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 dataβ¦
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 βbarely noticeableβ to βhuge and expensive.ββ¦
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 threatβ¦
Making sense of the seemingly contradictory data from the 2018 Annual Data Center Survey
For the better part of a decade, operators have agonized over how to reduce energy waste. By and large, they have succeededβthe average PUE, the industryβs most common infrastructure efficiency metric, was a record low in this year βs survey.
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.