We have a great interview. Nabeel Mahmood is our guest. Nabeel was our second ever guest on the show and it’s fantastic to have him back on. Nabeel called in from his home in paradise in the great state of Hawaii so at one point you’ll hear something that sounds like a loud Klaxon going off. It’s actually just a bird. I conducted the interview from the Data Center Dynamics show at the Marriot Marquis in New York. There’s a good chance that if you are listening to this podcast you were there. So if you hear some chatter in the background that might be you.

I find Nabeel so interesting. Being an entrepreneur he’s got a ton of new ventures that he’s working on including the one that we mostly focused on today which is a company called querai that’s spelled q-u-e-r-a-i , so like investigating things with AI. What they’re doing is they’re using AI to improve the performance of monitoring software and they’re starting specifically with batteries which I think is a great place to start. Often batteries are sort of conceived as just a piece of the UPS system when really their a unique component that has completely separate requirements and specifications from the UPS itself. We also talk about the IDCA, the International Data Center Authority where he sits on the technical standards committee. For those of you who don’t know, IDCA is a standards body that is attempting to bridge some of the gaps between what ISO and Uptime and TIA and some other great agencies are doing. I think that just talking with Nabeel they are on their way to helping to unify monitoring and controls, especially by leveraging APIs so that data center software packages talk nicely to each other.