The Uptime Institute Membership’s 2022 Fall Americas Conference was held on 11-12 October 2022 at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Napa Valley. Led by Uptime Institute Intelligence, the 2-day program included a data center tour of the AT&T Fairfield facility, and addressed a variety of relevant industry topics. The conference attendees were engaging and the interaction was high during each of the sessions.
AGENDA TOPICS:The agenda and presentations from the conference are included in the Intelligence Collection link below. The session topics included the following:
- Industry update and panorama
- The politics of data centers
- Uptime Institute annual global data center survey results
- Sustainability: common sense and practical steps for infrastructure operators
- Direct liquid cooling: has the time for scale use finally come?
- HVO: sustainable alternative to diesel
- Next level maintenance practices
- Public cloud costs and carbon versus resiliency
- A session on data center cost
- Case study: data center portfolio management
- Reducing energy footprint of IT
- Sustainable colocation in practice
- Electromagnetic pulse and its threat to data centers
- Edge and the need for standards
We also announced the recipients of the 2022 Data Center Uptime Performance Awards and the Larry Rushing Award at the event.