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Jacqueline Davis
14 Jul 2021
Data center AI finds true believers in Asia

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly sophisticated, one of its most anticipated benefits is a transformative reduction in the data center workforce, by augmenting the abilities of workers and relieving these workers of more…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Jay Dietrich
6 Jul 2021
Power purchase agreements have utility but are not risk-free

Power purchase agreements (PPAs) are often a preferred method for data center operators to procure renewable electricity, but their fixed purchase price and duration (eight to 20 years) can pose significant financial and power management risks.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
22 Jun 2021
The COVID outage paradox

In the 12 months from early March 2020 to April 2021, COVID-19 made a big impact on how and where IT was used. This had a surprising — and in some ways paradoxical — impact on IT service availability and the number and severity of outages recorded.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Daniel Bizo
10 Jun 2021
Fastly outage underscores slow creep of digital services risk

A recent outage at content delivery network Fastly took down thousands of websites in different countries, including big names, such as Amazon, Twitter and Spotify, for nearly an hour. It is the latest large outage highlighting the downside of a key…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Tomas Rahkonen
10 Jun 2021
Eyeing an uptick in edge data center demand

Edge data centers are generally small data center facilities — designed for IT workloads up to a few hundred kilowatts — that process data closer to the population of local end users and devices. Earlier in 2021, we surveyed data center owners/…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Daniel Bizo
21 May 2021
Data center energy efficiency stalls as Intel struggles to deliver

Intel’s protracted difficulties with its leading-edge processor manufacturing have garnered a great deal of attention over the past few years, as the world has watched a once unshakable technology lead diminish. Intel’s manufacturing development…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
13 May 2021
The impact of cloud outages is growing

Cloud, hosted and many other internet-based services and workloads are designed to operate with very low failure rates. Large (at-scale) cloud and IT service providers use an array of software and data management tools, strategies and services to…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
7 May 2021
New, efficient UPS modes: Too “risky” for many

A sector-wide focus on efficiency does not necessarily extend to many organizations’ centralized 3-phase uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems. Today, these systems routinely achieve 94% to 96% efficiency in normal operational mode. Economy (…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Jay Dietrich
21 Apr 2021
Green tariff renewable energy purchases

Until recently, power purchase agreements (PPAs) and unbundled renewable energy certificates (RECs) were the primary means for data center operators or managers to procure renewable electricity and RECs for their operations. Many companies are not…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
16 Apr 2021
Pandemic has driven up data center costs

As the pandemic began to make an impact in early 2020, it became clear that data center operators were going to have to invest more if they were to provide the services on which their customers were increasingly reliant. Short-term needs included…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Jay Dietrich
12 Apr 2021
Renewable energy and data centers: Buyer, be aware

Across the world, data center owners and managers are striving to buy more renewable energy and reduce their dependence on fossil fuels. The global internet giants and the largest colocation companies have led the way with huge green energy…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
30 Mar 2021
The insider threat: Social engineering is raising security risks

Uptime Institute Members say one of their most vexing security concerns is the insider threat — authorized staff, vendors or visitors acting with malicious intent.In extreme examples, trusted individuals could power down servers and other equipment…

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Uptime Intelligence Staff
23 Mar 2021
Data center insecurity: Online exposure threatens critical systems

In early March 2021, a hacker group publicly exposed the username and password of an administrative account of a security camera vendor. The credentials enabled them to access 150,000 commercial security systems and, potentially, set up subsequent…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
12 Mar 2021
Fire frequency

The catastrophic fire that occurred at OVHcloud’s SBG2 data center in Strasbourg, France (see Note 93, The OVHcloud data center fire) has led many operators to question their vulnerability to fires.Fires at data centers are a constant concern, but…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
12 Mar 2021
The OVHcloud data center fire

The fire that destroyed a data center (and damaged others) at the OVHcloud facility in Strasbourg, France, on March 10-11, 2021, has raised a multitude of questions from concerned data center operators and customers around the world. Chief among…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read