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Fastly outage underscores slow creep of digital services risk

A recent outage at content delivery network Fastly took down…
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Pandemic has driven up data center costs

As the pandemic began to make an impact in early 2020, it became…

Learning from the OVHcloud data center fire

The fire that destroyed a data center (and damaged others) at…

Data center staff on-site: engineering specialists or generalists?

The pandemic has led to a renewed interest by data center managers…
Staffing and Gender Diversity in the Data Center2020

Infographic: Data Center Industry Staffing Shortage is Getting Worse

COVID-19: What worries data center management the most?

To date, the critical infrastructure industry has mostly managed…
Uptime Institute's COVID19 Q&A Part 3

COVID-19: Q&A (Part 3): Deferred Maintenance, Remote Work, Supply Chain, Long-Term Outlook

The final installment of our Q&A regarding digital infrastructure…
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COVID-19: Q&A (Part 2): Site Sanitation and Security

Here is Part 2 of our Q&A regarding digital infrastructure…
COVID19: Digital Infrastructure Q&A

COVID-19: Q&A (Part 1): Staff Management

We are all in this together. We are all finding our own "New…
Data Center & IT Service Delivery Operations During COVID-19 20202020

COVID-19: IT organizations move from planning to implementation

Over the past few weeks, Uptime Institute held multiple customer…