  In the holographic or AdS/CFT dual to QCD, the Pomeron is identified with a
Reggeized Graviton in $AdS_5$. We emphasize the importance of confinement,
which in this context corresponds to a deformation of $AdS_5$ geometry in the
IR. The holographic Pomeron provides a very good fit to the combined data from
HERA for Deep Inelastic Scattering at small $x$, lending new confidence to this
AdS dual approach to high energy diffractive scattering.
