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Dr. Owen Rogers
3 Oct 2022
How resiliency drives cloud carbon emissions

Cloud providers advise users to build application resiliency by deploying across multiple locations. This report quantifies the emissions, resiliency and costs of different stateless cloud-application architectures.

Briefing Reports 38 min read
Jacqueline Davis
29 Sep 2022
Data centers weather solar storms

The US Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) issued multiple geomagnetic storm watches throughout August and September 2022. Geomagnetic storms occur when solar storms interact with the Earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field, risking disruption to…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence Daniel Bizo Dr. Owen Rogers Jacqueline Davis Max Smolaks Lenny Simon Douglas Donnellan
7 Sep 2022
Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2022

The Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey is the most comprehensive of its kind. The findings reveal the experiences of data center operators in the areas of performance, resiliency, efficiency and sustainability.

Keynote Reports 45 min read
Jacqueline Davis
11 Aug 2022
Electromagnetic pulse and its threat to data centers

To date, many data center operators have overlooked electromagnetic pulse (EMP) in their risk assessments. This report summarizes the types and effects of EMP, and offers recommendations to assist operators in assessing this risk.

Briefing Reports 29 min read
Daniel Bizo
27 Jul 2022
Extreme heat stress-tests European data centers — again

An extreme heat wave swept across much of Western Europe on July 18 and 19, hitting some of the largest metropolitan areas such as Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam and Paris — which are also global data center hubs with hundreds of megawatts of capacity…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
8 Jul 2022
Sustainability laws set to drive real change

Nearly 15 years ago – in 2008 – Uptime Institute presented a paper titled “The gathering storm.” The paper was about the inevitability of a struggle against climate change and how this might play out for the power-hungry data center and IT sector.…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
5 Jul 2022
Public cloud costs versus resiliency: stateless applications

To improve the resiliency of an application in a public cloud, it is often distributed across data centers. This report quantifies the costs, levels of resiliency and outages compensation for common public cloud architectures.

Briefing Reports 45 min read
Douglas Donnellan
24 Jun 2022
Are resiliency laws getting tougher on data centers?

A reliance on digital services since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 and governments’ increased concerns about the risks and resiliency of digital infrastructure have resulted in numerous new proposals for stricter legislation. If…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
22 Jun 2022
Costlier new cloud generations increase lock-in risk

Cloud providers tend to adopt the latest server technologies early, often many months ahead of enterprise buyers, to stay competitive. Providers regularly launch new generations of virtual machines with identical quantities of resources (such as…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
15 Jun 2022
Making sense of the outage numbers

In recent years, Uptime Institute has published regular reports examining both the rate and causes of data center and IT service outages. The reports, which have been widely read and reported in the media, paint a picture of an industry that is…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
24 May 2022
Is concern over cloud and third-party outages increasing?

As a result of some high-profile outages and the growing interest in running critical services in a public cloud, the reliability — and transparency — of public cloud services has come under scrutiny.Cloud services are designed to operate with low…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
18 May 2022
Outages: understanding the human factor

Analyzing human error — with a view to preventing it — has always been challenging for data center operators. The cause of a failure can lie in how well a process was taught, how tired, well trained or resourced the staff are, or whether the…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence Douglas Donnellan Lenny Simon
29 Apr 2022
Annual outage analysis 2022

Avoiding downtime remains a top priority for managers of critical digital infrastructure. As the demands placed on IT change, so do the types, frequency and impacts of outages. This report draws lessons from recent outage data.

Keynote Reports 50 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
30 Mar 2022
Cloud scalability and resiliency from first principles

Cloud computing has evolved to provide more options for resiliency and performance. Understanding these options is crucial for technology buyers, given that the frequency and impact of cloud outages is likely to increase.

Briefing Reports 25 min read
Douglas Donnellan Andy Lawrence
9 Mar 2022
Financial resiliency: how Europe plans to regulate service providers

The proposed Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) will introduce new reporting and resiliency requirements in Europe - and many authorities around the world are expected to be heavily influenced by these plans.

Briefing Reports 25 min read