This report analyzes the causes and impacts of publicly recorded IT service and data center outages from 2016-2018.
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 threatβ¦
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 inβ¦
A new book, Meltdown by Chris Clearfield and AndrΓ‘s Tilcsik, provides an explanation for the source of systems errors.
For the better part of a decade, operators have agonized over how to reduce energy waste. By and large, they have succeededβthe average PUE, the industryβs most common infrastructure efficiency metric, was a record low in this year βs survey.
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.