Five Minute Briefing - Data Center
September 22, 2025
Five Minute Briefing - Data Center: September 22, 2025. Published in conjunction with SHARE Inc., a bi-weekly report geared to the needs of data center professionals.
News Flashes
Digital Realty, one of the largest global providers of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions, is launching its data center innovation lab. According to the company, the Digital Realty Innovation Lab (DRIL) offers partners and customers a fully supported, real-world data center testing environment where they can bring their own workloads or leverage pre-configured infrastructure to validate AI and hybrid cloud-deployments before scaling.
IBM is releasing Granite-Docling-258M, an ultra-compact and cutting-edge open-source vision-language model (VLM) for converting documents to machine-readable formats while fully preserving their layout, tables, equations, lists, and more. It's now available on Hugging Face through a standard Apache 2.0 license.
NVIDIA and Intel Corporation announced a partnership to jointly develop multiple generations of custom data center and PC products that accelerate applications and workloads across hyperscale, enterprise, and consumer markets. The companies will focus on seamlessly connecting NVIDIA and Intel architectures using NVIDIA NVLink—integrating the strengths of NVIDIA's AI and accelerated computing with Intel's leading CPU technologies and x86 ecosystem to deliver cutting-edge solutions for customers.
Rocket Software, a global technology leader in modernization software, is adding groundbreaking innovations to its COBOL solutions designed to help businesses update COBOL applications without disrupting ongoing operations or compromising application reliability.
News From SHARE
Enterprise technology requires mainframers to move with precision, excellent timing, and up-to-date skills—both technical know-how and soft skills. This September for National Learning and Development Month, mainframers at all career stages can seize their talent upgrade with this playbook, put together with advice from SHARE members.