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Despite years of discussion, warnings and strict regulations in some countries, hot work remains a contentious issue in the data center industry. Hot work is the practice of working on energized electrical circuits (voltage limits differ regionally)…
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Phasing out hot work
Pay-as-you-go model spreads to critical components
As enterprises continue to move from a focus on capital expenditures to operating expenditures, more data center components will also be consumed on a pay-as-you-go, “as a service” basis. “-aaS” goes mainstream The trend toward everything “as a…
Optimizing server refresh cycles with an aging Moore’s law
Hardware refresh is the process of replacing older, less efficient servers with newer, more efficient ones with more compute capacity.However, there is a complication to the refresh cycle that is relatively recent: the slowing down of Moore’s law…
Beyond PUE: Tackling IT's wasted terawatts
Uptime Institute’s analysis shows that very substantial energy reduction opportunities remain untapped. While gains in M&E efficiency have stalled over the past few years, it remains that over 65% of the power used by IT in data centers is used to…
Data center energy use goes up and up
Energy use by data centers and IT will continue to rise, putting pressure on energy infrastructure and raising questions about carbon emissions. The drivers for more energy use are simply too great to be offset by efficiency gains.DriversDemand for…
Q4 2019 Critical Update webinar Q&A
On December 4, 2019, Uptime Intelligence hosted The Critical Update - 4Q 2019: Ten Data Center Industry Trends for 2020. Below you'll find the questions listeners submitted that the team could not address during the webinar, answered.Q: How do you…
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Capital inflow boosts the data center market
Data centers are no longer a niche or exotic investment among mainstream institutional buyers, which are swarming to the sector. There is now a buyer for almost every type of data center — including traditional-infrastructure investors and sovereign…
Cloud computing’s cold war: EU vs US and China
European officials have long eyed the rise of the big US cloud companies with suspicion and envy. Among their concerns is the European Union’s reliance on non-European providers of cloud computing and a need for ”data sovereignty,” or giving…
The internet tilts toward the edge
IT infrastructure — and the internet — has grown much, much bigger but not closer, or at least not close enough to support the anticipated wave of edge computing. Adoption of the internet of things, 5G and other edge applications is set to have a…
Physical security: Technology and strategies to reduce risk
IT security is a huge management concern that receives a lot of attention and budget. The battle to keep out intruders – and manage unwelcome activity from insiders - is not just virtual. This report discusses the tactics, processes, tools and…
Trends to watch in 2020
The full report Ten data center industry trends in 2020 is available to Uptime Intelligence subscribers here.
Ten data center industry trends in 2020
Government regulations, shifting IT environments, key innovations, new market developments and changing demographics are reshaping the IT landscape at a striking pace. What should data center owners, managers, and operators expect in 2020 and beyond…
Nonproduction IT can hinder mission-critical operations
Separating production and nonproduction assets should be an operational requirement for most organizations. By definition, production assets support high-priority IT loads — servers that are critical to a business or business unit. In most…
Big tech regs: An upside for cloud customers?
Regulation of Internet giants has focused so far mostly on data privacy, where concerns are relatively well understood by lawmakers and the general public. At the same time, the threat of antitrust action is growing. Congressional hearings in the US…
Avoiding outages (part 2): Trying harder is not enough
A previous Uptime Intelligence Note suggested that avoiding data center outages might be as simple as trying harder. The Note suggested that management failures are the main reason that enterprises continue to experience downtime incidents, even in…