DDN

http://www.ddn.com
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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.

2025 Revenue

Founded

1998

Headcount

1,221

Headquarters

United States

Primary Segment

Media cloud and storage

Ownership

Privately Owned

Deployments

News Summary:

On June 24, 2026, DDN announced a broad expansion of its AI and HPC data platform portfolio at ISC 2026, launching new hardware, software, and platform capabilities, including the AI400X3M and Dynamo-Integrated KV Cache Acceleration. These offerings aim to improve GPU utilization, accelerate AI inference, and simplify large-scale AI infrastructure deployments. Earlier, on June 22, 2026, DDN initially unveiled this major expansion of its AI and HPC data platform portfolio at ISC 2026, detailing breakthrough innovations across performance, efficiency, security, and cloud-scale AI infrastructure. The company confirmed the planned launch of the AI400X3M high-performance appliance and the official release of its distributed KV Cache acceleration technology, integrated with NVIDIA Dynamo, alongside new security, observability, and infrastructure efficiency enhancements for large-scale AI environments.

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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 $1B in 2025. All the revenue comes from real-time / NAS / SAN storage.

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Jul

8th

2026

08:32

Partnerships and Alliances, Emerging Tech, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag, Partnerships

Since 1987 – Covering the Fastest Computers in the World and the People Who Run Them

Collaboration Demonstrates How Data Infrastructure Is Becoming the Key Lever for Lower Cost-Per-Token, Faster Time-to-First-Token, and Higher AI Factory Efficiency PARIS, July 8, 2026 — DDN today announced continued progress in its collaboration with Nebul, a European leader in providing sovereign-hybrid cloud solutions, to optimize large-scale AI inference performance through advanced KV Cache acceleration and high-performance data infrastructure.

HPCwire

Jul

8th

2026

08:31

Partnerships and Alliances, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag, Product Updates, Partnerships

DDN, Nebul, NVIDIA Advance AI Inference with KV Cache Acceleration

DDN, the global leader in AI and data intelligence solutions, today announced continued progress in its collaboration with Nebul, a European leader in providing sovereign-hybrid cloud solutions, to optimize large-scale AI inference performance through advanced KV Cache acceleration and high-performance data infrastructure.

Ittech-Pulse

Jul

8th

2026

07:38

Emerging Tech, New Offerings, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag, New Offerings

DDN Infinia 2.4 Adds Multi-Tenancy and POSIX Support for Production AI Factories

At the RAISE Summit in Paris, DDN introduced Infinia 2.4, the latest release of its AI data platform designed for production AI, large-scale inference, and sovereign AI deployments. The update expands enterprise capabilities with multi-tenancy, governance, identity management, and new POSIX support while continuing to optimize data access for GPU-accelerated AI infrastructure.

StorageReview

Jul

8th

2026

05:41

Partnerships and Alliances, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

DDN, Nebul, and NVIDIA Collaborate to Advance AI Inference Economics Through High-Performance KV Cache Acceleration

DDN, the global leader in AI and data intelligence solutions, announced continued progress in its collaboration with Nebul, a European leader in providing sovereign-hybrid cloud solutions, to optimize large-scale AI inference performance through advanced KV Cache acceleration and high-performance data infrastructure.

AiThority

Jul

7th

2026

04:30

Events, Artificial Intelligence

DDN Unveils Infinia 2.4 at RAISE, Establishing an Enterprise Foundation for Production AI, Inference Economics, and Sovereign AI Factories

PARIS--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- DDN , the global leader in AI and data intelligence solutions, today announced the launch of DDN Infinia 2.4 at the RAISE Summit in Paris, extending the industry's leading platform for production AI, large-scale inference, and sovereign AI infrastructure.

Business Wire

Jul

7th

2026

01:00

Events, Emerging Tech, Artificial Intelligence

Since 1987 – Covering the Fastest Computers in the World and the People Who Run Them

New release delivers enterprise-grade multi-tenancy, identity management, security and POSIX capabilities required to move AI from pilots to large-scale production PARIS, July 7, 2026 — DDN today announced the launch of DDN Infinia 2.4 at the RAISE Summit in Paris, extending the industry’s leading platform for production AI, large-scale inference, and sovereign AI infrastructure.

HPCwire

Jul

3rd

2026

01:00

Procurement and Sales, Emerging Tech, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

Spotlight: CXO movements this week (June 27-July 3)

From enterprise AI and digital supply chains to GCC expansion and quick commerce, technology-led organisations continued to strengthen leadership teams this week as businesses doubled down on AI adoption, engineering scale and business transformation. TechCircle looks at the biggest executive appointments between June 27 and July 3.

TechCircle

Jul

2nd

2026

01:02

Management Changes, Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Mehul Patel Appointed Vice President, India Strategic Accounts – AI & Cloud at DDN

Mehul Patel has been appointed as Vice President, India Strategic Accounts – AI & Cloud at DDN, strengthening the company’s leadership presence in India as enterprise demand for AI infrastructure, cloud platforms, and high-performance data solutions continues to accelerate.

CXO Digital Pulse

Jun

26th

2026

11:33

Events, Awards and Recognitions, Artificial Intelligence

Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of June 26; Updates from Backblaze, Cohesity, NetApp & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of June 26, 2026. Keeping tabs on all the most relevant storage and data protection news can be a time-consuming task.

Solutions Review

Jun

24th

2026

09:29

Events, Emerging Tech, Artificial Intelligence

DDN Launches AI400X3M and Dynamo-Integrated KV Cache Acceleration at ISC 2026

At ISC 2026, DDN announced a broad expansion of its AI and HPC data platform portfolio, introducing new hardware, software, and platform capabilities designed to improve GPU utilization, accelerate AI inference, and simplify large-scale AI infrastructure deployments.

StorageReview

Jun

24th

2026

08:57

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Why is Inference Efficiency Harder Than It Looks?

Inference efficiency is the total production spend divided by the successful outputs that satisfy user needs. That sounds simple enough, but evolving inference software and hardware make it a nontrivial exercise to determine.

DataDirect Networks

Jun

23rd

2026

03:30

Events, Emerging Tech, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

DDN Unveils Next-Generation AI & HPC Data Intelligence Innovations at ISC 2026, Redefining Performance, Efficiency, Security, and Scale for Enterprise AI Factories

New AI400X3M System, Advanced KV Cache Acceleration, Multi-Tenant Security, and AI Efficiency Innovations Cement DDN's Leadership in the Era of Production AI HAMBURG, Germany, June 23, 2026 --( BUSINESS WIRE )-- DDN , the global leader in AI and data intelligence solutions, today announced a major expansion of its AI & HPC data platform portfolio at ISC 2026, delivering breakthrough innovations across performance, efficiency, security, and cloud-scale AI infrastructure.

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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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