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Andy Lawrence Daniel Bizo Dr. Owen Rogers Jacqueline Davis Max Smolaks Lenny Simon Douglas Donnellan
7 Sep 2022
Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2022

The Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey is the most comprehensive of its kind. The findings reveal the experiences of data center operators in the areas of performance, resiliency, efficiency and sustainability.

Keynote Reports 45 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
7 Sep 2022
AWS price cuts: is serverless gaining momentum?

A serverless platform is an abstracted cloud computing service that executes a user’s code without the user needing to provision the underlying server or operating environment. The physical server, resources and operating environment used to execute…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Max Smolaks
25 Aug 2022
Vegetable oil promises a sustainable alternative to diesel

The thousands of gallons of diesel that data centers store on-site to fuel backup generators in the event of a grid outage are hard to ignore — and do little to assist operators’ drive toward tougher sustainability goals.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
22 Aug 2022
Data center operators cautiously support nuclear

The value, role and safety of nuclear power has strongly divided opinion, both in favor of and against, since the 1950s. This debate has now, in 2022, reached a critical point again as energy security and prices cause increasing concern globally (…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
18 Aug 2022
New server leasing models promise cloud-like flexibility

IT hardware vendors, such as Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), are pivoting their revenue models away from product sales toward service-based subscriptions. The objective is to make hardware appear more flexible and cloud-like, so buyers…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Douglas Donnellan
17 Aug 2022
Critical regulation: the EU Energy Efficiency Directive recast

The European Commission’s proposed recast of its Energy Efficiency Directive promises to transform how operators manage and report energy performance and sustainability in Europe.

Briefing Reports 29 min read
Jacqueline Davis
11 Aug 2022
Electromagnetic pulse and its threat to data centers

To date, many data center operators have overlooked electromagnetic pulse (EMP) in their risk assessments. This report summarizes the types and effects of EMP, and offers recommendations to assist operators in assessing this risk.

Briefing Reports 29 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
10 Aug 2022
Quantum computing is not a panacea yet

Quantum computing promises a revolution in scientific discovery. Quantum computing's main advantage over digital computing is in quickly solving highly complex problems that require significant time or resources to process. Currently, solutions to…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
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