In 2011, Uptime Institute conducted its first annual data center industry survey collecting data from mission critical data center owners and operators worldwide. This review continues in this spirit and adds in additional industry hot topics.

1. Uptime Institute 2015 Data Center
Industry Survey
Matt Stansberry
Director of Content & Publications

2. Agenda
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3. Survey Demographics
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4. Vertical Industries: Colo Provider vs Enterprise
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5. Data center budget increases 2014 to 2015
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6. New Data Center Construction
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7. What are the three things that keep you up at night?
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8. What are the 3 things about the future of your
organization that have you concerned?
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9. Agenda
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10. Have you purchased a commercial DCIM?
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11. Do you expect a return on investment in DCIM within two
years?
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12. How would you characterize the maturity of the DCIM
market today?
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13. Agenda
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14. What priority level is reducing IT cost and resource
consumption for your executive leadership?
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15. Which group or department is responsible for reducing IT
costs and improving efficiency?
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16. ENTERPRISE: How often do you have interdisciplinary
meetings?
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17. Do you have a formal energy management plan?
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18. Does your enterprise allocate IT and data center costs to
internal customers?
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19. What is your average server refresh rate?
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20. Enterprise: What is your target CPU Utilization?
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21. Rank these in order of importance
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22. So you don’t care about CO2? From a Greenpeace report,
May 2015
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23. Last week’s headlines
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24. Agenda
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25. Does your organization allow maintenance activities on
energized electrical equipment?
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26. Are you uncomfortable with maintenance activities on
energized electrical equipment?
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27. Do the relevant codes, laws or regulations in your region
prohibit maintenance activities on energized equipment?
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28. If the law explicitly prohibited maintenance on energized
equipment, would your sites be impacted?
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29. If you had resources, would you invest in infrastructure to
prevent the need for maintenance on energized equipment?
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30. What’s the message? ACCOUNTABILITY
• We need to understand, stand up, and lead on life safety
• We need to be good stewards of our environment
• We also need to be good stewards of our organization’s resources.
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31. Thank You!