DataDirect Networks provides AI-driven data storage and management solutions tailored for enterprise environments. Their technology addresses the challenges of data scalability and accessibility, enabling organizations to efficiently manage large volumes of data while ensuring high performance and reliability.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
AI, HPC, and data-intensive applications struggle with data silos, incompatible formats, and the need for flexible management across cloud, data center, and edge environments. Traditional storage solutions often lack the scalability, performance, and reliability required to manage and extract value from rapidly growing unstructured data, leading to underutilized GPUs and delayed insights.
Solution
DDN provides a data intelligence platform designed to accelerate AI, HPC, and data-intensive workloads by unifying data management across diverse environments. The platform features high-performance, scalable storage appliances and software-defined solutions that eliminate data bottlenecks and ensure seamless data access. DDN's solutions optimize data pipelines, reduce data movement, and maximize GPU utilization, enabling organizations to achieve faster time to insights and better ROI. The platform supports native multi-protocol access, allowing data to be accessed in place without reformatting or reconfiguration, and offers enterprise-class features such as multi-tenancy, client-side compression, online upgrades, and enhanced monitoring.
Target Audience
DDN's primary customers include enterprises, research institutions, and cloud service providers involved in AI, machine learning, high-performance computing, and data analytics. Specific industries served include financial services, healthcare and life sciences, automotive, media and entertainment, and the public sector.
Features
- Data Intelligence Platform with comprehensive software infrastructure designed to accelerate data at scale
- AI400X2 Turbo appliance delivering up to 115 GB/s read and 75 GB/s write throughput, along with 3 million IOPS
- EXAScaler parallel file system for extreme throughput and minimal latency in large-scale operations
- Infinia software-defined storage solution for unified data management across cloud, core, and edge environments
- Native multi-protocol support for accessing data in place without reformatting
- Client-side data compression without performance degradation
- Online upgrades and enhanced monitoring and health reporting
- Integration with AI tools, platforms, and frameworks like NeMo, NIMs, Trino, and Spark via Infinia's SDK
- Support for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD reference architectures