Data centers weather grid failures - but utilities want change
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
Industry Views - Outages, Uptime Institute
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Data center uptime requires substation redundancy
Can utility providers give data center operators more information about their substations?
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Data centers weather solar storms
Geomagnetic storms can cause disruption and damage, yet few assess the risk or implement protections
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Leaders, do you know what your data center tier means?
And can you trust what your business partners say?
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Concerns over cloud concentration risk grow
More data center managers would consider moving mission-critical workloads to a public cloud provider if visibility of operational resiliency improved
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Learning from the OVHcloud data center fire
OVHcloud was known as a bold innovator. When the cause of the SBG2 fire in Strasbourg is finally revealed, this may be a factor
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Network problems causing ever more outages
Power problems are no longer the top cause of outages
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Pandemic is causing some outages and slowdowns
Although the system is resilient, there have been some alarming staff shortages
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Poor management practices lead to complex systems failures
Linking data center failures to organizational dysfunction and a lack of diversity
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How can we compare the severity of outages?
When a service goes down, the impact can vary from disastrous to so-what