DataDirect Networks: Difference between revisions

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| 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 officer|CRO]])

| num_employees = 1000 (2021)<ref>{{Cite news |title= DataDirect Networks |work= Owler |url= https://www.owler.com/company/ddn |accessdate= March 3, 2021 }}</ref>

| products = Data storage hardware and software

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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]], United States, 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>

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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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.

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 shared pool of non-volatile memory (NVM). In 2018, DDN introduced a line of all flash products designed to address AI and analytics workloads in GPU compute environments, known as A3I. <ref> [https://www.enterpriseai.news/2018/10/04/ddn-nvidia-blueprints-unified-ai-appliance-with-dgx-1s/]</ref>

DDN's enterprise business unit supplies solutions for virtualization, with Tintri, software defined unified storage, with Nexenta, and all flash primary unified storage, with IntelliFlash.

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==References==

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