Uptime: Data center failure rate is decreasing
According to the report released by the Uptime Institute, although the number of data centers operating worldwide has increased significantly, the number of crashes related to data centers has been declining for many years. This trend can be attributed to the "series of measures" being taken by operators.
Specifically, power problems are still the main reason for data center downtime, followed by cooling system failures. In addition, although the network failure rate ranks only fifth, it is a more serious problem. IT system and hardware failures often only affect specific services, but network failures often lead to service interruption in the data center, with greater impact.
From the data point of view, in the 2023 Uptime Institute data center survey, more than half (55%) of the operator respondents said that there had been downtime in the past three years, down from 60% in 2022 and 69% in 2021. At the same time, only one tenth of the failures in 2023 will be classified as serious or very serious, 4 percentage points lower than that in 2022 and 10 percentage points lower than that in 2021.
In addition, the survey also pointed out that although the failure rate is decreasing, each failure has a cost. More than half of the respondents said that their last major, serious or extreme outage cost more than $100000, while 16% said that the cost exceeded $1 million.
The report also discusses various trends and factors that affect the stability of the data center, such as the increase in the adoption of public clouds The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the data center industry, and the increase in network and system complexity.
in summary, The report of Uptime Institute shows that the failure rate of the data center is decreasing, thanks to a series of measures taken by operators and technological progress. However, it should also be noted that the cost of failure is still high, and the data center still faces some new challenges and risk factors, which need continuous attention and response.
