Privately owned, DDN, also known as DataDirect Networks, is headquartered in Chatsworth, California, US. Founded in 1998, the company employs approximately 1,230 individuals and reported $230.0M in revenue as of 2024. The company's main product focus is media cloud and storage. Functioning as a provider of high-performance data storage and intelligent data infrastructure, DDN focuses on data-intensive environments such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and high-performance computing (HPC). The company provides data infrastructure for over 11,000 organizations, including 60% of the world's top supercomputing systems and AI companies like NVIDIA and xAI. Its core product portfolio centers on the Data Intelligence Platform, which 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, allowing enterprises in sectors such as life sciences, financial services, and autonomous driving to process exabytes of data with massive throughput and ultra-low latency across edge, core, and cloud environments.