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Andy Lawrence Daniel Bizo Dr. Owen Rogers Jacqueline Davis Max Smolaks Lenny Simon Douglas Donnellan

7 Sep 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.

Jacqueline Davis

11 Aug 2022

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.

Daniel Bizo

27 Jul 2022

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…

Andy Lawrence

8 Jul 2022

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…

Dr. Owen Rogers

5 Jul 2022

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.

Douglas Donnellan

24 Jun 2022

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…

Dr. Owen Rogers

22 Jun 2022

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…

Andy Lawrence

15 Jun 2022

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…

Andy Lawrence

24 May 2022

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…

Andy Lawrence

18 May 2022

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…

Andy Lawrence Douglas Donnellan Lenny Simon

29 Apr 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.

Dr. Owen Rogers

30 Mar 2022

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.

Douglas Donnellan Andy Lawrence

9 Mar 2022

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.

Intelligence Team

7 Jan 2022

Control over critical digital infrastructure is increasingly in the hands of a small number of major providers. While a public cloud provides a flexible, stable and distributed IT environment, there are growing concerns around its use.These concerns…

Daniel Bizo

20 Dec 2021

The findings of this survey suggest that data center operators are attentive to the growing risks from climate change and extreme weather events.