Middle East

Digital Realty is expanding into Türkiye through a joint venture with Rönesans Infrastructure, with a 22 MW Ankara campus set for 2028 delivery.

Dubai startup aradus says it has automated more than 90 per cent of customer orders. Co-founder Karam El Assaad on what that measures and what stays human.

The Dubai-based fastener manufacturer migrated to Epicor Kinetic in the cloud, reducing quote turnaround from ten days to two.

The Dubai-based executive search firm warns MENA boards that delegating AI to IT teams risks ceding competitive ground to faster-moving rivals.

The Trend Micro and Wistron-backed AI firm formalised six collaborations at LEAP 2026 to advance sovereign AI deployment across Saudi Arabia and the MEA

The partnership will deliver GPU-as-a-Service on NVIDIA infrastructure, positioning Egypt as a regional hub for sovereign AI compute.

The Saudi-based technology integrator showcased 50-plus AI and GenAI use cases at LEAP 2026, arguing enterprise technology domains are converging into one architecture.

The two companies will combine AI transformation and infrastructure integration capabilities to move enterprise AI into production across the Middle East and Africa.

Commvault used LEAP 2026 to advance its Microsoft Azure partnership as Saudi Arabia's data-centre capacity hits 467 MW under Vision 2030.

The Saudi PIF-backed AI company has launched a 428-billion-parameter Arabic LLM in research preview, with open-weight release targeted for next month.

Quantinuum and Saudi Aramco have signed a non-binding MOU to identify industrial quantum computing applications within the energy sector.

HID says three new enhancements let organisations adopt mobile physical access without replacing existing readers or issuing new credentials.

Dubai-based fitness platform Enhance has received an AED 5.5 million credit guarantee from the Mohammed Bin Rashid Innovation Fund to accelerate international SaaS

US industrial networking firm Patton has signed a strategic cooperation deal with Saudi multinational alfanar to secure and digitise the Kingdom's electrical substation

Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN will host Reflection AI's open-weight models on Kingdom infrastructure, with compute offtake and customisation deals also under exploration.

The collaboration, formalised at LEAP 2026, targets government and enterprise AI factory deployments aligned with Saudi data-residency rules.

greytHR has launched its NAVOS agentic AI capability across the Middle East, letting HR teams execute workflows via natural-language commands.

HPE, Intel and Saudi Arabia's MCIT have unveiled a joint programme to build locally developed AI solutions in support of Vision 2030.

AI SPERA's Criminal IP platform will reach Middle East and Africa markets through Dubai-based distributor Reconn, targeting SOC teams and MSSPs.

Nokia has inaugurated a Riyadh research centre focused on AI-driven network automation, supporting Saudi Vision 2030 with local talent development and exportable