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Jacqueline Davis
2 Sep 2021
Uptime Institute Data Center Capacity Survey 2021

Increasing demand for data center capacity is challenging operators to optimize their server footprint. What is the relative value of virtualization, software containers, public cloud, and IT upgrades to manage growth? What elements of data center…

Data Reports 10 min read
Daniel Bizo
31 Aug 2021
New ASHRAE guidelines challenge efficiency drive

Earlier in 2021, ASHRAE’s Technical Committee 9.9 published an update — the fifth edition — of its Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments. The update recommends important changes to data center thermal operating envelopes: the presence…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Daniel Bizo Andy Lawrence Jacqueline Davis
24 Aug 2021
Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2021

Uptime Institute’s annual survey, now in its eleventh year, is the most comprehensive, longest-running study of its kind in the data center sector.

Keynote Reports 40 min read
Andy Lawrence
23 Aug 2021
Operators’ expectations for artificial intelligence fall

Most new technologies go through a hype cycle: A spark of interest and early investment is followed by a surge of hype, then a crash of expectations as reality sets in. Only over time and a period of work, absorption and adjustment does the…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Daniel Bizo
6 Aug 2021
Startups brew new chemistries for fresh battery types

Through their public commitments to net-zero carbon emission targets, cloud providers have re-energized talks in the data center sector of a major redesign of critical power systems. The elimination of diesel fuel use is chief among the goals, but…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Tomas Rahkonen
29 Jul 2021
Which workloads will drive the edge?

Demand for edge data centers has started to increase from low levels. Uptime Institute’s research shows that owners, operators, and suppliers alike anticipate further growth across different industry verticals, especially in North America.While…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
27 Jul 2021
Sheltered Harbor — a corporate IT survival model?

The financial services industry has developed a certifiable methodology designed to help banks recover from the complete loss of all IT systems for an extended period. Is this a blueprint for improving corporate resiliency?

Briefing Reports 25 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
23 Jul 2021
Akamai outage raises questions about redundancy of critical internet functions

A recent outage at Akamai took down access to cloud services from Amazon Web Services and Oracle, as well as online services for American Express, Charles Schwab, Costco, Delta Airlines, FedEx, United Parcel Services, and many, many others, mostly…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Jacqueline Davis
14 Jul 2021
Data center AI finds true believers in Asia

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly sophisticated, one of its most anticipated benefits is a transformative reduction in the data center workforce, by augmenting the abilities of workers and relieving these workers of more…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Jay Dietrich
6 Jul 2021
Power purchase agreements have utility but are not risk-free

Power purchase agreements (PPAs) are often a preferred method for data center operators to procure renewable electricity, but their fixed purchase price and duration (eight to 20 years) can pose significant financial and power management risks.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
30 Jun 2021
The pandemic’s impact on digital infrastructure

The pandemic has accelerated some long-term trends toward greater use of digital services, remote working and remote operation. Overall, costs have been pushed up, but other impacts are less clear — some are even counter-intuitive. Many…

Briefing Reports 25 min read
Andy Lawrence
22 Jun 2021
The COVID outage paradox

In the 12 months from early March 2020 to April 2021, COVID-19 made a big impact on how and where IT was used. This had a surprising — and in some ways paradoxical — impact on IT service availability and the number and severity of outages recorded.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Daniel Bizo
10 Jun 2021
Fastly outage underscores slow creep of digital services risk

A recent outage at content delivery network Fastly took down thousands of websites in different countries, including big names, such as Amazon, Twitter and Spotify, for nearly an hour. It is the latest large outage highlighting the downside of a key…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Tomas Rahkonen
10 Jun 2021
Eyeing an uptick in edge data center demand

Edge data centers are generally small data center facilities — designed for IT workloads up to a few hundred kilowatts — that process data closer to the population of local end users and devices. Earlier in 2021, we surveyed data center owners/…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Tomas Rahkonen
25 May 2021
Demand and speculation fuel edge buildout

Demand for private and shared edge data centers is starting to grow from low numbers. Certain edge workloads, the strategies of large cloud providers, and the speculative deployments of supporting 5G networks are fueling edge data center buildouts.

Briefing Reports 25 min read