We received the APAC AI Solutions Partner of the Year award from VAST Data.

We received the "AI Solutions Partner of the Year" award from VAST Data, a leading provider of AI data infrastructure in the United States.

This award is given to members of the VAST Cosmos Partner Ecosystem, a global community of technology providers and solution partners building AI-enabled infrastructure and applications on the VAST platform. It is specifically awarded to partners who have made outstanding contributions to the expansion of VAST Data's AI business through technology investment, innovation, and strong business performance. This award is the only one globally received by a distributor.

■Key points of the award
One of the main reasons VAST Data evaluated Macnica highly was their establishment of VAST InsightEngine Lab as a distributor, demonstrating the practicality and business value of multimodal RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) to customers and resellers. This allowed them to support not only the verification phase of AI utilization, but also the understanding and consideration of implementation of solutions with a view to actual operation.
Furthermore, VAST Data's continuous investment and business creation in the AI field, along with its promotion of AI solutions utilizing the VAST Data platform, have been highly praised for their significant contributions to the company's growth, leading to this award.

(From left to right in the photo) Keisuke Ito Macnica CLAVIS Company, and Yosuke Fujii, Country Manager, VAST Data Japan.

John Sedillo, Vice President of Global Partnerships at VAST Data, stated the following:
"AI is redefining how businesses operate, compete, and innovate. Partners play a crucial role in translating its potential into real-world results. Macnica has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to driving AI adoption in Japan. In addition to investing in technology, they strongly support customers and partners in transitioning from AI validation to full-scale operation. Their efforts are helping organizations unlock the true value of the data they possess in the age of AI."

Macnica VAST AI Operating System, Inc. will continue to further strengthen its partnership with VAST Data and accelerate the adoption of enterprise AI in Japan. In addition, the company plans to expand the range of solutions by enhancing support for new and existing functions provided by the VAST AI Operating System. Specifically, VAST will support the construction of practical AI systems, including RAGs that securely access enterprise data and perform advanced inference, by leveraging features such as the VAST InsightEngine, which enables real-time data processing and searching for AI applications. VAST InsightEngine is a new approach to AI that will help companies to build practical AI systems, including RAGs that securely access and perform advanced inference on enterprise data. Through these efforts, we will provide practical AI solutions that maximize the value of enterprise data and contribute to further strengthening the overall customer and partner ecosystem.