GDEP Advance Receives "Growth Excellence Award" from DDN

GDEP Advance, Inc. (Headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Masamichi Iino; TSE Standard: 5885), a solutions company specializing in AI and visualization, is pleased to announce that it has received the "Growth Excellence Award" at the DDN Partner Summit, in recognition of its high-value contributions as a partner to DataDirect Networks Japan, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as DDN), a leading company in high-performance data storage solutions.

Background of the Award

Since entering into a sales agency agreement in June 2024, we have been providing DDN's storage systems, which offer superior performance and functionality.

This award is presented to DDN partners who have demonstrated particularly outstanding achievements and contributions. GDEP Advance received this award based on a comprehensive evaluation of the following points:

Exceptional Business Development Capabilities:

Sales and proposal activities that have consistently identified customer challenges and needs, creating new business opportunities.

Accurate Understanding of Products and Solutions:

Technical expertise in deeply understanding the technical features and architecture of DDN products and designing optimal configurations for various applications.

Precise Proposals to Customers:

A track record of implementing proposals that maximize the value of DDN products and solutions, directly leading to customer problem-solving.

From left: Katsumi Kimura, Executive Officer, Business Development Department Manager, Solution Business Unit, GDEP Advance, Inc.; Roberto Trindade, President, DataDirect Networks Japan, Inc.

Comment from Rei Akimoto, Executive Officer, Sales Division, DataDirect Networks Japan, Inc.

"Leveraging their technical prowess and market influence as an NVIDIA Elite Partner, GDEP Advance has vigorously promoted collaboration with DDN in the GPU and AI infrastructure domain. Their proven ability to propose optimal solutions combining NVIDIA computing platforms and DDN storage tailored to customer challenges serves as a model for other partners, leading to the "Growth Excellence Award." We will continue to strengthen our joint ecosystem and contribute together to the development of the AI/HPC market in Japan."

Comment from Masamichi Iino, CEO, GDEP Advance, Inc.

"We are deeply honored that DDN has bestowed upon us the prestigious "Growth Excellence Award." We sincerely thank our customers for their continued patronage and DDN for their close support.

Since our inception, our mission as professionals in AI/HPC computing infrastructure has been to deliver solutions that directly contribute to our customers' research, development, and business outcomes, not just hardware provision. We interpret this award as recognition of the results achieved by our engineers and sales teams working in unison, correctly understanding the exceptional value of DDN products, and earnestly addressing the challenges of each individual customer.

With the rapid advancement of generative AI, the performance and scale required for data infrastructure are expanding dramatically. We will continue to contribute to customer innovation through cutting-edge storage solutions in close partnership with DDN."

Future Developments

As the societal implementation of generative AI progresses, the AI market is rapidly expanding into the realm of "Physical AI," where AI interacts with the real world, encompassing areas such as robotics, autonomous driving, industrial automation, and drones. Concurrently, initiatives to rebuild decision-making and business processes based on data, known as "AI-Driven" approaches, are gaining momentum across all industries, including research and development, manufacturing, healthcare, and finance. This has led to unprecedented demands for large-scale, ultra-high-speed data infrastructure to support learning, inference, and simulation.

Particularly in the development of Physical AI, processing petabyte-scale unstructured data such as sensor data, video, and 3D simulation data at high throughput is essential. For companies driving AI-driven business transformation, infrastructure that enables safe and efficient utilization of vast amounts of data is becoming a key source of competitiveness.

GDEP Advance will deliver DDN's world-class data intelligence infrastructure as a total solution, including GPU computing, networking, and operational design, thereby strongly supporting customers' Physical AI development and AI-driven business transformation. In close partnership with DDN, we will continue to focus on proposing optimal infrastructure for the AI/HPC domain and contribute to fostering customer innovation.

About DataDirect Networks Japan, Inc.

DataDirect Networks Japan, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of DataDirect Networks, Inc. (DDN), was established in 2008. Since its establishment, the company has been involved in promoting DDN solutions, developing related solutions, providing professional services, and offering post-implementation support. DDN provides high-speed data infrastructure and storage products essential for complex computing environments such as AI, autonomous driving, robotics, and HPC. DDN's technology is adopted by many of the world's leading AI research institutions and supercomputers.

URL: https://ddn.co.jp/

About GDEP Advance, Inc.

GDEP Advance, Inc., with its mission "Advance with you," is a solutions provider for AI and visualization. The company comprehensively offers means to advance work and research, including accelerators such as GPGPU, high-end workstations, cluster systems utilizing high-bandwidth networks and high-speed storage, as well as provision, construction, and operational support for libraries, compilers, and job schedulers. These services are available in all forms, including on-premises, rental, and cloud. GDEP Advance is an Elite Partner in NVIDIA's "NPN (NVIDIA Partner Network)."

URL: https://www.gdep.co.jp/

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■Inquiries regarding products and services

GDEP Advance, Inc. Solution Division E-mail: sales@gdep.co.jp