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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
Andy Lawrence
18 May 2022
Outages: understanding the human factor

Analyzing human error — with a view to preventing it — has always been challenging for data center operators. The cause of a failure can lie in how well a process was taught, how tired, well trained or resourced the staff are, or whether the…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Douglas Donnellan Andy Lawrence
9 Mar 2022
Financial resiliency: how Europe plans to regulate service providers

The proposed Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) will introduce new reporting and resiliency requirements in Europe - and many authorities around the world are expected to be heavily influenced by these plans.

Briefing Reports 25 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
7 Jan 2022
Concerns over cloud concentration risk grow

Control over critical digital infrastructure is increasingly in the hands of a small number of major providers. While a public cloud provides a flexible, stable and distributed IT environment, there are growing concerns around its use.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
23 Nov 2021
Climate change: More operators prepare to weather the storms

In the 2020 Uptime Institute Intelligence report The gathering storm: Climate change and data center resiliency, the author noted that, “While sustainability… features heavily in the marketing of many operators, the threat of extreme weather to…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
5 Oct 2021
Too big to fail? Facebook’s global outage

The bigger the outage, the greater the need for explanations and, most importantly, for taking steps to avoid a repeat.By any standards, the outage that affected Facebook on Monday, October 4th, was big. For more than six hours, Facebook and its…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Jacqueline Davis
1 Oct 2021
Supply chain vulnerabilities shape sourcing decisions

Supply chain upheaval is one of the pandemic’s ripple effects, and the data center sector has not been spared. For most operators and vendors, supply logistics will remain a source of uncertainty for the near term. In Uptime Institute’s Global Data…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Tomas Rahkonen
17 Sep 2021
Mixed resiliency at the edge

Many analysts have forecast an explosion in demand for edge data centers. After a long, slow start, demand is beginning to build, with small, prefabricated and mostly remotely operated data centers ready to be deployed to support a varying array of…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
23 Jul 2021
Akamai outage raises questions about redundancy of critical internet functions

A recent outage at Akamai took down access to cloud services from Amazon Web Services and Oracle, as well as online services for American Express, Charles Schwab, Costco, Delta Airlines, FedEx, United Parcel Services, and many, many others, mostly…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
30 Jun 2021
The pandemic’s impact on digital infrastructure

The pandemic has accelerated some long-term trends toward greater use of digital services, remote working and remote operation. Overall, costs have been pushed up, but other impacts are less clear — some are even counter-intuitive. Many…

Briefing Reports 25 min read
Andy Lawrence
22 Jun 2021
The COVID outage paradox

In the 12 months from early March 2020 to April 2021, COVID-19 made a big impact on how and where IT was used. This had a surprising — and in some ways paradoxical — impact on IT service availability and the number and severity of outages recorded.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Daniel Bizo
10 Jun 2021
Fastly outage underscores slow creep of digital services risk

A recent outage at content delivery network Fastly took down thousands of websites in different countries, including big names, such as Amazon, Twitter and Spotify, for nearly an hour. It is the latest large outage highlighting the downside of a key…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
13 May 2021
The impact of cloud outages is growing

Cloud, hosted and many other internet-based services and workloads are designed to operate with very low failure rates. Large (at-scale) cloud and IT service providers use an array of software and data management tools, strategies and services to…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
26 Apr 2021
Uninterruptible power: Adoption trends to 2025

Data center uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems are evolving. New technologies are enabling various electrical approaches. But will UPS systems of the future meet the changing requirements of operators? This report discusses UPS adoption…

Briefing Reports 25 min read
Jay Dietrich
12 Apr 2021
Renewable energy and data centers: Buyer, be aware

Across the world, data center owners and managers are striving to buy more renewable energy and reduce their dependence on fossil fuels. The global internet giants and the largest colocation companies have led the way with huge green energy…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read