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{{Infobox company
| name = DataDirect Networks (DDN)
| type = [[Private company|Private]]▼
▲[[File:DDN-Logo-Portrait-CMYK.jpg|thumb]]
| foundation = 1998▼
▲| type = [[Private company|Private]]
| founder = Alex Bouzari<br>Paul Bloch▼
▲| foundation = 1998
▲| founder = Alex Bouzari<br>Paul Bloch
▲| location_city = Chatsworth, [[California]]
| 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 officer|CRO]])▼
▲| location_country = [[United States]]
| num_employees = 1000 (2021)<ref>{{Cite news |title= DataDirect Networks |work= Owler |url= https://www.owler.com/company/ddn |accessdate= March 3, 2021 }}</ref>▼
▲| 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 officer|CRO]])
| products = Data Storage Hardware and Software▼
▲| num_employees = 1000 (2021)<ref>{{Cite news |title= DataDirect Networks |work= Owler |url= https://www.owler.com/company/ddn |accessdate= March 3, 2021 }}</ref>
| homepage = {{Url |www.ddn.com}}▼
▲| products = Data Storage Hardware and Software
| industry = [[Computer Data Storage]]▼
▲| homepage ={{Url |www.ddn.com}}
▲| industry = [[Computer Data Storage]]
}}
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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]],
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>
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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 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
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,”] 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
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 2017, DDN earned the [[Unicorn (finance)|unicorn]] status.<ref>http://www.storagenewsletter.com/2017/06/06/storage-unicorn-update-june-2017/</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>
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