Today: Nov 11, 2026
Nutanix appoints Sven Schoenaerts as VP for EMEA alliances
Nutanix has promoted Sven Schoenaerts to Vice President EMEA, Channel and Technology Alliances. In his expanded role, Schoenaerts will oversee Nutanix’s channel and technology alliances strategy across the region, driving partner engagement and growth across hybrid multicloud, modern applications, and enterprise AI. Schoenaerts, who has played a central role in the growth and transformation of Nutanix’s EMEA partner ecosystem,
KnowBe4 expands global data residency across six key international markets
KnowBe4 has announced plans to expand its in-region data residency across six international markets: Australia, Brazil, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and the UAE. The expansion aims to help organisations
Europe’s hacked fridges expose vulnerabilities
Repeated cyberattacks on supermarket refrigeration systems across Europe
Aramex launches Data Center Logistics for AI infrastructure
Aramex has launched Aramex Data Center Logistics, an
Dubai Chamber of Digital Economy partners with Alibaba Cloud on Agentic AI
Dubai Chamber of Digital Economy has signed a
Who answers for a data breach ordered by a foreign court?
Consider this scenario where an executive of a global enterprise company approves a sovereign cloud contract for the company’s AI workloads. With the growing need for sovereignty requirements, sensitive data needs to stay in the country where the data was generated and under local control. And it is something that the vendor had promised as well. However, months later,
Etisalat UAE becomes first MENA telco to offer Meta AI glasses
Etisalat UAE has become the first telecom operator in the MENA region to offer AI glasses from Meta and EssilorLuxottica, including Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta. The hands-free devices
BMC Helix’s Salman Kazmi: “We don’t want to create 1,000 agents. We want to help you solve 1,000 problems”
Salman Kazmi, Vice President for the Middle East,
Seagate partners with Broadcom to simplify AI cloud storage scaling
Seagate Technology has announced that its Mozaic HAMR
Quartermaster and Presight partner on AI maritime intelligence
Quartermaster and Presight have signed a Memorandum of
Seagate launches FireCuda Forge drive powered by new Alkemi platform
Seagate has launched the FireCuda Forge external drive, the first device powered by its Alkemi intelligent storage platform. Designed for gamers and content creators, Alkemi dynamically tiers data by combining user-provided NVMe
Liferay launches beta of SEO & AEO Studio for web and AI search
Liferay has announced the beta availability of Liferay SEO & AEO Studio, a unified tool enabling marketing teams to monitor and optimise site performance across traditional search engines and AI answer engines.
Vertiv launches SmartIT to simplify high-density AI deployment
Vertiv has introduced Vertiv SmartIT, a pre-engineered architecture designed to simplify high-density AI deployments across data centres. Previously deployed with NVIDIA to support the NVIDIA DGX GB300 system, SmartIT integrates rack infrastructure, direct-to-chip liquid cooling, DC power conversion,
How Coca-Cola’s Saudi bottler cut data recovery from hours to minutes
Not long ago, the IT team at The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Saudi Arabia received a request that, a year earlier, it could not have met. The business needed data from the account of an employee who had
Beyond transformation: Turning innovation into business value
A technology project can meet its deadline, stay within budget and still leave the business wondering what changed. The system is live. Training is complete. The implementation team has moved on. Yet employees continue using spreadsheets, customers face
Securonix names Essam Ahmed as MEA Senior Sales Director
Securonix has appointed Essam Ahmed as Senior Sales Director for the Middle East and Africa (MEA). Bringing more than 20 years of cybersecurity experience from companies including FireEye, McAfee, and spiderSilk, Ahmed will lead regional sales strategy, partner
Asus unveils ultraslim ExpertBook A7 for modern mobile professionals
Asus has launched the ExpertBook A7, a 1cm thin and 1.2kg ultraslim laptop designed for modern hybrid professionals. Powered by Intel processors and featuring a 14-inch 3K OLED display, the device offers up to 26 hours of battery
Commercial Bank of Dubai and Bank of China complete Digital Dirham transfer using Jisr Platform
Commercial Bank of Dubai has successfully processed a wholesale Digital Dirham transaction with Bank of China using the Central Bank of the UAE’s Jisr platform. The achievement highlights CBD’s role in the
Emirates NBD launches Bridgewise AI market insights on ENBD X
Emirates NBD has partnered with AI company Bridgewise to launch real-time market insights for digital wealth clients on its ENBD X platform. The native feature provides tailored analysis of global equities and ETFs across US,
“The race is all about technology”: Bull at AI Everything as GCC states build their own AI
Keyur Joshi, General Manager for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa at Bull, said sovereignty, energy efficiency and local manufacturing will shape how the region builds and controls AI, with governments across the GCC already leading the shift. When Atos bought Bull in 2014,
Would you let an untested AI agent loose in your network? SimSpace is betting the region won’t
Autonomous agents are arriving in the region’s security operations faster than anyone
Why Group-IB’s CEO believes AI will only help defenders lose faster
Dmitry Volkov, CEO of Group-IB, told Sindhu V Kashyap, Editor, GEC Media,
If your data is highly sensitive, you should have started last week
Adnan Bassem Fakhouri, Customer Delivery and Success Engineer at QuantumGate, on why
Kaspersky’s Yamout: agentic attackers are not new, they are just 1,000 times faster
Maher Yamout, Lead Security Researcher in the Global Research and Analysis Team,
