The financial services industry has developed a certifiable methodology designed to help banks recover from the complete loss of all IT systems for an extended period. Is this a blueprint for improving corporate resiliency?
The pandemic has accelerated some long-term trends toward greater use of digital services, remote working and remote operation. Overall, costs have been pushed up, but other impacts are less clear β some are even counter-intuitive. Manyβ¦
Demand for private and shared edge data centers is starting to grow from low numbers. Certain edge workloads, the strategies of large cloud providers, and the speculative deployments of supporting 5G networks are fueling edge data center buildouts.
Data center uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems are evolving. New technologies are enabling various electrical approaches. But will UPS systems of the future meet the changing requirements of operators? This report discusses UPS adoptionβ¦
Data center operators routinely maintain multiple physical perimeters against intruders and regulate the activities of the people inside. However, cloud computing and increased remote monitoring and automation bring new security challenges.
Sustainability is becoming a key issue for data center operators. Investors, customers and legislators are increasingly demanding carbon emissions reporting and 100% renewable energy use.
Extreme weather events have become significantly more common and more severe in recent years β a pattern likely to continue for many decades to come. This report discusses the implications for data center owners and operators.
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 wereβ¦
This advisory report aims to help operators of critical infrastructure facilities prepare for the impact of COVID-19. The steps discussed will also help operators develop strategies and procedures for future pandemics.
Highly efficient, large-scale data centers are being provisioned faster and more cheaply than ever, enabling a rapid build-out of IT and cloud capacity. This Uptime Institute report focuses on best practices and best-in-class provisioning.
Uptime Instituteβs analysis shows that very substantial energy reduction opportunities remain untapped. While gains in M&E efficiency have stalled over the past few years, it remains that over 65% of the power used by IT in data centers is usedβ¦
IT security is a huge management concern that receives a lot of attention and budget. The battle to keep out intruders β and manage unwelcome activity from insiders - is not just virtual.
Maintaining and training staff on comprehensive, up-to-date procedures is a proven best way of reducing the likelihood of an outage and is key to restoring operations quickly afterward.
The best-run data centers are those where managers have access to meaningful information about their facilityβs assets and operational status. This report details the questions they need to ask when purchasing DCIM software.
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 haveβ¦