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Khazna Data Centers enables businesses at the forefront of the digital economy to connect seamlessly with the global digital ecosystem. Managed by leading industry experts, Khazna aims to create a more connected world by building and managing superior and sustainable wholesale datacentres, providing custom-made solutions and optimum performance as data continues to proliferate at an enormous scale
Aligned with supporting the creation of a digital ecosystem in the UAE and beyond, it fully connects with the customer’s vision, helping them minimise their infrastructure investment and releasing capital to strengthen their core business offerings by providing secure, efficient, reliable, sustainable, and scalable facilities.
Through dynamic collaboration, Khazna’s data hosting solutions help drive the business forward, connecting today’s ambitions with tomorrow’s successes. Khazna’s wholesale datacentre facilities are designed and built to meet international and regional environmental regulations and have proved themselves efficient, resilient, and flexible.
Khazna and BEEAH Digital have formed a joint venture to set up the first Tier-3 datacentre in Sharjah
Khazna is carrier neutral and provides connectivity to leading UAE carriers. Since the company offers hosting solutions across a wide network of wholesale datacentres it delivers infrastructure and data technologies to customers at a highly competitive market rate.
Driving down energy consumption, decreasing costs and employing advances in cooling and heat management technologies, have shifted the way datacentres are being designed, managed, and operated. Khazna Data Centers is looking ahead and investing in ways to make its facilities more efficient and sustainable.
Innovative technologies have been adopted to maximise uptime, optimise energy usage, quickly detect potential risks, and defend against cyber-attacks. Khazna is working on using Artificial Intelligence in its upcoming unique Command Control Center to ease and support the day-to-day operations and predict infrastructure failures by analysing all records extracted from monitoring the infrastructure behaviour.
The company has also installed solar PV panels in the parking as also LED lighting with motion sensors across all facilities. This ensures lesser consumption of electricity and generates less heat decreasing the need for air conditioning. It relies on pre-cooling and free cooling whenever the weather conditions allow leading to less utilisation of chillers, and hence less carbon emission.
Khazana’s new design approaches and equipment and technology selections are continuously analysed and benchmarked against sustainability goals by exploring innovative solutions in every pillar of the datacentre infrastructure. The company aims to achieve an annual average PUE of less than 1.5 and better water usage efficiency. The new datacentres are constructed and certified to Estidama Pearl-4 (in AD) and LEED Gold standards for green buildings.
Khazna Data Centers has entered significant collaborations and initiatives to meet the increasing demand for distributed digital infrastructure. It has completed the G42 and e&, formerly Etisalat Group, datacentre offering. The agreement allows both to increase the value of their infrastructure assets contributed to the joint venture while also optimising process and resource utilisation, without impacting their respective commercial positioning, client relationships and leading market positions.
In September, Khazna and BEEAH Digital formed a joint venture to set up the first Tier 3 datacentre in Sharjah. The datacentre is designed and will be built in line with sustainable credentials implementing renewable energy sources to meet the power requirements. The facility will also be constructed to achieve green building certifications from Estidama and LEED.
Earlier this year, Khazna announced plans with Dubai Internet City to establish two facilities to further support enterprises by enabling the integration of technology across all business functions. The company also kicked off the construction of various datacentre facilities across the UAE.
TOP EXECUTIVE
As the CEO at Khazna Data Centers, Hassan is focused on growing the business within the UAE and new global markets, whilst helping to position and promote UAE as a new international ICT data hub. As society’s dependence on data continues to grow, this vision will become increasingly important to help the region thrive on the global stage. Under his leadership, Khazna has emerged as the leading datacentre company in the region. It also has the largest wholesale datacentre in the UAE and the MENA region.
A professional with rich experience in managing the development and operations of datacentres he has also helped in expanding the IP coverage to emerging markets and international hubs as well as enhancing Internet accessibility to contents within the region.
Before joining Khazna, Hassan held various senior positions with du, the erstwhile Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company as a Senior Director of Business Support. During his time at du, Hassan was actively involved in positioning and promoting UAE as the new international data hub.
Hassan has also held various positions with TECOM and was a member of the UAE Armed Forces. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Management and a higher diploma in Computer Engineering.
DREAM ROLE
Hassan hopes to enthuse more interest and curiosity about digital opportunities and contribute toward the adoption and implementation of innovative infrastructure. He also aspires to inspire, lead, and strive toward an innovative future.
ROLE MODEL
For Hassan, every leader driving digital transformation and every business that regards digital transformation as a priority and not a box to check is an inspiration.
OFFLINE
Hassan enjoys cooking and reading as well as travelling and exploring the world. He recently picked up sailing. Let us see how it goes and if this turns into a real passion, he says.
