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{{Short description|Computer data storage company}}
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| num_employees = 1000 (2021)<ref>{{Cite news |title= DataDirect Networks |work= Owler |url= https://www.owler.com/company/ddn |accessdate= March 3, 2021 }}</ref>
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| industry = [[Computer data storage]]
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'''DataDirect Networks''' ('''DDN''') is a privately
== Summary ==
DDN provides storage systems for [[unstructured data]] and [[big data]], like [[AI]], analytics and high performance computing (HPC)
Although privately
DDN provides storage for applications such as [[cloud storage]] services, [[supercomputing]], [[life sciences]] and [[genomics]], seismic processing, financial service trade and risk analysis, film production, live television broadcast, manufacturing, and video surveillance.<ref name="buck">{{Cite news |title= Private billion buck HPC player? You're going to have to go public - and SOON |date= March 15, 2013 |work= The Register |author= Chris Mellor |url= https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/15/ddn_ipo/ |accessdate= October 12, 2016 }}</ref>
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DataDirect Networks, Inc, was formed in 1998 from the merger of two earlier companies, MegaDrive and ImpactData. Alex Bouzari is the company's CEO, chairman and co-founder.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-01-17|title=Exclusive Interview of Alex Bouzari, CEO of DataDirect Networks|url=https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2011/01/17/interview-alex-bouzari-datadirect-networks/|access-date=2021-03-04|website=StorageNewsletter|language=en-US}}</ref> Paul Bloch is president and co-founder.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Paul Bloch - President & Co-founder at DDN Storage|url=https://theorg.com/org/ddn-storage/org-chart/paul-bloch|access-date=2021-03-04|website=THE ORG|language=en}}</ref>
DDN concentrated on building high speed disk storage systems for customers like NASA and Nvidia, eventually delivering storage to five of their systems - [[Columbia (supercomputer)|Columbia]], Schirra, RTJones, Hyperwall-2 and [[Pleiades (supercomputer)|Pleiades]] by 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|title=NASA Selects DataDirect Networks' Proven S2A9900 Storage Solution for Pleiades Supercomputer|url=http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=26983|access-date=2021-03-04|website=www.spaceref.com| date=20 November 2008 }}</ref> With the explosion of “[[Big data|Big Data]],” Alex Bouzari and Paul Bloch realised that a wider "transformative" event was happening in IT, and that HPC-class storage would be needed for high-end analytics and data processing, with lightning-fast IO, and the ability to scale to much higher capacities.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mellor|first=Chris|title=Alex Bouzari on his big data storage firm: First, we got rid of the VCs|url=https://www.theregister.com/2014/06/30/a_ddn_chat/|access-date=2021-03-16|website=www.theregister.com|language=en}}</ref> Rather than follow a larger market served by mainstream system and storage vendors, Bouzari and Bloch decided to focus exclusively on fast access and high-capacity storage, particularly for unstructured data.<ref>{{Cite web|title=DataDirect Networks: CEO Interview {{!}} Network Computing|url=https://www.networkcomputing.com/data-centers/datadirect-networks-ceo-interview/page/0/3?piddl_msgorder=|access-date=2021-03-16|website=www.networkcomputing.com|language=en}}</ref>
DDN completed a $9.9 million round of [[venture capital]] financing in October 2001 with ClearLight Partners LLC and Digital Coast Ventures.<ref>{{Cite news |url= http://www.thefreelibrary.com/DATADIRECT+NETWORKS+CLOSES+SERIES+A+FUNDING+ROUND+OF+US+Dollars+9.9...-a078779943 |title= DataDirect Networks Closes Series A Funding Round Of US Dollars 9.9 Million |date= October 1, 2001 |work= Press release |publisher= DataDirect Networks |accessdate= October 12, 2016 |archive-date= March 6, 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160306134739/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/DATADIRECT+NETWORKS+CLOSES+SERIES+A+FUNDING+ROUND+OF+US+Dollars+9.9...-a078779943 |url-status= dead }}</ref>
DDN created DataDirect Networks Federal, LLC, in 2005 - formalizing a team which holds the necessary clearances to support the company's focus on the U.S. government and intelligence community.<ref>[http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/datadirect-networks-creates-datadirect-networks-federal-llc-to-manage-its-significant-expansion-in-government-markets-54530082.html “DataDirect Networks Creates DataDirect Networks Federal, LLC. to Manage Its Significant Expansion in Government Markets ,”] PR Newswire, June 6, 2005]</ref>
In 2008, DDN reported that it had exceeded $100 million in annual revenue and claimed to provide storage systems for 48 of the top 100 supercomputers – with customers including [[Argonne National Laboratory]] and the [[NASA Ames Research Center]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ddn.com/pdfs/taneja_0908.pdf |title=Company Profile, DataDirect Networoks |publisher=[[Taneja Group]] |date=September 2008 |url-status = dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101121132741/http://ddn.com/pdfs/taneja_0908.pdf |archivedate=November 21, 2010 }}</ref>
In 2013, the company built the storage system for [[Titan (supercomputer)|Titan supercomputer]].<ref>{{Cite web |title= Titan supercomputer will have world's fastest storage at 1.4TB/s |date =April 16, 2013 |work= Extreme Tech |author= James Plafke |url= http://www.extremetech.com/computing/153517-titan-supercomputer-will-have-worlds-fastest-storage-at-1-4tbs |accessdate= October 12, 2016 }}</ref>
DDN announced in 2016 that it powered 70 percent of the top 500 supercomputers, up from 67 percent in 2015.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/07/ddn_ups_top_500_supercomputer_showing|
In June 2018, DDN acquired the [[Lustre (file system)|Lustre filesystem]] storage team from Intel, reviving the [[Whamcloud]] brand.<ref>{{cite web
In September 2018, DDN purchased the virtualization focused storage company [[Tintri]].<ref>https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/ddn-completes-60-million-tintri-acquisition-and-enters-enterprise-virtualization-market/</ref> In May, 2019, DDN acquired the [[software defined storage]] vendor Nexenta. In November 2019, DDN finalized the acquisition of the IntelliFlash division, formerly known as Tegile, from [[Western Digital]].<ref>https://searchstorage.techtarget.com/news/252471218/DDN-storage-expands-buys-Western-Digitals-IntelliFlash</ref> These three acquisitions became the Tintri Enterprise Business Unit.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Burt|first=Jeffrey|date=2019-10-09|title=DDN Uses Acquisitions to Grow In The Enterprise|url=https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/10/09/ddn-uses-acquisitions-to-grow-in-the-enterprise/|access-date=2021-03-04|website=The Next Platform|language=en-US}}</ref>▼
|url=https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/06/27/ddn-breathes-new-life-into-lustre-file-system/
|title=DDN Breathes New Life Into Lustre File System
|date=June 27, 2018
|author=Daniel Robinson
▲}}</ref> In September 2018, DDN
In February 2021, DDN reported revenues of $400 million and claimed 11,000 customers.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mellor|first=Chris|date=2021-03-02|title=Your occasional storage digest with Arcserve, StorageCraft, DDN, and more|url=https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/03/02/enterprise-storage-news-digest-arcserve/|access-date=2021-03-04|website=Blocks and Files|language=en-GB}}</ref>
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