KolonBenit Named Cloudera APAC Breakthrough Partner
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KolonBenit won the "APAC Breakthrough Partner of the Year 2026" at the Cloudera Partner Awards in the Asia-Pacific region.
It was recognized for its achievements in building data platforms for domestic manufacturers and AI infrastructure businesses, and became the first domestic company to receive the Breakthrough category award.
KolonBenit plans to use the award as an opportunity to expand joint sales, technical cooperation, and businesses linked to the platform, AI and Cloudera Anywhere Cloud with Cloudera.
KolonBenit, the AX specialist unit of Kolon Group, said on the 10th that it won a Cloudera partner award in the Asia-Pacific region. The company said it was selected in recognition of its achievements in building data platforms for domestic manufacturers and in AI infrastructure projects.
The award KolonBenit received is Cloudera's "APAC Breakthrough Partner of the Year 2026." Cloudera is a global hybrid data and AI platform company.
The award ceremony was held in Singapore on the 19th of last month. The event was held ahead of "Cloudera EVOLVE26 Singapore" as part of a "partner preview," and was attended by about 50 partner companies and more than 200 people from the Asia-Pacific region. At the same event, TCS, Accenture and AWS were also among the award recipients in their respective categories.
The Breakthrough category is awarded to partners that secured notable customer references and business results in the AI field over the past year. KolonBenit became the first domestic company to receive the Breakthrough category award.
Cloudera said it highly valued KolonBenit's sustained growth and innovation. In particular, it said it noted the expansion of AI projects into Mission-Critical business areas.
As Cloudera's South Korea distributor, KolonBenit has built data platforms based on Iceberg in the manufacturing and financial sectors, and has accumulated data engineering capabilities by building integrated query environments based on Trino in those same sectors.
Based on this, KolonBenit supplied Cloudera platform and Cloudera AI-based environments to domestic manufacturers, and built AI model inference and serving infrastructure for major manufacturing customers. As a result, it secured a precedent for stable operation of experimental AI in actual work environments.
At EVOLVE26, Cloudera announced "Cloudera Anywhere Cloud." Cloudera Anywhere Cloud is a service based on existing data governance, access control and lineage frameworks.
The service supports AI model and inference service operations and enables consistent deployment across public and private clouds, on-premises environments and GPU infrastructure. Through this, Cloudera presented a structure that can apply AI operations consistently across multiple infrastructures.
Cloudera Anywhere Cloud was designed to manage data within defined security boundaries. Based on this, it aims to secure data sovereignty and reduce external API call costs, token costs and TCO.
The service also uses a consistent hybrid execution environment to improve flexibility in responding to GPU supply issues and infrastructure fragmentation. It also applies NVIDIA-based optimization to support better model performance and improved infrastructure operating efficiency.
KolonBenit plans to use the award as an opportunity to strengthen joint sales and technical cooperation with Cloudera. In addition, the company plans to expand business linked to the Cloudera platform, Cloudera AI and Cloudera Anywhere Cloud.
The company presented a support system covering the entire process, from initial diagnosis and strategy for data and AI adoption through deployment, operations and security frameworks. The integrated support scope includes customer environment assessment, data strategy development, platform deployment, model operations, and security and governance.
It is also strengthening links with partner solutions using the marketplace and reinforcing custom IP integration. It is also holding workshops with Cloudera and AI specialist partners, developing blueprints and building prototypes. Based on this, the company plans to expand businesses that turn AI projects at the Pilot stage into enterprise environments ready for actual operations.
Lee Kyung-guk, head of KolonBenit's Data Platform Division, said the award was the result of connecting data and AI engineering capabilities to customers' core business outcomes. He also said the company would strengthen customer data-to-AI connectivity and the linkage between AI and tangible business value based on its partnership with Cloudera. He also said it would reinforce its role as an AX Enabler.
Source: TECHWORLD · Park Gyu-chan
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=406779
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