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{{Short description|Computer data storage company}}

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{{Infobox company

| name = DataDirect Networks (DDN)

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| 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

| homepage = {{UrlURL |www.ddn.com}}

| industry = [[Computer data storage]]

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'''DataDirect Networks''' ('''DDN''') is a 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|archive-date=October 13, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013075442/http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/datadirect-networks-discusses-new-system-ibm-relationship/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and is headquartered in [[Chatsworth, California]], USA.

== Summary ==

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 annual revenue of $400 million and its highest profitability in 2020. With more than 11,000 customers and a network of resellers and distributors, DDN delivered 52 percent in revenue growth from 2018 to 2020. 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,”] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808035953/http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/datadirect-networks-called-no-1-among-private-storage-vendors/ |date=2014-08-08 }} 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, up from 67 percent in 2015.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/07/ddn_ups_top_500_supercomputer_showing| title = DDN ups Top 500 showing • The Register| website = [[The Register]]}} </ref> In 2017, DDN earned the [[Unicorn (finance)|unicorn]] status.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.storagenewsletter.com/2017/06/06/storage-unicorn-update-june-2017/ | title=Storage Unicorn – Update: Private Storage Firms with $1 Billion Valuation | date=6 June 2017 }}</ref>

In June 2018, DDN acquired the [[Lustre_Lustre (file_systemfile system)|Lustre filesystem]] storage team from Intel, reviving the [[Whamcloud]] brand.<ref>{{cite web

|url=https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/06/27/ddn-breathes-new-life-into-lustre-file-system/

|title=DDN Breathes New Life Into Lustre File System