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John O'Brien
6 Oct 2023
FinOps gives hope to those struggling with cloud costs

Unpredictable costs and “bill shocks” are a growing problem for organizations running their applications and workloads in the public cloud. FinOps could help enterprises analyze, report and optimize cloud and other IT costs.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Max Smolaks Douglas Donnellan
29 Sep 2023
Operators’ trust in AI drops

The Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2023 shows that trust in artificial intelligence as a tool capable of making operational decisions has fallen sharply year on year. What is causing this reaction?

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Jay Dietrich
15 Sep 2023
Emerging regulatory requirements: tactics for riding the tsunami

Over the next decade, digital infrastructure operations will need to comply with an emerging set of regulatory requirements. Managers can smooth the path to compliance by focusing on business processes and data collection.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
14 Sep 2023
Consensus on regulatory goals hides national differences

Attitudes to critical infrastructure regulation vary across the world, with the regulators and the regulated mostly agreeing about the goal, role and application of new rules. The US, however, remains an outlier.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Lenny Simon
8 Sep 2023
Operators still lagging on key sustainability metrics

Few operators compile and report the primary operational data needed to create effective sustainability programs and fulfill regulatory requirements, Uptime research suggests.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
1 Sep 2023
Always consider reserved instances to squeeze cloud costs

Reserved instances are a pricing model for virtual machines offered by cloud providers. As they offer savings of up to 70% compared with on-demand pricing, organizations should use them liberally, especially in challenging times.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Douglas Donnellan
24 Aug 2023
Regulations drive investments in cybersecurity and efficiency

Regulatory concerns over security, resiliency and energy use have led to a wave of new and updated requirements for data centers. Organizations are beginning to invest more to achieve compliance.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Daniel Bizo
21 Aug 2023
Global PUEs — are they going anywhere?

Industry average PUE has not improved consistently for some years now, according to Uptime Institute’s annual survey. However, the headline number may be masking underlying dynamics of meaningful improvements.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Jacqueline Davis
14 Aug 2023
Data centers are short-staffed boys’ clubs

Two persistent trends in data center staffing are in apparent tension. The 2023 Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey confirmed, once again, that operations teams are struggling to attract and retain qualified staff. The severity of this…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
6 Aug 2023
Using spot instances to cut cloud costs

The key benefit of cloud computing lies in its on-demand pricing model. This enables organizations to grow or shrink their applications at will without giving the cloud provider any advance notification. Cloud providers can only offer such…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Jay Dietrich
26 Jul 2023
The Energy Efficiency Directive: requirements come into focus

Recent publication of the EU Energy Efficiency Directive Task B and C reports clarify most of the data reporting requirements and set out the preferred policy options for assessing data center energy performance.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Daniel Bizo
19 Jul 2023
Looking for the x-factor in data center efficiency

The suitability of a data center environment is primarily judged by its effect on the long-term health of IT hardware. Facility operators define their temperature and humidity set points with a view to balancing hardware failure rates against the…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
10 Jul 2023
The strong case for power management

The main payoff is clear: power management’s impact on performance is demonstrably low, and in most cases, customers will probably not notice that it is turned on. Even at higher points of utilization, the impact on performance is minimal.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
4 Jul 2023
Corporate data centers quash cloud concentration risk

In recent conversations with both regulators and some enterprises, a concept borrowed from the financial sector has been discussed with growing frequency: concentration risk. In finance, the term refers to the level of risk arising from the…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Jay Dietrich
26 Jun 2023
The EU’s Energy Efficiency Directive: ready or not here it comes

Uptime Intelligence has been providing regular updates and insights on the efforts of the European Parliament and European Commission (EC) to finalize the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) recast requirements. The directive is the most radical and…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read