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?
This report analyzes the causes and impacts of publicly recorded IT service and data center outages from 2016-2018.
For the better part of a decade, operators have agonized over how to reduce energy waste. By and large, they have succeededβthe average PUE, the industryβs most common infrastructure efficiency metric, was a record low in this year βs survey.