Dubai-based ZIWO secures strategic funding from Ajeej Capital’s Amplify Growth Fund as demand rises for Arabic-first, AI-enabled enterprise communication systems across the GCC.

$700 million data centres, AI-managed hyperscale facilities and enterprise margin gains signal a new phase. The Gulf is no longer building AI capacity. It is being judged on economic absorption.

As Middle Eastern governments accelerate AI deployment, encryption is moving out of the server room and into national policy. SandboxAQ’s product strategy shows what happens when cryptography is treated as infrastructure, not compliance.

As export controls tighten and GPU supply concentrates, Malaysia is investing in domestic compute. The Sarawak AI facility raises deeper questions about capital risk, utilisation, and regional power.

A new study by Boston Consulting Group finds that 42% of UAE organisations now qualify as AI Leaders, with 37% scaling enterprise-wide deployment, but the real test lies in whether investment translates into sustained economic advantage.

Behind the scale of Dubai’s World Health Expo lies a deeper story about women’s health economics, capital discipline, laboratory power struggles, AI ambition, and the geopolitics of diagnostics.

The cybersecurity giant moves beyond detection and response, targeting the global shortage of CISO-level leadership as boards and regulators demand proof of risk reduction.

From Europe to India to the Gulf, governments are forcing AI systems back inside legal borders. Data localisation is no longer a compliance detail — it is rewriting cloud strategy, AI architecture, and who controls intelligence.

As AI systems move deeper into operations, the real control point is shifting upstream. The teams that manage data are becoming the ones who decide what organisations can safely automate — and what they cannot.

VAST Data did not set out to build an “AI operating system.” But as GPUs, memory, and data pipelines strained under real-world AI workloads, its storage platform evolved into something closer to infrastructure coordination than storage alone.

Zero&One’s AWS competencies and regional delivery footprint strengthen NTT DATA’s push for larger migration and modernisation programmes across MENA.

At Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute, researchers are working on membranes, soil additives, and brine recovery — not to chase breakthroughs, but to fix what desalination systems quietly ignore.

From Colombo, not California, Sanjiva Weerawarana built WSO2 into a global enterprise software company worth more than $600 million, without leaving Sri Lanka or abandoning open source.

New Infoblox Threat Intel research reveals how attackers compromise home and small-office routers, take control of DNS, and turn everyday internet traffic into a global monetisation system without breaking anything users would notice.

Cloudflare says it blocked more than 47 million DDoS attacks last year, including a brief but unprecedented 31.4 Tbps attack, signalling a dangerous escalation in online disruption.

Alphabet didn’t report a Google business under attack. It reported a Google business funding a massive buildout. The question now isn’t whether Google can do AI — it’s what AI does to Google’s costs and margins.

Check Point’s 2025 Finance Sector Landscape Report shows attacks on banks and payments firms jumping 115% in a year. The shift isn’t just volume. It’s that disruption, data theft, extortion, and fraud are now designed to stack into one pressure campaign.

Banks spent years piloting AI without forcing it into day-to-day operations. New research across Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East shows why that era ended — and why revenue now depends on accountability, not ambition.

Spending on data centres and servers is set to rise sharply next year as cloud providers and governments expand capacity for artificial intelligence, while growth in devices and enterprise software slows.

Riverbed’s Global Survey: The Future of IT Operations in the AI Era finds strong AIOps returns in financial services, but limited enterprise-wide AI deployment.