One of the leading private data center operators in Morocco, N+One, empowers enterprises and content providers to deliver services and content to their end consumers.

Uptime Institute’s annual Global Data Center Survey provides a comprehensive profile of the current digital critical infrastructure landscape and a sense of its future trajectory.

To deal with the ever-increasing torrent, data centers are looking for new ways to address four key objectives: maximizing uptime, optimizing energy usage, detecting potential risks, and defending against cyberattacks.

Uptime Institute’s Management and Operations (M&O) Stamp of Approval process is designed to incorporate the learnings of more than 25 years of site visits at critical facilities around the word to assist data center owners and operators to introduce consistency, transparency, and industry best practices into their own data center management and operations processes.

As the data center build-out continues across the globe, many more people will be needed to design, build, and operate this critical infrastructure. The demand will exacerbate staffing shortages—but by how much?

When asked about their most recent significant outage, over half of the respondents to Uptime Institute’s 2020 Global Survey of Data Center and IT Managers who reported an outage in the past three years estimated its cost at more than $100,000 (of which almost a third reported costs of $1 million or above).

The Uptime Institute’s M&O Assessment and Stamp of Approval Program incorporates the learnings of over 25 years of data center assessments and consultations at critical facilities around the world into best practices.

In this episode of Data Center Minute, Amy Al-Katib, editor-in-chief of Mission Critical, talks with Uptime Institute's vice president of research, Rhonda Ascierto, and executive director of research, Andy Lawrence. Watch the interview to hear what they predict for the data center industry in 2021.

Uptime Institute's examination of some of the top trends in data centers in 2021 reveals a vibrant sector that is growing, especially around the edge, and increasingly embracing new innovations.