May 14, 2013, Uptime Institute Symposium, Santa Clara, CA—Andy Lawrence from 451 Research evaluated trends and drivers to consider which ones will be significant over the next 5-20 years. The difficulty is taking such a long-term focus is that the technologies can change very dramatically even within the lower-end of the range. To demonstrate this [...]

 The Delegates of the Uptime Institute Symposium 2012 uniformly agreed that the most important themes this year were: the modular data center and DCIM. Dean Nelson of eBay, vice president Global Foundation Services, in his Keynote “Breaking New Ground on Efficiency – eBay’s Modular Data Center Deployment” was talking about the economics of the modular [...]