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Uptime Intelligence Staff
12 Aug 2019
Data center free air cooling trends

With the recent expansion of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers’ (ASHRAE’s) acceptable data center operating temperature and humidity ranges — taken as an industry-standard best practice by many operators…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
2 Aug 2019
How will data center management evolve?

Uptime Institute has long argued that, although it may take many years, the long-term trend is toward a high level of automation in data centers, covering many functions that most managers currently would not trust to machines or outside programmers.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
2 Aug 2019
Data center staff vs. AI, robots

With decades of strong growth behind it and no slowdown in sight, the data center sector is struggling with staff shortages. According to Uptime Institute’s 2019 global survey of more than 1,000 IT and data center managers (UI Intelligence report 26…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
26 Jul 2019
Uptime Institute data center supply-side survey 2019

Is the edge of tomorrow here? What are the main challenges faced by the data center industry? How are the efficiency technologies weathering in the market?

Keynote Reports 10 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
23 Jul 2019
DCIM as a hub: Integrations

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.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
16 Jul 2019
Outages in the air

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…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
1 Jul 2019
Banking to cloud: Be more transparent

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…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
27 Jun 2019
Data center AI: Start with the end in mind

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…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
26 Jun 2019
AI in data centers: Reality vs. myth

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…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
17 Jun 2019
Open19 expects a “Year of Adoption”

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…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
17 Jun 2019
Responding to the Operations Skills Shortage

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…

Briefing Reports 25 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
3 Jun 2019
Data center management software and services: Effective selection and deployment

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.

Briefing Reports 25 min read
Andy Lawrence
28 May 2019
Enterprise IT and the public cloud: What the numbers tell us

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…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
20 May 2019
PG&E turns the power off

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…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
15 May 2019
Is PUE really going up?

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 (…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read