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 operators must actively manage. Uptime Intelligence’s Annual Outage Analysis 2025 report analyzes recent data on the causes, frequencies and consequences of IT and data center outages.
About the Presenters
Andy is a founding member and the Executive Director of Research for Uptime Institute Intelligence, which analyzes and explains trends shaping the critical infrastructure industry. He has extensive experience analyzing developments in IT, emerging technologies, data centers and infrastructure, and advising companies on technical and business strategies.
alawrence@uptimeinstitute.com
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.
ddonnellan@uptimeinstitute.com
Chris Brown serves as Chief Technical Officer of Uptime Institute. Brown currently oversees the organization’s global team of data center consultants and experts. He has over two decades of experience in critical facilities, including in the technical areas of capacity planning, retrofitting, new facilities design and leading management and operations teams.
cbrown@uptimeinstitute.com