Five Minute Briefing - Data Center
September 28, 2026
Five Minute Briefing - Data Center: September 28, 2026. Published in conjunction with SHARE Inc., a bi-weekly report geared to the needs of data center professionals.
News Flashes
Anderon, an IBM company, announced the finalization of a $1 billion award under the CHIPS and Science Act with the U.S. Department of Commerce. The award will accelerate Anderon's R&D efforts to advance the nation's quantum wafer manufacturing capabilities.
Marist University and IBM announced an Innovation Incubator that will prepare students across fields of study to lead in a rapidly evolving digital economy—which includes an IBM z17 mainframe to provide enormous AI computing power on campus for a variety of research projects involving students and faculty.
Rocket Software, a global technology leader in modernization software, is expanding Rocket EVA, its agentic AI platform for mission critical systems, to provide governed, auditable AI agents on the mainframe to correlate and reason across operational data and automate operational tasks within enterprise-defined policies.
WhiteFiber, Inc., a provider of AI infrastructure solutions, today announced the commercial availability of WhiteFiber Continuum, its highest-performance cross-data-center networking solution.
Think About It
Organizations have invested millions in analytics and modern BI platforms that promise faster, smarter decisions. Yet for many organizations, the insights are incomplete pictures of their business because mainframe and legacy systems grounded in decades worth of valuable data are difficult for modern analytics tools to reach.