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Everpure has announced the availability of Everpure Data Stream, which brings advanced AI capabilities directly to enterprise data where it already lives. It enhances Everpure’s comprehensive enterprise strategy to deliver AI-ready data. As organizations increasingly deploy AI agents to automate complex tasks, they are constrained by significant challenges.

Infoblox today announced the appointment of Henrik Smith as chief information security officer (CISO). Smith will lead the company’s global security strategy, focusing on strengthening cyber resilience, advancing risk management and supporting the secure growth of the business. He joins Infoblox at a time when organizations are navigating an increasingly complex threat landscape shaped by AI-driven attacks, expanding digital infrastructure and the growing adoption of autonomous technologies.

NetApp and Cisco announced an expansion of their collaboration to help customers strengthen defense-in-depth strategies for customers. Combining Intelligent Data Infrastructure with advanced analytics and observability capabilities, NetApp and Splunk have delivered deep, real-time visibility into storage and infrastructure health. Together, they are helping customers turn operational data into actionable insights that improve reliability, security, and business outcomes.

AVEVA is announcing a collaboration with Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, to transform how industrial organizations unify, govern, and activate data across IT and OT environments.

Censys today announced a partnership with EVAD to expand availability of the Censys Platform across the Middle East and Africa. Through the partnership, organizations in key regional markets, including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain, will be able to access Censys through EVAD’s established partner ecosystem, regional technical expertise, and in-market commercial support.

A new global study from the IBM Institute for Business Value, with insights from 100 surveyed CEOs in the Middle East, finds that the accelerating pace of AI is pushing CEOs to redesign how C-suite roles are structured to drive greater business impact across the enterprise.

Shure, a global leader in workplace collaboration solutions, and Zoom Communications are reinforcing their commitment to customers by providing reliable, scalable meeting room solutions that easily standardize across Zoom workspaces and higher education environments. Shure now provides greater flexibility with the IntelliMix Collaboration Portfolio by offering the IntelliMix Room Kits and IntelliMix Foundation System for Zoom Rooms.

F5, a global leader in delivering and securing every app and API, has announced new web application and API protection (WAAP) capabilities for its Application Delivery and Security Platform designed to keep enterprises ahead of a rapidly shifting threat landscape. Frontier AI models have collapsed the window between vulnerability discovery and active exploitation, giving threat actors faster, cheaper, and more available means of attack.

Max Fashion, one of the Middle East’s largest value fashion brands and part of the Landmark Group, announced it is using Google Cloud’s technology to launch a new personalized shopping experience using Google Cloud’s Virtual Try-On API. The deployment signals a massive leap forward in the regional retail landscape, establishing Max as an early adopter of generative AI to solve ecommerce’s greatest challenge: the digital fit.

NTT DATA, a global leader in AI, digital business and technology services, and Nutanix, a global cloud computing company that specializes in hyperconverged infrastructure, have established a strategic partnership to accelerate hybrid multicloud adoption, infrastructure modernization and AI readiness in Middle East and Africa (MEA). Across MEA, organizations are increasingly prioritizing infrastructure that can support long‑term innovation.