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Andy Lawrence
25 Sep 2020
Uptime Institute supply-side survey 2020

Data center spending is on the rise; forecasting capacity requirements remains a top challenge for operators; and data center infrastructure management and prefabricated data center components are now mainstream.

Keynote Reports 10 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
11 Sep 2020
Managing risks associated with wildfires

As discussed in Note #71 (In thunder, lightning, or in rain?), climate change requires data center managers to not only review existing emergency plans but also anticipate previously unforeseen challenges.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Chris Brown
11 Sep 2020
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

Data centers are built and sited to withstand all that Mother Nature can throw at them — or at least, is likely to throw at them — during their lifecycle. This has long been a given, practiced and understood by designers, planners and regulators.But…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
27 Aug 2020
Will the pandemic accelerate the move to public cloud?

As the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded, many people have suggested that the business case for enterprises to move more workloads to the public cloud has been strengthened. Some have argued that the pandemic will accelerate the decline of the…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
24 Aug 2020
Pandemics: Operators plan to be ready next time

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…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
6 Aug 2020
Post-pandemic data centers

The COVID-19 pandemic will bring about some long-term strategic changes to the design, management and day-to-day operations of data centers and mission-critical infrastructure. Some changes would have happened anyway, but more slowly; others were…

Briefing Reports 25 min read
Andy Lawrence
5 Aug 2020
Lithium-ion batteries: An ethical dimension?

One of the emerging trends in data centers is the use of lithium ion (Li-ion) batteries, both for distributed and centralized uninterruptible power supplies. Research by Uptime Institute and others predicts high levels of adoption in the years ahead…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
30 Jul 2020
Which regions have the most energy efficient data centers?

When the PUE (power usage effectiveness) metric for data centers was first agreed upon by the members of The Green Grid back in 2007, almost everyone in that crowded room in California agreed: This is not intended to be used as comparative metric;…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
13 Jul 2020
Uptime Institute global data center survey 2020

The tenth Uptime Institute annual survey is the largest and most comprehensive research study of its kind in the data center sector.

Keynote Reports 10 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
6 Jul 2020
Best-in-class data center provisioning: Simplify, standardize, repeat

Demand for IT capacity continues to grow rapidly across the globe, which has driven the need for more industrialized approaches to data center construction and component assembly. Large operators and their partners have scrambled to apply new…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
9 Jun 2020
COVID-19: Critical impact and legacy

What will be the long-lasting impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the digital critical infrastructure industry? It may be too soon to ask the question given that, at the time of writing, the virus is taking its toll at scale across the world. But…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
3 Jun 2020
Enterprises’ need for control and visibility still slows cloud adoption

During the current COVID-19 crisis, enterprise dependency on cloud platform providers (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform) and on software as a service (Salesforce, Zoom, Teams) has increased. Operators report booming demand…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
12 Mar 2020
COVID-19 preparedness: More organizations move from planning to implementation

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.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
27 Jan 2020
Pay-as-you-go model spreads to critical components

As enterprises continue to move from a focus on capital expenditures to operating expenditures, more data center components will also be consumed on a pay-as-you-go, “as a service” basis. 

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
27 Jan 2020
Micro data centers: An explosion in demand, in slow motion

A wave of new technologies, from 5G to the internet of things (IoT) to artificial intelligence (AI), means much more computing and much more data will be needed near the point of use. That means many more small data centers will be required. But…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read