Resiliency will be re-examined, but few will compromise

OPINION

For decades, the data center industry and its enterprise customers have agreed on the core principles of physical infrastructure resiliency: while it is not possible to avoid failures altogether, the risk and impact of an outage can be minimized through well-established design and operational practices. Notably, these include independence from the power grid and other utilities, and redundancy in critical systems to achieve concurrent maintainability of the facility (i.e., zero scheduled downtime). Further design and operational measures aim to increase facility tolerance against failures.