Cloudera announced its participation at GITEX Global 2026 to showcase how organisations can build secure, governed and sovereign data foundations to accelerate enterprise AI adoption across the Middle East.
As AI adoption gathers momentum across the region, businesses face growing pressure to ensure their data is accessible, well governed and secure. Organisations handling sensitive information must carefully consider where AI workloads operate and how data is managed across public cloud, private cloud and on-premises environments.
The UAE’s focus on sovereign AI and secure digital infrastructure is accelerating this transition. The country’s cloud computing market is projected to reach $23 billion by 2032, supported by government initiatives and mandates encouraging sovereign cloud adoption, particularly across the public sector. Enterprises are also embracing data sovereignty principles, increasingly exploring private and on-premises environments for their AI workloads.
However, moving away from public cloud infrastructure presents challenges, particularly where legacy systems leave valuable enterprise information fragmented across isolated data silos. Cloudera’s recent Data Readiness Index highlights this gap, revealing that while 91% of IT leaders across EMEA express confidence in their data, only 26% say it is fully governed.
To address these challenges, Cloudera is introducing Cloudera Anywhere Cloud, a modular hybrid platform designed for the agentic AI era. The platform aims to help organisations overcome data fragmentation, strengthen governance and make enterprise data available for AI applications across diverse infrastructure environments.
” Our participation at GITEX Global 2026 comes at a time when organisations are looking more closely at how they manage data and deploy AI,” said Ahmad Shakora, Group Vice President, Cloudera Middle East. “Our work with global technology providers and regional partners reflects the different requirements businesses face, from accessing AI models to managing data across hybrid and sovereign environments.”
Cloudera is also strengthening its regional ecosystem through strategic alliances, including its collaboration with Mistral AI. The partnership is aimed at combining AI capabilities with Cloudera’s hybrid data foundation to help enterprises deploy and scale AI while maintaining control over their data and infrastructure.
At GITEX Global 2026, visitors can meet Cloudera at stand H15-E40 in Hall S15. The company will demonstrate how organisations can address data governance and infrastructure challenges, enabling them to deploy AI securely across their own environments while maintaining greater control over sensitive information.