W. Pitt Turner IV, PE, is executive director of the Uptime Institute and a Senior Tier Certification Authority for Uptime Institute Professional Services. He has helped clients justify several billion dollars of site infrastructure investments since 1992. He teaches the Institute's seminar on justifying data center investment. He and Hank Seader invented what has become the industry standard Tier-Level site infrastructure rating system.
Are the issues of tomorrow’s data centers anything like they are today? A recent study by the Uptime Institute found that many of the expected challenges in 2016 are very similar to present issues, although some will be substantially different.