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Line 1: {{Short description\|Computer data storage company}} {{Cleanup press release\|1=article\|date=April 2021}} {{Infobox company \| name = DataDirect Networks (DDN) \| logo = DDN-Logo-Portrait-CMYK.jpg ~~\| logo =~~ \| type = [[Private company\|Private]] \| foundation = 1998 \| founder = Alex Bouzari<br />Paul Bloch \| location_city = [[Chatsworth, [[California]] \| location_country = [[United States]] \| key_people = Alex Bouzari ([[Chairman]], [[Chief executive officer\|CEO]]) <br />Paul Bloch ([[President (corporate title)\|President]])<br />Ian Angelo ([[Chief financial officer\|CFO]])<br />Sven Oehme ([[Chief ~~revenue~~technology officer\|~~CRO~~CTO]]) \| num_employees = ~~492~~1000 (~~2019~~2021)<ref>{{Cite news \|title= DataDirect Networks ~~Company Profile~~ \|work= ~~Craft~~Owler \|url= https://~~craft~~www.coowler.com/company/~~datadirect-networks-~~ddn \|accessdate= ~~September~~March 273, ~~2019~~2021 }}</ref> \| products = Data storage hardware and software \| homepage = {{~~Url~~URL \|www.ddn.com}} \| industry = [[Computer data storage]] }} ~~{{Use mdy dates\|date=January 2012}}~~ Founded in 1998, '''DataDirect Networks''' (DDN) is a provider of large storage systems for [[unstructured data]] and [[big data]], like [[AI]], analytics and high performance computing (HPC) environments. The company is headquartered in [[Chatsworth, California]], USA, has about 1000 employees,<ref>[http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/04/19/datadirect-plugs-into-santa-clara.html?page=all Donato-Weinstein, N.: “DataDirect plugs into Santa Clara,”] Silicon Valley Business Journal, April 22, 2013]</ref> and in 2011 called itself the largest privately held information storage company.<ref>{{Cite news \|title= DataDirect Networks discusses new system, IBM relationship \|author= Dave Raffo \|work= Storage Soup \|date= September 20, 2011 \|url= http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/datadirect-networks-discusses-new-system-ibm-relationship/ \|accessdate= October 12, 2016 }}</ref> Acquisitions in 2018 and 2019 added product lines which address more standard IT workloads like virtualization, databases and file sharing. <ref>[https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/10/09/ddn-uses-acquisitions-to-grow-in-the-enterprise/]</ref] '''DataDirect Networks''' ('''DDN''') is a privately held data storage company,<ref>{{Cite news\|author=Dave Raffo\|date=September 20, 2011\|title=DataDirect Networks discusses new system, IBM relationship\|work=Storage Soup\|url=http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/datadirect-networks-discusses-new-system-ibm-relationship/\|accessdate=October 12, 2016\|archive-date=October 13, 2016\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013075442/http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/datadirect-networks-discusses-new-system-ibm-relationship/\|url-status=dead}}</ref> and is headquartered in [[Chatsworth, California]], USA. 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. Competition includes [[EMC Corporation]], [[NetApp]], [[IBM]], [[Hewlett-Packard]] and others.<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> ==~~History~~ Summary == ~~The company was founded in 1988 under the name MegaDrive Systems. MegaDrive merged with ImpactData, in 1998, to create DataDirect Networks.~~ Alex Bouzari is the company's CEO, chairman and co-founder.<ref>[http://www.storagenewsletter.com/rubriques/people/interview-alex-bouzari-datadirect-networks/ “Exclusive Interview of Alex Bouzari, CEO of DataDirect Networks,”] StorageNewsletter, Jan 17, 2011]</ref> Paul Bloch is president and co-founder. DDN provides storage systems for [[unstructured data]] and [[big data]], like [[AI]], analytics and high performance computing (HPC) environments, in enterprise, government and academia sectors. 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 }}</ref> In 2002, the company ended its relationship with its venture capital financiers.<ref>{{Cite web \|title= How To Defend Your Dream Against All Odds: Alex Bouzari, CEO of DataDirect Networks \|work= One Million by One Million Blog \|date= October 16, 2011 \|url= http://www.sramanamitra.com/2011/10/16/how-to-defend-your-dream-against-all-odds-alex-bouzari-ceo-of-datadirect-networks-part-4/ \|accessdate= October 12, 2016 }}</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> Although privately held, DDN announced that it had achieved annual revenue of $400 million and its highest profitability in 2020. With more than 11,000 customers and a network of resellers and distributors, DDN delivered 52 percent in revenue growth from 2018 to 2020. 2020 was also the fifth consecutive year of customer expansion, and revenue and profitability growth for DDN.<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=2021-03-16\|website=Blocks and Files\|language=en-GB}}</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 2011, DDN reported that it had exceeded the $200M annual revenue mark,<ref>[https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=68562 Baltazar, H.: “DataDirect accelerates sales past $200m plateau, eyes analytics,”] 451 Research, July 28, 2011]</ref> and was reported to be the world's largest privately held storage company, based on 2009 revenues.<ref>[http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/datadirect-networks-called-no-1-among-private-storage-vendors/ Raffo, D.: “DataDirect Networks called No. 1 among private storage vendors,”] Storage Soup , Jan 12, 2011]</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 worldwide, up from 67 percent in 2015.<ref>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/07/ddn_ups_top_500_supercomputer_showing</ref> 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 Corporation [[Western Digital]].<ref>[https://searchstorage.techtarget.com/news/252471218/DDN-storage-expands-buys-Western-Digitals-IntelliFlash]</ref> 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> ~~==Products==~~ == History == The company carries products that provide block, parallel file and [[object storage]]. [[Block storage]] devices store data in chunks with a maximum fixed length. Parallel file systems spread the data across more than one storage device to provide redundancy and increase performance. Object file systems separate the file metadata information from the rest of the file data and store them in separate devices. The Lustre and Spectrum Scale file systems are examples of parallel file systems that are supported by some of DDN's storage systems. High speed interconnects such as [[InfiniBand]] are also supported by some of DDN's storage systems. 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> The company also provides a storage management tool to configure and monitor DDN storage devices as well as a line of [[flash storage]] appliances. For example, DDN's Infinite Memory Engine (IME), a flash-native data cache, allows data to reside next to compute in a very fast, shared pool of non-volatile memory (NVM).<ref>[[Non-volatile memory]]</ref>{{Circular reference\|date=April 2018}} 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> ~~==Notable awards and achievements==~~ ~~{{Advert\|date=October 2018}}~~ ~~2008:~~ 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> In 2002, the company ended its relationship with its venture capital financiers.<ref>{{Cite web \|title= How To Defend Your Dream Against All Odds: Alex Bouzari, CEO of DataDirect Networks \|work= One Million by One Million Blog \|date= October 16, 2011 \|url =http://www.sramanamitra.com/2011/10/16/how-to-defend-your-dream-against-all-odds-alex-bouzari-ceo-of-datadirect-networks-part-4/ \|accessdate= October 12, 2016 }}</ref> [[Frost & Sullivan]] awards DDN its World Disk Storage for Digital Media Market Product Differentiation Innovation Award.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20101121125012/http://ddn.com/pdfs/FROST-Innovation2008.pdf “2008 World Disk Storage for Digital Media Market Product Differentiation Innovation Award,”] Frost & Sullivan, 2008]</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 2011, DDN reported that it had exceeded the $200M annual revenue mark,<ref>[https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=68562 Baltazar, H.: “DataDirect accelerates sales past $200m plateau, eyes analytics,”] 451 Research, July 28, 2011]</ref> and was reported to be the world's largest privately held storage company, based on 2009 revenues.<ref>[http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/datadirect-networks-called-no-1-among-private-storage-vendors/ Raffo, D.: “DataDirect Networks called No. 1 among private storage vendors,”] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808035953/http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/datadirect-networks-called-no-1-among-private-storage-vendors/ \|date=2014-08-08 }} Storage Soup , Jan 12, 2011]</ref> ~~2009:~~ 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\| title = DDN ups Top 500 showing • The Register\| website = [[The Register]]}}</ref> In 2017, DDN earned the [[Unicorn (finance)\|unicorn]] status.<ref>{{cite web \| url=http://www.storagenewsletter.com/2017/06/06/storage-unicorn-update-june-2017/ \| title=Storage Unicorn – Update: Private Storage Firms with $1 Billion Valuation \| date=6 June 2017 }}</ref> In June 2018, DDN acquired the [[Lustre (file system)\|Lustre filesystem]] storage team from Intel, reviving the [[Whamcloud]] brand.<ref>{{cite web Frost & Sullivan awards DDN its World Disk Storage for Best Practice For Video Surveillance Capture & Archive.<ref>[http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/datadirect-networks-scalable-storage-technology-recognized-leading-storage-analyst-as-1201941.htm “DataDirect Networks Scalable Storage Technology Recognized by Leading Storage Analyst as a Best Practice for Video Surveillance Capture & Archive,”] Market Wired, 2009]</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 expanded further with the purchase of the virtualization focused storage company [[Tintri]].<ref>{{cite web \| url=https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/ddn-completes-60-million-tintri-acquisition-and-enters-enterprise-virtualization-market/ \| title=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>{{cite web \| url=https://searchstorage.techtarget.com/news/252471218/DDN-storage-expands-buys-Western-Digitals-IntelliFlash \| title=DDN storage expands, buys Western Digital's IntelliFlash }}</ref> These last 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> 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> ~~2010:~~ DDN operates in 20 countries with customers in over 50 countries.<ref>{{Cite news\|title=About Us - DDN.com\|language=en-US\|work=DDN.com\|url=https://www.ddn.com/company/about-us/\|access-date=2021-03-17}}</ref> Following acquisitions in 2018 and 2019, the company has around 1,000 employees and has more than 150 patents. Between 2018 and 2020, DDN increased its R&D budget by 65%, with approximately two-thirds of staff in R&D and customer-facing technical roles.<ref>{{Citation\|title=Alex Bouzari: Delivering Intelligent Technology and Infrastructure for a Changing World\|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD6M63TOErM\|language=en\|access-date=2021-03-17}}</ref> DDN announces inclusion in [[Deloitte]]'s Technology Fast 500™.<ref>[http://technews.tmcnet.com/wireless-backhaul/news/2010/10/28/5098912.htm “Surge in Demand for Dynamic Content Infrastructure Propels DataDirect Networks Into Deloitte's Technology Fast 500(TM),”] TMCnet, 2010]</ref> == Products == ~~2011:~~ The company carries products that provide [[data management]], [[network-attached storage]], [[Block (data storage)\|block data storage]], [[clustered file system]]s and [[object storage]]. Customers typically need low latency, high capacity and sustained throughput. DDN announces that it has been selected for its seventh HPCWire award, as its Storage Fusion Architecture wins an Editors' Choice Award in the category of Best HPC Storage Product or Technology.<ref>[http://www.hpcwire.com/2011-annual-hpcwire-readers-choice-awards/ “2011 Annual HPCwire Readers Choice Awards,”] HPCwire, Nov 15, 2011]</ref> [[Inc. Magazine]] names DDN as the fastest growing $100M+ computer company, marking its second year of inclusion on the Inc. 500\|5000 list.<ref>[http://www.inc.com/inc5000/list/2011/industry/computer-hardware “Top Computer Hardware Companies on the 2011 Inc. 5000,”] Inc. Magazine, 2011]</ref> ~~2012:~~ DDN's In-Storage Processing™ named among the Top 6 Technologies to Watch in 2012 by Infostor.<ref>[http://www.infostor.com/storage-management/6-storage-networking-trends-to-watch-in-2012.html Robb, D.: “6 Storage Networking Trends to Watch in 2012,”] InfoStor, Dec 14, 2011]</ref> ~~DDN CEO, Alex Bouzari, selected by HPC Wire as one of 2012's “People To Watch”<ref>[http://www.hpcwire.com/people-watch-2012/ Hyman, J.: “People to Watch 2012,”] HPCwire, 2012]</ref>~~ The company is named America's fastest growing $200M+ privately held computer company by Inc. Magazine.<ref>[http://primeurmagazine.com/weekly/AE-PR-10-12-25.html “DataDirect Networks is named America's fastest growing $200M+ privately held computer company by Inc. Magazine,”] Primeur Magazine, Sept 6, 2012]</ref> ~~2013:~~ In 2013 DDN was recognized by the [[Los Angeles Business Journal]] as the fastest growing technology company over $100 million for the 3rd year in a row.<ref>[http://www.backupreview.info/2013/01/18/big-data-leader-datadirect-networks-ddn-recognized-as-fastest-growing-technology-company-over-100-million-on-los-angeles-business-journal%E2%80%99s-list-for-third-year-in-a-row/ “Big Data Leader DataDirect Networks (DDN) Recognized as Fastest Growing Technology Company Over $100 Million on Los Angeles Business Journal’s List for Third Year in a Row,”] Backup Review, Jan, 2013]</ref> DDN won several HPCWire Magazine awards,<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/story/datadirect-networks-big-data-storage-products-earn-top-honors-with-unprecedented-six-hpcwire-readers-and-editors-choice-awards-2013-11-19 “DataDirect Networks Big Data Storage Products Earn Top Honors with Unprecedented Six HPCwire Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards,”] MarketWatch, Nov 19, 2013]</ref> ranging from Top Supercomputing Achievement to Best HPC Storage Product or Technology.<ref>https://www.hpcwire.com/2013-annual-hpcwire-readers-choice-awards/</ref> ~~2014:~~ The company won the [[National Association of Broadcasters]]’ (NAB’s) Best of Show Award for its WOS object storage product.<ref>[http://www.videoedge.net/news/news-articles/and-winners-newbay-media-s-2014-best-show-awards-presented-video-edge-magazine-are/358711 Grotticelli, M.: “And the Winners of NewBay Media’s 2014 Best of Show Awards Presented by 'Video Edge' Magazine Are ...,”] Video Edge, May 9, 2014]</ref> ~~IDC MarketScape named DDN as a leader in the object-based storage market.<ref>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/06/idc_shows_emcs_object_presence_shrinking/</ref>~~ DDN won six of the prestigious HPCwire awards, including Best Use of HPC in the Gas and Oil Industry, Best Application of Big Data in HPC (SFA12K), Best Use of HPC Application in Manufacturing (Readers and Editors), Best HPC Storage Product or Technology (WOS), and Top Five New Products or Technologies to Watch (IME).<ref>https://www.hpcwire.com/2014-hpcwire-readers-choice-awards/</ref> ~~2015:~~ DDN was once again honored to win several HPCwire awards, including Best Storage Product or Technology (Readers and Editors), Best Use of HPC in Automotive (Readers), Best Use of HPC in Manufacturing (Editors), Best Use of HPC in Financial Services (Editors), Best Use of High Performance Data Analytics (Editors), and Best HPC Collaboration between Academia and Industry (Editors).<ref>https://www.hpcwire.com/2015-hpcwire-readers-choice-awards/</ref> DDN won the Best in Video Surveillance Data Storage Award for its GS7K appliance at the SIA New Product Showcase.<ref>https://www.securityindustry.org/Pages/PressReleases/2015/MorphoWAVE-from-Safran-Morpho-Named-Best-New-Product-at-SIA%E2%80%99s-2015-New-Product-Showcase.aspx</ref> ~~DDN's Storage Fusion Xcelerator Cache Accelerator won a Visionary Products Award in the "Professional Class System" category.<ref>https://www.storagevisions.com/2015Awards.htm</ref>~~ ~~2016:~~ The company won the [http://www.svcawards.com/index.php SVC] Storage Company of the Year Award.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.svcawards.com/winners2016.php\|title=SVC Awards\|website=www.svcawards.com\|access-date=2016-12-05}}</ref> [http://www.idc.com/home.jsp IDC MarketScape] named DDN a Global Leader in Object Storage for the fourth year.<ref>{{Cite news\|url=http://www.ddn.com/press-releases/ddn-named-global-leader-in-object-storage-by-idc-marketscape/\|title=DDN Named a Global Leader in Object Storage by IDC - DDN.com\|date=2016-12-15\|newspaper=DDN.com\|language=en-US\|access-date=2016-12-25}}</ref> DDN won the Storage Visions Product Award in the Professional Class Storage category for its WOS 360 Version 2.0 Object Storage Software.<ref>https://www.storagevisions.com/Press%20Releases/sv16rel18%20010416r1.htm</ref> ~~The company was honored to be named Object Storage Vendor the Year at the UK Storage Awards.<ref>http://www.storagemagazine.co.uk/storageawards/?page=winners2016</ref>~~ DDN's FlashScale was recognized as the Golden Bridge Award winner.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.goldenbridgeawards.com/world/ \|title=Archived copy \|access-date=April 21, 2017 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814191346/http://www.goldenbridgeawards.com/world/ \|archive-date=August 14, 2016 \|url-status = dead}}</ref> ~~DDN was selected as Best Big Data Innovator: Data Management in the inaugural Datanami Choice Awards.<ref>https://www.datanami.com/2016-readers-choice-awards/</ref>~~ The company was awarded four of the coveted HPCwire Choice Awards, including Best HPC Storage Product or Technology (Editors), Best HPC Storage Product or Technology (Readers), Best HPC Collaboration between Academia and Industry (Readers), and Best Application of HPC in Entertainment (Editors).<ref>https://www.hpcwire.com/2016-hpcwire-readers-choice-awards/</ref> ~~2017:~~ DDN Assigned Patent (9,652,160) for a "Method and system for data migration between data generating entities and data storage devices protected by de-clustered RAID algorithm are enhanced by dynamically controlling the I/O activity towards the data storage devices, (NVM devices) based on their remaining lifespan, (health) with the goal to prevent multiple devices selected for writing a parity stripe information from simultaneous failures." <ref>https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2017/06/22/ddn-assigned-patent-14/</ref> DDN Assigned Patent (9,639,457) for a "data storage system and method for data migration between high-performance computing architectures and data storage devices using storage controller with distributed XOR capability.<ref>https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2017/05/24/ddn-assigned-patent-13/</ref> ~~The company was chosen as the 2017 Storage, Virtualization, Cloud (SVC) Award for Storage Company of the Year.<ref>http://www.svcawards.com/winners2017.php</ref>~~ The company won the Annual HPCwire Editors’ Choice Award for Best HPC Storage Product or Technology, for Infinite Memory Engine (IME).<ref>https://www.hpcwire.com/2017-hpcwire-awards-readers-editors-choice/</ref> ~~DDN SFA14K® hybrid and hyper-converged solution named the Datanami 2017 Best Big Data Storage Product.<ref>https://www.datanami.com/2017-datanami-readers-editors-choice-awards/14/</ref>~~ ~~DDN Identified as One of the Top Leaders in the Cloud in the 2017 Stratus Awards.<ref>https://www.bintelligence.com/blog/2017/8/17/these-30-companies-are-soaring-in-the-clouds</ref>~~ DDN Earns Storage Unicorn Status. To be included in this select club, a private firm must reach a $1 billion valuation.<ref>http://www.storagenewsletter.com/2017/06/06/storage-unicorn-update-june-2017/</ref> ~~DDN's partner and customer relations manager, Yvonne Walker, has been added by CRN, to its prestigious 2017 Women of the Channel list.<ref>http://www.crn.com/wotc</ref>~~ ~~DDN assigned patent (9,547,616) for a "high bandwidth symmetrical storage controller." <ref>https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2017/03/03/ddn-assigned-patent-12/</ref>~~ ~~DDN's IME scale-out flash cache helps JCAHPC's Oakforest-PACS System Earn #1 Position in Inaugural IO500.<ref>https://www.vi4io.org/io500/start</ref>~~ ~~2018:~~ ~~DDN Named Intel Data Center Platform Partner of the Year for 2017.<ref>https://www.techproviderzone.com/intel-partner-connect-awards~~ ~~</ref>~~ ==References== {{~~Reflist\|30em~~reflist}} ~~==External links==~~ *[http://www.ddn.com/ DataDirect Networks (DDN) web site] [[Category:Companies based in Santa Clara, California]] Line 139 ⟶ 61: [[Category:Companies established in 1998]] [[Category:Computer storage companies]] [[Category:Computer companies of the United States]] [[Category:Computer hardware companies]]