DDN, also known as DataDirect Networks, is a privately owned company headquartered in Chatsworth, California. Founded in 1998, the company employs approximately 1,230 individuals and reported $230.0M in revenue as of 2024. The company specializes in high-performance data storage and intelligent data infrastructure, primarily serving data-intensive environments such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and high-performance computing (HPC). DDN provides the data backbone for over 11,000 organizations, including 60% of the world's top supercomputing systems and AI innovators such as NVIDIA and xAI. Its core product portfolio, centered on the Data Intelligence Platform, features the EXAScaler parallel file system, built on Lustre technology, and the Infinia cloud-native storage platform. These solutions are engineered to eliminate data bottlenecks and maximize GPU utilization, enabling enterprises in sectors like life sciences, financial services, and autonomous driving to process exabytes of data across edge, core, and cloud environments.