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Andy Lawrence Daniel Bizo Douglas Donnellan Max Smolaks Peter Judge Dr. Owen Rogers

7 Jan 2025

Uptime Intelligence looks beyond the more obvious trends of 2025 and identifies examines some of the latest developments and challenges shaping the data center industry.

Douglas Donnellan Andy Lawrence Daniel Bizo Peter Judge John O'Brien Jacqueline Davis Max Smolaks Jabari Williams-George Rose Weinschenk

26 Jul 2024

The 14th edition of the Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey highlights the experiences and strategies of data center owners and operators in the areas of resiliency, sustainability, efficiency, staffing, cloud and AI.

Max Smolaks John O'Brien Daniel Bizo

7 May 2024

This report outlines the characteristics of machine learning (ML) applications, describes production use cases for ML-based software in data center M&O, and profiles several vendors offering AI-based functionality in their products.

Douglas Donnellan Andy Lawrence

27 Mar 2024

Avoiding digital infrastructure failures remains paramount for data center owners and operators. This report analyzes recent Uptime Institute data on IT and data center outage trends: their causes, costs and consequences.

John O'Brien Adam Page

4 Mar 2024

Cloud-related outages pose a serious financial risk to operators of mission-critical digital infrastructure. And a rising number of high-cost outages suggests that insurers may have a role to play.

Douglas Donnellan Andy Lawrence Daniel Bizo Max Smolaks Jacqueline Davis John O'Brien

4 Jan 2024

Uptime Intelligence looks beyond the more obvious trends of 2024 and identifies some challenging issues. Strong IT demand, high-density IT systems and tough sustainability requirements will drive a new wave of investment.

Adam Page

22 Aug 2023

With ever-increasing critical digital workloads being processed and stored by third parties, regulators are extending their oversight to reach deeper into the digital supply chain in the financial system.

Adam Page Andy Lawrence

25 Jul 2023

With governments now aware that economic stability and national well-being are heavily dependent on IT services and the critical digital infrastructure, many are regulating to strengthen digital security and resiliency.

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

10 Jul 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.

Andy Lawrence Lenny Simon

10 Mar 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.

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

5 Jan 2023

Uptime Institute Intelligence looks beyond some of the more obvious trends of 2023 — that the sector continues to expand and innovate while facing stricter regulatory requirements — and identifies some challenging issues.

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.

Andy Lawrence Jay Dietrich

3 May 2022

Data centers are subject to an expanding set of sustainability measurement and reporting requirements — most are voluntary but will increasingly be mandated. Operators need to prepare to meet these requirements.

Andy Lawrence Jay Dietrich

3 May 2022

As part of a sustainability strategy, focused attention on water use, circularity requirements and data center siting / design specifications will contribute significantly to sustainable data center operations.

Andy Lawrence Jay Dietrich

3 May 2022

Data center operators can combine existing reliability, resiliency and performance metrics with freshly minted sustainability benchmarks to convey a compelling IT system efficiency message.