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Dr. Owen Rogers
15 Feb 2022
Why cloud is a kludge of complexity

The cloud model was designed to be simple and nimble. Simple and nimble doesn’t necessarily mean fit for purpose. Over the past decade, new layers of capability have been added to cloud to address its shortcomings. While this has created more…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Lenny Simon
14 Feb 2022
Data center operators give themselves a “Fail” for sustainability

The global data center industry describes its own sustainability performance as average, compared with other industries — and most think efforts are not substantially reducing environmental impacts.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Tomas Rahkonen
7 Feb 2022
Supply problems favor standardization and scale

The COVID-19 pandemic has stressed supply chains globally, resulting in higher prices and increased delivery times for many components. Shortages and delays are likely to persist into 2022 and beyond as demand for IT, and for new data center…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Daniel Bizo
3 Feb 2022
Moore’s law resumes – but not for all

In recent years, the IT industry and trade press were abuzz about the end of Moore’s law (the expectation that the scale of integration for chips doubles about every two years), and what that means for IT buyers. IT buyers saw a slowdown of…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Tomas Rahkonen
28 Jan 2022
Edge data centers: A guide to suppliers

Edge computing is expected to require large numbers of small-scale data centers located close to their end-users. This report profiles suppliers of different types of small-scale edge facilities and their products and services.

Briefing Reports 25 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
24 Jan 2022
Flexibility drives cloud lock-in risk

Vendor lock-in is regularly levied as a criticism of cloud services. But the reality of IT is, there has always been lock-in. Even before cloud, enterprises were locked into hardware, operating systems, database platforms, data centers and network…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
21 Jan 2022
Data center operators ponder the nuclear option

As major businesses feel a growing sense of urgency to dramatically cut carbon emissions, opinions are starting to shift in favor of nuclear power, which is not classed as clean, but is a near-zero carbon energy source. The digital infrastructure…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
7 Jan 2022
Concerns over cloud concentration risk grow

Control over critical digital infrastructure is increasingly in the hands of a small number of major providers. While a public cloud provides a flexible, stable and distributed IT environment, there are growing concerns around its use.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence Daniel Bizo Dr. Tomas Rahkonen
6 Jan 2022
Five data center predictions for 2022

In this report, Uptime Institute Intelligence looks beyond the obvious trends for 2022 and identifies some potentially challenging issues. These include sustainability reporting, supply chain problems and cloud concentration risk.

Keynote Reports 40 min read
Daniel Bizo
20 Dec 2021
Uptime Institute Climate Change Survey 2021

The findings of this survey suggest that data center operators are attentive to the growing risks from climate change and extreme weather events.

Data Reports 10 min read
Andy Lawrence
8 Dec 2021
Are proof-of-work blockchains a corporate sustainability issue?

The data center and IT industry is a relatively minor — but nevertheless significant — contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. The issue of wasteful digital infrastructure energy consumption is now high on many corporate agendas and is prompting…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Daniel Bizo Jacqueline Davis
3 Dec 2021
Uptime Institute Data Center Cooling Systems Survey 2021

Air cooling dominates the modern data center, and in defiance of forecasts, direct liquid cooling (DLC) remains a niche technology. If DLC overcomes barriers to adoption, when can we expect it to overtake air cooling?

Data Reports 10 min read
Jacqueline Davis Douglas Donnellan
1 Dec 2021
Bring on regulations for data center sustainability, say Europe and APAC

As the data center sector increases its focus on becoming more environmentally sustainable, regulators still have a part to play — the question is to what extent? In a recent Uptime Institute survey of nearly 400 data center operators and suppliers…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
23 Nov 2021
Climate change: More operators prepare to weather the storms

In the 2020 Uptime Institute Intelligence report The gathering storm: Climate change and data center resiliency, the author noted that, “While sustainability… features heavily in the marketing of many operators, the threat of extreme weather to…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Jacqueline Davis
26 Oct 2021
Does the spread of direct liquid cooling make PUE less relevant?

The power usage effectiveness (PUE) metric is predominant thanks to its universal applicability and its simplicity: energy used by the entire data center, divided by energy used by the IT equipment. However, its simplicity could limit its future…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read