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Dr. Paul Carton
15 Nov 2022
Data center staffing — an ongoing struggle

Attracting and retaining qualified data center staff has been a major industry challenge for years — and continues to cause substantial problems for operators worldwide. Uptime Institute’s 2022 Management and Operations Survey shows staffing and…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Max Smolaks Daniel Bizo
7 Nov 2022
Major data center fire highlights criticality of IT services

Uptime Institute’s outages database suggests data center fires are infrequent, and rarely have a significant impact on operations. Uptime has identified 14 publicly reported, high-profile data center outages caused by fire or fire suppression…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Max Smolaks Lenny Simon Douglas Donnellan
4 Nov 2022
Sustainability strategies in colocation

This report analyzes how colocation companies are improving sustainability through innovative approaches to cooling infrastructure, energy efficiency, renewable energy procurement, construction and more.

Briefing Reports 45 min read
Jay Dietrich
3 Nov 2022
Unravelling net zero

Many digital infrastructure operators have set themselves carbon-neutral or net-zero emissions goals: some large hyperscale operators claim net-zero emissions for their current operating year. Signatories to the Climate Neutral Data Center Pact, a…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Tomas Rahkonen
1 Nov 2022
Strategic siting: colos in central business districts

Siting colocation data centers in central business districts can have real advantages. So why does it happen so rarely? This report, based on interviews with providers, examines the operational challenges, and solutions for overcoming them.

Briefing Reports 24 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
26 Oct 2022
Why are governments investigating cloud competitiveness?

In any market, fewer sellers or providers typically results in less choice for buyers. Where the number of sellers is very low this could, theoretically, lead to exploitation, through higher prices or lower-quality goods and services — with buyers…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
20 Oct 2022
Users unprepared for inevitable cloud outages

Organizations are becoming more confident in using the cloud for mission-critical workloads — partly due to a perception of improved visibility into operational resiliency. But many users aren’t taking basic steps to ensure their mission-critical…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Lenny Simon
13 Oct 2022
Will high energy prices push operators to direct liquid cooling?

The data center industry and other large power-consuming industries continue to feel pressure from skyrocketing electricity prices. In Germany and France, wholesale energy prices this August increased six-fold compared to prices from 2021. The US…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
13 Oct 2022
Sacrifice speed to cut cloud carbon and costs

New findings from research by Uptime Institute Intelligence reveals that organizations can cut both their cloud carbon emissions and costs by moving workloads to different regions. However, the trade off with this migration is an increase in latency…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
5 Oct 2022
Tweak to AWS Outposts reflects demand for greater cloud autonomy

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made a minor change to its private-cloud appliance, AWS Outposts, that could significantly impact resiliency. The cloud provider has enabled local access to cloud administration, removing the appliance’s reliance on the…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
3 Oct 2022
How resiliency drives cloud carbon emissions

Cloud providers advise users to build application resiliency by deploying across multiple locations. This report quantifies the emissions, resiliency and costs of different stateless cloud-application architectures.

Briefing Reports 38 min read
Lenny Simon Daniel Bizo
30 Sep 2022
Vendor View: Uptime Institute Direct Liquid Cooling Survey 2022

Direct liquid cooling delivers operational savings and sustainability benefits. Most data center operators predict a substantial increase in adoption - and yet, concerns over the cost, leaks, and system failures persist.

Data Reports 4 min read
Jacqueline Davis
29 Sep 2022
Data centers weather solar storms

The US Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) issued multiple geomagnetic storm watches throughout August and September 2022. Geomagnetic storms occur when solar storms interact with the Earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field, risking disruption to…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
22 Sep 2022
OVHcloud price hike shows cloud’s vulnerability to energy costs

When energy costs began to rise steeply in 2021, and precipitously in 2022, it was clear that some digital infrastructure providers would be able to absorb these costs, while others would be forced to pass these costs onto their customers — despite…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Douglas Donnellan Andy Lawrence Jay Dietrich
19 Sep 2022
EU’s EED recast set to create reporting challenges

The European Commission’s (EC’s) proposed recast of its Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) sets out new and strict reporting requirements for data centers operating in the EU. If passed, data centers with 100 kilowatts or more total installed IT…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read