Data center operators can combine existing reliability, resiliency and performance metrics with freshly minted sustainability benchmarks to convey a compelling IT system efficiency message.
Energy consumption by data centers has a significant environmental impact and operating cost. Consequently, tracking energy-related measurements and metrics should be embedded in routine business processes and operations.
This high-level glossary of terms accompanies the Uptime Institute Intelligence report series, 'Digital infrastructure sustainability - A manager's guide'.
This series of Uptime Intelligence reports guides managers and responsible operators through the complex set of issues involved in creating an environmental sustainability strategy for data centers and associated digital infrastructure.
Once-through water heat rejection systems, also known as once-through cooling systems, are energy and water efficient. This report explores different designs and provides real-world case studies of colocation providers using them.
Sustainability is becoming a key issue for data center operators. Investors, customers and legislators are increasingly demanding carbon emissions reporting and 100% renewable energy use. Organizations risk charges of greenwashing if purchased…
The tenth Uptime Institute annual survey is the largest and most comprehensive research study of its kind in the data center sector. The findings discussed in this report reveal what operators around the world are thinking, doing and planning in the…
Uptime Institute’s analysis shows that very substantial energy reduction opportunities remain untapped. While gains in M&E efficiency have stalled over the past few years, it remains that over 65% of the power used by IT in data centers is used to…
Energy use by data centers and IT will continue to rise, putting pressure on energy infrastructure and raising questions about carbon emissions. The drivers for more energy use are simply too great to be offset by efficiency gains.DriversDemand for…
The best-run data centers are those where managers have access to meaningful information about their facility's assets and operational status. This report details the questions they need to ask when purchasing DCIM software.
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…
Uptime Institute Research looks at smart energy, including its potential for changing mission-critical IT as well as many of the enabling technologies.
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…
Andy Lawrence
Jay Dietrich
Jacqueline Davis
Daniel Bizo
Intelligence Team