Huawei Cloud Unveils AI-Native Cloud Capabilities to Accelerate an Intelligent Future at GITEX 2025
Oct 15, 2025
[Dubai, UAE, October 14, 2025] Huawei Cloud unveiled its latest AI-native cloud capabilities at GITEX GLOBAL 2025, underscoring its commitment to accelerating intelligence across industries and empowering enterprises in the Agentic AI era.
At the GITEX AI Stage, Dr. Zhu Shenggao, Vice President of AI Business at Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia, delivered a keynote "Accelerate Intelligence with AI-Native Cloud Services", highlighting how breakthroughs in reasoning, tool use, and code generation are paving the way for a new phase of autonomous, goal-driven AI.
Dr. Zhu highlighted that this new wave of Agentic AI marks a shift toward systems that can autonomously plan, act, and adapt to achieve complex goals. "With Huawei Cloud's full-stack AI-native capabilities, we're accelerating intelligence at scale to deliver real impact," he said.
Dr. Zhu Shenggao, Vice President of AI Business, Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia
Showcasing AI-Native Cloud Innovation
At the core of Huawei Cloud's showcase is its AI-native cloud architecture, designed to help enterprises accelerate innovation through intelligent infrastructure and services. Huawei Cloud provides the cloud foundation for an intelligent world through KooVerse, its global infrastructure spanning over 34 Regions and 101 availability zones. The Riyadh Region serves as a key hub, offering more than 100 cloud services to support customers across the Middle East and Central Asia.
The company also provides AI-powered solutions across sectors from government, carrier, finance, media and entertainment, retail, logistics, healthcare, to oil & gas, making Huawei Cloud a strategic partner trusted by leading organisations worldwide.
Complementing its AI portfolio, Huawei Cloud's Data Warehouse Service (DWS) and MapReduce Service (MRS) function as a complete data analytics solution for structured and non-structured real-time and batch processing.
Huawei Cloud further supports enterprise transformation with a comprehensive database product lineup, including GaussDB, an enterprise-grade distributed database; TaurusDB, fully compatible with MySQL and enabling zero-code migration; and GeminiDB, compatible with mainstream NoSQL databases via APIs.
Accelerating Industry Intelligence
On the sidelines of GITEX, Huawei Cloud hosted its Tech Innovation Forum, bringing together government, business, and technology leaders to discuss the future of AI and its role in enabling digital transformation across industries.
Opening the forum, Echo Li, Vice President of Marketing and Solutions Sales at Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia, reaffirmed Huawei Cloud's vision and commitment to long-term success through continuous innovation and open collaboration, as well as a sustainable ecosystem that facilitates partner growth and drives customer success.
Echo Li, Vice President of Marketing and Solutions Sales, Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia
William Fang, Chief Product Officer of Huawei Cloud, shared insights on how Huawei Cloud accelerates intelligence with systematic innovation that encompasses Cloud for AI and AI for Cloud. The company is amplifying intelligence by building AI-native cloud infrastructure and reshaping cloud services and industries.
William Fang, Chief Product Officer, Huawei Cloud
AI adoption is transforming industries such as finance, healthcare, education, retail, and energy, driving measurable economic and social impact. He introduced how Huawei Cloud's ModelArts supports full-stack AI development covering model training, inference, and lifecycle management, and how Versatile enables multi-agent collaboration systems to streamline the creation and deployment of production-ready AI agents for enterprises.
Data is now the new oil, and data quality determines model quality. To assist users in building good models, which is the knowledge-centric foundation for enterprises, Huawei Cloud's DataArts Studio, a one-stop data lifecycle management platform, streamlines the E2E governance of databases, warehouses, lakes, and AI to unleash the value of data. Huawei Cloud's GaussDB, one of the company's flagship database products, is a next-generation enterprise-grade database that has earned the highest CC EAL4+ security certification. In addition, Huawei Cloud was also named a Challenger in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud DBMSs.
At the Tech Innovation Forum, William also showcased how AI reshapes security with the 1+4+7 architecture, featuring one Intelligent Security Operation Center, four levels of security zones, and seven layers of defense, revolutionizing protection with intrinsic intelligence. SecMaster provides over 95% accuracy in detection of malicious scripts, automatically handling over 99% of threats.
Rick Luo, Chief Solution Architect at Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia, unveiled the new Huawei Cloud Stack 8.6 which features eight major upgrades in four areas: cloud foundation, data+AI, application modernization, and streamlined O&M, helping enterprises build an integrated Data+AI engine essential for driving transformation.
Rick Luo, Chief Solution Architect, Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia
In addition, a report by Omdia showcased that Huawei Cloud Stack ranked No. 1 overall and in five areas in the Middle East market, outstanding in customer support and technology innovation while compliant with local regulations.
Empowering Customers Through Collaboration
The Tech Innovation Forum also featured key regional customers demonstrating real-world applications of Huawei Cloud's AI technologies.
Ayman Mohammed, Head of the Partners Team at the Dubai GIS Center, Dubai Municipality highlighted how the organization is driving digital transformation to enhance services across Dubai. With Huawei providing key technological support, and by leveraging advanced tools such as the 3D Digital Twin Engine and integrating GIS data with AI technologies, Dubai Municipality is implementing innovative solutions across areas like interaction, transportation, and tracking systems.
Ayman Mohammed, Head of the Partners Team at the Dubai GIS Center, Dubai Municipality
Dr. Maha Al Mansoori, Education Associate Director, showcased the UAE's first AI-powered financial empowerment platform - Zoud Digital Platform built on Huawei Cloud. This platform, aligned with the country's data driven vision, aimed to deliver personalized guidance and empower UAE residents with financial literacy, while supporting broader national financial health and economic development.
Dr. Maha Al Mansoori, Education Associate Director, Zoud
Huawei Cloud continues to serve as a trusted digital partner for governments and enterprises across the Middle East and Central Asia, offering secure, reliable, and scalable cloud services. By integrating AI into every layer of its cloud infrastructure, Huawei Cloud enables industries to innovate faster, operate smarter, and unlock new opportunities in the intelligent era.