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.

The comprehensive report surveyed data center professionals to determine implementation trends and buying patterns in areas, such as servers, cooling, edge computing, storage, DCIM, and security.

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).

Despite the disruptive challenges of 2020, the survey reveals that IT teams have adapted to managing end-user experiences in today’s work-from-home paradigm.

To distance itself from the competition, Evoque is focused on developing a portfolio of services – primarily carrier-neutral connectivity, interconnection and cloud on-ramp services – to better serve enterprise customers rather than targeting the popular hyperscale customer base.

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Data gravity may affect an enterprise's ability to innovate, secure customer experiences, and even deliver financial results on a global scale.

The biggest growth was seen in cloud infrastructure services, comprising IaaS, PaaS, and hosted private cloud services. First half revenue from these services grew by 34% from 2019.

Netwrix conducted this online survey in June 2020 to understand how the pandemic and ensuing work-from-home (WFH) initiatives changed the IT risk landscape.