DDN, also known as DataDirect Networks, is a privately owned company headquartered in Chatsworth, California, US. Founded in 1998, with approximately 1,230 employees, the company reported $230.0M in revenue as of 2024. The company specializes in media cloud and storage, providing high-performance data storage and intelligent data infrastructure designed for data-intensive environments such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and high-performance computing (HPC). It provides data infrastructure for over 11,000 organizations, including 60% of the world's top supercomputing systems and companies such as NVIDIA and xAI. Its core product portfolio is centered 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 throughput and ultra-low latency across edge, core, and cloud environments.
DDN recently attended the Advanced Therapies conference in London from March 17-18, observing a significant challenge in translating scientific discoveries into real-world treatments, particularly noting that fewer advanced therapies reach patients in the UK and Europe compared to the US or China. Earlier, on March 23, DDN announced a partnership with Rafay Systems to simplify AI infrastructure deployment for enterprises and neocloud providers, integrating DDN’s high-performance data platform with Rafay’s cloud-native management tools. This followed the March 22 announcement that DDN and Aleria adopted the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint for their Sovereign AI Factory, delivering a production-validated reference architecture built on NVIDIA Vera Rubin DSX and NVIDIA Omniverse DSX for auditable sovereign AI infrastructure for governments and regulated enterprises. Previously, on March 18, DDN and Zadara disclosed a strategic technology partnership to provide high-performance AI infrastructure for sovereign clouds and multi-tenant AI factories, based on NVIDIA Reference Designs.
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