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Daniel Bizo
31 May 2023
Lifting and shifting apps to the cloud: a source of risk creep?

Public cloud infrastructures have come a long way over the past 16 years to slowly earn the trust of enterprises in running their most important applications and storing sensitive data. In the Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2022,…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Douglas Donnellan
3 May 2023
Operators face wider range of resiliency challenges

The Uptime Institute Data Center Resiliency Survey 2023 explores how operators assess operational risks and highlights opportunities for strengthening mitigation strategies.

Data Reports 10 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
3 Apr 2023
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.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence Chris Brown Daniel Bizo
29 Mar 2023
REPLAY | Webinar: Annual Outage Analysis 2023

Join us for 2023’s annual benchmark review of the impacts, costs and changing types and frequency of crucial infrastructure failures. Outages remain a major industry concern despite improving technology and better management of availability. Uptime…

On-Demand Webinars 2 min
Jacqueline Davis
2 Feb 2023
Forecasting the solar storm threat

A proposed permanent network of electromagnetic monitoring stations across the continental US, operating in tandem with a machine learning (ML) algorithm, could facilitate accurate predictions of geomagnetic disturbances (GMDs). If realized, this…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
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
Max Smolaks Daniel Bizo
7 Nov 2022
Major data center fire highlights criticality of IT services

Uptime Institute’s outages database suggests data center fires are infrequent, and rarely have a significant impact on operations. Uptime has identified 14 publicly reported, high-profile data center outages caused by fire or fire suppression…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
3 Oct 2022
How resiliency drives cloud carbon emissions

Cloud providers advise users to build application resiliency by deploying across multiple locations. This report quantifies the emissions, resiliency and costs of different stateless cloud-application architectures.

Briefing Reports 38 min read
Jacqueline Davis
29 Sep 2022
Data centers weather solar storms

The US Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) issued multiple geomagnetic storm watches throughout August and September 2022. Geomagnetic storms occur when solar storms interact with the Earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field, risking disruption to…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Daniel Bizo
27 Jul 2022
Extreme heat stress-tests European data centers — again

An extreme heat wave swept across much of Western Europe on July 18 and 19, hitting some of the largest metropolitan areas such as Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam and Paris — which are also global data center hubs with hundreds of megawatts of capacity…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
8 Jul 2022
Sustainability laws set to drive real change

Nearly 15 years ago – in 2008 – Uptime Institute presented a paper titled “The gathering storm.” The paper was about the inevitability of a struggle against climate change and how this might play out for the power-hungry data center and IT sector.…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Douglas Donnellan
24 Jun 2022
Are resiliency laws getting tougher on data centers?

A reliance on digital services since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 and governments’ increased concerns about the risks and resiliency of digital infrastructure have resulted in numerous new proposals for stricter legislation. If…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
22 Jun 2022
Costlier new cloud generations increase lock-in risk

Cloud providers tend to adopt the latest server technologies early, often many months ahead of enterprise buyers, to stay competitive. Providers regularly launch new generations of virtual machines with identical quantities of resources (such as…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
15 Jun 2022
Making sense of the outage numbers

In recent years, Uptime Institute has published regular reports examining both the rate and causes of data center and IT service outages. The reports, which have been widely read and reported in the media, paint a picture of an industry that is…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
24 May 2022
Is concern over cloud and third-party outages increasing?

As a result of some high-profile outages and the growing interest in running critical services in a public cloud, the reliability — and transparency — of public cloud services has come under scrutiny.Cloud services are designed to operate with low…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read