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Andy Lawrence
17 Jul 2020
Humidity and COVID-19 in data centers

Data center managers have gone to some lengths to avoid transmission of the COVID-19 virus in their facilities. Fortunately, many factors help keep transmission rates low in data centers: few staff are required; most jobs do not require close…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
13 Jul 2020
The pandemic, outages and the internet giants

In a recent analysis (Pandemic is causing some outages and slowdowns), we considered a question that Uptime Institute has been asked many times since COVID-19 lockdowns began: Has the pandemic caused any increase in outages? The question arose…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
13 Jul 2020
Uptime Institute global data center survey 2020

The tenth Uptime Institute annual survey is the largest and most comprehensive research study of its kind in the data center sector.

Keynote Reports 10 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
6 Jul 2020
Best-in-class data center provisioning: Simplify, standardize, repeat

Demand for IT capacity continues to grow rapidly across the globe, which has driven the need for more industrialized approaches to data center construction and component assembly. Large operators and their partners have scrambled to apply new…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
16 Jun 2020
Cleaning a data center: Contractors vs. DIY

Modern data centers are rarely dirty places, but even so, most are a lot cleaner now than they were before COVID-19 became a concern. A recent Uptime Institute survey, conducted in response to the pandemic, found that about two-thirds (68%) of data…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
9 Jun 2020
COVID-19: Critical impact and legacy

What will be the long-lasting impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the digital critical infrastructure industry? It may be too soon to ask the question given that, at the time of writing, the virus is taking its toll at scale across the world. But…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
3 Jun 2020
Enterprises’ need for control and visibility still slows cloud adoption

During the current COVID-19 crisis, enterprise dependency on cloud platform providers (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform) and on software as a service (Salesforce, Zoom, Teams) has increased. Operators report booming demand…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
12 May 2020
Pandemic planning and response: A guide for critical infrastructure

This advisory report aims to help operators of critical infrastructure facilities prepare for the impact of COVID-19. The steps discussed will also help operators develop strategies and procedures for future pandemics.

Briefing Reports 25 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
5 May 2020
Cleaning and sanitization measures that work

Fear of the coronavirus or confirmed exposure has caused about half (49%) of data center owners to increase the frequency of regular cleanings, according to a recent Uptime Institute flash survey. Even more (66%) have increased the frequency of…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
3 May 2020
Best-in-class data center provisioning

Highly efficient, large-scale data centers are being provisioned faster and more cheaply than ever, enabling a rapid build-out of IT and cloud capacity. This Uptime Institute report focuses on best practices and best-in-class provisioning.

Briefing Reports 25 min read
Andy Lawrence
30 Apr 2020
COVID-19: What worries data center management most?

To date, the critical infrastructure industry has mostly managed effectively with reduced staff, deferred maintenance, social distancing and new patterns of demand. While there have been some serious incidents and outages directly related to the…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
30 Apr 2020
Pandemic is causing some outages and slowdowns

To date, media coverage of the impact of COVID-19 and the lockdowns has been largely laudatory. There have been few high profile or serious outages (perhaps fewer than normal) and for the most part, internet traffic flow analysis shows that a sudden…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
27 Apr 2020
Data center PUEs flat since 2013

The average power usage effectiveness (PUE) ratio for a data center in 2020 is 1.58, only marginally better than 7 years ago, according to the latest annual Uptime Institute survey (findings to be published shortly).PUE, an international standard…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
12 Mar 2020
COVID-19 preparedness: More organizations move from planning to implementation

On March 12, 2020, Uptime Institute held its second roundtable about the impact of the COVID-19 virus on data center operations and potential responses to its spread. A Note covering the topics discussed in the first roundtable is available here.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
25 Feb 2020
Data center gender diversity: What's your plan?

The lack of women working in all roles in the data center industry has been widely discussed. Whatever the causes — and they are deep, wide and long-standing — there is a clearly a general, if not urgent, desire across the industry to redress the…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read