data center availability

COVID-19: What worries data center management the most?

To date, the critical infrastructure industry has mostly managed effectively with reduced staff, deferred maintenance, social distancing and new patterns…

6 years ago

COVID-19: What worries data center management the most?

To date, the critical infrastructure industry has mostly managed effectively with reduced staff, deferred maintenance, social distancing and new patterns…

6 years ago

Pandemic is causing some outages and slowdowns

2020To date, media coverage of the impact of COVID-19 and the lockdowns has been largely laudatory. There have been few…

6 years ago

99 Red Flags

One of the most widely cited metrics in the IT industry is for availability, expressed in the form of a…

6 years ago

Outage Reporting in Financial Services

In the movie “Mary Poppins,” Mr. Banks sings that a British bank must be run with precision, and that “Tradition,…

6 years ago

“Think Globally, Act Locally”: Re-Evaluating Data Center Resiliency in the Face of Climate Change

The 1970s-era environmental phrase “Think globally, act locally,” is an apt way for data center operators to consider the best…

7 years ago

Data-Driven Approach to Reduce Failures

Operations teams use the Uptime Institute Network’s Abnormal Incident Reports (AIRs) database to enrich site knowledge, enhance preventative maintenance, and…

7 years ago