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MEEZA unveils business cloud platform in expansion strategy
MEEZA, Qatar’s prominent end-to-end managed IT services and solutions provider, has launched its ‘Business Cloud’ platform to enhance its existing cloud service offerings as part of its business expansion strategy.
The platform will enable clients to subscribe and provision a wide range of products and services including Microsoft Office 365, Azure public cloud services, domain registrations and managed services hosted within MEEZA’s Qatar based Tier III Certified LEED Platinum Data Centre.
The platform, which is in partnership with CloudBlue and Microsoft, is being used by Gulf Bridge International (GBI) as part of its digital transformation programme.
“Building upon the local capability and experience of MEEZA Qatar and our world-class facilities, we are proud to launch one of the most unique and comprehensive platforms that provides a central location for local, regional and international customers to subscribe to a wide range of products and services,” according to Ghada Philip El Rassi, chief executive expansion/executive board member, MEEZA.
Isidoro Porquicho, vice president, EMEA CloudBlue, said it’s exciting to see MEEZA leverage the CloudBlue platform and strategic alliance with Microsoft to better serve their customers and adopt and benefit from cloud-based services and solutions at a more rapid rate.
“GBI will benefit greatly from its migration to MEEZA’s Business Cloud, gaining access to Microsoft’s trusted, secure and agile Azure platform, and the industry-leading productivity of solutions such as Office 365. Cost-savings, innovation, optimisation and many other welcome milestones lie on the road ahead for GBI,” said Lana Khalaf, Country general manager, Microsoft Qatar.
“As part of our Digital Transformation Program our decision to move our IT infrastructure to the cloud was an easy one to make, however finding the correct approach to implementing and migrating to the cloud was complex and needed to be done with great precaution,” according to Abdulla al-Rwaili, executive director and managing director of GBI.