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HP Transforms the Future of Work

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HP announced its newest innovations, including next-gen AI PCs, AI-enabled video conferencing solutions, and a scalable GPU performance sharing solution for AI developers – all designed to transform the future of work.

“HP is deeply ambitious in its commitment to reshape the way people work, fostering growth, nurturing creativity, and unleashing limitless innovation,” said Alex Cho, President of Personal Systems at HP Inc. “We’re bringing AI to life and delivering powerful new experiences through our next-gen AI PCs, advanced audio and video solutions, and innovative AI development platform.”

Transforming the Way People Work and Play

AI is transforming the way people feel about work. According to the 2024 HP Work Relationship Index, 68% of knowledge workers believe AI creates new opportunities to enjoy work, and 73% believe AI makes their job easier. Those who use AI are 11-points happier with their relationship with work than their colleagues who don’t. The future of work requires high-performing, AI-powered PCs and solutions that push the limits of what’s possible while freeing up time to focus on what matters.

Flexible Style and Performance Without Compromise: The OmniBook Ultra Flip

Designed for freelancers and creators, the HP OmniBook Ultra Flip 14-inch Next-Gen AI PC is HP’s first next-gen AI PC 2-in-1 laptop, offering uncompromising style, performance, and flexibility for those seeking the perfect AI creation experience. The device delivers:

  • Designed to inspire: Create, edit, and sketch on an ultra-thin form factor that easily switches between laptop, tablet, and tent modes. A stunning 3K OLED display offers an immersive visual experience to draw or review creative designs. Personalize content generation on the world’s first next-gen AI convertible PC with inking and a haptic touchpad. Collaborate with others clearly and crisply with the device’s 9 MP AI camera and Poly Audio.
  • Balanced power and performance: On-the-go creators can confidently create on a device engineered to be cool and quiet – yet performant. The OmniBook Ultra Flip leverages the Intel Core Ultra processor (Series 2) with a dedicated AI engine, delivering up to 20 hours of battery life (local video playback) for a seamless creation experience.
  • Trusted security powered by AI: HP Wolf Security for consumers includes a unique security chip and self-healing PC core for professional-level security, keeping data secure and protecting against cyber-threats. McAfee Smart AI Deepfake Detector detects AI-generated audio to warn users of potential fraud or misinformation.
  • Sustainability for today and tomorrow: HP remains committed to reducing environmental impact and optimizing energy efficiency. The OmniBook Ultra Flip is built with 90% recycled metals, 50% post-consumer recycled plastics, and an EPEAT Gold with Climate+ and ENERGY STAR certified design.

Pushing the Envelope for Tech-Forward Leaders: The HP EliteBook X

Empowering tech experts and business consultants to tackle intense workflows locally and in the cloud, the HP EliteBook X 14-inch Next-Gen AI PC delivers ultimate power, performance, and security so workers can prioritize what they love while AI takes care of the rest. As the first EliteBook X in HP’s Commercial PC lineup, this device unlocks:

  • Turbocharged productivity: For power users requiring high-performance computing for content creation, data analysis, and AI-driven applications, HP developed a memory architecture with an impressive 8000 Mbps on 64 GB of LPDDR5x RAM for high-speed AI processing. The PC also harnesses a next-generation AMD Ryzen PRO processor enabling up to an industry-leading 55 TOPS of NPU performance for demanding workloads. HP Smart Sense paired with 40W Thermal Design Power (TDP) and dual turbo high density fans drive fast responsiveness with cool and quiet performance.
  • Intuitive collaboration: Conduct meetings from anywhere and show up authentically with the device’s new AI-enhanced webcam sensor for more accurate presence detection and adaptive dimming. Audio tuning by Poly Studio provides crystal-clear conferencing experiences with AI noise reduction and HP Dynamic Voice Leveling to optimize voice clarity.
  • Industry-leading protection enhanced by AI: The world’s most secure next-gen AI PC and the first next-gen AI PC with quantum hack protection protects the most sensitive data without sacrificing performance. Wolf Security offloads processor-intensive security tasks to the NPU to preserve the CPU for all-day productivity. HP’s Endpoint Security Controller future-proofs the device against evolving threats, and intentional features are built into the device, including onlooker detection, which utilizes an AI-powered webcam sensor to alert users when prying eyes are detected and automatically blur the screen if needed.
  • Sustainable innovations protecting our planet: As part of the world’s most sustainable PC portfolio, the device is responsibly crafted with a heat plate made with at least 50% recycled copper and bezels containing at least 20% recycled cooking oil.

Personalization Built-In: HP AI Companion & Poly Camera Pro

HP’s next-gen AI PCs are equipped with AI Companion and Poly Camera Pro, which personalize and optimize a user’s experience for greater productivity and collaboration.

  • Interact intuitively: AI Companion uses generative AI to help people analyze private files and discover information to refine and create content or respond quickly and accurately to key tasks. The Perform assistant helps users optimize PC performance, customize settings, and troubleshoot HP products.
  • Collaborate clearly: Poly Camera Pro utilizes the NPU to power webcam features like Spotlight and Background Blur & Replace to maintain CPU performance more efficiently while preserving battery life.

Enabling Companies to Build AI

GPU access is often a scarce resource for a company’s most valuable resource, data scientists and AI developers. As AI workloads grow exponentially, 81% of data scientists believe AI makes their job more fulfilling. Z by HP Boost solves for scarcity by maximizing GPU utilization to deliver secure, scalable, and on-demand performance to meet rising AI demands, enhance productivity, and accelerate development.

Z by HP Boost is an industry-first solution that revolutionizes GPU sharing across HP AI workstations:

  • On-demand performance: Delivers instant access to GPU resources, with the flexibility needed to perform complex computations and manage large datasets.
  • Enterprise optimization: Provides companies a more efficient way to allocate and fully utilize its GPU resources, reducing the reliance on costly cloud instances and increasing productivity.

Both Z by HP Boost and the Z by HP Gen AI Lab solutions further extend HP’s AI creation center as the most comprehensive workstation solution for AI development. The Z by HP Gen AI Lab provides a built-in trust layer for large language model (LLM) development to detect and correct bias. With streamlined data management, standardized tools, and integration of trust, HP’s AI creation center maximizes the efficiency and impact of valuable AI.

Transforming Where People Work

People work in different places throughout the workday, whether in a meeting room, at the desk, or on the go. 72% of knowledge workers say having access to technology that best suits their work style is important. HP offers a range of products and solutions that make it easier for people to be their most collaborative and productive.

Authentic Connection and Collaboration: Poly Studio Video Bars, Poly VideoOS, and Poly Lens

HP is expanding AI integration across various room sizes and collaboration setups. Whether small or large rooms, BYOD or appliance-based, Windows or Android, video bar or modular, HP provides multi-camera, AI-driven experiences for genuine connection and improved collaboration.

HP’s newest additions to the industry’s broadest portfolio of AI-enabled multi-camera capable video conferencing solutions include the Poly Studio X32 and Poly Studio X72 all-in-one video bars and Poly Studio V32 and Poly Studio V72 premium USB video bars.

The latest Poly VideoOS 4.4 software brings new AI capabilities to devices already installed in meeting rooms. With live setup for Poly DirectorAI Perimeter, IT administrators can configure smart camera boundaries in real-time, ensuring that only participants in the meeting space are captured. PolyNoiseBlockAI v2 utilizes machine learning technology and advanced noise filtering to eliminate reverberations caused by glass walls and reflective surfaces. 

Poly Labsis a new program that provides customers with early access to experimental features. For example, VoiceScoreAI is a program feature that provides an analysis of audio quality in meeting rooms and suggests ways to enhance the overall experience. 

HP is enhancing its Poly Lens cloud management platform and private cloud infrastructure with more customized and secure options. Poly Lens Premium includes advanced features like Remote Room Control for IT admins to troubleshoot and resolve issues remotely, saving time and assisting users in meeting rooms. Poly CloudConnect for Zoom Rooms offers participants the flexibility to join Microsoft Teams calls from Zoom Rooms with a robust interface, dual monitor support, and content sharing. Poly PrivateConnect Meeting Control offers greater flexibility and configuration options for customers in secure and controlled video environments using the PrivateConnect cloud infrastructure.

HP is also harnessing its expertise in audio, video, and computing to take video conferencing to the next level to create more meaningful interactions. HP is partnering with Google to bring Project Starline technology to the workplace, delivering a breakthrough communications solution that uses advanced AI and 3D imaging to create an immersive experience that goes beyond traditional video calls. It makes participants feel like they are sitting across the table in the same room. Interested parties can make reservations for priority delivery for the first available units shipping in 2025.

Personalizing Audio and Visual Experiences

As AI enables more immersive experiences at home and in the office, the role audio and visual technologies play has never been more important. 70% of Work Relationship Index respondents say it’s important to have access to technology that allows everybody to be seen and heard regardless of where they are. And HP’s broad portfolio of audio and visual solutions equip any environment to make work and play more captivating and enjoyable than ever before.

Versatility Redefined: HyperX Cloud MIX2

The HyperX Cloud MIX2takes flexibility to the next level with personalized, HyperX Signature Sound. Its over-ear headset design featuring plush memory foam earcups and up to 110 hours of battery life via Bluetooth offer all-day comfort and power that’s perfect for gaming on the go, music, or work calls. Hybrid Active Noise Cancellation blocks out distractions, and the Transparency feature keeps users aware of surroundings. Dual wireless options – 2.4GHz USB-C dongle and Bluetooth 5.3 LE Audio ensure seamless connectivity. Enjoy ultra-low latency for gaming and fast-paced activities, with crystal-clear communication thanks to AI-enhanced microphones.

Powering Up Productivity: HP Series 5 Pro

For today’s workers to be successful, the new HP Series 5 Pro Monitors enable productivity for any work environment by providing large canvases for AI workflows and high refresh rates for AI-assisted design and content creation. Featuring eight models ranging in sizes from 23.8 inches to 34 inches, the monitors are the world’s broadest commercial mainstream monitor series with 100W USB-C power delivery. The three-sided borderless display with a micro-edge bezel design enables users to seamlessly connect, charge, and power PCs through one USB-C cable for data and video.

The Series 5 Pro portfolio immerses individuals in their work environment and helps limit distractions with integrated AI noise reduction. Collaborate confidently and securely with the integrated Poly Studio 5MP pop-up tiltable webcam, which secures the device easily with the Auto Lock & Awake feature. This capability detects the user’s presence to instantly wake the system and dims or locks the PC when the user walks away.

On a single charge using Bluetooth mode with ANC off. Battery life is an estimate and varies depending on many factors, including number of active, idle and asleep hours of use, number of applications running, environmental conditions and features used; actual battery life will vary with usage and environmental condition. The maximum capacity of battery will naturally decrease with time and usage.

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Data Center World Middle East to focus on the industry collaboration critical to Abu Dhabi’s AI ambitions

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Abu Dhabi’s data center industry is entering a critical phase in which hyperscalers and organisations building and running its capacity must work as one with government to create the foundations needed to build AI infrastructure at scale. How the industry moves from individual projects to a unified approach will be high on the agenda at Data Center World Middle East, the premier global event for data center, IT infrastructure and innovation for more than four decades, which makes its Middle East debut in Abu Dhabi next week.

Abu Dhabi is already the Middle East’s largest data center market, with 374MW of IT capacity, according to the EMEA Mid-Year Data Center Report 2026 from JLL, the global commercial real estate and investment management firm. The Department of Energy expects AI infrastructure to need around 2GW of power in a first phase, rising to 5GW, and is thus investing AED 250 billion in energy and water infrastructure between 2025 and 2035. Mehdi Paryavi, Chairman and CEO, International Data Center Authority (IDCA), who speaks on the opening panel, “AI, Power & Sovereign Demand,” said: “The biggest gap in making Gulf data centers AI-ready is the lack of a coordinated approach to scale. The region needs adaptable standards, a skilled workforce, long-term regional planning, reliable energy at the scale AI requires, and greater stability. Developers must look beyond individual facilities and work with governments, utilities, and industry partners to build an ecosystem that can support sustainable, large-scale AI infrastructure.”

For the companies running Gulf capacity, that work starts long before a facility opens. Khazna Data Centers, one of the world’s fastest-growing hyperscale data center platforms, with 30 data centers in operation and 673MW of capacity, is central to the UAE’s ambitions.

Morten Tidemand, Senior Director of Operations, Khazna Data Centers, who speaks in the fireside chat “Ambition vs Availability: Supply Chain Realities,” said: “The biggest adjustment for operations teams as AI workloads become more demanding is recognising that operational readiness cannot begin at handover. Higher densities require us to rethink cooling strategies, maintenance regimes and emergency procedures well before new capacity goes live. Equally important is ensuring our teams understand how these systems work together, not in isolation.”

Data Center World Middle East organised by inD – an Informa/DWTC company – runs on 17–18 November at Dusit Thani Abu Dhabi and is built around those delivery questions. Technical sessions will cover liquid cooling at the limit and mixed-density halls running racks from 10kW to 100kW+ and delegates will hear from the UAE Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure and the UAE Ministry of Investment, alongside hyperscalers AWS, Google, Microsoft and Oracle.

Tara Gibb, Senior Event Director, Data Center World said: “Data Center World Middle East is where the people who build, power, finance and regulate the region’s AI infrastructure meet to make decisions. Abu Dhabi has made the commitments. Turning them into capacity that runs reliably at 50°C depends on everyone working from the same plan, and that is the conversation this event is built for.”

Tabreed, the National Central Cooling Company, whose district cooling networks have 1.58 million refrigeration tonnes of connected capacity, will be represented by its CEO, Dr Yousif Al Hammadi, and Chief Operating Officer, Antonio Di Cecca. Other confirmed speakers include Sameer Cassim, Senior Vice President, Business Development, BDx Data Centers; Khaled El Bedri, Director of Cloud Solutions Architecture, Microsoft; Magide Sebtioui, Director, Global Strategic Accounts & Growth, Honeywell; Abdulrahman Khalid Almazroa, Director of Cybersecurity, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare; Aida Elbouanani, Business Development Director MEA, Liquid Cooling, Castrol; and Dr Umaima Haider, Principal Analyst, Omdia.

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Delinea Puts Runtime Control at the Heart of Agentic AI Adoption at GITEX GLOBAL 2026

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Delinea, the identity security platform that continuously controls what AI agents, humans and machines can do and for how long, today announced its participation at GITEX GLOBAL 2026. Under the theme “From Access to Action: Governing AI at Runtime”, the company will demonstrate how organisations can put enforceable controls behind their AI ambitions, reducing the risk of rogue actions, while giving businesses the confidence to deploy autonomous agents across critical systems.

In recent research, 98% of UAE respondents admitted that their organisations had experienced confirmed or suspected instances in which an AI tool accessed sensitive data beyond what its task required. Concerningly, only 16% said they could immediately revoke an AI tool’s credentials and terminate its session, highlighting the gap between granting access and retaining control. These findings come as regional frameworks, including Saudi Arabia’s National Cybersecurity Authority Essential Cybersecurity Controls (NCA ECC) and UAE government cybersecurity standards, reinforce the need for effective, auditable access controls. Through its participation, Delinea will show how runtime authorisation can help organisations apply these principles to autonomous agents by enforcing policy at the moment of action.

“This year has challenged regional organisations to build resilience against unexpected disruption while responding to AI-enabled threats and the shift from conversational AI to agents that act across business systems,” said Mortada Ayad, VP – META, Delinea. “These monumental shifts create opportunities to automate more complex work, but also make control over autonomous actions essential. GITEX’s December timing gives leaders the opportunity to reflect on these pressures and decide what they need to move forward. Identity security and runtime authorisation give them a foundation for that transition by empowering them to know who or what is acting, limit actions to the task, and retain the ability to intervene.”

Runtime authorisation will be at the centre of Delinea’s product demonstrations, showing how the Delinea Platform brings together enterprise privileged access management and just-in-time controls for cloud-native and DevOps environments. At dedicated demo stations, visitors will explore Secret Server, privileged access management and identity threat detection, to understand how to discover identities, assess their access and reduce reliance on standing credentials. The platform’s Cedar-based policy engine enforces least privilege throughout the session, translating access policies into controls that limit what an identity can do and for how long.

Building on these capabilities, the demonstrations will show how runtime authorisation extends control to AI agents working across databases, SSH hosts, Kubernetes clusters and cloud consoles. Visitors will see how task-scoped access and real-time policy enforcement can allow, block or escalate an action before it executes, helping address the excessive access identified in Delinea’s research. The focus of these product showcases will be on helping teams govern agent activity, as it happens, alongside the credential and session controls needed to intervene when access must end.

“As CISOs and IT decision makers shape their 2027 budgets, GITEX is an opportunity to translate the year’s lessons into practical conversations with security partners such as Delinea. It’s not just an exercise in defence, but an opportunity to explore how security can enable the next growth stage of the business. If leaders are being asked to deliver agentic AI outcomes, they need to understand how to give agents enough freedom to do useful work while retaining the ability to govern their actions. We look forward to welcoming visitors to our stand and helping them turn those ambitions into a practical plan for secure AI adoption,” said Ayad.

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Denodo Signs Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS to Accelerate Trusted Data Access for Agentic AI

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Denodo, the AI data layer company, announced that it has signed a multi-year strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS). The agreement is focused on helping enterprises develop and scale agentic AI on a foundation of real-time, governed data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

The SCA builds on the existing relationship between AWS and Denodo and marks a new phase of investment to accelerate adoption of the Denodo Platform on AWS worldwide. Key initiatives include:

  • Workshops to help customers identify high-value agentic AI use cases and design solutions grounded in their enterprise data
  • Co-marketing events and campaigns to educate customers about the Denodo Platform on AWS and generate demand
  • Field alignment and co-selling to help customers evaluate, deploy, and scale agentic AI
  • Commercial incentives to support customer technical evaluations and AWS Marketplace purchases
  • Solution offerings with systems integrators for agentic business processes, such as fraud prevention in banking, claims processing in insurance, and predictive maintenance in manufacturing

“Agentic AI can transform how enterprises operate, but the data that powers it remains highly fragmented, and traditional architectures were never designed for the real-time demands of autonomous agents,” said Ángel Viña, CEO of Denodo. “Together with AWS, we give joint customers a unified AI data layer so that agents can access live, governed data and active context across every enterprise source, without moving or replicating it. This expanded collaboration helps our customers move from pilot to production in days rather than months, and scale with confidence.”

“AI agents are increasingly making decisions and taking actions autonomously, making it critical for organizations to establish the right data foundation to support their AI systems,” said Allison Johnson, Director of Americas Technology Partners at AWS. “Our collaboration with Denodo helps customers extend the value of their AWS AI investments across their entire data estate, connecting AWS model hosting, agent orchestration, and monitoring services with current, operational data and context wherever it resides. This helps organizations get more from AWS AI services while grounding agents in trusted context for accurate decisions and reliable actions.”

With Denodo’s SaaS or self-managed solutions, joint customers can get more value from their AWS AI and analytics investments by extending Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Amazon Quick, Amazon SageMaker, and other AWS services to enterprise data that resides across on-premises, SaaS, sovereign, and multi-cloud environments. With zero-copy delivery, organizations can give AI agents and analytics access to trusted, governed business context without waiting for every dataset to be migrated or replicated through new integration pipelines. Rather than building a new data access path for each agent or use case, teams can reuse the same governed data products, semantic definitions, and access policies across multiple agents and applications, helping them move faster from individual AI initiatives to enterprise-wide adoption.

“At Bayer Crop Science, Latin America, we use Denodo and AWS to gain real-time, governed access to distributed data and unified semantics across our cloud and on-premises systems. This has enabled our business to gain insights faster, support mission-critical workloads, and reduce data replication costs,” said Eric Carvalho, Data Architecture Manager at Bayer. “We reduced the time our teams spent searching for data by 80% using AWS solutions, powered by trusted context from Denodo’s AI data layer. We now have autonomous customer service and tracking agents in production.” 

Denodo is an AWS ISV Accelerate Partner with a SaaS co-sell eligible solution and holds multiple AWS competencies, including the AWS Data Software Competency and the AWS Financial Services Technology Competency, reflecting deep technical expertise and proven customer outcomes. Denodo is available as a fully managed cloud service (Agora) or for deployment in the customer’s own AWS account. With Denodo in AWS Marketplace, customers can streamline procurement and consolidate billing.

This strategic collaboration agreement underscores the value Denodo, an AWS Partner, brings to organizations seeking flexibility and greater business value from their data across industries. For more information, please visit: denodo.com/aws

About Denodo

Denodo is the AI data layer company. The award-winning Denodo Platform powers trustworthy agents and applications, transforming enterprise data into reliable insights for analytics and self-service. Organizations worldwide deploy Denodo alongside their data lakehouses to deliver AI-ready, business-ready data in a fraction of the time — achieving up to 4x faster time to insight, 345% ROI, and 10x better performance.

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