Data center managers, on both the facilities and the IT side of operations, are known for their preparedness. Even so, the pandemic caught most by surprise. Few had an effective pandemic plan in place, and most had to react and adapt on the fly, as b...
To date, the critical infrastructure industry has mostly managed effectively with reduced staff, deferred maintenance, social distancing and new patterns of demand. While there have been some serious incidents and outages directly related to the pand...
On March 12, 2020, Uptime Institute held its second roundtable about the impact of the COVID-19 virus on data center operations and potential responses to its spread. A Note covering the topics discussed in the first roundtable is available here. Ove...
The lack of women working in all roles in the data center industry has been widely discussed. Whatever the causes — and they are deep, wide and long-standing — there is a clearly a general, if not urgent, desire across the industry to redress the gen...
The full report Ten data center industry trends in 2020 is available to Uptime Intelligence subscribers here.
With decades of strong growth behind it and no slowdown in sight, the data center sector is struggling with staff shortages. According to Uptime Institute’s 2019 global survey of more than 1,000 IT and data center managers (UI Intelligence report 26)...
Data center owners and operators share their experiences with the data center staff and skills shortage. In this report, based on interviews and surveys, operators discuss the impact of the shortage on their operations and strategies they have develo...
Sometimes it can be hard to get people to talk about their issues — other times, it can be hard to keep them quiet. A recent Uptime Institute Network member’s meeting began as an open discussion but was soon dominated by one issue: staffing. The mem...
Andy Lawrence
Intelligence Team