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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 Dr. Owen Rogers Jacqueline Davis
17 Jan 2023
REPLAY | Webinar: Five Data Center Predictions for 2023

Prolonged supply chain difficulties, high energy prices, and sweeping sustainability mandates — the digital infrastructure sector had its plate full in a tumultuous 2022. But new uncertainties abound that add more risk to operations and business…

On-Demand Webinars 65 min
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
Jacqueline Davis Max Smolaks
11 Jan 2023
Too hot to handle? Operators to struggle with new chips

Standard IT hardware was a boon for data centers: for almost two decades, mainstream servers have had relatively constant power and cooling requirements. This technical stability moored the planning and design of facilities (for both new builds and…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Daniel Bizo Lenny Simon Max Smolaks
10 Jan 2023
Geopolitics deepens supply chain worries

The COVID-19 pandemic — and the subsequent disruption to supply chains — demonstrated the data center industry’s reliance on interdependent global markets and the components they produce. Although the data center sector was just one of many…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence Daniel Bizo Dr. Owen Rogers Jacqueline Davis Max Smolaks Lenny Simon Douglas Donnellan
5 Jan 2023
Five data center predictions for 2023

Uptime Institute Intelligence looks beyond some of the more obvious trends of 2023 — that the sector continues to expand and innovate while facing stricter regulatory requirements — and identifies some challenging issues.

Keynote Reports 50 min read
Douglas Donnellan
3 Jan 2023
Uptime Institute Data Center and IT Spending Survey 2022

Results from Uptime Institute’s Data Center and IT Spending Survey 2022 reveal how enterprise operators and colocation providers are adapting their spending strategies to meet the growing demand for digital services.

Data Reports 10 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
12 Dec 2022
Higher data center costs unlikely to cause exodus to public cloud

A debate has been raging since cloud computing entered the mainstream: which is the cheaper venue for enterprise customers — cloud or on-premises data centers? This debate has proved futile for two reasons. First, the characteristics of any specific…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Douglas Donnellan Daniel Bizo Lenny Simon
9 Dec 2022
Trends and outlook for data center rack densities

Rack power density is a key metric that informs engineers in making design choices for data centers. This data report tracks changes in power densities since 2018, showing a trend towards greater server and rack power.

Data Reports 4 min read
Jay Dietrich
6 Dec 2022
First signs of federal data center reporting mandates appear in US

The past year (2022) has seen regulators in many countries develop or mandate requirements to report data centers’ operating information and environmental performance metrics. The first of these, the European Commission's (EC's) Energy Efficiency…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Max Smolaks
6 Dec 2022
DCIM and automated operations: an introduction

This report examines multiple applications of AI and automation within data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software. Greater automation can result in improved efficiency and free up staff to focus on more complex tasks.

Briefing Reports 37 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
30 Nov 2022
Is Google a credible enterprise cloud?

Google was an underdog when it launched its infrastructure cloud in 2013. Amazon had already made a name for itself as a disruptive technology provider, having launched Amazon Web Services (AWS) seven years prior. Microsoft, a household name in…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
23 Nov 2022
Reports of cloud decline have been greatly exaggerated

Cloud providers have experienced unprecedented growth over the past few years. CIOs the world over, often prompted by CFOs and CEOs, have been favoring the cloud over on-premises IT for new and major projects — with the result that the largest cloud…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read