DDN, also known as DataDirect Networks, is a privately owned company headquartered in the US. Founded in 1998, the company employs approximately 1230 individuals and reported $230.0M in revenue as of 2024. Specializing in media cloud and storage, DDN provides high-performance data storage and intelligent data infrastructure. The company focuses on data-intensive environments such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and high-performance computing (HPC). Its offerings provide a data backbone for organizations, including supercomputing systems and AI innovators. The 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 address data bottlenecks and optimize GPU utilization, enabling enterprises in sectors such as life sciences, financial services, and autonomous driving to process exabytes of data with high throughput and low latency across edge, core, and cloud environments.
On March 18, 2026, DDN and Zadara announced a strategic technology partnership to deliver high-performance AI infrastructure for sovereign clouds and multi-tenant AI factories built on NVIDIA Reference Designs for multi-tenant clouds. Earlier on the same day, Cisco and DDN detailed their work to advance AI infrastructure for the next generation of GPU clusters. This collaboration addresses the challenges of scaling artificial intelligence, as organizations deploy massive NVIDIA GPU clusters for training, inference, and emerging agentic workloads across enterprises, sovereign AI initiatives, and cloud providers.
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