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Andy Lawrence
9 Jun 2020
COVID-19: Critical impact and legacy

What will be the long-lasting impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the digital critical infrastructure industry? It may be too soon to ask the question given that, at the time of writing, the virus is taking its toll at scale across the world. But…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
3 Jun 2020
Enterprises’ need for control and visibility still slows cloud adoption

During the current COVID-19 crisis, enterprise dependency on cloud platform providers (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform) and on software as a service (Salesforce, Zoom, Teams) has increased. Operators report booming demand…

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Uptime Intelligence Staff
5 May 2020
Cleaning and sanitization measures that work

Fear of the coronavirus or confirmed exposure has caused about half (49%) of data center owners to increase the frequency of regular cleanings, according to a recent Uptime Institute flash survey. Even more (66%) have increased the frequency of…

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Andy Lawrence
30 Apr 2020
COVID-19: What worries data center management most?

To date, the critical infrastructure industry has mostly managed effectively with reduced staff, deferred maintenance, social distancing and new patterns of demand. While there have been some serious incidents and outages directly related to the…

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Andy Lawrence
30 Apr 2020
Pandemic is causing some outages and slowdowns

To date, media coverage of the impact of COVID-19 and the lockdowns has been largely laudatory. There have been few high profile or serious outages (perhaps fewer than normal) and for the most part, internet traffic flow analysis shows that a sudden…

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Andy Lawrence
27 Apr 2020
Data center PUEs flat since 2013

The average power usage effectiveness (PUE) ratio for a data center in 2020 is 1.58, only marginally better than 7 years ago, according to the latest annual Uptime Institute survey (findings to be published shortly).PUE, an international standard…

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Uptime Intelligence Staff
12 Mar 2020
COVID-19 preparedness: More organizations move from planning to implementation

On March 12, 2020, Uptime Institute held its second roundtable about the impact of the COVID-19 virus on data center operations and potential responses to its spread. A Note covering the topics discussed in the first roundtable is available here.

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Uptime Intelligence Staff
25 Feb 2020
Data center gender diversity: What's your plan?

The lack of women working in all roles in the data center industry has been widely discussed. Whatever the causes — and they are deep, wide and long-standing — there is a clearly a general, if not urgent, desire across the industry to redress the…

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Andy Lawrence
25 Feb 2020
Are outages getting longer?

One of the findings of Uptime Institute’s recently published report Annual outage analysis 2020 is that the most serious categories of outages — those that cause a significant disruption in services — are becoming more severe and more costly. This…

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Uptime Intelligence Staff
7 Feb 2020
Phasing out hot work

Despite years of discussion, warnings and strict regulations in some countries, hot work remains a contentious issue in the data center industry. Hot work is the practice of working on energized electrical circuits (voltage limits differ regionally…

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Andy Lawrence
29 Jan 2020
The spectre of ransomware

Uptime Institute Intelligence plans to release its 2019/2020 outages report shortly. This report will examine the types, causes and impacts of public outages, as well as further analyze the results of a recent Uptime survey on outages and impacts.…

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Uptime Intelligence Staff
27 Jan 2020
Pay-as-you-go model spreads to critical components

As enterprises continue to move from a focus on capital expenditures to operating expenditures, more data center components will also be consumed on a pay-as-you-go, “as a service” basis. 

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Andy Lawrence
27 Jan 2020
Micro data centers: An explosion in demand, in slow motion

A wave of new technologies, from 5G to the internet of things (IoT) to artificial intelligence (AI), means much more computing and much more data will be needed near the point of use. That means many more small data centers will be required. But…

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Uptime Intelligence Staff
10 Jan 2020
Optimizing server refresh cycles with an aging Moore’s law

Hardware refresh is the process of replacing older, less efficient servers with newer, more efficient ones with more compute capacity.However, there is a complication to the refresh cycle that is relatively recent: the slowing down of Moore’s law.…

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Andy Lawrence
18 Dec 2019
Outages drive authorities and businesses to act

Big IT outages are occurring with growing regularity, many with severe consequences. Executives, industry authorities and governments alike are responding with more rules, calls for more transparency and a more formal approach to end-to-end,…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read