Author Archive for: Jacqueline Davis, Research Analyst, Uptime Institute

About Jacqueline Davis, Research Analyst, Uptime Institute

Jacqueline Davis is a Research Analyst at Uptime Institute covering global trends and technologies that underpin critical digital infrastructure. Her background includes environmental monitoring and data interpretation in the environmental compliance and health and safety fields.

Entries by Jacqueline Davis, Research Analyst, Uptime Institute

Does the spread of direct liquid cooling make PUE less relevant?

November 5, 2021 in Design, Executive, Operations /by Jacqueline Davis, Research Analyst, Uptime Institute

The power usage effectiveness (PUE) metric is predominant thanks to its universal applicability and its simplicity: energy used by the entire data center, divided by energy used by the IT equipment.

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Explaining the Uptime Institute’s Tier Classification System (April 2021 Update)

September 30, 2014

By Matt Stansberry

Note: This is an April 2021 update to an article previously published. Uptime Institute’s Tier Standard and its Tier Classification...
The Making of a Good Method of Procedure

February 25, 2015

By Kevin Heslin

Good MOPs (method of procedure) help humans manage the complexity inherent in data centers By Alfonso Aranda with Lee Kirby...
A Look at Data Center Cooling Technologies

July 30, 2015

By Kevin Heslin

Sabey optimizes air-cooled data centers through containment By John Sasser The sole purpose of data center cooling technology is to...
Data Center Cooling: CRAC/CRAH redundancy, capacity, and selection metrics

November 11, 2014

By Kevin Heslin

Striking the appropriate balance between cost and reliability is a business decision that requires metrics By Dr. Hussein Shehata This...
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Is PUE actually going UP?

May 15, 2019

By Andy Lawrence, Executive Director of Research, Uptime Institute

One of the more intriguing results of the Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2019 concerned energy efficiency. For years,...
Implementing Data Center Cooling Best Practices

June 25, 2014

By Kevin Heslin

Step-by-step guide to data center cooling best practices will help data center managers take greater advantage of the energy savings...