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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’sworld'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 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>