A group of 10 Bachelor Students from Networking and Internet and E-Security specializations from IT Department visited Oman Data Park (ODP) company located at the Technology park in Muscat on April 22, 2019.

The Department Industrial Link Committee(ILC) of IT Department arranged this visit. Oman Data Park is a joint venture between Omantel and 4Trust LLC, A leading Telecom company and Data Centre company in Oman respectively. The Students were welcomed by the company’s Marketing Assistant, Ms. Haneen Mohammed Al Mherat. She facilitated the entire visit.

A quick tour of the center was given to the students by Mr. Osama Bin Shafiq, Team Leader of Data Center where the students have physically seen the hardware side on both the technology behind cloud and data protection. While the tour is on-going, Mr. Osama, explained how they provide services to various companies in the Sultanate. As a pioneering company in Oman, ODC facilities are composed of 3 tier 3 Datacenters that are distributed across the Sultanate with 24/7 monitoring and security.

The students were delighted to see how IT can be related to other companies like Oil and Gas, the government sector, education, and healthcare services.