Data centers continue to struggle with outages

The latest Outage Analysis report released by the Uptime Institute reveals that the digital infrastructure sector is struggling to achieve a measurable reduction in outage rates and severity. One in five organizations report experiencing a 'serious' or 'severe' outage (involving significant financial losses, reputational damage, compliance breaches and in some severe cases, loss of life) in the past three years, marking a slight upward trend in major outages. According to Uptime's 2022 Data Center Resiliency Survey, 80 percent of data center managers and operators have experienced some type of outage in the past three years -- a marginal increase over… [Continue Reading]