October 8, 2008
A brief narrative background on the Uptime Institute and its Research Symposium Founded in 1993 by its principal Kenneth G. Brill and headquartered in Santa Fe, NM. The Uptime Institute is a globally trusted, authority on mission-critical data center facilities design and engineering for uptime, or computing availability, reliability operational sustainability and energy efficiency. The Institute provides corporate strategy, policy, governance and finance advice on the issues relating to the planning, construction and operational management of very large-scale enterprise computing and data centers.
The Institute has a proud legacy of providing user-centered, vendor-independent services that include industry research, benchmarking, analysis and, best practices and processes (business and technical) for mission-critical computing environments. It shares this expert, management-oriented technical and business- knowledge through publication of its formal papers, professional education outreach programs, corporate advisory services, and corporate and public policy advocacy.
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