The value, role and safety of nuclear power has strongly divided opinion, both in favor of and against, since the 1950s. This debate has now, in 2022, reached a critical point again as energy security and prices cause increasing concern globally (β¦
IT hardware vendors, such as Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), are pivoting their revenue models away from product sales toward service-based subscriptions. The objective is to make hardware appear more flexible and cloud-like, so buyersβ¦
Quantum computing promises a revolution in scientific discovery. Quantum computing's main advantage over digital computing is in quickly solving highly complex problems that require significant time or resources to process. Currently, solutions toβ¦
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 bruntβ¦
An extreme heat wave swept across much of Western Europe on July 18 and 19, hitting some of the largest metropolitan areas such as Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam and Paris β which are also global data center hubs with hundreds of megawatts of capacityβ¦
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, donβt offer hugeβ¦
Nearly 15 years ago β in 2008 β Uptime Institute presented a paper titled βThe gathering storm.β The paper was about the inevitability of a struggle against climate change and how this might play out for the power-hungry data center and IT sector.β¦
Chip designer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has successfully mounted a challenge to Intelβs dominance in data center processors by focusing on energy-efficient server chips. AMD plans to further expand its presence in data centers by bringing moreβ¦
A reliance on digital services since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 and governmentsβ increased concerns about the risks and resiliency of digital infrastructure have resulted in numerous new proposals for stricter legislation. Ifβ¦
Cloud providers tend to adopt the latest server technologies early, often many months ahead of enterprise buyers, to stay competitive. Providers regularly launch new generations of virtual machines with identical quantities of resources (such asβ¦
In recent years, Uptime Institute has published regular reports examining both the rate and causes of data center and IT service outages. The reports, which have been widely read and reported in the media, paint a picture of an industry that isβ¦
Direct liquid cooling (DLC) is a collection of techniques that removes heat by circulating a coolant to IT electronics. Even though the process is far more efficient than using air, the move to liquid cooling has been largely confined to selectβ¦
Last month 7,000 developers traveled to Valencia to attend the combined KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 conference, the event for Kubernetes and cloud-native software development. A further 10,000 developers joined the conference online. Theβ¦
As a result of some high-profile outages and the growing interest in running critical services in a public cloud, the reliability β and transparency β of public cloud services has come under scrutiny.Cloud services are designed to operate with lowβ¦
Analyzing human error β with a view to preventing it β has always been challenging for data center operators. The cause of a failure can lie in how well a process was taught, how tired, well trained or resourced the staff are, or whether theβ¦