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.

2024 Revenue

Founded

1998

Headcount

1,221

Headquarters

US

Primary Segment

Media cloud and storage

Ownership

Privately Owned

Deployments

2

News Summary:

DDN appointed Kevin Delane as President and Chief Revenue Officer on April 29, 2026, a strategic move to scale the company’s global go-to-market engine as it prepares for a potential IPO. Delane, who previously helped scale Pure Storage past the $2 billion revenue mark, will lead global revenue strategy, marketing, and customer success as DDN transitions towards powering large-scale production-grade "AI factories" from experimental AI support. Earlier, on April 23, 2026, DDN shared innovations involving Google Cloud Managed Lustre at Google Cloud Next 2026, highlighting how new Google Cloud Managed Lustre capabilities with DDN EXAScaler improve AI training, inference, and high-performance computing by delivering scale, performance, and economics.

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DDN offers 2 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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DDN's customers primarily consist of computer Hardware Manufacturing and enterprise and telecoms software companies. Examples of DDN's customers include Nvidia and Salesforce.

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