Douglas is a Research Analyst at Uptime Institute covering sustainability in data centers. His background includes environmental research and communications, with a strong focus on education.
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Preventing outages continues to be a central focus for data center owners and operators. While infrastructure design and resiliency frameworks have improved in many cases, the complexity of modern architectures continues to present new risks that…
The prevention of outages has always been a top priority for data center owners and operators — but outages do occur. This report analyzes recent Uptime Institute data on IT and data center outages: their causes, costs and consequences.
Under the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), data centers designated as “critical” for their role in financial services will face direct regulatory oversight and new resiliency requirements.
Organizations currently performing AI training and inference leverage resources from a mix of facilities. However, most prioritize on-premises data centers, driven by data sovereignty needs and access to hardware.
Results from the Uptime Institute Sustainability and Climate Change Survey 2024 reveal how operators navigate climate change risks while expanding efforts to improve their environmental footprint.
Scalability and cost efficiency are the top reasons enterprises migrate to the cloud, but scalability issues due to application design flaws can lead to spiralling costs — and some workload repatriation to on-premises facilities
This report highlights some of the findings from the Uptime Institute Capacity Trends and Cloud Survey 2024. Findings offer insight into what is driving capacity expansion.
This report highlights some of the findings from the Uptime Institute Capacity Trends and Cloud Survey 2024. In particular, this report offers an insight into what drives migration to and from the public cloud.
Uptime Intelligence surveys the data center industry landscape to look deeper at what can actually happen in 2025 and beyond based on the latest trends and developments. The stronghold that AI has on the industry is a constant discussion - but how…
This summary of the 2025 predictions highlights the growing concerns and opportunities around AI for data centers.
Uptime Intelligence looks beyond the more obvious trends of 2025 and examines some of the latest developments and challenges shaping the data center industry.
Power remains the top spending priority for most operators in 2025, but enterprises are set to increase IT hardware spending.
The Uptime Intelligence research agenda includes a list of published and planned research reports for 2025, and is focused on Uptime Intelligence primary coverage areas: 1) power generation, distribution, energy storage; 2) data center management…
As a quick reference, we have provided links below to all the research reports published by Uptime Intelligence in 2024, by month. Research areas focused on 1) power generation, distribution, energy storage; 2) data center management software; 3)…
Results from the Uptime Institute Security Survey 2024 highlight the different cybersecurity approaches used by operators against a widening range of threats.
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