Veronica Martin spoke to Sid Bhatia, Area Vice President & General Manager, Dataiku, about how the Dataiku LLM Mesh is unique – and how it’s breaking new ground when it comes to compliance, accountability, and transparency.
Kaspersky puts the spotlight on Cyber Immunity and AI Capabilities
On the sidelines of the show, Emad Haffar, Head of Technical Experts, Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa at Kaspersky, discussed the company’s focus areas at GITEX and how it is supporting the region’s growing AI ambitions.
“Juniper acquisition takes us to a different level.” – Lars Kolendorf, HPE Aruba Networking
CNME Editor Mark Forker sat down with Lars Kolendorf, Global Vice President, at HPE Aruba Networking, during GITEX Global 2025. …
“Our ability to continuously innovate has been key to our sustained market success.” – Sakkeer Hussain, D-Link Middle East & Africa
Sakkeer Hussain, Director – Sales and Marketing at D-Link Middle East & Africa, tells CNME Editor Mark Forker, that its ability to be agile, adaptable and to innovate in new areas has been central to their 35-year career in the market.
Infor giving its customers the ‘velocity’ to scale and harness the capabilities of AI
Phil Lewis, Senior Vice President, Solution Consulting International, EMEA & APJ, sat down for a candid conversation with CNME Editor Mark Forker during GITEX Global 2025. Lewis highlighted the impact its Velocity Suite is having in terms of making process innovation easy.
We need to have ‘Zero Trust Everywhere’ to help businesses scale securely
Vinay, Polurouthu, Product Management Director at Zscaler, told CNME Editor Mark Forker that enterprises have to adopt a policy of Zero Trust Everywhere to ensure secure scalability and remove the complexity of IT operations.
Citrix SVP outlines how the company is much more than a VDI solution provider
CNME Editor Mark Forker spoke to Den Sullivan, SVP of International Markets at Citrix, who outlined how the company is more than just a leader in VDI solutions, and outlined how they are leveraging AI to ensure they deliver secure collaboration for their customers.
SolarWinds stress the need to find the ‘right partner’ to drive new growth across the Middle East
Laurent Delattre, VP Sales EMEA, at SolarWinds, highlighted the significance of the launch of its new product and the importance of finding the right channel partners in the Middle East
“With AI the hype is real, but I do think we need to lower expectations.” – Thomas Rizkallah, Cloud Software Group
Thomas Rizkallah, Regional Director MENA, at Cloud Software Group, explains to CNME Editor Mark Forker how Citrix is repositioning itself in the market and said that investors need to lower expectations when it comes to AI.
A partner-first approach with global vendors sets VAD Technologies apart
At GITEX 2025, Jithin Varghese, Head of the High-Performance Business Unit, Middle East and Emerging Africa, VAD Technologies, speaks about the importance of delivering data-driven solutions that fully empower customers’ ROI.
Deloitte expands Silicon-to-Service AI offering to Mideast with Dell, NVIDIA
Yousef Barkawie, Partner in Engineering, AI & Data at Deloitte Middle East, shares insights on how the Silicon-to-Service (S2S) offering …
Sophos highlights AI-era threats and human resilience in cybersecurity
Field CISO John Shier discusses Sophos’ new UAE Data Centre, emerging adversary tactics, and the growing need for a people-centric security culture that blends human resilience with advanced AI defences to ensure long-term cybersecurity sustainability.
Humans and AI must collaborate to shape new workforce, says top Citrix official
François Van Deventer, Director & CTO – Emerging Markets – Eastern Europe, Turkey, MENA, Africa at Citrix, spoke during GITEX Global 2025 on how AI has moved from experimentation to execution, rising risk of agentic AI as an insider threat, and how Citrix is helping organisations build secure and intelligent workplaces.
Infor leads the next wave of Industry Cloud Innovation across the Middle East
Speaking to Tahawul Tech, Khaled Al Shami, Vice President for Strategic Solution Consulting – EMEA at Infor, said he believes that technology should be both purposeful and deeply aligned with industry needs.