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DDN (DataDirect Networks) is the largest 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}}</ref> and is headquartered in [[Chatsworth, California]], USA.{{Short description|Computer data storage company}}

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DDN ('''DataDirect Networks''' ('''DDN''') is the largesta 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}}</ref> and is headquartered in [[Chatsworth, California]], USA.{{Short description|Computer data storage company}}

== Summary ==

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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.

'''A³I 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^TM SuperPOD and NVIDIA DGX^TM 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>