Ahmad Moshiri is director of Power Technical Support at Liebert Services, a division of Emerson Network Power, and is an expert in data center critical equipment maintenance and business continuity. He is a principal member of NFPA 70B, Recommended Practice for Electrical Maintenance Equipment. He also chairs the Uptime Committee at Liebert which conducts data center critical equipment malfunction analysis and root cause determination.
Over the course of the past decade, organizations have begun to rely significantly more on information technology (IT) systems to support business-critical applications. Organizations such as banks, telecommunications companies, internet service providers, and cloud/co-location facilities rely heavily on the availability of their data centers as many of their customers are paying a premium for access to a variety of IT applications.