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Student Trip to Meeza Data-Center
On February 2019, a group 17 Computing Club members along with their supervisor Eng. Abdulahi Hassen from the Departmof
Computer Science and Engineering visited Meeza company; an end-to-end Managed IT Services & Solutions Provider based in
Qatar that is becoming one of the leading Managed IT Services & Solutions provider in the Middle East and North Africa. Meeza
is currently helping to accelerate the growth of Qatar and the region through the provision of world-class Managed IT Services and
Solutions.
During the visit to Meeza, Mr. Chris Leahy who is the Technical
facility director gave a presentation for the students about Meeza
offerings such as the Managed IT services, Data Centre Services,
Cloud Services, and IT Security Service. Then the Marketing and PR
Manager Mr. Ahmad Youssef and the Solutions Architect Mr. Alaa
Ayaad co-presented for the students the core business model of
Meeza. They discussed how they are delivering the best in class IT
security levels. Also, Mr. Ahmed showed the students how they are
helping their clients minimize business risk, reduce IT capital
expenditure and speed up time-to-market for new initiatives.
Finally, Mr. Chris Leahy and his team gave the student
an hour and half long tour of the facility. The students
had the chance to see the different workstations,
backup generators, security and many more equipment
that are helping the data center to have an uptime of
99.98% during the year.
Meeza Data Center
Mr. Chris Leahy
Mr. Alaa Ayaad