Data center owners are as committed to Tier III and Tier IV designs as ever, but more will be required to share power, adding complexity and possibly risk

Taking the anxiety out of AI

Managers need to understand the nature of the threat and the defense options to protect their critical environments

Can utility providers give data center operators more information about their substations?

Geomagnetic storms can cause disruption and damage, yet few assess the risk or implement protections

And can you trust what your business partners say?

The Ukraine conflict and associated political and economic fallout will have short- and long-term effects on the infrastructure industry

More data center managers would consider moving mission-critical workloads to a public cloud provider if visibility of operational resiliency improved

You can shave off some power losses, but your UPS won't isolate your systems so well

OVHcloud was known as a bold innovator. When the cause of the SBG2 fire in Strasbourg is finally revealed, this may be a factor

Power problems are no longer the top cause of outages

Even though the cloud offers resiliency, enterprise users are still shifting gradually from N+1 to N+2

Data centers need to ensure they are prepared for climate change

Although the system is resilient, there have been some alarming staff shortages

So far the industry has coped well - but there are some concerns for the future

Data centers are recognized as critical infrastructure, and their staff are widely classified as “essential.” Let’s make sure we look after ourselves and the people who depend on us

Linking data center failures to organizational dysfunction and a lack of diversity

When a service goes down, the impact can vary from disastrous to so-what

Equipment, expertise, and management are so much more advanced than they were five or 10 years ago. How could failures possibly be more common?