Name: The Critical Update
Start: 2021-08-18T16:00:00Z
End: 2021-08-18T16:56:07.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4.4

Uptime Institute is an unbiased advisory organization focused on improving the performance, efficiency, and reliability of business critical infrastructure through innovation, collaboration, and independent certifications. Uptime Institute serves all stakeholders responsible for IT service availability through industry leading standards, education, peer-to-peer networking, consulting, and award programs delivered to enterprise organizations and third-party operators, manufacturers, and providers. Uptime Institute is recognized globally for the creation and administration of the Tier Standards & Certifications for Data Center Design, Construction, and Operational Sustainability along with its Management & Operations reviews, FORCSS® methodology, and Efficient IT Stamp of Approval.

Join us for 2023’s annual benchmark review of the impacts, costs and changing types and frequency of crucial infrastructure failures. Outages remain a major industry concern despite improving technology and better management of availability. Uptime Institute draws lessons from global outages data.

Annual Outages Analysis 2023

More data center operators are establishing 7x24 goals for clean energy consumption, an approach that is consistent with Uptime Intelligence recommendations on clean energy procurement and goals. This webinar assesses the limits of a 7x24 commitment that depends on intermittent solar and wind generation and explores the complications revealed by recent 7x24 contract announcements.

7x24 Renewable Energy

Digital Infrastructure Managers are facing demands from stakeholders and regulators to account for Scope 3 emissions, absent any consensus on reporting standards. This webinar will explore the practical realities and challenges of assessing, managing and reporting Scope 3 emissions.

The Challenges of Managing Scope 3 Emissions

Prolonged supply chain difficulties, high energy prices, and sweeping sustainability mandates — the digital infrastructure sector had its plate full in a tumultuous 2022.  But new uncertainties abound that add more risk to operations and business competitiveness. 
 
Join us for an exciting webinar that will cover the Uptime Institute Intelligence team’s top five issues in its 2023 Outlook. These include geopolitical turbulence, grid disturbances, the end to power abundance, growing scrutiny of enterprise cloud usage, and runaway cooling needs of next-generation chips.

Five Data Center Predictions for 2023

In the coming years, operators of digital infrastructure will be required to report (and reduce) their environmental footprint in a variety of ways, many of them burdensome, some apparently based on insufficient sectoral knowledge. In this webinar, we will outline the key steps that operators should take as they navigate a difficult and changing environment.

IT Infrastructure Sustainability: Practical Steps for Operators

As part of a sustainability strategy, data center managers must address water use and circularity requirements — such as
end-of-life product management and heat reuse — and data center siting and design specifications. Each of these elements
presents challenges, but focused attention will contribute significantly to sustainable data center operations. Join us to hear 
more about this important topic as well as final wrap up commentary on this important series of six sustainability reports.

Three key elements: water, circularity and siting

The data center industry's largest and most influential survey results are in! Join us as we discuss the 12th Annual Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2022 which reveals an industry that is growing, dynamic and increasingly resilient. Spending on data centers and related services is strong, despite persistent staffing shortages, supply chain delays and other obstacles. Creating a more environmentally sustainable footprint is a major and growing focus as operators brace for heightened scrutiny, new regulations and reporting requirements. Hear about these findings and more, presented by our Uptime Intelligence team.

Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey Results 2022

Data centers are subject to an expanding set of largely voluntary sustainability standards and requirements covering measurement and reporting, water and energy use, renewable energy procurement, equipment and system efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions management, adherence to a circular economy approach, and siting and design requirements. Investors and customers will increasingly use these standards to make investment and purchasing decisions. Legislators and regulators will use them as the basis of mandates governing the sustainability of operations and periodic sustainability reporting. Any operator hoping to thrive in the data center services marketplace in the next decade will need to meet the requirements of many of these standards. Join this important discussion to hear what you will need to know.

Digital Infrastructure Sustainability: Navigating regulations and standards

Don’t miss this webinar covering the four most common overlooked areas of risk and their potential business impact. With our extensive experience assessing data centers all over the world, we will discuss different areas of risk that we routinely see overlooked, areas that can make a big impact on data center performance and business success. Join us for a compelling discussion.

Four Most Common Overlooked Areas of Risk

IT equipment (servers, storage and networking) accounts for a significant proportion of a data center’s energy use. Unfortunately, IT efficiency often goes unmentioned in sustainability reports.  Data shows a lot of this energy use is wasted, despite efficiency improvements achieved in the last decade.  Today’s discussion provides digital infrastructure professionals an overview of available measurements, metrics and hardware and software tools that can be incorporated in a sustainability strategy to improve IT energy efficiency without reducing performance or resiliency.

IT efficiency: the critical core of digital sustainability

Thermal requirements of next-generation servers and challenging business expectations are gradually moving data center operators toward using direct liquid cooling. This Uptime Intelligence webinar discusses these changes, technology choices, potential benefits as well as the hurdles to overcome before widespread adoption at scale becomes viable.

Direct liquid cooling - pressure is rising but constraints remain

Join us for this year’s annual benchmark review of the impacts, costs and changing types and frequency of crucial infrastructure failures. Outages remain a major industry concern despite improving technology and better management of availability. Uptime Institute draws lessons from recent global outages data.

Critical Update: Uptime Institute 2022 Outage Report

Number two in our Executive Advisory Series will discuss the first objective of a sustainability plan, which is to minimize energy use through efficiency measures, and the benefits realized by replacing electricity from nonrenewable sources with renewably generated energy. The discussion will also cover green house gas emissions reduction goals that take into account Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions.

Reducing the Energy Footprint and Tackling Green House Gases

Mitigating digital infrastructure risk is critical for financial services organizations. In response to high-profile outages at major financial services firms and increasingly complex hybrid IT architectures in Europe and across the world, regulators have implemented new requirements designed to encourage more effective risk management practices. Failure to comply with the new requirements could result in sanctions and financial penalties. 

Join our webinar to explore the lessons learned from the financial sector and how the financial sector has taken the lead in mitigating digital infrastructure risk and managing regulatory compliance.

Operational Risk in the Financial Sector: Lessons Learned

Uptime's in-depth series of reports is the definitive strategic and practical guide for Digital Infrastructure Sustainability. The first of the related webinar series will discuss defining the key elements to include in a sustainability strategy, the actions necessary for a successful implementation, and the processes required to measure progress against goals and objectives.

Creating a Sustainability Strategy

Mitigating digital infrastructure risk has never been more critical for financial services organizations. In response to recent high-profile outages at major financial services firms and increasingly complex hybrid IT architectures in Europe and across the world, regulators have implemented new requirements designed to encourage more effective risk management practices. Join our webinar to explore these changing requirements and learn how financial services firms can more effectively assess their IT estate to mitigate digital infrastructure outage risks, support critical business services and manage regulatory compliance.

Understanding and Addressing Outage Risks within the Financial Sector

The digital infrastructure sector is booming worldwide as the edge buildout progresses and organizations continue to adapt to the effects of the pandemic. But what emerging challenges lie ahead and what trends will define the coming year? Join us for an exciting webinar that will cover the Uptime Institute Intelligence team’s top five issues for 2022. These include sustainability reporting and the difficulty of achieving zero-carbon emissions, the uneven impacts of processor innovations, supply chain problems and the concentration risk of cloud computing.

Five Data Center Predictions for 2022

In this end-of-year update, the Uptime Institute Intelligence team will discuss current developments in the digital infrastructure industry, including new developments in digital sustainability post COP26 (2021 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow), new initiatives in resiliency, the changing processor and server landscape in 2022, and recent outages and their causes.

The Critical Update

For this regular update webinar, Uptime Institute’s Intelligence team will discuss current developments in the mission-critical digital infrastructure industry, including Edge data centers, the future of the Enterprise data center, new Ashrae guidance, sustainability, data center resiliency, and energy storage/power distribution.

Data Center

Data Center Infrastructure

Data Center Management

Data Center Transformation

IT Infrastructure

Mission Critical

Risk Management

Risk Mitigation

Critical Infrastructure

Critical Facilities

Cloud computing has exploded over the past few years, delivering a previously unimagined level of workplace mobility and flexibility. The cloud computing community on BrightTALK is made up of thousands of engaged professionals learning from the latest cloud computing research and resources. Join the community to expand your cloud computing knowledge and have your questions answered in live sessions with industry experts and vendor representatives.

Cloud Computing

The IT security community on BrightTALK is composed of more than 200,000 IT security professionals trading relevant information on software assurance, network security and mobile security. Join the conversation by watching on-demand and live information security webinars and asking questions of experts and industry leaders.

IT Security

Increasing expectations for good governance, effective risk management and complex demands for corporate compliance are presenting a growing challenge for organizations of all sizes. Join industry thought leaders as they provide you with practical advice on how to implement successful risk and compliance management strategies across your organization. Browse risk management resources in the form of interactive webinars and videos and ask questions of expert GRC professionals.

IT Governance, Risk and Compliance

The data center management community focuses on the holistic management and optimization of the data center. From technologies such as virtualization and cloud computing to data center design, colocation, energy efficiency and monitoring, the BrightTALK data center management community provides the most up-to-date and engaging content from industry experts to better your infrastructure and operations. Engage with a community of your peers and industry experts by asking questions, rating presentations and participating in polls during webinars, all while you gain insight that will help you transform your infrastructure into a next generation data center.

The unexpected nature of natural disasters and other disruptive events means that preparation is key to managing disaster recovery and business continuity planning. Join the business continuity and disaster recovery community for live and recorded presentations discussing best practices for business continuity planning, disaster recovery programs and business continuity management. Learn from BCDR experts to develop your critical infrastructure and gain insight into tactical solutions to your BCDR issues.

Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery

As an IT professional, many of the problems you face are multifaceted, complex and don’t lend themselves to simple solutions. The information technology community features useful and free information technology resources. Join to browse thousands of videos and webinars on ITIL best practices, IT security strategy and more presented by leading CTOs, CIOs and other technology experts.

Information Technology

The energy community on BrightTALK brings together top experts from around the world. Find relevant webinars and videos on renewable energy, efficiency and more presented by recognized energy management thought leaders. Join the conversation by participating in live webinars and round table discussions on energy trends.

Energy

The research and development community on BrightTALK brings together leading professionals in healthcare, technology and manufacturing to present on current topics in their fields. From big data in healthcare to online forensics training and medical research practices, the community is an exceptional resource for those looking to expand their knowledge. Be part of the conversation by joining the community and participating in interactive live webinars.

Research and Development

Internal audit and compliance professionals are facing increasingly stringent regulatory requirements when it comes to compliance reporting and internal control procedures. Join the audit and compliance community to learn best practices from thought leaders on topics such as regulatory compliance, internal audit checklists and audit program strategies.

Audit and Compliance

The accounting and finance community on BrightTALK features presentations from leading accountants and finance professionals. The accounting community includes tax planning strategies, QuickBooks webinars and other accounting webinars, while the finance community features presentations on financial capital regulations and forensic data analytics. Join the conversation by attending live financial and accounting presentations and connecting with industry thought leaders.

Finance

Get powerful insights to run your business. CEOs, CFOs, CMOs, COOs, CTOs and CIOs are among the leaders in this community who connect with peers and experts to grow their businesses.

CxO Strategy

Get powerful operations insights for your business. Connect with experts and colleagues to get the most up-to-date knowledge on which systems and processes are driving operational efficiency, maximizing value and customer success.

Operations

Get powerful procurement and sourcing insights for your business. Connect with experts and colleagues to get the most up-to-date knowledge on which strategies are proving to be the most effective for managing vendors, improving performance and reducing cost.

Procurement and Sourcing

In the business management community, commercial experts will be sharing webinars and videos on an array of subjects. From sales and marketing, to finance, productivity and growth, this content will help you stay up-to-date with the current economic environment and provide timely management insight to drive business growth.

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