Dr. Owen
Rogers
Big public-cloud operators have often had to compete against each other — sometimes ferociously. Only rarely have they had to compete against alternative platforms for corporate IT, however. More often than not, chief information officers (CIOs)…
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
Latest Research
Cloud migrations to face closer scrutiny
High costs drive cloud repatriation, but impact is overstated
Unexpected costs are driving some data-heavy and legacy applications back from public-cloud to on-premises locations. However, very few organizations are moving away from the public cloud strategically — let alone altogether.The past decade has seen…
REPLAY | Webinar: Five Data Center Predictions for 2023
Daniel
Bizo
Jacqueline
Davis
Prolonged supply chain difficulties, high energy prices, and sweeping sustainability mandates — the digital infrastructure sector had its plate full in a tumultuous 2022. But new uncertainties abound that add more risk to operations and business…
Five data center predictions for 2023
Andy
Lawrence
Max
Smolaks
Douglas
Donnellan
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.
Higher data center costs unlikely to cause exodus to public cloud
A debate has been raging since cloud computing entered the mainstream: which is the cheaper venue for enterprise customers — cloud or on-premises data centers? This debate has proved futile for two reasons. First, the characteristics of any specific…
Is Google a credible enterprise cloud?
Google was an underdog when it launched its infrastructure cloud in 2013. Amazon had already made a name for itself as a disruptive technology provider, having launched Amazon Web Services (AWS) seven years prior. Microsoft, a household name in…
Reports of cloud decline have been greatly exaggerated
Cloud providers have experienced unprecedented growth over the past few years. CIOs the world over, often prompted by CFOs and CEOs, have been favoring the cloud over on-premises IT for new and major projects — with the result that the…
Why are governments investigating cloud competitiveness?
In any market, fewer sellers or providers typically results in less choice for buyers. Where the number of sellers is very low this could, theoretically, lead to exploitation, through higher prices or lower-quality goods and services — with buyers…
Users unprepared for inevitable cloud outages
Organizations are becoming more confident in using the cloud for mission-critical workloads — partly due to a perception of improved visibility into operational resiliency. But many users aren’t taking basic steps to ensure their mission-critical…
Sacrifice speed to cut cloud carbon and costs
New findings from research by Uptime Institute Intelligence reveals that organizations can cut both their cloud carbon emissions and costs by moving workloads to different regions. However, the trade off with this migration is an increase in latency…
Tweak to AWS Outposts reflects demand for greater cloud autonomy
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made a minor change to its private-cloud appliance, AWS Outposts, that could significantly impact resiliency. The cloud provider has enabled local access to cloud administration, removing the appliance’s reliance on the…
How resiliency drives cloud carbon emissions
Cloud providers advise users to build application resiliency by deploying across multiple locations. This report quantifies the emissions, resiliency and costs of different stateless cloud-application architectures.
OVHcloud price hike shows cloud’s vulnerability to energy costs
When energy costs began to rise steeply in 2021, and precipitously in 2022, it was clear that some digital infrastructure providers would be able to absorb these costs, while others would be forced to pass these costs onto their customers — despite…
Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 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.
AWS price cuts: is serverless gaining momentum?
A serverless platform is an abstracted cloud computing service that executes a user’s code without the user needing to provision the underlying server or operating environment. The physical server, resources and operating environment used…