Dr. Owen Rogers

Dr. Owen Rogers

Dr. Owen Rogers is Uptime Institute’s Research Director of Cloud Computing. Dr. Rogers has been analyzing the economics of cloud for over a decade as a product manager, a PhD candidate and an industry analyst. Rogers covers all areas of cloud, including economics, sustainability, hybrid infrastructure, quantum computing and edge.

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Always consider reserved instances to squeeze cloud costs

Reserved instances are a pricing model for virtual machines offered by cloud providers. As they offer savings of up to 70% compared with on-demand pricing, organizations should use them liberally, especially in challenging times.

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Using spot instances to cut cloud costs

The key benefit of cloud computing lies in its on-demand pricing model. This enables organizations to grow or shrink their applications at will without giving the cloud provider any advance notification. Cloud providers can only offer such…

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Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2023

The Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey highlights the experiences and strategies of data center owners and operators in areas of resiliency, sustainability, efficiency, staffing, cloud and innovative technologies.

Keynote Reports 45 min read
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Corporate data centers quash cloud concentration risk

In recent conversations with both regulators and some enterprises, a concept borrowed from the financial sector has been discussed with growing frequency: concentration risk. In finance, the term refers to the level of risk arising from the…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
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Who is responsible for cloud data resiliency and availability?

Organizations encounter a bewildering assortment of cloud storage platforms. The difference between the offerings lies in who is responsible for scaling, resiliency and performance: the provider or the customer.

Briefing Reports 12 min read
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Use tools to control cloud costs before it’s too late

The public cloud’s on-demand pricing model is vital in enabling application scalability — the key benefit of cloud computing. Resources need to be readily available for a cloud application to scale when required without the customer having to give…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
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Where the cloud meets the edge

Low latency is the main reason cloud providers offer edge services. Only a few years ago, the same providers argued that the public cloud (hosted in hyperscale data centers) was suitable for most workloads. But as organizations have remained…

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Cloud resiliency: plan to lose control of your planes

Cloud providers divide the technologies that underpin their services into two ”planes”, each with a different architecture and availability goal. The control plane manages resources in the cloud; the data plane runs the cloud buyer’s application.

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Design resilient applications to reduce cloud concentration risk

This report shows how rising market concentration and poor visibility drive risk exposure, and explains why organizations should prioritize resilient single-cloud architectures before they consider dual-cloud implementations.

Briefing Reports 9 min read
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Data shows the cloud goes where the money is

Hyperscale cloud providers have opened numerous operating regions in all corners of the world over the past decade. The three most prominent — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure — now have 105 distinct regions (excluding…

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Asset utilization drives cloud repatriation economics

The past decade has seen numerous reports of so-called cloud “repatriations” — the migration of applications back to on-premises venues following negative experiences with, or unsuccessful migrations to, the public cloud.A recent Uptime Update (High…

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Uptime Institute Data Center Capacity Trends Survey 2022

Data center capacities continued to grow for colocation and enterprise facilities throughout 2022. Operators appear to be more aware of costs as they look to increase server power densities and reduce energy use.

Data Reports 8 min read
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Comparative availabilities of resilient cloud architectures

Uptime Intelligence uses historical status updates from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure to calculate the availabilities of several cloud architectures, including a multi-cloud implementation.

Briefing Reports 36 min read
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Cloud migrations to face closer scrutiny

Big public-cloud operators have often had to compete against each other — sometimes ferociously. Only rarely have they had to compete against alternative platforms for corporate IT, however. More often than not, chief information officers (CIOs)…

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High costs drive cloud repatriation, but impact is overstated

Unexpected costs are driving some data-heavy and legacy applications back from public-cloud to on-premises locations. However, very few organizations are moving away from the public cloud strategically — let alone altogether.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
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