A furious — but late — response to the National Fire Protection Association's (NFPA's) proposed standard 855, Standard for the Installation of Stationary Energy Storage, should put the whole data center industry on notice that it needs to increase…
Are data centers getting more efficient? How are outages changing? Is rack density rising at last? What proportion of workloads run in the cloud? Which new architectures are being adopted? The results are in for the industry's largest and most…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used in data centers to drive up efficiencies and drive down risks and costs. But it also creates new types of risks. This is one of the findings from Uptime Intelligence research report 25, Very smart data…
Avoiding outages is a big concern for any operator or service provider, especially one providing a business-critical service. But when an outage does occur, the business impact can vary from "barely noticeable" to "huge and expensive." …
This report analyzes the causes and impacts of publicly recorded IT service and data center outages from 2016-2018.
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…
Making sense of the seemingly contradictory data from the 2018 Annual Data Center Survey
While only 18% of Uptime Institute Data Center survey respondents rely solely on a water-based system, Uptime Institute believes that a nitrogen-charged, dry-pipe or preaction, water-based solution is the most appropriate fire suppression system in…
A new book, Meltdown by Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik, provides an explanation for the source of systems errors. Like Uptime Institute, the authors attribute human error to management mistakes, but they also offer a number of innovative…
For the better part of a decade, operators have agonized over how to reduce energy waste. By and large, they have succeeded-the average PUE, the industry's most common infrastructure efficiency metric, was a record low in this year 's survey. Yet…
New Uptime Institute research data shows that downtime is common and may even be increasing, in spite of many advances. Complexity and extensive use of third parties has made life more difficult for management.
Intelligence Team
Andy Lawrence