Today, the role that the physical data center plays in software-defined data centers, particularly facility design and operational management, is often overlooked. However, this is likely to change. As more networking and compute becomes virtualized ...
Uptime Institute’s Annual outage analysis, published early this year, called attention to the persistent problem of IT service and data center outages. Coupled with our annual survey data on outages, the analysis explains, to a degree, why investment...
We recently discussed where enterprises are putting their workloads. In line with almost everyone’s research, Uptime has found a very strong move of workloads to the public cloud, much of which then ends up in running, wholly or in part, in colocatio...
An artificial intelligence (AI) strategy for data center management and operation requires more than just data and some very smart humans. Selecting specific use cases and understanding the types of data that influence AI outcomes — and then validati...
It is still very early days, but it is clear that artificial intelligence (AI) is set to transform the way data centers are designed, managed and operated — eventually. There has been a lot of misrepresentation and hype around AI, and it’s not always...
The Open19 Foundation designated 2019 the Year of Accelerated Adoption for its Open19 specification, which defines four server profiles, based on a standard 19-inch rack. Open19 expects the specification to be the basis of flexible and economic data ...
Data center owners and operators share their experiences with the data center staff and skills shortage. In this report, based on interviews and surveys, operators discuss the impact of the shortage on their operations and strategies they have develo...
Data center infrastructure management software is widely considered essential for running modern, flexible and efficient data centers – but it is also notoriously difficult to select and deploy. This report, the first in a two-part series, provides i...
The spectacular growth of the public cloud has many drivers, only one of which is the deployment, redevelopment or migration of enterprise IT into the cloud. But many in the industry — data center builders and operators, hardware and software supplie...
In our October 2018 report, A mission-critical industry unprepared for climate change, Uptime Institute Intelligence urged data center operators and owners to plan for the effects of climate change. We specifically encouraged data center owners and o...
One of the more intriguing results of the Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2019 concerned energy efficiency. For years, data centers have become ever more efficient, with power usage effectiveness (PUE) ratings across the industry (apparen...
An Uptime Institute Network member and a battery vendor wanted to know: Can you have lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries in a Tier IV-Certified data center? The member noted Li-ion fires are very difficult to extinguish, citing the FM Global Property Loss...
When the ride-hailing company Lyft (a competitor to Uber) filed for its IPO (initial public offering) in March, one figure attracted particular attention in the mission-critical infrastructure industry: Lyft will pay Amazon Web Services (AWS) around ...
A furious — but late — response to the National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA’s) proposed standard 855, Standard for the Installation of Stationary Energy Storage, should put the whole data center industry on notice that it needs to increase it...
Are data centers getting more efficient? How are outages changing? Is rack density rising at last? What proportion of workloads run in the cloud? Which new architectures are being adopted? The results are in for the industry’s largest and most influe...
Intelligence Team
Andy Lawrence