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Daniel Bizo
5 Aug 2022
Equipment shortages may ease soon — but not for good reasons

When Uptime Institute Intelligence surveyed data center infrastructure operators about supply chain issues in August 2021, more than two-thirds of respondents had experienced some shortages in the previous 18 months. Larger operations bore the brunt…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Lenny Simon Jacqueline Davis
3 Aug 2022
Uptime Institute Edge Data Center Survey 2022

Reduced latency and bandwidth are top drivers for edge data centers, with the internet of things and artificial intelligence being the most important applications.

Data Reports 4 min read
Daniel Bizo
1 Aug 2022
Silicon heatwave: the looming change in data center climates

A rapid rise in the concentration of processor thermal power will have far-reaching consequences, not only for servers but for facility design and operations.

Briefing Reports 28 min read
Daniel Bizo
27 Jul 2022
Extreme heat stress-tests European data centers — again

An extreme heat wave swept across much of Western Europe on July 18 and 19, hitting some of the largest metropolitan areas such as Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam and Paris — which are also global data center hubs with hundreds of megawatts of capacity…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
19 Jul 2022
Alternative clouds are vulnerable to demanding buyers

Although big-name hyperscalers such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft dominate the cloud arena, other companies also believe they have a role to play. Vultr, OVHcloud, Linode, DigitalOcean, Bluehost and Scaleway, for example, don’t offer huge…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
8 Jul 2022
Sustainability laws set to drive real change

Nearly 15 years ago – in 2008 – Uptime Institute presented a paper titled “The gathering storm.” The paper was about the inevitability of a struggle against climate change and how this might play out for the power-hungry data center and IT sector.…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
5 Jul 2022
Public cloud costs versus resiliency: stateless applications

To improve the resiliency of an application in a public cloud, it is often distributed across data centers. This report quantifies the costs, levels of resiliency and outages compensation for common public cloud architectures.

Briefing Reports 45 min read
Daniel Bizo
5 Jul 2022
AMD plans major steps in server chip efficiency

Chip designer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has successfully mounted a challenge to Intel’s dominance in data center processors by focusing on energy-efficient server chips. AMD plans to further expand its presence in data centers by bringing more…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Douglas Donnellan
24 Jun 2022
Are resiliency laws getting tougher on data centers?

A reliance on digital services since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 and governments’ increased concerns about the risks and resiliency of digital infrastructure have resulted in numerous new proposals for stricter legislation. If…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
22 Jun 2022
Costlier new cloud generations increase lock-in risk

Cloud providers tend to adopt the latest server technologies early, often many months ahead of enterprise buyers, to stay competitive. Providers regularly launch new generations of virtual machines with identical quantities of resources (such as…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
15 Jun 2022
Making sense of the outage numbers

In recent years, Uptime Institute has published regular reports examining both the rate and causes of data center and IT service outages. The reports, which have been widely read and reported in the media, paint a picture of an industry that is…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Daniel Bizo
8 Jun 2022
Direct liquid cooling: pressure is rising but constraints remain

Direct liquid cooling (DLC) is a collection of techniques that removes heat by circulating a coolant to IT electronics. Even though the process is far more efficient than using air, the move to liquid cooling has been largely confined to select…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Daniel Bizo Lenny Simon Jacqueline Davis
1 Jun 2022
The coming era of direct liquid cooling: it’s when, not if

Shifts in business expectations and technical requirements are moving data center operators towards direct liquid cooling. There are hurdles to overcome, but many in the industry expect this evolution to be just a matter of time.

Briefing Reports 32 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
1 Jun 2022
Is navigating cloud-native complexity worth the hassle?

Last month 7,000 developers traveled to Valencia to attend the combined KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 conference, the event for Kubernetes and cloud-native software development. A further 10,000 developers joined the conference online. The…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
24 May 2022
Is concern over cloud and third-party outages increasing?

As a result of some high-profile outages and the growing interest in running critical services in a public cloud, the reliability — and transparency — of public cloud services has come under scrutiny.Cloud services are designed to operate with low…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read