451 Group is a
New York City
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-based technology industry research firm. Through its Uptime Institute operating unit, the company provides research for data center operators. In December 2019, 451 Group sold an operating division, 451 Research, to information and analytics company
S&P Global
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History
451 Group acquired Uptime Institute in 2009. The company subsequently acquired:
* consumer spending research firm ChangeWave Research in 2011
* events company Tech Touchstone in 2013
* mobile communications research firm
Yankee Group
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in 2013
* IT professional community Wisegate in 2017.
The company's 451 Research division was acquired by
S&P Global Market Intelligence
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on December 6, 2019, according to a company press release.
Business
Uptime Institute is the operating division of the 451 Group. It is an American professional services organization best known for its "Tier Standard". and the associated certification of data center compliance with the standard.
Founded in 1987 by Kenneth G. Brill, the Uptime Institute was founded as an industry proponent to help owners and operators quantify and qualify their ability to provide a predictable level of performance from data centers, regardless of the status of external factors, such as power utilities.
451 Research
451 Research was formerly part of 451 Group. Until being acquired by S&P Global in December 2019, it was an information technology
industry analyst
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firm, headquartered in New York with offices in London, Boston, Washington DC, and San Francisco.
The company claimed over 250 employees, over 100 industry analysts and over 1000 clients. The company produced
qualitative and
quantitative
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* Quantitative analysis (disambiguation)
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research, across thirteen research channels, and targets service providers, technology vendors, enterprise IT leaders and financial professionals.
See also
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High availability
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Modernization has resulted in an increased reliance on these systems. Fo ...
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Downtime
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The unavailability is the proportion of a time-span that a system is unavailable or offline.
This is usually a result of the system failing to function because of an un ...
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Uptime
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It is often used as a measure of computer operating system reliabi ...
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Information technology companies of the United States
Consulting firms established in 1993
International information technology consulting firms
Research and analysis firms
Reliability engineering