TRENDING enterprise-class servers, AI servers, and storage systems scheduled to begin imminently for both regional and international markets.
This development marks a significant milestone for the UAE ' s manufacturing sector, demonstrating the country ' s ability to produce sophisticated technology products that can compete on the global stage. region’ s first-ever manufacturing facility for enterpriseclass servers and storage systems. In addition to the NEXTGEN FDI initiative, the UAE is also signing Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreements, with countries around the world to strengthen its position as a global trade and logistics hub. UAE-based companies can further benefit from such strategic bilateral trade agreements.
Evgeny Ostrovskiy, Chief Revenue Officer, Kerno
By establishing local production capabilities, Kerno is helping reduce the region ' s dependence on imported IT infrastructure while creating hundreds
The solution allows organisations to dynamically allocate GPUs and storage capacity for dedicated expansions across PCIe lanes.
At GITEX 2024, Kerno signed a deal with NMTronics to establish an advanced hardware manufacturing factory using best-in-class equipment to produce enterprise-class servers and data storage systems in Dubai Silicon Oasis. Using surface mount technology and a fully automated unit assembly line supplied by NMTronics, Kerno aims to become a manufacturer of enterprise-class IT solutions to support growing demand in the Middle East.
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In May this year, Kerno showcased its ready-forproduction enterprise server units at the Make it in the Emirates 2025 exhibition. The company is presenting its OKAM and UQLEAD product lines, representing a significant leap forward in bringing world-class IT manufacturing to the United Arab Emirates. These enterprise-grade servers and infrastructure solutions are designed to power everything from corporate data centres to advanced AI applications, all manufactured locally for both regional and international markets.
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of opportunities for skilled employment and technological advancement.
Kerno ' s composable AI infrastructure represents a significant advancement in this space. The solution allows organisations to dynamically allocate GPUs and storage capacity for dedicated expansions across PCIe lanes, addressing a critical challenge in AI infrastructure – the underutilisation of expensive GPU resources. This approach is particularly valuable for the region ' s growing multi-tenant GPU clouds and AIfocused data centres.
“ Our product portfolio starts with the common and very basic X86 servers, going through the high-density servers, through to the AI GPU servers. These are the most scalable and powerful GPU servers, including when it comes to data storage systems for both regular loads and high performance,” says Evgeny Ostrovskiy, Chief Revenue Officer, at Kerno.
In 2024, Kerno partnered with UAE’ s Ministry of Economy’ s NEXTGEN FDI initiative to establish the
The OKAM product line represents Kerno ' s flagship server offerings based on the latest Intel and AMD chipsets, meeting the diverse needs of businesses across the region, from powering cloud services to supporting edge computing applications.
UQLEAD servers are designed with a focus on highperformance computing and AI workloads. These powerful systems are built for training and inference of AI models, vital in today’ s AI-driven era. Kerno also develops OTAON storage systems, completing a comprehensive portfolio of IT infrastructure solutions.
Ostrovskiy explains the reason for participation at local events.“ Our focus is to demonstrate that it is not actually a theoretical thing but it is a bold move taken to open the first ever, high-level world-class enterprise IT hardware production in the Middle East and we are showing that we are live. We have our product samples and use cases to show them to the public.”
In March this year, Kerno signed a Memorandum of Understanding with DDN, the global provider in artificial intelligence and data intelligence solutions, to develop next-generation data factory solutions. These solutions
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