{"id":100476,"date":"2025-08-05T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T06:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/?p=100476"},"modified":"2025-08-08T16:19:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:19:20","slug":"mena-it-spending-projected-to-hit-169b-by-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/mena-it-spending-projected-to-hit-169b-by-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"MENA IT Spending Projected to Hit $169B by 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gartner\">Gartner<\/a>, a global research and advisory firm, has forecast that MENA IT spending will reach US$169 billion in 2026. This marks an 8.9 percent increase over 2025, reflecting strong momentum across the Middle East and North Africa region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mim Burt, Practice Vice President at Gartner, revealed that the MENA region is rapidly emerging as a global technology hub. She noted that GCC countries are leveraging advanced infrastructure and forward-thinking policies to attract global partners and build strong digital capabilities. These efforts are driving innovation and supporting AI-enabled, resilient economies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite global economic and geopolitical uncertainty, CIOs in the MENA region are making strategic investments. These include artificial intelligence, intelligent automation, multi-cloud strategies, <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/category\/emerging-technologies\/cybersecurity\/\">cybersecurity<\/a>, and workforce upskilling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gartner reported that spending on data center systems will rise by 37.3 percent in 2026. This makes it the fastest-growing segment in MENA\u2019s IT market. However, growth is expected to slow this year as the region transitions to more sustainable investments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eyad Tachwali, Vice President of Advisory at Gartner, said the surge in data center spending will go hand in hand with increased investments by CISOs in AI-powered software and infrastructure. The growth is largely driven by rising demand for generative AI and advanced machine learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tachwali added that most of this demand will come from governments, cloud service providers, technology vendors, and institutions focused on AI model development not from traditional enterprises or consumers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gartner further revealed that software spending in the MENA region will grow by 13.9 percent, reaching US$20.4 billion in 2026. This increase is being fueled by the rapid adoption of generative AI capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Gartner, by 2028, 75 percent of global software spending will be on solutions featuring generative AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gartner, a global research and advisory firm, has forecast that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":100482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9617,9682],"tags":[1867],"contributor":[9732],"class_list":["post-100476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-middle-east","tag-middle-east","contributor-news-desk"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AI-23.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Lubna","author_link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/author\/lubna\/"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100478,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100476\/revisions\/100478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100476"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=100476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}