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Andy Lawrence
18 Dec 2019
Outages drive authorities and businesses to act

Big IT outages are occurring with growing regularity, many with severe consequences. Executives, industry authorities and governments alike are responding with more rules, calls for more transparency and a more formal approach to end-to-end,…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
25 Nov 2019
Surveillance capitalism and DCIM

In her book “Surveillance Capitalism,” Harvard scholar Shoshana Zuboff describes how some software and service providers have been collecting vast amounts of data, with the goal of tracking, anticipating, shaping and even controlling the behavior of…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
19 Nov 2019
Trends to watch in 2020

The full report Ten data center industry trends in 2020 is available to Uptime Intelligence subscribers here.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
6 Nov 2019
Data centers without generators: The groundwork is being laid

In 2012, Microsoft announced that it planned to eliminate engine generators at its big data center campus in Quincy, Washington. Six years later the same group, with much the same aspirations, filed for permission to install 72 diesel generators,…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
18 Oct 2019
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…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
8 Oct 2019
99 Red flags

One of the most widely cited metrics in the IT industry is for availability, expressed in the form of a number of nines: three nines for 99.9% availability (minutes of downtime per year), extending to six nines — 99.9999% — or even, very rarely,…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
24 Sep 2019
Outage reporting in financial services

In the movie “Mary Poppins,” Mr. Banks sings that a British bank must be run with precision, and that “Tradition, discipline and rules must be the tools.” Otherwise, he warns, “Disorder! Chaos!” will ensue. 

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
23 Sep 2019
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…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
16 Sep 2019
Creeping criticality

Why do some industries and organizations suffer more serious, high profile outages than others?In a recent Uptime Intelligence Note, we considered a June 2019 report issued by the US General Accounting Office (GAO) on the IT resiliency of US…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
12 Sep 2019
How planning reduces the impact of outages

Maintaining and training staff on comprehensive, up-to-date procedures is a proven best way of reducing the likelihood of an outage and is key to restoring operations quickly afterward.

Briefing Reports 25 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
29 Aug 2019
How to avoid outages: Try harder

According to many IT professionals, a very high percentage of data center failures are caused by human error. Some report numbers as high as 75%, but Uptime Institute generally reports about 70%. That assumption immediately raises an important…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
16 Jul 2019
Outages in the air

Uptime Institute’s Annual outage analysis, published early this year, called attention to the persistent problem of IT service and data center outages. Coupled with our annual survey data on outages, the analysis explains, to a degree, why…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
1 Jul 2019
Banking to cloud: Be more transparent

We recently discussed where enterprises are putting their workloads. In line with almost everyone’s research, Uptime has found a very strong move of workloads to the public cloud, much of which then ends up in running, wholly or in part, in…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
20 May 2019
PG&E turns the power off

In our October 2018 report, A mission-critical industry unprepared for climate change, Uptime Institute Intelligence urged data center operators and owners to plan for the effects of climate change. We specifically encouraged data center owners and…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
23 Apr 2019
Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2019

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?

Keynote Reports 40 min read