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Douglas Donnellan Daniel Bizo Jacqueline Davis Andy Lawrence Dr. Owen Rogers Lenny Simon Max Smolaks
10 Jul 2023
Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2023

The Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey highlights the experiences and strategies of data center owners and operators in areas of resiliency, sustainability, efficiency, staffing, cloud and innovative technologies.

Keynote Reports 45 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
4 Jul 2023
Corporate data centers quash cloud concentration risk

In recent conversations with both regulators and some enterprises, a concept borrowed from the financial sector has been discussed with growing frequency: concentration risk. In finance, the term refers to the level of risk arising from the…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
15 Jun 2023
Who is responsible for cloud data resiliency and availability?

Organizations encounter a bewildering assortment of cloud storage platforms. The difference between the offerings lies in who is responsible for scaling, resiliency and performance: the provider or the customer.

Briefing Reports 12 min read
Jacqueline Davis
31 May 2023
Accurate timekeeping in data centers: a resiliency review

Precision time systems to synchronize IT system clocks over the network have proliferated and evolved to meet the needs of reliable, secure applications.

Briefing Reports 12 min read
Daniel Bizo
31 May 2023
Lifting and shifting apps to the cloud: a source of risk creep?

Public cloud infrastructures have come a long way over the past 16 years to slowly earn the trust of enterprises in running their most important applications and storing sensitive data. In the Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2022,…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Jacqueline Davis Lenny Simon Daniel Bizo Max Smolaks
16 May 2023
Data center operators will face more grid disturbances

The energy crisis of 2022, resulting from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, caused serious problems for data center operators in Europe. Energy prices leapt up and are likely to stay high. This has resulted in ongoing concerns that utilities in some…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Douglas Donnellan
3 May 2023
Operators face wider range of resiliency challenges

The Uptime Institute Data Center Resiliency Survey 2023 explores how operators assess operational risks and highlights opportunities for strengthening mitigation strategies.

Data Reports 10 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
3 Apr 2023
Cloud resiliency: plan to lose control of your planes

Cloud providers divide the technologies that underpin their services into two ”planes”, each with a different architecture and availability goal. The control plane manages resources in the cloud; the data plane runs the cloud buyer’s application.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
30 Mar 2023
Design resilient applications to reduce cloud concentration risk

This report shows how rising market concentration and poor visibility drive risk exposure, and explains why organizations should prioritize resilient single-cloud architectures before they consider dual-cloud implementations.

Briefing Reports 9 min read
Andy Lawrence Chris Brown Daniel Bizo
29 Mar 2023
REPLAY | Webinar: Annual Outage Analysis 2023

Join us for 2023’s annual benchmark review of the impacts, costs and changing types and frequency of crucial infrastructure failures. Outages remain a major industry concern despite improving technology and better management of availability. Uptime…

On-Demand Webinars 2 min
Max Smolaks
13 Mar 2023
The effects of a failing power grid in South Africa

European countries narrowly avoided an energy crisis in the past winter months, as a shortfall in fossil fuel supplies from Russia threatened to destabilize power grids across the region. This elevated level of risk to the normally robust European…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence Lenny Simon
10 Mar 2023
Annual outage analysis 2023

There is evidence that outage rates have been gradually falling in recent years. This report brings together and analyzes recent Uptime Institute data on IT and data center outage trends: their causes, costs and consequences.

Keynote Reports 36 min read
Jacqueline Davis
2 Feb 2023
Forecasting the solar storm threat

A proposed permanent network of electromagnetic monitoring stations across the continental US, operating in tandem with a machine learning (ML) algorithm, could facilitate accurate predictions of geomagnetic disturbances (GMDs). If realized, this…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
31 Jan 2023
Comparative availabilities of resilient cloud architectures

Uptime Intelligence uses historical status updates from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure to calculate the availabilities of several cloud architectures, including a multi-cloud implementation.

Briefing Reports 36 min read
Max Smolaks Daniel Bizo
7 Nov 2022
Major data center fire highlights criticality of IT services

Uptime Institute’s outages database suggests data center fires are infrequent, and rarely have a significant impact on operations. Uptime has identified 14 publicly reported, high-profile data center outages caused by fire or fire suppression…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read