MEEZA unveils Middle Easts first LEED Platinum and Tier III certified data centre

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MEEZA unveils Middle Easts first LEED Platinum and Tier III certified data centre

MEEZA, the leading IT services and solutions provider in Qatar, today announced the readiness of its latest and biggest data centre to date, M-VAULT 2. M-VAULT 2, with a total building area of 10,000 square metres, is now fully operational offering part of MEEZAs portfolio of services.
Built in accordance with the highest global standards, MEEZAs M-VAULT 2 is the first data centre of its kind in the MENA region. The new data centre was built complying with the most exacting international standards and offers a level of flexibility and reliability that is unprecedented in the region, enabling businesses to benefit from greater efficiency and reduced risk. As an example, the fully integrated cold aisle design of M-VAULT 2 delivers a high density compute environment ready for client use.

The facility is certified by the Uptime Institute as a Tier III data centre offering a guaranteed uptime of 99.98%.
With the commercial availability of M-VAULT 2, MEEZA takes a big leap forward in its capability to deliver end-to-end business continuity and disaster recovery solutions. This is now available to organisations in Qatar and across the MENA Region to support their mission-critical applications and specific infrastructure demands in a stateoftheart environment, said Ghada Philip El Rassi, CEO of MEEZA.

MEEZAs data centre features round-the-clock monitoring through MEEZAs Information Security team which is done from its SOC (Security Operations Centre) to provide optimum protection against the prying eyes of hackers and cyber-criminal elements, El Rassi added.
This leading, physically diverse data centre is an excellent choice as a primary site and serves as an exceptional disaster recovery location also.
MEEZAs M-VAULT 2 is a Green Data Centre. It is the first and only LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum certified data centre in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It is one of only four data centres in the world outside of the United States having achieved this certification. As a LEED Platinum certified data centre, M-VAULT 2 offers the highest levels of sustainability and energy efficiency. At high densities, M-VAULT 2 is 40% more energy and cost-efficient than non-LEED Platinum certified data centres. Seventy percent (70%) of the materials used in the construction of M-VAULT 2 are recycled material, thus demonstrating MEEZAs environmental commitment.

Located at a purpose-built highly secured facility in Umm Garn, 30 km from Doha, within easy reach from the motorway network, M-VAULT 2 offers a fully equipped area for remote working and business continuity. This workplace recovery area is in place to help customers that are encountering severe and extended outages to relocate their key personnel to MEEZAs M-VAULT 2 and be operational in the least possible time.
To ensure the highest levels of availability, all critical systems in the data centre are concurrently maintainable with multiple levels of redundancy. This applies to capacity and paths for both power and cooling components.

As a carrier-neutral data centre operator, MEEZA facilitates ease in providing connectivity by offering the complete range of carrier options available in Qatar. MVAULT 2 is serviced by all network carriers with diverse routes and multiple active points of presence.

Clients of M-VAULT 2 have access to MEEZAs entire portfolio of services, such as Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) or Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) as they do in M-VAULT 1 and M-VAULT 3.