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Andy Lawrence
25 Feb 2020
Are outages getting longer?

One of the findings of Uptime Institute’s recently published report Annual outage analysis 2020 is that the most serious categories of outages — those that cause a significant disruption in services — are becoming more severe and more costly. This…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
7 Feb 2020
Phasing out hot work

Despite years of discussion, warnings and strict regulations in some countries, hot work remains a contentious issue in the data center industry. Hot work is the practice of working on energized electrical circuits (voltage limits differ regionally…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
29 Jan 2020
The spectre of ransomware

Uptime Institute Intelligence plans to release its 2019/2020 outages report shortly. This report will examine the types, causes and impacts of public outages, as well as further analyze the results of a recent Uptime survey on outages and impacts.…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
27 Jan 2020
Pay-as-you-go model spreads to critical components

As enterprises continue to move from a focus on capital expenditures to operating expenditures, more data center components will also be consumed on a pay-as-you-go, “as a service” basis. 

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
27 Jan 2020
Micro data centers: An explosion in demand, in slow motion

A wave of new technologies, from 5G to the internet of things (IoT) to artificial intelligence (AI), means much more computing and much more data will be needed near the point of use. That means many more small data centers will be required. But…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
10 Jan 2020
Optimizing server refresh cycles with an aging Moore’s law

Hardware refresh is the process of replacing older, less efficient servers with newer, more efficient ones with more compute capacity.However, there is a complication to the refresh cycle that is relatively recent: the slowing down of Moore’s law.…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
7 Jan 2020
Annual outage analysis 2020

What are the main causes of outages? Which industries suffer most? Why? What is the impact? Uptime Institute presents and analyzes annualized outage data for 2016-2019, pinpointing trends, causes and impacts.

Keynote Reports 40 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
6 Jan 2020
Beyond PUE: Tackling IT's wasted terawatts

Uptime Institute’s analysis shows that very substantial energy reduction opportunities remain untapped. While gains in M&E efficiency have stalled over the past few years, it remains that over 65% of the power used by IT in data centers is used…

Briefing Reports 25 min read
Andy Lawrence
18 Dec 2019
Outages drive authorities and businesses to act

Big IT outages are occurring with growing regularity, many with severe consequences. Executives, industry authorities and governments alike are responding with more rules, calls for more transparency and a more formal approach to end-to-end,…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
18 Dec 2019
Data center energy use goes up and up

Energy use by data centers and IT will continue to rise, putting pressure on energy infrastructure and raising questions about carbon emissions. The drivers for more energy use are simply too great to be offset by efficiency gains.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
11 Dec 2019
Q4 2019 Critical Update webinar Q&A

On December 4, 2019, Uptime Intelligence hosted The Critical Update - 4Q 2019: Ten Data Center Industry Trends for 2020. Below you'll find the questions listeners submitted that the team could not address during the webinar, answered.

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Uptime Intelligence Staff
4 Dec 2019
Capital inflow boosts the data center market

Data centers are no longer a niche or exotic investment among mainstream institutional buyers, which are swarming to the sector. There is now a buyer for almost every type of data center — including traditional-infrastructure investors and sovereign…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
4 Dec 2019
Cloud computing’s cold war: EU vs US and China

European officials have long eyed the rise of the big US cloud companies with suspicion and envy. Among their concerns is the European Union’s reliance on non-European providers of cloud computing and a need for ”data sovereignty,” or giving…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
4 Dec 2019
The internet tilts toward the edge

IT infrastructure — and the internet — has grown much, much bigger but not closer, or at least not close enough to support the anticipated wave of edge computing. Adoption of the internet of things, 5G and other edge applications is set to have a…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
25 Nov 2019
Surveillance capitalism and DCIM

In her book “Surveillance Capitalism,” Harvard scholar Shoshana Zuboff describes how some software and service providers have been collecting vast amounts of data, with the goal of tracking, anticipating, shaping and even controlling the behavior of…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read