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.

Revenue

Founded

1998

Headcount

1,408

Headquarters

United States

Primary Segment

Media cloud and storage

Ownership

Privately Owned

Deployments

2

News Summary:

DDN's CTO, Sven Oehme, recently highlighted a critical shift in the AI industry's focus from proving AI's viability to addressing its economic scalability, underscoring DDN's AI data platform strategy in powering demanding AI and high-performance computing (HPC) environments. Previously on July 8, DDN announced continued progress in its collaboration with Nebula, a European sovereign-hybrid cloud solutions provider, and NVIDIA. This partnership aims to optimize large-scale AI inference performance through advanced KV Cache acceleration and high-performance data infrastructure, targeting lower cost-per-token, faster time-to-first-token, and enhanced AI factory efficiency. Earlier the same day, DDN introduced Infinia 2.4 at the RAISE Summit in Paris. This update to its AI data platform, designed for production AI, large-scale inference, and sovereign AI deployments, adds multi-tenancy, governance, identity management, and new POSIX support, while continuing to optimize data access for GPU-accelerated AI infrastructure.

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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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DDN's customers primarily consist of computer Hardware Manufacturing and generative AI companies. Examples of DDN's customers include Nvidia and Salesforce.

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