Paul
Carton
Anthony
Sbarra
Laurie
Williams
Uptime Institute's 2025 Staffing and Recruitment Survey (n=864) focuses on increases in new data center hires and salary spending, as well as issues operators face in recruiting, hiring, and retaining data center facilities staff.The attached data…
Paul Carton
Dr. Carton is currently Research Vice President at Uptime Institute, leading all survey-based research operations and analysis. Prior to Uptime, Paul co-founded and led ChangeWave Research, and has an extensive background in online survey research and the development of Internet research communities.
pcarton@uptimeinstitute.com
Latest Research
2025 Staffing and Recruitment Survey [Results and Crosstab files]
2025 Security Survey [Results and Crosstab files]
Results from Uptime Institute's 2025 Security Survey (n=982), now in its 3rd year, explore major cybersecurity issues facing data centers, as well as the IT and OT systems used to operate critical infrastructure.The attached data files below provide…
2025 Cooling Systems Survey [Results and Crosstab files]
Results from Uptime Institute's 2025 Cooling Systems Survey (n=1,033) focus on the usage of data center cooling systems across the industry, zeroing in on the continued adoption of direct liquid cooling.The attached data files below provide full…
2025 Global Data Center Survey [Results and Crosstabs]
The 15th edition of the Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey highlights the experiences and strategies of data center owners and operators in the areas of resiliency, sustainability, efficiency, staffing, cloud and AI. The attached data files…
2025 Data Center Resiliency Survey [Results and Crosstab files]
Results from Uptime Institute's 2025 Data Center Resiliency Survey (n=970) focus on data center resiliency issues and the impact of outages on the data center sector globally.The attached data files below provide full results of the survey,…
2025 AI Infrastructure Survey [Results and Crosstab files]
Results from Uptime Institute's 2025 AI Infrastructure Survey (n=1,062) focus on the data center infrastructure currently used or being planned to use to host AI Training and AI Inference, as well as future industry outlooks on the usage of AI. The…
Data center staffing — an ongoing struggle
Attracting and retaining qualified data center staff has been a major industry challenge for years — and continues to cause substantial problems for operators worldwide. Uptime Institute’s 2022 Management and Operations Survey shows staffing and…
