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
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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
Who will win the cloud wars?
Technology giants such as Microsoft or IBM didn’t view Amazon as a threat when it launched its cloud business unit Amazon Web Services (AWS) in
Costlier new cloud generations increase lock-in risk
Cloud providers tend to adopt the latest server technologies early, often many months ahead of enterprise buyers, to stay competitive. Providers regularly launch new generations
Extreme heat stress-tests European data centers – again
An extreme heat wave swept across much of Western Europe on July 18 and 19, hitting some of the largest metropolitan areas such as Frankfurt,
Crypto data centers: The good, the bad and the electric
A single tweet in May 2021 brought unprecedented public attention to a relatively unknown issue. Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that because of the large
Making sense of the outage numbers
In recent years, Uptime Institute has published regular reports examining both the rate and causes of data center and IT service outages. The reports, which
Cloud price increases damage trust
In general, the prices of cloud services either remain level or decrease. There are occasional price increases, but these are typically restricted to specific features;