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Data center staff vs. AI, robots

With decades of strong growth behind it and no slowdown in sight, the data center sector is struggling with staff shortages. According to Uptime Institute’s 2019 global survey of more than 1,000 IT and data center managers (UI Intelligence report 26…

Uptime Institute data center supply-side survey 2019

Is the edge of tomorrow here? What are the main challenges faced by the data center industry? How are the efficiency technologies weathering in the market? Find the answers to these questions and more from the perspective of data center engineers,…

Keynote Reports 10 min read
 
DCIM as a hub: Integrations

Today, the role that the physical data center plays in software-defined data centers, particularly facility design and operational management, is often overlooked. However, this is likely to change.As more networking and compute becomes virtualized…

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…

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…

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…

 
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
 
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…

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…

 
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? The results are in for the industry’s largest and most…

Keynote Reports 40 min read
 
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…

 
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 colocation…

 
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…

 
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
 
29 Nov 2018
Ten data center industry trends in 2019

 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…

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