Dr. Owen
Rogers
While GPUs are the power-hungry devices that enable effective AI training, it is innovations in software that are fueling the recent surge in interest and investment. This report explains how neural networks power generative AI.
Dr. Owen Rogers
Dr. Owen Rogers is Uptime Institute’s Senior Research Director of Cloud Computing. Dr. Rogers has been analyzing the economics of cloud for over a decade as a chartered engineer, product manager and industry analyst. Rogers covers all areas of cloud, including AI, FinOps, sustainability, hybrid infrastructure and quantum computing.
orogers@uptimeinstitute.com
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How generative AI learns and creates using GPUs
New quantum cloud region signals increased commercial focus
Although quantum computing promises a revolution in scientific discovery, its use is still constrained to research and continuing development. However, a new IBM quantum data center in Germany signals a growing interest in its capabilities.
Always consider reserved instances to squeeze cloud costs
Reserved instances are a pricing model for virtual machines offered by cloud providers. As they offer savings of up to 70% compared with on-demand pricing, organizations should use them liberally, especially in challenging times.
Using spot instances to cut cloud costs
The key benefit of cloud computing lies in its on-demand pricing model. This enables organizations to grow or shrink their applications at will without giving the cloud provider any advance notification. Cloud providers can only offer such…
Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2023
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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.
Corporate data centers quash cloud concentration risk
In recent conversations with both regulators and some enterprises, a concept borrowed from the financial sector has been discussed with growing frequency: concentration risk. In finance, the term refers to the level of risk arising from the…
Who is responsible for cloud data resiliency and availability?
Organizations encounter a bewildering assortment of cloud storage platforms. The difference between the offerings lies in who is responsible for scaling, resiliency and performance: the provider or the customer.
Use tools to control cloud costs before it’s too late
The public cloud’s on-demand pricing model is vital in enabling application scalability — the key benefit of cloud computing. Resources need to be readily available for a cloud application to scale when required without the customer having to give…
Where the cloud meets the edge
Low latency is the main reason cloud providers offer edge services. Only a few years ago, the same providers argued that the public cloud (hosted in hyperscale data centers) was suitable for most workloads. But as organizations have remained…
Cloud resiliency: plan to lose control of your planes
Cloud providers divide the technologies that underpin their services into two ”planes”, each with a different architecture and availability goal. The control plane manages resources in the cloud; the data plane runs the cloud buyer’s application.In…
Design resilient applications to reduce cloud concentration risk
This report shows how rising market concentration and poor visibility drive risk exposure, and explains why organizations should prioritize resilient single-cloud architectures before they consider dual-cloud implementations.
Data shows the cloud goes where the money is
Hyperscale cloud providers have opened numerous operating regions in all corners of the world over the past decade. The three most prominent — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure — now have 105 distinct regions (excluding…
Asset utilization drives cloud repatriation economics
The past decade has seen numerous reports of so-called cloud “repatriations” — the migration of applications back to on-premises venues following negative experiences with, or unsuccessful migrations to, the public cloud.A recent Uptime Update (High…
Uptime Institute Data Center Capacity Trends Survey 2022
Data center capacities continued to grow for colocation and enterprise facilities throughout 2022. Operators appear to be more aware of costs as they look to increase server power densities and reduce energy use.
Comparative availabilities of resilient cloud architectures
Uptime Intelligence uses historical status updates from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure to calculate the availabilities of several cloud architectures, including a multi-cloud implementation.
