GDT launches AI Lab with production-grade testing environment to validate AI projects. Oct 22, 2026, 12:30 ET Supercomputer-Class Lab Is Cornerstone of GDT's AI Factory Center of Excellence Enabling Accelerated AI Delivery DALLAS, Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Global technology solutions provider GDT today announced the launch of its AI Lab and AI Factory Center of Excellence (COE) at company headquarters in Dallas. The lab features a full-stack AI factory powered by Cisco and running the NVIDIA Enterprise Platform, making GDT one of the few IT services companies to give customers a production-grade AI proving ground to develop and test use cases on real infrastructure before investing in or receiving production equipment. The lab's AI testbed consists of a Cisco UCS C885A M8 server integrated with NVIDIA HGX H200, six Cisco Nexus switches, a NetApp all-flash storage array, and 100G, 200G and 400G network connectivity. The platform provides roughly 38 terabytes per second of aggregate memory speed, which is enough to read the entire Library of Congress in about half a second. Testing use cases in this environment helps customers reduce deployment risk, accelerate AI implementation, improve confidence in infrastructure decisions, and shorten the path to production workloads, time to first token, and time to monetization. Customers with AI equipment on order can also use the waiting period productively and arrive at production deployment with more of the use case, design and integration work complete. Beyond the lab environment, GDT's AI Factory COE provides the expertise, services and support needed to help customers move validated AI initiatives into production. GDT architects, integrates, stages, deploys and operationalizes the full AI factory solution for customers, drawing on a large team of dedicated AI presales personnel, certified AI infrastructure architects, and over 100 architects focused on data center technologies. "Our customers are under pressure to rapidly support AI deployment, but need to balance the issues of security, governance and token cost management. The AI factory architecture, created by NVIDIA and supported by our technology partners, lets customers balance these factors to maximize benefits and minimize implementation risk," said Shawn O'Grady, chair and chief executive officer, GDT. "GDT is one of the leading companies in this exciting space, and the addition of a live and fully functioning AI factory in our lab facility gives customers a chance to see, test and experience the benefits prior to roll out." GDT customers can use the lab to: * Develop, run, fine-tune and compare generative AI and large language model workloads on live GPU hardware * Apply retrieval-augmented generation to their own data in a controlled environment * Explore AI agents, copilots, computer vision and real-time inference use cases * Perform benchmark training and inference performance to inform infrastructure sizing and investment decisions * Build proofs of concept and work through requirements, architecture data, and infrastructure dependencies before production equipment arrives GDT marked the AI Lab and AI Factory COE launch with a ribbon-cutting event in Dallas on October 22, bringing together customers, partners, GDT leadership, and teammates. GDT is a global technology solutions provider specializing in data center, networking and AI infrastructure, delivering secure AI-ready, carrier-grade platforms and services to customers in more than 100 countries. In addition to multiple offices in the U.S., the company has a Bangalore Global Operations Center in India that provides strategic engineering and delivery services to clients ranging from global financial institutions and manufacturers to large healthcare systems, telecom operators and enterprise organizations. GDT has been helping organizations modernize and scale their IT environments to support innovation, resilience, and growth for over 30 years. https://gdt.com SOURCE GDT

GDT named NetApp North America Growth Partner of the Year for FY26. Oct 06, 2026, 12:13 ET DALLAS, Oct. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Global technology solutions provider GDT announced today that it has been named the NetApp North America Growth Partner of the Year for NetApp fiscal year 2026, recognizing GDT's ability to generate significant YoY growth in NetApp revenue across the portfolio. The North America Partner Awards winners have exemplified NetApp's goal of being customer-centric and understanding and selling NetApp solutions across its cloud, flash and NetApp Keystone(R) portfolios. The recognition marks GDT's third NetApp Partner of the Year award in three years, following NetApp Growth Partner of the Year for FY24 and Flash Partner of the Year for FY25. GDT has partnered with NetApp since 2004, holds more than 60 NetApp certifications and serves over 150 NetApp customers. "With deep expertise in enterprise data storage, management, and protection, we're helping customers build the data foundation they need as they move into the next phase of AI adoption," said Shawn O'Grady, Chair and CEO of GDT. "NetApp plays a critical role in our AI factory reference architecture, built for the speed and scale that enterprise AI workloads require." "Now more than ever, we must empower customers with AI-ready data that is secure by default and built for hybrid environments so they can achieve their business outcomes," said Alvaro Celis, Senior Vice President, Chief Commercial, Partner and Ecosystem Officer at NetApp. "I want to congratulate GDT on being named North America Growth Partner of the Year. Their use of the NetApp Platform to help customers simplify data ecosystems and solve complex problems exemplifies what it means to drive innovation in the AI era." About GDT GDT is a global technology solutions provider specializing in hybrid data center, networking and AI infrastructure, delivering secure AI-ready, carrier-grade platforms and services to customers in more than 100 countries. In addition to its U.S. presence, the company has a Bangalore Global Operations Center in India that provides strategic engineering and delivery services to clients ranging from global financial institutions and manufacturers to large healthcare systems, telecom operators and enterprise organizations. GDT has been helping organizations modernize and scale their IT environments to support innovation, resilience and growth for over 30 years. https://gdt.com NETAPP, the NETAPP logo, and the marks listed at http://www.netapp.com/TM are trademarks of NetApp, Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. SOURCE GDT

GDT named NetApp North America Growth Partner of the Year for FY26. * October 6, 2026 DALLAS, TX (October 6, 2026) - Global technology solutions provider GDT announced today that it has been named the NetApp North America Growth Partner of the Year for NetApp fiscal year 2026, recognizing GDT's ability to generate significant YoY growth in NetApp revenue across the portfolio. The North America Partner Awards winners have exemplified NetApp's goal of being customer-centric and understanding and selling NetApp solutions across its cloud, flash, and NetApp Keystone(R) portfolios. The recognition marks GDT's third NetApp Partner of the Year award in three years, following NetApp Growth Partner of the Year for FY24 and Flash Partner of the Year for FY25. GDT has partnered with NetApp since 2004, holds more than 60 NetApp certifications, and serves over 150 NetApp customers. "With deep expertise in enterprise data storage, management, and protection, we're helping customers build the data foundation they need as they move into the next phase of AI adoption," said Shawn O'Grady, Chair and CEO of GDT. "NetApp plays a critical role in our AI factory reference architecture, built for the speed and scale that enterprise AI workloads require." "Now more than ever, we must empower customers with AI-ready data that is secure by default and built for hybrid environments so they can achieve their business outcomes," said Alvaro Celis, Senior Vice President, Chief Commercial, Partner and Ecosystem Officer at NetApp. "I want to congratulate GDT on being named North America Growth Partner of the Year. Their use of the NetApp Platform to help customers simplify data ecosystems and solve complex problems exemplifies what it means to drive innovation in the AI era." About GDT. GDT is a global technology solutions provider specializing in hybrid data center, networking, and AI infrastructure, delivering secure AI-ready, carrier-grade platforms and services to customers in more than 100 countries. In addition to its U.S. presence, the company has a Bangalore Global Operations Center in India that provides strategic engineering and delivery services to clients ranging from global financial institutions and manufacturers to large healthcare systems, telecom operators, and enterprise organizations. GDT has been helping organizations modernize and scale their IT environments to support innovation, resilience, and growth for over 30 years. https://gdt.com NETAPP, the NETAPP logo, and the marks listed at http://www.netapp.com/TM are trademarks of NetApp, Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. GDT Contact Chelsea Brickwedel Vice President, Global Marketing at GDT [email protected]