The testing of backup power systems is crucial for ensuring that data center operations remain available through power interruptions. By cutting all power to the facility and replicating a real-world electrical grid failure, pull-the-plug testingβ¦
75% of organizations in North America have experienced supply chain delays. With organizations already stretching equipment life-cycles, how do we stay ahead of equipment and spare shortages that could leave us vulnerable?
Precision time systems to synchronize IT system clocks over the network have proliferated and evolved to meet the needs of reliable, secure applications.
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 isβ¦
Analyzing human error β with a view to preventing it β 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 theβ¦
A single tweet in May 2021 brought unprecedented public attention to a relatively unknown issue. Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that because of the large energy consumption associated with the use of Bitcoin, Tesla would no longer accept it as currencyβ¦
Conditions will soon be ripe for widespread use of direct liquid cooling (DLC) β a collection of techniques that uses fluid to remove heat from IT electronics instead of air β and it may even become essential.
In recent years, the IT industry and trade press were abuzz about the end of Mooreβs law (the expectation that the scale of integration for chips doubles about every two years), and what that means for IT buyers. IT buyers saw a slowdown ofβ¦
Earlier in 2021, ASHRAEβs Technical Committee 9.9 published an update β the fifth edition β of its Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments. The update recommends important changes to data center thermal operating envelopes: the presenceβ¦
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 β some are even counter-intuitive. Manyβ¦
As the pandemic began to make an impact in early 2020, it became clear that data center operators were going to have to invest more if they were to provide the services on which their customers were increasingly reliant. Short-term needs includedβ¦
The pandemic has led to a renewed interest by data center managers in remote monitoring, management and automation. Uptime Institute has fielded dozens of inquiries about these approaches in recent months, but one in particular stands out: What willβ¦
Through 2021 and beyond, the world will begin to recover from its acute crisis β COVID-19 β and will turn its attention to other matters. Few if any of these issues will be as important as climate change, a chronic condition that will become moreβ¦
What we can expect for mission-critical digital infrastructure in 2021?Each autumn Uptime Institute, like many other organizations, puts together a list of some of the big trends and themes for the year ahead. This time, we have focused on five bigβ¦
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused concerns about data center HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) filtration. Many data center operators are adjusting filtration protocols, including upgrading to finer MERV (minimum efficiency reportingβ¦