DDN, also known as DataDirect Networks, is a privately owned company headquartered in the US. Founded in 1998, the company employs approximately 1,230 individuals and reported $480.0M in revenue as of 2025. It specializes in high-performance data storage and intelligent data infrastructure, particularly for data-intensive environments such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and high-performance computing (HPC). Serving over 11,000 organizations, including 60% of the world's top supercomputing systems and AI innovators like NVIDIA and xAI, its core product portfolio includes the Data Intelligence Platform. This 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 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.
On August 6, 2026, a profile of DDN, a 28-year-old managed data storage company, projected its annual revenue to grow from $300 million before the AI boom to $1 billion by year's end, attributed to AI partnerships. Earlier, on August 4, 2026, DDN announced a collaboration with NVIDIA within the Storage-Next initiative. This partnership focuses on advancing GPU-initiated data access for next-generation AI, with the stated goal of helping organizations achieve greater business and financial value from their AI investments.
DDN's customers primarily consist of generative AI and computer Hardware Manufacturing companies. Examples of DDN's customers include Salesforce and Nvidia.
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