Douglas
Donnellan
Andy
Lawrence
Chris
Brown
Owen
Rogers
Preventing outages continues to be a central focus for data center owners and operators. While infrastructure design and resiliency frameworks have improved in many cases, the complexity of modern architectures continues to present new risks that…
Chris Brown
Chris Brown serves as Chief Technical Officer of Uptime Institute. Brown currently oversees the organization’s global team of data center consultants and experts. He has over two decades of experience in critical facilities, including in the technical areas of capacity planning, retrofitting, new facilities design and leading management and operations teams.
cbrown@uptimeinstitute.com
Latest Research
REPLAY | Annual Data Center Outage Analysis 2025
REPLAY | Uptime Intelligence Client Webinar: Cooling the AI heat wave
Max
Smolaks
Daniel
Bizo
Jacqueline
Davis
In this inaugural Uptime Intelligence client webinar, Uptime experts discuss and answer questions on cooling technologies and strategies to address AI workloads. Uptime Intelligence client webinars are only available for Uptime Intelligence…
REPLAY | The Importance of Prioritizing Operational Resiliency & Highly Evolved Data Center Infrastructure
To support reliable, secure, and effective data center operations, state-of-the-art design/construction must be seamlessly integrated with operational excellence. A well-located, purpose-built facility, designed and built to include reliable,…
REPLAY | Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey Results 2024
The data center industry's largest and most influential survey results are in! Join us as we discuss the 14th Annual Uptime Global Data Center Survey 2024 which reveals an industry that is expanding, and is also planning for major technological,…
REPLAY | Webinar: Annual Outage Analysis 2024
Uptime Institute draws lessons from global outages data for 2024’s annual benchmark review of the impacts, costs and changing types and frequency of crucial infrastructure failures.
REPLAY | Webinar: Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey Results 2023
The data center industry's largest and most influential survey results are in! Join us as we discuss the 13th Annual Uptime Global Data Center Survey 2023 which reveals an industry that is growing, dynamic and increasingly resilient.
REPLAY | Webinar: Annual Outage Analysis 2023
Join us for 2023’s annual benchmark review of the impacts, costs and changing types and frequency of crucial infrastructure failures. Outages remain a major industry concern despite improving technology and better management of availability. Uptime…
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
Data centers are built and sited to withstand all that Mother Nature can throw at them — or at least, is likely to throw at them — during their lifecycle. This has long been a given, practiced and understood by designers, planners and regulators.But…
Li-ion in the data center
We are often asked for our thoughts about the use of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries in data center uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems. This is a relatively new, evolving technology, and there are still a lot of unknowns. In our…
