NEWS
Eaton appoints
data centre and IT
segment leader
for EMEA
ower management company
Eaton has announced the
appointment of Ciarán Forde as
segment leader, data centre and IT, to
further strengthen the data centre and IT
segment across Europe, the Middle East
and Africa (EMEA).
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Ciarán is located in Dublin, at Eaton’s
global headquarters.
In this role, Ciarán will help transform
traditional concepts of power networks
in data centre and IT environments, with
some even transforming into profit centres
utilising UPS-as-a-Reserve technology
(UPSaaR). This Eaton solution enables data
centres to contribute to renewable energy
adoption and earn from investments.
Working closely with the product
lines, commercial and engineering
teams, Ciarán will also put a focus on
the utilisation of new and innovative
technologies to read, monitor and
optimise power consumption patterns for
Eaton’s data centre and IT customers.
“We’re entering a very exciting time
for the sector – where data centres
are moving towards becoming truly
intelligent, dynamic power environments.
I’m proud to be joining a company where
innovation and forward thinking are a part
of the day-to-day process as we look to
meet these needs,” Forde said.
Uptime Institute announces
Outage Severity Rating
he Uptime Institute has
announced its new Outage
Severity Rating (OSR) to
help the digital infrastructure and
data centre community better
understand and articulate service
outages in the context of how each
incident affects the business.
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With OSR, infrastructure
practitioners can finally share a
common lexicon when forming
their own service delivery capacity
strategies and can view their
own outages in terms of business
impacts, rather than referencing
outages based upon the number of
physical infrastructure components
that were involved.
For the past three years, Uptime
Institute’s Intelligence group has
been studying publicly reported
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outages to understand the causes and
impacts of unplanned downtime. During
the three-year time period, the number
of public outages has steadily climbed,
with 27 outages in 2016; 57 outages in
2017 and 78 outages in 2018.
This rise in outages is proportional
to the complexity of typical
infrastructures, where computing
capacity and its associated data is
delivered by a combination of in-house
data centre sites, co-location facilities
and the cloud all connected by high
capacity networks.
Consequently, IT system and network
problems have now surpassed
mission critical and facilities issues
as the leading causes of publicly
recorded outages, compared to power
which was the biggest cause in
previous years.
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