Datacenter Outages Are On The Decline, But When They Hit, They Hit Hard
The Register, Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
Power snafus take limelight in latest downtime diary from Uptime Institute
The frequency and severity of datacenter outages is on the decline, yet when incidents do occur they can be very costly to the organization involved, with power issues leading to the most serious blackouts.
While the datacenter footprint is expanding to meet the demand sparked by generative AI mania and more, the overall number of datacenter related outages is likely to increase.
However, according to a new report from Uptime Institute, there has been a consistent downward trend in the frequency and severity of outages relative to the growth in IT capacity over the past several years.
This means that while there are more incidents than before, their rate of increase is lower than the pace at which IT capacity itself is expanding.