Running IT as a Business
Throughout my 20 plus year career in IT consulting, I have noticed that the most successful businesses often have something in common – they run their IT like a business and they treat IT like a key part of the business, and not like an add-on function. I have been in Qatar for only just [...]
Steve O'Donnell | May 16th, 2010 | Continued
Your brand is not what YOU say it is, it’s what YOUR CUSTOMERS say it is.
I have spent the last 12 months working with some of the smartest and best funded marketing people on the planet, I have been working with the the really big, household name, IT Infrastructure vendors. I learned lots, lots about marketing, lots about honest analysis and lots about human nature. I learned that marketing isn’t [...]Steve O'Donnell | April 9th, 2010 | Continued
Building a world leading cloud in the Middle East
I wanted to share with you my latest news. A little over a year ago Steve Duplessie and I created ESG EMEA to help reach out and serve new European clients as well as provide local support for many of our ESG US based relationships. We have been immensely successful in building this business, working [...]Steve O'Donnell | March 30th, 2010 | Continued
Is there an option other than Semtex to fix my Data Centre?
There are a lot of them around, Data Centres. A few of them are designed and operated very well and deliver great Power Usage Efficiency. Some could do a bit better, perhaps an airside economiser or two, or some hot or cold aisle containment, or maybe some DC power. Some are just a nightmare and [...]Steve O'Donnell | March 12th, 2010 | Continued
Interview with Mike Olson CEO of Cloudera
Cloudera struck lucky in getting a $5M A-round away just before the markets shut down in response to the collapse of the global financial system. Backed by Accel Partners and more recently Greylock Partners they are making a bet that Hadoop with a smart scale out approach to managing large amounts of data is a [...]Steve O'Donnell | March 5th, 2010 | Continued
About this Site
Steve O’Donnell is CEO at MEEZA, a major data centre and cloud services company based in Doha Qatar. MEZZA is a joint venture backed by the Qatar Foundation. MEEZA offers advanced and innovative services to business clients underpinning Qatar's stated objective to make the knowledge based society a reality in the region. Prior to MEEZA Steve was Managing Director EMEA and Senior Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). Prior to ESG Steve ran IT Infrastructure Internationally for FDC, He was Global Head of Data Centres at BT running the largest data centre estate and the biggest IT Operation in Europe. He has a worldwide reputation as a thought leader in Green IT having won six industry awards for his 21st Century Data Centre vision and design.
