When the ride-hailing company Lyft (a competitor to Uber) filed for its IPO (initial public offering) in March, one figure attracted particular attention in the mission-critical infrastructure industry: Lyft will pay Amazon Web Services (AWS) around…
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…
In a recent presentation at the Energy Smart conference in Stockholm, Gary Cook, the Greenpeace activist who has tracked data center carbon emissions for a decade, showed a slide of logos, indicating companies that have made a commitment to use 100…
The public cloud is dampening demand for data center capacity and leading to closures, consolidation and a big rethink on data center ownership. Right? Not quite, according to the latest Uptime Intelligence research. In enterprise and colocation…
Smart Energy is getting a lot of airplay in the data center world at present. New or planned products that fall under this broad banner include Energy-as-a-Service uninterruptible power supplies, software-defined power systems, and adaptable…
The adoption of virtualization and software containers, and the use of public cloud have been in full swing for some time. What effect is this having on data center capacity and density? How should operators build this into their demand forecasting…
Uptime Institute Intelligence analysts look at 10 critical trends driving IT change. Their selections and analysis suggest that technology, government regulation, demographic change, and a push for even higher resiliency levels will eventually…
A major retailer applied FORCSS to evaluate three IT infrastructure options, with the end result that it moved from a traditional platform to a cloud-based SaaS delivery system.
According to a new Uptime Institute survey of consultants, engineers, and vendors, the industry should be preparing for a smart, automated, and complex future. Early adopters are pointing the way.
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
Intelligence Team