Andy Lawrence is the Vice President of Research for Datacenters and Critical Infrastructure at 451 Research and the Executive Director of Uptime Research. He also leads the 451 Foresight project, which looks at the potential impact of emerging technologies across the IT industry over the next decade. Andy specializes in datacenter efficiency, market evolution and automation, both from a technical and economic point of view. He has an interest in the convergence of IT and energy technologies, both in the datacenter and beyond. Andy works closely with the Uptime Institute, part of The 451 Group, reviewing innovations and trends for members. Andy has given keynote presentations at events in the US, Europe and Asia. Andy is the author of reports covering datacenter management; power/energy management; 5G mobile networks; Disruptive Datacenter technologies; and datacenter and application resiliency. He has represented 451 Research at the Green Grid, and contributed to European Union projects on cloud services and renewable energy. He contributed to an international program to develop a carbon footprinting method for IT. Before joining 451 Research, Andy was the co-founder of Infoconomy, a publishing and research company focusing on enterprise IT; and was a technology and business journalist writing for business and national media. He launched several IT business magazines and information services in the UK and US. Andy has a degree in Philosophy from the University of Manchester, with an interest in Philosophy of Science and phenomenology.
New research shows that costly unplanned downtime is common, and may even be increasing. Advances in availability have been offset by complexity and interdependencies.
This first of a three-part series details results from Uptime's new global survey of datacenter operators and IT practitioners in enterprise and service-provider facilities - people responsible for managing infrastructure at the world's largest IT organizations.
Many attempts have been made to instrument the datacenter with sensors, and then optimize expensive cooling with smart software. The challenge is to do so without adding costs or management worries.
Amid shifting technical and business demands, The Uptime Institute has advised datacenter operators to pay attention to several key issues over the next year: some obvious, some not so.
The Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities require software fixes that will slow server performance for many applications. For some datacenter operators, that could have immediate capacity and performance implications, but for many, it will be absorbed.
If a datacenter can be designed, built and pre-tested in a factory, then why not certify it there too? Uptime Institute's TIER-Ready program verifies that a prefabricated datacenter is fully capable of being used as the foundation of a fully certified datacenter.
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