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.

2024 Revenue

Founded

1998

Headcount

1,221

Headquarters

US

Primary Segment

Media cloud and storage

Ownership

Privately Owned

Deployments

1

News Summary:

On February 17, 2026, DDN announced an AI pipeline for drug discovery, built with NVIDIA, designed to address challenges such as scattered data and GPUs awaiting files. Previously, on February 6, DDN's CTO Sven Oehme provided insights on building scalable AI infrastructure, as artificial intelligence accelerates from experimentation to enterprise backbone. Earlier, on February 3, 2026, DDN appointed Mohsen Moazami as Vice Chair. In this strategic role, Moazami will work to advance DDN's growth, deepen global customer and government engagements, and strengthen its positioning with the investment community. This appointment comes as DDN expands its focus on enterprise AI and high-performance computing, building on a $300 million investment from Blackstone in January of the previous year and its success in the Nvidia AI training market. The move also possibly signals an IPO intention.

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DDN offers products in the media tech industry. DDN's product portfolio comprises of media cloud and storage.
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DDN's revenues were less than $500M in 2024. All the revenue comes from real-time / NAS / SAN storage.
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