Nutanix Sets Out Plans to Make Egypt Its Regional Hub for Cloud Services

At Cairo ICT 2026, Nutanix said Egypt led its Middle East markets in sales growth, and set out new AI products, its work on GPU efficiency and a warning that AI has become a cyberattack weapon.

Egypt led Nutanix's Middle East markets in sales growth last year, Mr. Mogib Abdelrazek, the company's Regional Director, Egypt, Levant and Turkey, told ICT Business at Cairo ICT 2026, calling it the company's biggest achievement in the region. Through 2030, Nutanix aims to make Egypt a regional hub for its operations and for cloud services.

Mr. Abdelrazek said the team in Egypt has grown fourfold in three years, from five to 20 people, supported by an ecosystem of more than 90 partners serving over 230 customers. Banking is a key sector, with more than 30 banks using Nutanix technology, and the company also works with telecom operators and on strategic projects with sovereign bodies and the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. The Levant and Turkey markets are already managed from Egypt, which now stands alongside Dubai and Saudi Arabia as a main operating centre.

The next step is exporting services from Egypt to the Gulf. Nutanix is building partnerships with data centre and telecom companies and supporting local firms that can sell cloud services abroad, with Saudi Arabia named as an important market for Egyptian companies. Mr. Abdelrazek said this fits the state's aim of becoming a regional centre for cloud and hosting, and that the company also works with government and the private sector to build complete business models that create new jobs. He added that Nutanix is preparing new AI products after a recent acquisition, to be unveiled worldwide at a global company event and shown at international events, including one expected in Barcelona.

Mr. Adel El Ansary, Senior Manager System Engineering, Egypt, Levant and Turkey at Nutanix, said the company is at Cairo ICT for the third year running, this time with two stands covering infrastructure, data centres, cloud and AI. AI has been a main focus of its investment for the past four years. Nutanix also backed a session on building the sovereign digital nation on 9 November, where its engineers, Eng. Mohamed El Shahat and Eng. Ahmed El Gohary, presented its approach to helping organisations run AI in their own data centres while keeping their data under their control.

The biggest challenge for AI data centres, Mr. El Ansary said, is getting the most out of costly GPUs while limiting power use and operating costs. The industry now measures efficiency through energy use, processing capacity and the cost of producing tokens. Nutanix has acquired the French company Ryax Technologies, which specialises in GPU optimisation, and offers the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform for container-based workloads, since around 75% of AI applications run on containers.

In a separate interview, Mr. Abdelrazek warned that AI has become a weapon for cyberattacks. It gives attackers advanced ability to analyse data and develop new methods quickly, so organisations may be breached without grasping the scale of the threat. Traditional protection alone is no longer enough, he said: defences must themselves use AI to spot unusual patterns and respond fast, and established security vendors are already building AI into their products.

He estimated that around 90% of today's AI environment remains under control, but said the speed at which new tools appear makes it hard to keep up. For that reason, he argued, every AI rollout needs clear governance, controls on data access and secured models and applications.

Photo: Khalf El Hadath.