Five Minute Briefing - Data Center
August 26, 2024
Five Minute Briefing - Data Center: August 26, 2024. Published in conjunction with SHARE Inc., a bi-weekly report geared to the needs of data center professionals.
News Flashes
Apheros announced it has received $1.85 million in a recent funding round to introduce its innovative metal foam technology, offering a superior solution to cooling data centers. The pre-seed funding round, led by venture capital firm Founderful, will accelerate development and deployment of Apheros' revolutionary metal foam-based cooling solutions.
IBM is releasing Qiskit SDK v1.2, introducing several important new features and improvements, all aimed at boosting the Qiskit SDK's industry-leading performance and functionality. Since transitioning to the v1.x era with the release of its first major version earlier this year, IBM has been laser-focused on making the Qiskit SDK the most powerful, high-performant quantum SDK in the world.
IBM announced that two IBM-developed algorithms have been officially formalized within the world's first three post-quantum cryptography standards, which were published by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The official publication of these algorithms marks a crucial milestone to advancing the protection of the world's encrypted data from cyberattacks that could be attempted through the unique power of quantum computers, which are rapidly progressing to cryptographic relevancy.
Tabnine, the originators of the AI code assistant category, is announcing several ecosystem updates that forward Tabnine's mission to help developers maintain control over code while future-proofing AI investments. These announcements—which include a new platform partnership with Broadcom Inc., an integration with IBM, and an extension of existing partnerships with Amazon Web Services (AWS), DigitalOcean, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)—culminate in driving controlled, flexible, AI-powered coding for enterprises' infrastructures of choice.
Think About It
In many organizations, microservices have become the default method of application building and deployment, leveraging containers and Kubernetes. The resulting architecture has been a flexible network of services that provide resiliency by operating independently, unaffected by potential failures in other parts of the system. Recently, however, some technology leaders have been questioning if this is the best way to build.