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…
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…
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…
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…
Andy Lawrence
Daniel Bizo
Dr. Owen Rogers
Jacqueline Davis
Max Smolaks
Lenny Simon
Douglas Donnellan
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…
Andy Lawrence
Daniel Bizo
Dr. Owen Rogers
Jacqueline Davis
Max Smolaks
Lenny Simon
Douglas Donnellan
The Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey is the most comprehensive of its kind. The findings reveal the experiences of data center operators in the areas of performance, resiliency, efficiency and sustainability.
When Uptime Institute Intelligence surveyed data center infrastructure operators about supply chain issues in August 2021, more than two-thirds of respondents had experienced some shortages in the previous 18 months. Larger operations bore the brunt…
Although big-name hyperscalers such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft dominate the cloud arena, other companies also believe they have a role to play. Vultr, OVHcloud, Linode, DigitalOcean, Bluehost and Scaleway, for example, don't offer huge…
Chip designer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has successfully mounted a challenge to Intel's dominance in data center processors by focusing on energy-efficient server chips. AMD plans to further expand its presence in data centers by bringing more…
A single tweet in May 2021 brought unprecedented public attention to a relatively unknown issue. Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that because of the large energy consumption associated with the use of Bitcoin, Tesla would no longer accept it as currency…
This report, the first in a series, sets out the main elements of a digital infrastructure sustainability strategy and details some of the processes, challenges, metrics and outcomes.
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.
Jay Dietrich