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.
On September 15, 2026, DDN's EXAScaler won the 2026 SiliconANGLE TechForward Award in the Data Storage & Management category. This followed an August 26, 2026, announcement that DDN formed a strategic partnership with SCX.ai to expand and accelerate Australia's largest sovereign AI inferencing cloud. The alliance aims to scale Australia's sovereign AI capacity as demand for Australian-based AI infrastructure grows.
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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