Hyperscale cloud providers have opened numerous operating regions in all corners of the world over the past decade. The three most prominent — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure — now have 105 distinct regions (excluding gove...
Uptime Intelligence finds that operators and vendors face major delays in the supply of equipment, and are increasingly dissatisfied with their suppliers.
The past decade has seen numerous reports of so-called cloud “repatriations” — the migration of applications back to on-premises venues following negative experiences with, or unsuccessful migrations to, the public cloud. A recent Uptime Update (High...
Data center capacities continued to grow for colocation and enterprise facilities throughout 2022. Operators appear to be more aware of costs as they look to increase server power densities and reduce energy use.
Big public-cloud operators have often had to compete against each other — sometimes ferociously. Only rarely have they had to compete against alternative platforms for corporate IT, however. More often than not, chief information officers (CIOs) resp...
Up until two years ago, the cost of building and operating data centers had been falling reasonably steeply. While labor costs have risen during this time, better management, processes and automation have helped to prevent spiraling wage bills.
A host of regulations worldwide have introduced (or will introduce) legal mandates forcing data center operators to report specific operational data and metrics. Key examples include the European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (...
Unexpected costs are driving some data-heavy and legacy applications back from public-cloud to on-premises locations. However, very few organizations are moving away from the public cloud strategically — let alone altogether. The past decade has seen...
Prolonged supply chain difficulties, high energy prices, and sweeping sustainability mandates — the digital infrastructure sector had its plate full in a tumultuous 2022. But new uncertainties abound that add more risk to operations and business comp...
European Union (EU) regulators wrapped up 2022 with new legislation introducing stricter requirements for data center operators. Four major regulations were passed (with strong majorities) in the European Parliament — most of these having been propos...
The European Commission (EC) has published a draft technical document on data center metrics and reporting obligations in support of the deployment of its Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) recast. The Directive is intended to encourage operators to i...
The COVID-19 pandemic — and the subsequent disruption to supply chains — demonstrated the data center industry’s reliance on interdependent global markets and the components they produce. Although the data center sector was just one of many industrie...
Uptime Institute Intelligence looks beyond some of the more obvious trends of 2023 — that the sector continues to expand and innovate while facing stricter regulatory requirements — and identifies some challenging issues.
Results from Uptime Institute’s Data Center and IT Spending Survey 2022 reveal how enterprise operators and colocation providers are adapting their spending strategies to meet the growing demand for digital services.
The European Commission’s (EC’s) proposed recast of its Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) sets out new and strict reporting requirements for data centers operating in the EU. If passed, data centers with 100 kilowatts or more total installed IT power...
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