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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.

Although privately-held, DDN announced that it had achieved record-breaking annual revenue of $400 million and its highest ever profitability in 2020. With an install base of more than 11,000 customers and a network of resellers and distributors, DDN delivered 52 percent in revenue growth from 2018 to 2020 under its DDN and [[Tintri]] brands. 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>

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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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 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> These three acquisitions have been integrated to form an enterprise use case focused business unit underbecame 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 of 2021, DDN reported revenues of $400M400 annuallymillion and claimed 11,000 customers globally.<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>

DDN operates in 20 countries worldwide 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 been awarded 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>

== Corporate ==

DDN operates in 20 countries worldwide 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 been awarded 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>

== Products ==

The company carries products that provide [[data management]], [[Networknetwork-attached storage|NAS]], [[Block (data storage)|block data storage]], [[Clusteredclustered file system|parallel file]]s and [[object storage]].

Customers typically need low latency, high capacity and sustained throughput.

'''<u><big>DDN At-Scale</big></u>'''

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.

== Typical Deployments ==

DDN’s At Scale storage solutions are typically deployed for applications which need low latency, high capacity and sustained throughput. In 2019, IDC estimated the worldwide storage market at approximately $28.7B,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Worldwide and U.S. External Enterprise Storage Systems Forecast Update, 2020–2024|url=https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US46069720|access-date=2021-03-23|website=IDC: The premier global market intelligence company}}</ref> while Intersect360 estimated the market for high-performance storage at approximately $5.8B.<ref>{{Cite web|last=July 24|last2=2020|title=Worldwide HPC 2019 Total Market Model: Storage Revenue Shares|url=https://www.intersect360.com/reports/worldwide-hpc-2019-total-market-model-storage-revenue-shares|access-date=2021-03-23|website=www.intersect360.com|language=en}}</ref> Typical deployments include:

==References==