Pay-as-you-go model spreads to critical components
2020As enterprises continue to move from a focus on capital expenditures to operating expenditures, more…
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Data center energy use goes up and up and up
2019Energy use by data centers and IT will continue to rise, putting pressure on energy…
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Capital inflow boosts the data center market
Data centers are no longer a niche or exotic investment among mainstream institutional buyers, which…
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Surveillance Capitalism and DCIM
2019In her book “Surveillance Capitalism,” the Harvard scholar Shoshana Zuboff describes how some software and…
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Lithium Ion Batteries for the data center. Are they ready for production yet?
2019We are often asked for our thoughts about the use of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries in…
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Non-production IT can hinder mission-critical operations
Separating production and non-production assets should be an operational requirement for most organizations. By definition, production…
6 years ago
Big Tech Regulations: an UPSIDE for Cloud customers?
Regulation of Internet giants has focused so far mostly on data privacy, where concerns are…
7 years ago
How to Avoid Outages – Part Deux
A previous Uptime Intelligence Note suggested that avoiding data center outages might be as simple as trying…
7 years ago
Why do some industries and organizations suffer more serious, high profile outages than others?
In a recent Uptime Institute Intelligence note, we considered a June 2019 report issued by…
7 years ago
How to avoid outages: Try harder!
2019Uptime Institute has spent years analyzing the roots causes for data center and service outages,…
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