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Uptime Institute’s 2022 Outage Analysis finds downtime costs and consequences worsening

Industry efforts to curb outage frequency fall short

June 18, 2022

The gap between the beginning of a major public outage and full recovery has stretched significantly over the last five years. Nearly 30% of these outages in 2021 lasted more than 24 hours, a disturbing increase from just 8% in 2017.

Prevent Your Next Data Center Outage

How a data lake and analytics could help

Wendi Runyon

November 5, 2021

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Extreme weather can quickly put the power supply at risk by forcing conditions to shift outside of normal operating range, causing downtime that operators cannot afford.

The Week of Tech Outages and Leaks

What does it mean for us?

Aron Solomon

October 8, 2021

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Monday became “Black Monday” for those who rely on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The 8-hour outages on these apps left people confused — and services, such as Twitter, booming with the extra traffic.

Uptime Institute Released Its 11th Annual Global Data Center Survey

Shows sustainability, outage, and efficiency challenges amid capacity growth

October 1, 2021

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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.

Electronic Engines — Perkins Engines Co. Ltd.

February 3, 2021

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The first model in the 5000 series is the 5008C-E30TAG, an eight-cylinder, inline, 60-Hz offering that’s available as 900- and 1000-kWe standby power nodes.

White Paper | Uptime Institute global data center survey 2020

August 6, 2020

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The findings discussed in this report reveal what operators around the world are thinking, doing, and planning in the areas of efficiency, resiliency, workload placement, staffing, and new technology adoption.

Uptime Institute’s 10th Annual Global Data Center Survey Shows Increasing Complexities, Outages

Findings show 44% had recent major outage that tangibly impacted their organization

July 29, 2020

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In almost every area under discussion — outages, resiliency, staffing, workload placement, or innovation — there is considerable variety in the strategies being employed.

A Look at Cellular Glass Insulation for Mission Critical Roofs

Taking a top-down approach

Dave Wolf

Tiffany Coppock

June 16, 2020

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When it comes to protecting the mission of these buildings, the roof — especially the insulation inside the roof — is critical to the continuous operation of the processes inside.

MC Skills Exchange

Data Center Operators Can Share Knowledge on a Global Scale

Why have a skills gap when we don’t have to?

Dennis Cronin

June 4, 2020

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In the data center world of constant change, where does good, honest, and transparent data center operational knowledge come from?

Network Outages Cost More than $1 Million Annually for Nearly Half of US Businesses

Research into the true costs and frequency of enterprise network outages reveals the importance of network resilience

May 19, 2020

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More than half of senior IT decision-makers and network managers globally say they have had four or more network outages lasting more than 30 minutes in the past year, costing between $300,000 and $6 million in downtime, according to a recent study commissioned by Opengear.