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Solving the Issue of Complex Systems Failure

A new book, Meltdown by Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik, provides an explanation for the source of systems errors. Like Uptime Institute, the authors attribute human error to management mistakes, but they also offer a number of innovative solutio...

Briefing Reports 25 min read
 
2018 Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey: Operators struggle with constraints, change, and complexity

For the better part of a decade, operators have agonized over how to reduce energy waste. By and large, they have succeeded–the average PUE, the industry’s most common infrastructure efficiency metric, was a record low in this year ’s survey. Yet the...

Keynote Reports 40 min read
 
7 Jun 2018
Uptime Institute data shows outages are common, costly, and preventable

New Uptime Institute research data shows that downtime is common and may even be increasing, in spite of many advances. Complexity and extensive use of third parties has made life more difficult for management.

Briefing Reports 25 min read
 
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