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.
DDN underwent executive shifts in July 2026, as highlighted in a leadership recap published on August 12. These changes focused on expanding its platforms and global reach. Also on August 12, DDN replaced its Rackspace server with an embedded Files.com pipeline, designed for terabyte-scale data management. The company develops EXAScaler parallel file systems and Infinia data intelligence platforms, which support high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads within customer environments. This followed Ben Jarvis's move to DDN from Quantum on August 11. The company previously announced a collaboration with Nvidia at FMS 2026, developing new capabilities for its Infinia platform to enable GPUs to initiate data operations directly, thereby accelerating GPU-initiated data access for next-generation AI workloads. Earlier on August 6, a company profile detailed DDN's projected annual revenue growth from $300 million before the AI boom to an estimated $1 billion by year's end, fueled by AI partnerships.
DDN's customers primarily consist of generative AI and computer Hardware Manufacturing companies. Examples of DDN's customers include Nvidia and Salesforce.
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