Latest Reports

Cybersecurity and the cost of human error
Cyber incidents are increasing rapidly. In 2024, the number…

Cloud: when high availability hurts sustainability
In recent years, the environmental sustainability of IT has…

Cybersecurity and the cost of human error
Cyber incidents are increasing rapidly. In 2024, the number…

Cloud: when high availability hurts sustainability
In recent years, the environmental sustainability of IT has…
Other Reports

Outage Reporting in Financial Services
In the movie “Mary Poppins,” Mr. Banks sings that a British…

How to Avoid Outages – Part Deux
A previous Uptime Intelligence Note suggested that avoiding…

Why do some industries and organizations suffer more serious, high profile outages than others?
In a recent Uptime Institute Intelligence note, we considered…

How to avoid outages: Try harder!
Uptime Institute has spent years analyzing the roots causes for…

Troubling for operators: Capacity forecasting and maintaining cost competitiveness
In the recently published 2019 Uptime Institute supplier survey,…

Data Center Free Air Cooling Trends
With the recent expansion of the American Society of Heating,…

The Evolving Data Center Management Maturity Model, A Quick Update
Uptime Institute has long argued that, although it may take many…

DCIM as a Hub: Integrations Make all the difference
Today, the role that the physical data center plays in software-defined…

IT Outages in the Airline Industry, A New Report by the GAO
Uptime Institute’s Annual outage analysis, published early…

Data center AI: Start with the end in mind
An artificial intelligence (AI) strategy for data center management…

Open19 expects 2019 to be the year of “Accelerated Adoption”
We have heard for a dozen years about the Open Computing Project…

PG&E Turns Power Off (a.k.a. Climate Change and the Data Center)
In our October 2018 report, A mission-critical industry unprepared…