Lee McClish is a reliability engineer for RagingWire Data Centers, which operates 2 million square feet and 265 MW of critical power across massive developments in Dallas; Ashburn, Virginia; and Sacramento and Silicon Valley in Northern California. He served in the U.S. Navy as a submarine officer and holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (BSME) degree from Ohio Northern University and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Ashland University.
In the data center industry, equipment redundancy is widely utilized to achieve high system availability, often required to be in the range of 99.999% (five nines). However, the required level of redundancy is dependent on equipment reliability.