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DDN is the leading provider of Intelligent Infrastructure products which bring simplicity, flexibility and efficiency for markets that are increasingly data-driven.<ref>{{Cite web|last=icomm|date=2021-03-12|title=Tintri drives intelligent infrastructure so you can get ready to ‘let go of the wheel’|url=https://www.itweb.co.za/content/JN1gPvOYKagMjL6m|access-date=2021-03-17|website=ITWeb|language=en}}</ref> As [[Data center management|IT operations]] have gotten more complex and the amount of available data continues to increase, DDN and its Tintri Enterprise Business unit have progressively focused on automation and analytics.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mellor|first=Chris|date=2020-12-10|title=DDN reveals VMstore and Intelliflash updates for 2021|url=https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/12/10/ddn-product-roadmap-2021/|access-date=2021-03-17|website=Blocks and Files|language=en-GB}}</ref> DDN has rounded out its portfolio through acquisition and internal development to address the full complement of storage and data management needs with AI enablement and monitoring, cloud native deployments, and optimizations for all environments and technologies including [[Artificial intelligence|AI]], [[analytics]], [[Graphics processing unit|GPUs]], [[Central processing unit|CPUs]], [[Networking hardware|networking]], [[IT infrastructure|data center infrastructure]], [[Hardware virtualization|virtualized environments]], cloud and [[Object composition|containers]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mellor|first=Chris|date=2020-12-10|title=DDN reveals VMstore and Intelliflash updates for 2021|url=https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/12/10/ddn-product-roadmap-2021/|access-date=2021-03-17|website=Blocks and Files|language=en-GB}}</ref>
As the leader in Intelligent Infrastructure DDN delivers products that are tailor made for the changing environments many data driven companies find themselves in relative to explosive data growth.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Total data volume worldwide 2010-2024|url=https://www.statista.com/statistics/871513/worldwide-data-created/|access-date=2021-03-23|website=Statista|language=en}}</ref> Managing this growth is accomplished with systems that deliver simple scalability of performance and capacity along with insight that drives decision making and planning all simplified through automation and continuous optimization. DDN's leadership in at-scale deployments, including storage for the largest supercomputer in the world<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-11-17|title=DDN Installs 30 SFA18K Series Storage Hardware Devices as Second-Tier Storage|url=https://aithority.com/it-and-devops/data-management/ddn-installs-30-sfa18k-series-storage-hardware-devices-as-second-tier-storage-for-the-supercomputer-fugaku/|access-date=2021-03-23|website=AiThority|language=en-US}}</ref> along with automation capabilities it acquired with Tintri deliver the increased simplicity needed to gain real-time acceleration of business insight.
The realities created by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 along with the emergence of AI as a key technology for deriving business value has pushed organizations to seek out intelligent infrastructure.<ref>{{Cite web|title=COVID-19 digital transformation & technology {{!}} McKinsey|url=https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/how-covid-19-has-pushed-companies-over-the-technology-tipping-point-and-transformed-business-forever|access-date=2021-03-23|website=www.mckinsey.com}}</ref>
The company carries products that provide [[data management]], [[Network storage|NAS]], [[Block (data storage)|block]], [[Clustered file system|parallel file]] and [[object storage]].
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DDN’s At-Scale business unit primarily serves the AI and Analytics, Multi Cloud, Enterprise At Scale, Financial Services, Healthcare, Energy, Manufacturing, Government, Academia and High Performance Computing markets.
'''A<sup>3</sup>I Storage Solutions -''' Packaged storage solutions optimized to accelerate machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads which need to be closely coupled to GPU compute systems. For example, to support NVIDIA solutions such as [[Nvidia|NVIDIA]] DGX<sup>TM</sup> SuperPOD and NVIDIA DGX<sup>TM</sup> A100.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-12-30|title=Integrated and automated management is a key component to handling data-centric growth|url=https://www.enterpriseai.news/2019/12/30/integrated-and-automated-management-is-a-key-component-to-handling-data-centric-growth/|access-date=2021-03-17|website=EnterpriseAI|language=en-US}}</ref> DDN is currently the only storage supplier with a reference architecture for the SuperPOD.<ref>{{Cite web|title=What's New in Deep Learning & Artificial Intelligence from NVIDIA|url=https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/resources/ddn-a3i-reference-architecture/|access-date=2021-03-23|website=NVIDIA|language=en-us}}</ref>
'''EXAScaler Filesystem -''' Exa5 is the latest release of the EXAScaler parallel filesystem which is optimized for high-throughput, low-latency and massive concurrency and scale. It has a shared parallel architecture that allows for linear scaling and concurrent access from AI and HPC compute systems.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Robinson|first=Daniel|date=2018-06-27|title=DDN Breathes New Life Into Lustre File System|url=https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/06/27/ddn-breathes-new-life-into-lustre-file-system/|access-date=2021-03-17|website=The Next Platform|language=en-US}}</ref> It features both appliance deployment models and cloud native deployment for hybrid and cloud AI and analytics workloads, like SAS GRID.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-01-26|title=EXAScaler Cloud by DDN: A shared file system to use with SAS Grid on MS Azure|url=https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/EXAScaler-Cloud-by-DDN-A-shared-file-system-to-use-with-SAS-Grid/m-p/714234#M21291|access-date=2021-03-23|website=communities.sas.com|language=en}}</ref>
'''SFA -''' The SFA platforms are the hardware platforms that underly the DDN file systems solutions. They are available as a block device or appliances running DDN’s filesystems in both EXAScaler and A<sup>3</sup>I configurations.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-09-20|title=DataDirect Unveiled Storage Fusion Architecture 10K-X|url=https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2011/09/20/datadirect-10k-x/|access-date=2021-03-17|website=StorageNewsletter|language=en-US}}</ref>
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'''NexentaStor''' - Software-Defined Storage (SDS) – software-only storage solutions, suitable for deploying on open hardware servers to support telecoms and cloud services, supporting object-, file-, and block filesystem protocols.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Feldman|first=Michael|date=2019-05-06|title=DDN Adds Nexenta to Expanding Storage Empire|url=https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/05/06/ddn-expands-storage-empire/|access-date=2021-03-17|website=The Next Platform|language=en-US}}</ref>
== Typical Deployments ==
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