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Daniel Bizo
19 Jul 2023
Looking for the x-factor in data center efficiency

The suitability of a data center environment is primarily judged by its effect on the long-term health of IT hardware. Facility operators define their temperature and humidity set points with a view to balancing hardware failure rates against the…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence Jay Dietrich Dr. Tomas Rahkonen
27 Jun 2023
REPLAY | Webinar: Transactions per megawatt-hour: Keys to increasing data center efficiency

IT efficiency can offer the keys to unlocking a more sustainable, efficient, and reliable data center. This session provides quantified examples of improvements in business and environmental performance.

On-Demand Webinars 60 min
Douglas Donnellan
19 Jun 2023
Are utility companies needed for pull-the-plug testing? 

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 testing…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Matt Stansberry
15 Jun 2023
REPLAY | Webinar: Staying Above Water During Supply Chain Troubles

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?

On-Demand Webinars 58 min
Jacqueline Davis
31 May 2023
Accurate timekeeping in data centers: a resiliency review

Precision time systems to synchronize IT system clocks over the network have proliferated and evolved to meet the needs of reliable, secure applications.

Briefing Reports 12 min read
Andy Lawrence
15 Jun 2022
Making sense of the outage numbers

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 is…

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
Lenny Simon Daniel Bizo
6 May 2022
Crypto data centers: the good, the bad and the electric

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 currency…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Lenny Simon Daniel Bizo
24 Mar 2022
Direct liquid cooling bubbles to the surface

Conditions will soon be ripe for widespread use of direct liquid cooling (DLC) — a collection of techniques that uses fluid to remove heat from IT electronics instead of air — and it may even become essential.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Daniel Bizo
3 Feb 2022
Moore’s law resumes – but not for all

In recent years, the IT industry and trade press were abuzz about the end of Moore’s 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 of…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Daniel Bizo
31 Aug 2021
New ASHRAE guidelines challenge efficiency drive

Earlier in 2021, ASHRAE’s Technical Committee 9.9 published an update — the fifth edition — of its Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments. The update recommends important changes to data center thermal operating envelopes: the presence…

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
16 Apr 2021
Pandemic has driven up data center costs

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 included…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
26 Jan 2021
Data center staff on-site: engineering specialists or generalists?

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 will…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
22 Dec 2020
Sustainability: More challenging, more transparent

Through 2021 and beyond, the world will begin to recover from its acute crisis — COVID-19 — 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 more…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read