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Andy Lawrence Douglas Donnellan Lenny Simon
29 Apr 2022
Annual outage analysis 2022

Avoiding downtime remains a top priority for managers of critical digital infrastructure. As the demands placed on IT change, so do the types, frequency and impacts of outages. This report draws lessons from recent outage data.

Keynote Reports 50 min read
Andy Lawrence
14 Apr 2022
The shock waves from Ukraine

How is the Ukraine conflict affecting digital infrastructure and the data sector? In response to multiple queries, Uptime Institute Intelligence has identified six main areas where operators and customers of digital infrastructure are experiencing…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
6 Apr 2022
Cloud SLAs punish, not compensate

A service level agreement (SLA) is a contract between a cloud provider and a user. The SLA describes the provider’s minimum level of service, specified by performance metrics, and the compensation due to the user should the provider fail to deliver…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
29 Mar 2022
Cloud price increases damage trust

In general, the prices of cloud services either remain level or decrease. There are occasional price increases, but these are typically restricted to specific features; blanket price increases across product families are rare.Price cuts are often…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
15 Feb 2022
Why cloud is a kludge of complexity

The cloud model was designed to be simple and nimble. Simple and nimble doesn’t necessarily mean fit for purpose. Over the past decade, new layers of capability have been added to cloud to address its shortcomings. While this has created more…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Tomas Rahkonen
7 Feb 2022
Supply problems favor standardization and scale

The COVID-19 pandemic has stressed supply chains globally, resulting in higher prices and increased delivery times for many components. Shortages and delays are likely to persist into 2022 and beyond as demand for IT, and for new data center…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
24 Jan 2022
Flexibility drives cloud lock-in risk

Vendor lock-in is regularly levied as a criticism of cloud services. But the reality of IT is, there has always been lock-in. Even before cloud, enterprises were locked into hardware, operating systems, database platforms, data centers and network…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
21 Jan 2022
Data center operators ponder the nuclear option

As major businesses feel a growing sense of urgency to dramatically cut carbon emissions, opinions are starting to shift in favor of nuclear power, which is not classed as clean, but is a near-zero carbon energy source. The digital infrastructure…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Jacqueline Davis
26 Oct 2021
Does the spread of direct liquid cooling make PUE less relevant?

The power usage effectiveness (PUE) metric is predominant thanks to its universal applicability and its simplicity: energy used by the entire data center, divided by energy used by the IT equipment. However, its simplicity could limit its future…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
10 Sep 2021
Vertiv’s DCIM ambitions wither on Trellis’ demise

Operators often say that data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software is a necessary evil. Modern facilities need centralized, real-time management and analytics, but DCIM is notoriously difficult to deploy. The software is also not easy to…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Tomas Rahkonen
29 Jul 2021
Which workloads will drive the edge?

Demand for edge data centers has started to increase from low levels. Uptime Institute’s research shows that owners, operators, and suppliers alike anticipate further growth across different industry verticals, especially in North America.While…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Jay Dietrich
6 Jul 2021
Power purchase agreements have utility but are not risk-free

Power purchase agreements (PPAs) are often a preferred method for data center operators to procure renewable electricity, but their fixed purchase price and duration (eight to 20 years) can pose significant financial and power management risks.

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
Dr. Tomas Rahkonen
10 Jun 2021
Eyeing an uptick in edge data center demand

Edge data centers are generally small data center facilities — designed for IT workloads up to a few hundred kilowatts — that process data closer to the population of local end users and devices. Earlier in 2021, we surveyed data center owners/…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Tomas Rahkonen
25 May 2021
Demand and speculation fuel edge buildout

Demand for private and shared edge data centers is starting to grow from low numbers. Certain edge workloads, the strategies of large cloud providers, and the speculative deployments of supporting 5G networks are fueling edge data center buildouts.

Briefing Reports 25 min read