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Red Hat Survey: UAE Organisations Prepare For Widespread AI

Adoption And Upskilling

By Editor_wr On Oct 13, 2025

Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced new survey results highlighting
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the prominence of AI for UAE organisations’ IT strategies . The findings reveal UAE organisations anticipate boosting
AI investment by an average of 31% by 2026 2

When asked about their organisation’s IT strategy for the next 18 months, AI is one of the top-ranked priorities among
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82% of respondents, along with security (83 %), followed by cost optimisation (81% ), and sovereignty (76% ).
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However, 96% of organisations surveyed report they are not yet driving customer value from their AI investments.
To overcome these challenges and help turn ambitions to reality, UAE organisations are embracing open source across

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all areas of IT strategy. The survey shows that 100% of UAE IT leaders view open source as vital for cost
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optimisation , post-quantum cryptography , and virtualisation .
AI a work in progress

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