Daniel
Bizo
Jacqueline
Davis
Air cooling dominates the modern data center, and in defiance of forecasts, direct liquid cooling (DLC) remains a niche technology. If DLC overcomes barriers to adoption, when can we expect it to overtake air cooling?
Daniel Bizo
Over the past 15 years, Daniel has covered the business and technology of enterprise IT and infrastructure in various roles, including industry analyst and advisor. His research includes sustainability, operations, and energy efficiency within the data center, on topics like emerging battery technologies, thermal operation guidelines, and processor chip technology.
dbizo@uptimeinstitute.com
Latest Research
Uptime Institute Data Center Cooling Systems Survey 2021
New ASHRAE guidelines challenge efficiency drive
Earlier in 2021, ASHRAE’s Technical Committee 9.9 published an update — the fifth edition — of its Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments. The update recommends important changes to data center thermal operating envelopes: the presence…
Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2021
Andy
Lawrence
Uptime Institute’s annual survey, now in its eleventh year, is the most comprehensive, longest-running study of its kind in the data center sector. The findings reveal significant growth but also increasing complexity and challenges for owners and…
Startups brew new chemistries for fresh battery types
Through their public commitments to net-zero carbon emission targets, cloud providers have re-energized talks in the data center sector of a major redesign of critical power systems. The elimination of diesel fuel use is chief among the goals, but…
Fastly outage underscores slow creep of digital services risk
A recent outage at content delivery network Fastly took down thousands of websites in different countries, including big names, such as Amazon, Twitter and Spotify, for nearly an hour. It is the latest large outage highlighting the downside of a key…
Data center energy efficiency stalls as Intel struggles to deliver
Intel’s protracted difficulties with its leading-edge processor manufacturing have garnered a great deal of attention over the past few years, as the world has watched a once unshakable technology lead diminish. Intel’s manufacturing development…
