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ASUS, in collaboration with Intel, announced the opening of a state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab at the Directorate-General of Education in Al Dhahirah Governorate in Ibri. This initiative marks the first AI-focused project by ASUS Education in the region, reiterating the company’s commitment to driving innovation and advancing AI adoption across the education sector. AI Lab supports the Sultanate of Oman’s ongoing efforts to upskill students, empower educators and foster research.

stc group, Saudi Arabia’s leading digital enabler, and Huawei have announced the successful deployment of an innovative Full Duplex solution in the Riyadh district, marking another milestone in the two companies’ partnership and the first deployment of its kind in Saudi Arabia.

Veeam Software has released its 2025 Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Report, highlighting continued business momentum and measurable progress across Environment, Social, and Trust initiatives. “Innovation without integrity is unsustainable,” said Anand Eswaran, CEO of Veeam. “Our mission is delivering the innovation to enable customers to trust their data and AI, so ensuring we operate responsibly is a priority.

Denodo has announced that Agora, the Denodo Cloud Service — a fully managed platform — is now available on the Microsoft Marketplace. Agora provides native integrations with Microsoft services including Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2, Power BI, and Azure Synapse Analytics, as well as partner services such as Azure OpenAI and Azure Databricks.

UiPath has announced it has achieved certification under the Dubai Electronic Security Center (DESC) Cloud Service Provider (CSP) Security Standard for its Automation Cloud Commercial UAE region.

Qlik has announced expanded ways for Snowflake customers to bring real-time enterprise data, governed business context, and open agentic capabilities into Snowflake-centered AI and analytics initiatives. Timed for Snowflake Summit 26, the announcement builds on innovations introduced at Qlik Connect 2026 and highlights how Qlik complements Snowflake by helping joint customers connect more enterprise data to downstream analytics and AI.

Infoblox has announced Infoblox IQ, an agentic operations layer built on the most authoritative network, security and asset data in the enterprise. Infoblox IQ continuously analyzes the DNS queries, DHCP leases, IP address assignments, device activity and security events flowing through the Infoblox platform to help teams identify issues faster, automate investigations and take action with confidence.

Veeam Software has unveiled new global research at VeeamON London. The new Data and AI Trust Gap report from Veeam exposes a stark and widening gap at the heart of enterprise AI. While 88% of organizations are already using or piloting AI agents, only 7% qualify as truly AI-ready and 95% say data challenges have already slowed their AI progress.

Technology leaders and innovators from the Middle East and Africa (MEA) have called for deeper regional collaboration to ensure artificial intelligence (AI) is developed responsibly, ethically, and in ways that reflect local realities and societal needs.

Dell Technologies has announced a broad set of advancements to the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, delivering the foundation enterprises need to move from AI ambition to realized outcomes. With more than 5,000 customers already deploying the Dell AI Factory, these portfolio additions are designed to help organizations adopt AI with confidence, scale with purpose, and achieve results on infrastructure they control, with data they trust. Most enterprises don’t have an AI ambition problem.