The US Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) issued multiple geomagnetic storm watches throughout August and September 2022. Geomagnetic storms occur when solar storms interact with
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Sacrifice speed to cut cloud carbon and costs
New findings from research by Uptime Institute Intelligence reveals that organizations can cut both their cloud carbon emissions and costs by moving workloads to different
New server leasing models promise cloud-like flexibility
IT hardware vendors, such as Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), are pivoting their revenue models away from product sales toward service-based subscriptions. The objective
Quantum computing is not a panacea yet
Quantum computing promises a revolution in scientific discovery. Quantum computing’s main advantage over digital computing is in quickly solving highly complex problems that require significant
Alternative clouds are vulnerable to demanding buyers
Although big-name hyperscalers such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft dominate the cloud arena, other companies also believe they have a role to play. Vultr, OVHcloud,
Data center operators cautiously support nuclear
The value, role and safety of nuclear power has strongly divided opinion, both in favor of and against, since the 1950s. This debate has now,
Vegetable oil promises a sustainable alternative to diesel
The thousands of gallons of diesel that data centers store on-site to fuel backup generators in the event of a grid outage are hard to
Is navigating cloud-native complexity worth the hassle?
Last month 7,000 developers traveled to Valencia to attend the combined KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 conference, the event for Kubernetes and cloud-native software development.
Sustainability laws set to drive real change
Nearly 15 years ago – in 2008 – Uptime Institute presented a paper titled “The gathering storm.” The paper was about the inevitability of a
Equipment shortages may ease soon — but not for good reasons
When Uptime Institute Intelligence surveyed data center infrastructure operators about supply chain issues in August 2021, more than two-thirds of respondents had experienced some shortages