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Dr. Owen Rogers
3 Apr 2023
Cloud resiliency: plan to lose control of your planes

Cloud providers divide the technologies that underpin their services into two ”planes”, each with a different architecture and availability goal. The control plane manages resources in the cloud; the data plane runs the cloud buyer’s application.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Max Smolaks
13 Mar 2023
The effects of a failing power grid in South Africa

European countries narrowly avoided an energy crisis in the past winter months, as a shortfall in fossil fuel supplies from Russia threatened to destabilize power grids across the region. This elevated level of risk to the normally robust European…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Jay Dietrich
8 Mar 2023
EED reporting and indicators: a wake-up call

For the past two years, Uptime has been tracking the progress of what is likely to be the most important legislation yet for data center sustainability and efficiency reporting. The European Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) will affect all but the…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
7 Mar 2023
Data shows the cloud goes where the money is

Hyperscale cloud providers have opened numerous operating regions in all corners of the world over the past decade. The three most prominent — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure — now have 105 distinct regions (excluding…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Daniel Bizo
23 Feb 2023
Cooling to play a more active role in IT performance and efficiency

Data center operators and IT tenants have traditionally adopted a binary view of cooling performance: it either meets service level commitments, or it does not. The relationship is also coldly transactional: as long as sufficient volumes of air of…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Lenny Simon Andy Lawrence
20 Feb 2023
US operators scour Inflation Reduction Act for incentives

While the politicians argue, stakeholders in the US have been scouring the IRA’s 274 pages for opportunities to capitalize on these lucrative incentives. Some of these will be substantial.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
9 Feb 2023
Asset utilization drives cloud repatriation economics

The past decade has seen numerous reports of so-called cloud “repatriations” — the migration of applications back to on-premises venues following negative experiences with, or unsuccessful migrations to, the public cloud.A recent Uptime Update (High…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Jacqueline Davis
2 Feb 2023
Forecasting the solar storm threat

A proposed permanent network of electromagnetic monitoring stations across the continental US, operating in tandem with a machine learning (ML) algorithm, could facilitate accurate predictions of geomagnetic disturbances (GMDs). If realized, this…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
27 Jan 2023
Cloud migrations to face closer scrutiny

Big public-cloud operators have often had to compete against each other — sometimes ferociously. Only rarely have they had to compete against alternative platforms for corporate IT, however. More often than not, chief information officers (CIOs)…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Max Smolaks Douglas Donnellan
26 Jan 2023
Data center costs set to rise and rise

Up until two years ago, the cost of building and operating data centers had been falling reasonably steeply. While labor costs have risen during this time, better management, processes and automation have helped to prevent spiraling wage bills.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Jay Dietrich
19 Jan 2023
Accounting for digital infrastructure GHG emissions

A host of regulations worldwide have introduced (or will introduce) legal mandates forcing data center operators to report specific operational data and metrics.

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Dr. Owen Rogers
18 Jan 2023
High costs drive cloud repatriation, but impact is overstated

Unexpected costs are driving some data-heavy and legacy applications back from public-cloud to on-premises locations. However, very few organizations are moving away from the public cloud strategically — let alone altogether.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Daniel Bizo Douglas Donnellan
17 Jan 2023
Energy-efficiency focus to shift to IT — at last

Data centers have become victims of their own success. Ever-larger data centers have mushroomed across the globe in line with an apparently insatiable demand for computing and storage capacity. The associated energy use is not only expensive (and…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Douglas Donnellan
16 Jan 2023
EU bids farewell to 2022 with a host of resiliency regulations

European Union (EU) regulators wrapped up 2022 with new legislation introducing stricter requirements for data center operators. Four major regulations were passed (with strong majorities) in the European Parliament — most of these having been…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Jay Dietrich
12 Jan 2023
EED recast: new reporting proposals raise confidentiality concerns

The European Commission (EC) has published a draft technical document on data center metrics and reporting obligations in support of the deployment of its Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) recast. The Directive is intended to encourage operators to…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read