ISSUE # 8
60mins Day 4 – PM (2024)
What’s Inside
Security Operations Centres to face greater challenges in the coming year
0 25752SOCs to face greater challenges from cybercriminals targeting governments and media.
Kaspersky puts the spotlight on Cyber Immunity and AI Capabilities
0 2On 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.
“Our ability to continuously innovate has been key to our sustained market success.” – Sakkeer Hussain, D-Link Middle East & Africa
0 19Sakkeer 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
0 20Phil 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
0 19Vinay, 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
0 21CNME 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
0 20Laurent 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
0 22Thomas 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.
Don’t miss the highlights from the exceptional Future Enterprise Awards 2025
0 84The Future Enterprise Awards 2025 is designed to celebrate both IT leaders and enterprises that have demonstrated excellence over the last 12 months in their respective fields.
A partner-first approach with global vendors sets VAD Technologies apart
0 25At 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
0 45Yousef Barkawie, Partner in Engineering, AI & Data at Deloitte Middle East, shares insights on how the Silicon-to-Service (S2S) platform …
Sophos highlights AI-era threats and human resilience in cybersecurity
0 50Field 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
0 54François 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
0 68Speaking 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.
Logitech introduces new Zone Headsets to help workers
0 67Both headsets offer adaptive hybrid ANC that intelligently adjusts the noise cancellation level in real time to adapt to any environment.
Raqmiyat explains their core tenets of operate, compete and grow
0 61CNME Editor Mark Forker spoke to Bahaa Indary, General Manager of Raqmiyat, who outlined how the IT leader is empowering enterprises to not just adapt, but to lead, and stressed how they see AI not just as a layer, but as a transformative force.
Finesse and LinkShadow announce strategic partnership to strengthen Enterprise Cybersecurity
0 115Finesse, a leading AI Transformation and Cybersecurity company, and LinkShadow, a pioneer in unified cybersecurity, recently announced a strategic partnership to deliver advanced cybersecurity solutions to enterprises.
Almoayyed Computers double-down on its commitment to the UAE, and highlight the role they will play in helping the nation achieve its AI infrastructure objectives
0 64CNME Editor Mark Forker spoke to K. Giridhar, General Manager - Sales at Almoayyed Computers, about their presence at GITEX Global 2025, their strategy to continue their expansion across the region - and what role they will play in helping to build the AI infrastructure needed to fuel the AI era.
ServiceNow Unveils Unified ‘AI Experience’ to Drive Enterprise Transformation
0 82William O’Neill, General Manager and Vice President, GCC, ServiceNow, spoke to Deepa V Narwani on the sidelines of GITEX 2025 …
The Next Era of Cybersecurity Demands Smarter, AI-Driven Identity Control, says Delinea’s CEO
0 64On day one of GITEX 2025, one theme dominated the conversations: artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on business and …
XDS and Al Nahal sign agreement to build Pakistan’s first AI Liquid Immersion Data Centre
0 138This partnership looks to position Pakistan as a regional hub for digital innovation.
Barco is working hard to make workplaces ‘click’
0 68As hybrid work continues to reshape how organisations connect and collaborate, Barco is once again setting new benchmarks in meeting room innovation.
Blaize makes GITEX debut, champions practical AI for physical world
0 74Dinakar Munagala, Chief Executive Officer of Blaize, shares insights on the company’s sustainable, low-power edge AI solutions and how its programmable platform is driving innovation across smart cities, defense, and education sectors in the Middle East.
Logitech delivering solutions to reimagine and reinvent workspace collaboration
0 95Nathan Coutinho, Global Head of Strategic Partner Relations and Market Inisights, at Logitech, spoke to CNME Editor Mark Forker during GITEX 2025, to highlight how their product portfolio is driving better experiences in the workplace.
“Our focus is very clear – we want to make AI work for our customers.” – Abdelilah Nejjari, Managing Director Cisco Gulf and Levant
0 78Abdelilah Nejjari, Managing Director – Gulf Region at Cisco, spoke to CNME Editor Mark Forker, in which he highlighted their three-pillar strategy for success in enabling AI-ready datacentres, future workspaces, and delivering digital resilience for their customers, whilst he also reinforced Cisco’s commitment to making AI work for their customers.
JetBrains Junie platform empowering global developer community to do more with AI
0 119CNME Editor Mark Forker spoke to Mikhail Vink, VP of Business Development at JetBrains, to learn more about how their Junie AI coding platform is completely reimagining the way the global developer community works and dispels the myth that AI will replace developers.
HPE executive details the multifaceted benefits of its Juniper Networks acquisition
0 91Zeeshan Hadi, Country Manager UAE & Africa at HPE Networking, spoke to CNME Editor Mark Forker, where he explained in detail how the acquisition of Juniper Networks was going to fundamentally redefine the future of networking.
Delinea Iris AI offers a practical solution to the threat posed by identity security
0 76Art Gilliland, CEO of Delinea, outlines how its Iris AI offering is a practical AI solution for identity security, which equips security administrators with the tools they need to fightback during an interview with CNME Editor Mark Forker during GITEX Global 2025.
“We’re focused on using AI tools to empower frontline workers, not replace them.” Hozefa Saylawala – Zebra Technologies
0 99CNME Editor Mark Forker, spoke to Hozefa Saylawala, Director of Sales Middle East - at Zebra Technologies, to learn more about the factors that led to their brand refresh, and the need to keep the human element at the heart of AI.
The Future is Bright! Technology visionaries honoured at the Future Enterprise Awards 2025
0 121Technology trailblazers honoured at the Future Enterprise Awards.