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Uptime Intelligence Staff
16 Jul 2019
Outages in the air

Uptime Institute’s Annual outage analysis, published early this year, called attention to the persistent problem of IT service and data center outages. Coupled with our annual survey data on outages, the analysis explains, to a degree, why…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
26 Jun 2019
AI in data centers: Reality vs. myth

It is still very early days, but it is clear that artificial intelligence (AI) is set to transform the way data centers are designed, managed and operated — eventually. There has been a lot of misrepresentation and hype around AI, and it’s not…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
17 Jun 2019
Open19 expects a “Year of Adoption”

The Open19 Foundation designated 2019 the Year of Accelerated Adoption for its Open19 specification, which defines four server profiles, based on a standard 19-inch rack. Open19 expects the specification to be the basis of flexible and economic data…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
17 Jun 2019
Responding to the Operations Skills Shortage

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…

Briefing Reports 25 min read
Andy Lawrence
28 May 2019
Enterprise IT and the public cloud: What the numbers tell us

The spectacular growth of the public cloud has many drivers, only one of which is the deployment, redevelopment or migration of enterprise IT into the cloud. But many in the industry — data center builders and operators, hardware and software…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
1 May 2019
Buying cloud at scale: Lessons from Lyft and Uber

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…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
23 Apr 2019
Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2019

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?

Keynote Reports 40 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
11 Apr 2019
Renewed pressure for renewables

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…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
21 Mar 2019
For most, virtualization reduces data center capacity demand more than anything else

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…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
8 Mar 2019
The business case for Smart Energy is still in the making

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…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
25 Feb 2019
Capacity planning in a Complex, Hybrid World

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…

Briefing Reports 25 min read
Andy Lawrence
29 Nov 2018
Ten data center industry trends in 2019

 

Keynote Reports 40 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
26 Sep 2018
Mustering FORCSS to Make IT Business Decisions

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.

Briefing Reports 25 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
29 Jun 2018
Uptime Institute Data Center Supply-Side Survey 2018

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.

Data Reports 10 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
19 Jun 2018
2018 Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey: Operators struggle with constraints, change, and complexity

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.

Keynote Reports 40 min read