Author Archive for: John O’Brien, Senior Research Analyst, Uptime Institute, [email protected]

About John O’Brien, Senior Research Analyst, Uptime Institute, [email protected]

John O’Brien is a Senior Research Analyst at Uptime Intelligence covering software, automation, cloud and FinOps for digital infrastructure. He has two decades of experience as an analyst researching and advising clients on disruptive change across the software and IT sectors.

Entries by John O’Brien, Senior Research Analyst, Uptime Institute, [email protected]

FinOps gives hope to those struggling with cloud costs

March 6, 2024/in Design, Executive, Operations/by John O’Brien, Senior Research Analyst, Uptime Institute, [email protected]

Cloud workloads are continuing to grow — sometimes adding to traditional on-premises workloads, sometimes replacing them. The Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2023 shows that organizations expect the public cloud to account for 15% of their workloads by 2025. When private cloud hosting and software as a service (SaaS) are included, this share rises […]

What role might generative AI play in the data center?

January 10, 2024/in Design, Executive, Operations/by John O’Brien, Senior Research Analyst, Uptime Institute, [email protected]

This is the first in a series of reports on artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on the data center sector.

About John O’Brien, Senior Research Analyst, Uptime Institute, [email protected]

Entries by John O’Brien, Senior Research Analyst, Uptime Institute, [email protected]

What role might generative AI play in the data center?

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

The Making of a Good Method of Procedure

A Look at Data Center Cooling Technologies

Data Center Cooling: CRAC/CRAH redundancy, capacity, and selection metrics

Is PUE actually going UP?