The Meltdown/Spectre vulnerability requires software fixes that slow existing servers by up to 30%. For some data center operators, that could have huge and immediate capacity and performance implications that will ripple through the supply chain
Um pedido de proposta para projeto de engenharia é o ponto de partida para o projeto de seu data center, programa de operações, e quaisquer acordos de nível de serviço (SLAs, sigla em inglês), sejam internos ou externos. Tomar cuidado nessa etapa beneficiará seu sucesso nas operações de longo prazo, que é o verdadeiro ROI de seu investimento de capital.
Uptime Institute's Vice President of North America, Matt Stansberry, outlines the top 5 questions you need to address in your 2018 data center strategy.
Meeting operational challenges in the data center requires organization, planning, and focus. This 7 page guide book addresses the top 14 considerations for addressing data center facilities management risks.
The data center industry is changing and growing at a striking pace. Large build-outs are causing supply-chain strains and skill shortages, while innovations in networking, power, and resiliency are creating new opportunities, but creating challenges as well. In this report, the Uptime Institute Research team takes a deep look into what changes data center owners, managers, and operators should expect in 2019.
O ambiente de data centers nunca é estático, e o orçamento, desempenho e pressões do mercado impõem demandas crescentes sobre as organizações operacionais. Como você pode saber se a infraestrutura de TI crítica para o seu negócio está sendo executada de forma eficaz para garantir a segurança e minimizar riscos? Mesmo os sistemas de instalação e design mais robustos não o protegerão da vulnerabilidade de defeitos operacionais. Existem alguns sinais importantes que se deve observar e perguntas que se deve fazer para ajudar a avaliar onde a sua organização está, e as ações que você pode tomar hoje para garantir padrões operacionais de alta qualidade, prevenindo erros e tempo ocioso, e otimizar o retorno de seus ativos de TI.
Quando lançada no início do processo de projeto, uma abordagem focada nas operações garante que o enorme investimento de capital realizado em um data center produzirá os retornos mais eficientes possíveis.
In the data center, “smart energy” is not a widely known or applied concept. It may be conflated with other concepts, such as “intelligent power management” or “software-defined power,” that may or may not have the same meaning. However, all these ideas, taken at their broadest and most aspirational, are similar and share the same ultimate goals of enabling data centers to lower energy consumption, reduce over-provisioning and capital costs, and maintain redundancy and efficiency at reduced costs. This report from Uptime Institute Intelligence takes a deeper look at the technologies, barriers to adoption and market forces that are driving smart energy for the data center.
Critical systems and data centers are immeasurably more reliable than they were two or three decades ago. Despite this, Uptime Institute's research finds that major failures are not only still common, but that the consequences are high, and possibly higher than in the past - a result of our high reliance on IT systems in all aspects of life. The findings discussed in this report help to extend the industry's understanding of the type, range, causes, and extent of outages, providing some lessons.
The need for resiliency and the way it is achieved at both the data center and application levels is expected to change significantly as the IT world gradually moves to a more cloud-based, hybrid and distributed architecture. Advances in hybrid and cloud computing, containers and virtualization, DevOps, replication, distributed databases and global traffic management (GTM) are coinciding with huge investments in data center and network capacity, and a move toward greater use of software to intelligently manage workloads, traffic and resiliency. All of these are combining to create an architectural shift: from single-site vertical resiliency to distributed, replicated resiliency.
Software-defined power, like the broader software-defined data center, is about creating a layer of abstraction that makes it easier to continuously match power resources with changing data center needs. This 8-page report, produced by Uptime Institute Research in conjunction with 451 Research, investigates the business drivers, core technology and barriers to adoption of software-defined power in data centers.
A cada dia as instalações desperdiçam dinheiro e recursos para simplesmente acompanhar as demandas dos negócios frente ao aumento dos custos. Mesmo os investimentos mínimos em eficiência podem ajudá-lo a acumular economias de milhões, ou até centenas de milhões. Veja como começar a economizar hoje mesmo.
Até 30% dos 12 milhões de servidores do país estão potencialmente inoperantes – abandonados pelos proprietários e usuários do aplicativo, mas ainda ativos e funcionando. Mas o que isso realmente significa para a operação de um data center? Quanto realmente custa cada servidor inoperante e subutilizado, em termos de capacidade de instalação do data center, resfriamento, capacidade e recursos? Neste infográfico, comparamos os custo de não se fazer nada com os benefícios de agir hoje. Aprenda como economizar milhões e ser uma história de sucesso do mundo real… e evitar tornar-se um conto de alerta.
The majority of data center outages are blamed on “human error” stemming from a lack of knowledge or procedural mistake. This 18 page guide helps data center facility managers and IT operations leaders build a robust data center training program from ideation to implementation.
Global changes to weather patterns are resulting in a higher volume of extreme weather events. Data centers and digital infrastructures must be rigorously assessed in order to be more prepared for natural disasters in the years and decades ahead. This guide examines four major impacts of climate change, discusses how those changes will impact data center owners and operators and provides actionable strategies to prepare for and mitigate the increasing risks associated extreme weather events around the world.
The "Risk Management for IT Infrastructure" Executive Handbook is intended to help IT leaders face the challenges of today's digital centric world of rapidly changing market requirements, complex customer and regulatory demands and growing technical complexity associated with physical and data security needs.
Are there new technologies out there that could disrupt the economics and infrastructure of the modern data center–and the ecosystem of current suppliers? This report puts the spotlight on 10 technologies that could ultimately have a significant impact.
Despite many false starts, data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software is now regarded as essential for running modern, flexible and efficient data centers. Uptime Institute’s 2019 global industry survey found that 42% of data center designers, consultants and suppliers said most of their customers are now deploying DCIM. This report looks at both key selection criteria for choosing a DCIM solution and key trends around successful deployments of DCIM in the enterprise and colocation markets.
Edge computing is just that: Distributing computing and storage capabilities to the very edge of the network, be it the edge at an enterprise factory floor or a carrier point of presence, a cell tower or smart building. This Uptime Institute Research report, prepared in partnership with 451 Research, looks at the key uses cases, business drivers and enabling technologies behind Edge Computing.
Data center owners and operators have long been concerned about a lack of qualified, available staff. The number, size and job needs of facilities have grown very rapidly — faster than colleges, recruitment practices and salaries have adapted. In this report, the Uptime Institute Intelligence team looks into key factors contributing to the staffing shortage and how some critical facility teams are adapting to the challenge.
Uptime Institute research data shows that downtime is common and may even be increasing, despite many advances. Complexity and extensive use of third parties has made life more difficult for management.
A Calculadora de Economias para Servidores Ociosos ajuda você a avaliar potenciais reduções de custos através de múltiplos fatores, desligando servidores ociosos em seu data center.
Uptime Institute criou um kit de inicialização de ferramentas úteis para ajudar organizações a iniciar seu programa de inutilização disciplinada.
Hybrid cloud and hybrid IT environments are bringing new complexities to capacity management and demand forecasting. Global organizations are adopting various strategies, so the impact on demand/capacity can vary greatly. Managers and strategists are seeking to better understand the capacity impact of choices available to them. And certain key technologies, such as public cloud services, virtualization, and IT hardware selection, can play a crucial role. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach, Uptime Institute Intelligence research suggests there are select areas worth investigating and integrating into any capacity management and forecasting strategy. Specific recommendations are listed at the end of this summary report.
One-third of organizations allow maintenance activities on energized electrical equipment at voltage levels that could cause health or human-safety consequences. Accidents, including shock and arc flash, can derail data center operations and cause serious harm to workers and equipment. This report covers regulations around electrical safety in the workplace, how to assess the risk of working with energized electrical equipment and best practices to balance life safety, infrastructure investment, and downtime in your critical facilities.
This 25-page report by the Uptime Institute Research team follows up on 2018's Data Center Industry Survey Report, providing new research into the state of the global data center industry when it comes to climate change. Readers of the report will learn how critical infrastructure teams can take steps today to evaluate risk and plan for future impacts across their portfolios.
