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 Uptime Institute Names Winners of Prestigious 2012 Green Enterprise IT Awards Uptime Institute's Green Enterprise IT (GEIT) Awards recognize projects, ideas and products that significantly improve energy productivity and resource use in IT, data centers and beyond. Award winners for 2012 will be honored at the Uptime Institute Symposium in Santa Clara, CA, May 14-17, 2012. Click here for results |
 The theme of Uptime Institute Symposium 2012 is Digital Infrastructure Convergence. This is a call to action for business, IT and data center managers to come together to develop a common language, common goals, and the cross-disciplinary skills necessary to meet the rapidly changing and evolving computing demands of business. Successful IT organizations of the future will run highly optimized operations in which all IT and facilities assets, third-party services, and decision makers are aligned toward achieving common business goals and contributing measurably and meaningfully to the enterprise bottom line. Uptime Institute Symposium 2012 will provide enterprise IT and data center decision-makers and their business and technical teams from around the world a comprehensive overview of the state of the converged Digital Infrastructure and the confidence to apply that knowledge within their own organizations. Click here to learn more. |
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The Management and Operations (M&O) Stamp of Approval Human error is the leading cause of data center downtime. Uptime Institute's Management and Operations (M&O) Stamp of approval is a new tool to address and mitigate these management risks. The M&O Stamp of Approval validates the critical facilities management and operations practices of an existing data center. The M&O Stamp delivers a score-based assessment, independent of the site's design principles. Those sites that meet the criteria will be recognized with an Uptime Institute "M&O Approved" site award. M&O criteria for the award were drawn from Uptime Institute's Tier Standard: Operational Sustainability, and then reviewed and verified by an M&O Coalition composed of key stakeholders in the enterprise owner, outsourced operations, and multi-tenant industry segments. M&O identifies the behaviors and risks, independent of the data center design, to minimize human error in data centers—the leading cause of data center downtime according to Uptime Institute databases. Click here to learn more |
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The Second Annual Data Center Survey is now CLOSED.
Thank you to all the participants! The data from this survey will help your organization make effective data center decisions over the coming year, and will help you benchmark your organization against the broader industry trends. All survey participants will receive an anonymous copy of the raw data, as well as the full report with analysis from Uptime Institute, and will be entered in a drawing for an Apple iPad or passes to the Uptime Institute Symposium 14-17 May 2012, in Santa Clara, CA. Thank you to all the participants from last year who made the inaugural survey a huge success. |
 Is your organization at risk of running out of data center capacity? Are you considering moving compute loads to the cloud, increasing virtualization investments, evaluating co-location options, or planning a new data center? Are you responsible to deliver this message and formulate a strategic plan? Today’s high IT costs and higher consequences for downtime warrant a review of the strategic plan by vendor-neutral industry experts to validate assumptions and ensure best practices. A strategic plan must incorporate both Facilities and IT infrastructure perspectives and requirements. This will ensure that the strategic solution addresses the enterprise-wide constraints—thereby facilitating executive approval. Uptime Institute’s Digital Infrastructure RoadmapTM is a robust evaluation that works to ensure the long-term performance of investment in enterprise computing. The first step is to capture the drivers in terms of business strategy, data center facilities, and IT technology. Then, validate capacity assumptions and map to optimized scenarios. The report will include actionable recommendations for capacity planning for the next 3-5 years. For more information on the unbiased Digital Infrastructure RoadmapTM, please click HERE |
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 The Tier Program continues to expand its offerings to support multiple industry perspectives on the Tiers. Tier Program resources include:
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 Uptime Institute Professional Services is a data center engineering and management consulting firm specializing in high-availability data centers. Our mission is to address technical aspects of contemporary data center issues. Our consultants bring first-hand expertise from data center planning, design, building, operations, and management to their evaluations of existing and proposed facilities. Independent of any Engineer-of-Record or manufacturer affiliation, Uptime Institute Professional Services consulting teams help clients develop and execute solutions that are responsive to their unique business needs in order to ensure that their data center is managed for uninterruptible uptime over sustained periods. Read More |
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