Andy Lawrence serves as Executive Director of Research, Uptime Institute Intelligence, providing information and insights for planning and managing critical digital infrastructure. He has researched, written, and presented a wide range of enterprise technology topics, spanning innovation and disruption, investment, automation, software, energy, sustainability, and market development. During his tenure, Lawrence has also contributed to European Union projects on cloud services and clean energy, and on an international project to carbon footprint IT. His current research interests include disruptions in infrastructure and energy, edge data centers, cloud, and distributed resiliency.