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Uptime Intelligence Staff
6 Jan 2020
Beyond PUE: Tackling IT's wasted terawatts

Uptime Institute’s analysis shows that very substantial energy reduction opportunities remain untapped. While gains in M&E efficiency have stalled over the past few years, it remains that over 65% of the power used by IT in data centers is used…

Briefing Reports 25 min read
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
Uptime Intelligence Staff
18 Dec 2019
Data center energy use goes up and up

Energy use by data centers and IT will continue to rise, putting pressure on energy infrastructure and raising questions about carbon emissions. The drivers for more energy use are simply too great to be offset by efficiency gains.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
11 Dec 2019
Q4 2019 Critical Update webinar Q&A

On December 4, 2019, Uptime Intelligence hosted The Critical Update - 4Q 2019: Ten Data Center Industry Trends for 2020. Below you'll find the questions listeners submitted that the team could not address during the webinar, answered.

4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
4 Dec 2019
Capital inflow boosts the data center market

Data centers are no longer a niche or exotic investment among mainstream institutional buyers, which are swarming to the sector. There is now a buyer for almost every type of data center — including traditional-infrastructure investors and sovereign…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
4 Dec 2019
Cloud computing’s cold war: EU vs US and China

European officials have long eyed the rise of the big US cloud companies with suspicion and envy. Among their concerns is the European Union’s reliance on non-European providers of cloud computing and a need for ”data sovereignty,” or giving…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
4 Dec 2019
The internet tilts toward the edge

IT infrastructure — and the internet — has grown much, much bigger but not closer, or at least not close enough to support the anticipated wave of edge computing. Adoption of the internet of things, 5G and other edge applications is set to have a…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
25 Nov 2019
Surveillance capitalism and DCIM

In her book “Surveillance Capitalism,” Harvard scholar Shoshana Zuboff describes how some software and service providers have been collecting vast amounts of data, with the goal of tracking, anticipating, shaping and even controlling the behavior of…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
20 Nov 2019
Physical security: Technology and strategies to reduce risk

IT security is a huge management concern that receives a lot of attention and budget. The battle to keep out intruders – and manage unwelcome activity from insiders - is not just virtual.

Briefing Reports 25 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
19 Nov 2019
Trends to watch in 2020

The full report Ten data center industry trends in 2020 is available to Uptime Intelligence subscribers here.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
6 Nov 2019
Data centers without generators: The groundwork is being laid

In 2012, Microsoft announced that it planned to eliminate engine generators at its big data center campus in Quincy, Washington. Six years later the same group, with much the same aspirations, filed for permission to install 72 diesel generators,…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Chris Brown
4 Nov 2019
Li-ion in the data center

We are often asked for our thoughts about the use of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries in data center uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems. This is a relatively new, evolving technology, and there are still a lot of unknowns. In our business…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
25 Oct 2019
Ten data center industry trends in 2020

Government regulations, shifting IT environments, key innovations, new market developments and changing demographics are reshaping the IT landscape at a striking pace. What should data center owners, managers, and operators expect in 2020 and beyond?

Keynote Reports 40 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
18 Oct 2019
Nonproduction IT can hinder mission-critical operations

Separating production and nonproduction assets should be an operational requirement for most organizations. By definition, production assets support high-priority IT loads — servers that are critical to a business or business unit. In most…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
8 Oct 2019
99 Red flags

One of the most widely cited metrics in the IT industry is for availability, expressed in the form of a number of nines: three nines for 99.9% availability (minutes of downtime per year), extending to six nines — 99.9999% — or even, very rarely,…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read