Modernization (AM&M) and Cloud Technology Strategy offerings.
IBM Technology Lifecycle Services (TLS), the IBM worldwide provider of client support services, is expanding its capabilities to offer comprehensive firewall and network solutions in partnership with Cisco. Cisco Secure Firewall, a key component of the Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall, is engineered to help organizations strengthen enterprise data security by providing visibility into the network and threat protection against zero-day attacks using Snort ML, backed by Talos Intelligence and AI-assisted automation, the companies said.
Cockroach Labs, the company behind the distributed SQL database CockroachDB, announced an OEM partnership with IBM to bring CockroachDB PostgreSQL for IBM to market. According to Cockroach Labs, this collaboration gives enterprises a trusted path to modernize mission-critical applications with a cloud-native PostgreSQL database engineered for active-active business continuity across hybrid environments—including IBM LinuxONE, Linux on Z, Power Systems, and Red Hat OpenShift—as well as major public clouds and other distributed platforms.