Uptime Institute To Certify All Of CenturyLink’s 57 Data Centers
CenturyLink is first data center hosting provider to commit globally to Uptime Institute’s management and operations (M&O) guidelines.
Uptime Institute has announced that CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) will be the first company to be evaluated and awarded at the global portfolio level for Management & Operations (M&O) certification. CenturyLink has pledged its commitment to data center operational excellence by pursuing the M&O Stamp of Approval for all 57 of its global data centers.
The M&O Stamp of Approval is an outcome-based guideline that centers on operational excellence and was developed based on analyzing the root cause of 20 years of outages in high-performance data centers. M&O moves beyond a subjective “best practices” approach, looking at why data centers fail and how to minimize, if not eliminate, operator errors and management shortfalls. Uptime Institute has long held that the leading cause of data center failures is operations related, and a well-run, legacy data center may out-perform a poorly run data center featuring a more robust or modern design.