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Troubling for operators: Capacity forecasting and maintaining cost competitiveness

In the recently published 2019 Uptime Institute supplier survey, participants told us they are witnessing…

Data Center Free Air Cooling Trends

With the recent expansion of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers’ (ASHRAE’s)…

The Evolving Data Center Management Maturity Model, A Quick Update

Uptime Institute has long argued that, although it may take many years, the long-term trend…

IT Outages in the Airline Industry, A New Report by the GAO

2019Uptime Institute’s Annual outage analysis, published early this year, called attention to the persistent problem of…

Data center AI: Start with the end in mind

2019An artificial intelligence (AI) strategy for data center management and operation requires more than just…

Open19 expects 2019 to be the year of “Accelerated Adoption”

We have heard for a dozen years about the Open Computing Project (OCP) and their…

PG&E Turns Power Off (a.k.a. Climate Change and the Data Center)

In our October 2018 report, A mission-critical industry unprepared for climate change, Uptime Institute Intelligence urged…

Enterprise IT and the public cloud: What the numbers tell us

Uptime InstituteThe spectacular growth of the public cloud has many drivers, only one of which…

Artificial Intelligence in the Data Center: Myth versus Reality

2019, GettyIt is still very early days, but it is clear that artificial intelligence (AI)…

Recover heat, re-charge power

GettyRecently I attended the Data Center Dynamics (DCD) Smart Energy conference in Stockholm. During a…