Avoiding outages is a big concern for any operator or service provider, especially one providing a business-critical service. But when an outage does occur, the business impact can vary from “barely noticeable” to “huge and expensive.” Anticipating...
The adoption of virtualization and software containers, and the use of public cloud have been in full swing for some time. What effect is this having on data center capacity and density? How should operators build this into their demand forecasting a...
This report analyzes the causes and impacts of publicly recorded IT service and data center outages from 2016-2018.
Uptime Institute Research looks at smart energy, including its potential for changing mission-critical IT as well as many of the enabling technologies.
Uptime Institute Intelligence analysts look at 10 critical trends driving IT change. Their selections and analysis suggest that technology, government regulation, demographic change, and a push for even higher resiliency levels will eventually revo...
Most data center operators have failed to carry out an up-to-date risk assessment to prepare for hitherto unlikely events and gradual changes caused by climate change. As a result, their facilities and businesses may be vulnerable as the threat incre...
A major retailer applied FORCSS to evaluate three IT infrastructure options, with the end result that it moved from a traditional platform to a cloud-based SaaS delivery system.
Making sense of the seemingly contradictory data from the 2018 Annual Data Center Survey
While only 18% of Uptime Institute Data Center survey respondents rely solely on a water-based system, Uptime Institute believes that a nitrogen-charged, dry-pipe or preaction, water-based solution is the most appropriate fire suppression system in m...
According to a new Uptime Institute survey of consultants, engineers, and vendors, the industry should be preparing for a smart, automated, and complex future. Early adopters are pointing the way.
A new book, Meltdown by Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik, provides an explanation for the source of systems errors. Like Uptime Institute, the authors attribute human error to management mistakes, but they also offer a number of innovative solutio...
For the better part of a decade, operators have agonized over how to reduce energy waste. By and large, they have succeeded–the average PUE, the industry’s most common infrastructure efficiency metric, was a record low in this year ’s survey. Yet the...
New Uptime Institute research data shows that downtime is common and may even be increasing, in spite of many advances. Complexity and extensive use of third parties has made life more difficult for management.
Andy Lawrence
Intelligence Team