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Jacqueline Davis
1 Nov 2024
Why didn’t data center operators notice the 2024 solar storms?

Powerful solar storms have already brought warnings of disruption to electricity grids and their customers twice in 2024 — and the Sun’s activity has yet to peak. Why do data centers and power utilities appear to have escaped unscathed?

Intelligence Updates 6 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
29 Oct 2024
How generative AI learns and creates using GPUs

While GPUs are the power-hungry devices that enable effective AI training, it is innovations in software that are fueling the recent surge in interest and investment. This report explains how neural networks power generative AI.

Briefing Reports 20 min read
Daniel Bizo
23 Aug 2024
Rack densification: is it really happening this time?

Densification is — once again — high on the agenda, with runaway expectations largely due to compute power requirements of generative AI workloads. Will this time be different? Uptime’s 2024 global survey of data center managers offers some clues.

Intelligence Updates 5 min read
John O'Brien
13 Aug 2024
Global IT outages raise the question: who bears responsibility?

Software updates by third-party IT providers occur every day, either in the cloud or on-premises. The recent global IT outage has exposed a hard truth: that another major event is likely to occur.

Intelligence Updates 7 min read
Andy Lawrence Chris Brown Daniel Bizo Douglas Donnellan
31 Jul 2024
REPLAY | Webinar: 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,…

On-Demand Webinars 60 min
Andy Lawrence
12 Jul 2024
Six AI infrastructure conundrums

Although there is still uncertainty around the rate of AI adoption, many organizations are pushing ahead to avoid being left behind. However, behind this enthusiasm, there are six issues that operators face when hosting AI.

Intelligence Updates 10 min read
Daniel Bizo
5 Jul 2024
Interest in two-phase cooling warms up

Two-phase immersion was expected to revolutionize data center cooling but proved difficult to implement. With escalating silicon thermal power, two-phase is gaining substantial interest again, just in a different form: direct-to-chip liquid cooling.

Intelligence Updates 6 min read
Peter Judge
16 May 2024
Why DC racks are still rarely used outside of hyperscalers

Hyperscalers use DC busbars in their racks. Proven at large scale, the technology saves energy and materials, but without a market for DC servers that meets the needs of smaller operators and enterprises, no one else will use it.

Intelligence Updates 8 min read
Andy Lawrence Jay Dietrich
11 Apr 2023
REPLAY | Webinar: IT Metrics - Challenges and Opportunities

To help address the growing scrutiny of digital infrastructure efficiency, this webinar explores some of the options available to communicate IT system efficiency and work delivered per unit of energy consumed.

On-Demand Webinars 2 min
Dr. Owen Rogers
31 Jan 2023
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
Andy Lawrence
29 Mar 2021
Annual outage analysis 2021

Avoiding downtime remains a top priority for all managers of critical infrastructure. But as technology changes, and as the demands placed on IT change, so do the types, frequency and impacts of outages, as well as the best practices in outage…

Keynote Reports 40 min read
Andy Lawrence
7 Jan 2020
Annual outage analysis 2020

What are the main causes of outages? Which industries suffer most? Why? What is the impact? Uptime Institute presents and analyzes annualized outage data for 2016-2019, pinpointing trends, causes and impacts.

Keynote Reports 40 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
3 Jun 2019
Data center management software and services: Effective selection and deployment

Data center infrastructure management software is widely considered essential for running modern, flexible and efficient data centers – but it is also notoriously difficult to select and deploy.

Briefing Reports 25 min read
Andy Lawrence
22 Jan 2019
Annual outage analysis 2019

This report analyzes the causes and impacts of publicly recorded IT service and data center outages from 2016-2018.

Keynote Reports 40 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
29 Oct 2018
A mission-critical industry unprepared for climate change

Most data center operators have failed to carry out an up-to-date risk assessment to prepare for hitherto unlikely events and gradual changes caused by climate change. As a result, their facilities and businesses may be vulnerable as the threat…

Briefing Reports 25 min read