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Acquisitions in 2018 and 2019 added product lines which address more standard IT workloads like virtualization, databases and file sharing. <ref>[https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/10/09/ddn-uses-acquisitions-to-grow-in-the-enterprise/]</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. Competition includes [[EMC Corporation]], [[NetApp]], [[IBM]], [[Hewlett-Packard]] and others.<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>

== History ==

==History==

The company was founded in 1988 under the name MegaDrive Systems. MegaDrive merged with ImpactData, in 1998, to create DataDirect Networks.

Alex Bouzari is the company's CEO, chairman and co-founder.<ref>[http://www.storagenewsletter.com/rubriques/people/interview-alex-bouzari-datadirect-networks/ “Exclusive Interview of Alex Bouzari, CEO of DataDirect Networks,”] StorageNewsletter, Jan 17, 2011]</ref> Paul Bloch is president and co-founder.

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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>

== Products ==

The company carries products that provide block, parallel file and [[object storage]]. [[Block storage]] devices store data in chunks with a maximum fixed length. Parallel file systems spread the data across more than one storage device to provide redundancy and increase performance. Object file systems separate the file metadata information from the rest of the file data and store them in separate devices. The Lustre and Spectrum Scale file systems are examples of parallel file systems that are supported by some of DDN's storage systems. High speed interconnects such as [[InfiniBand]] are also supported by some of DDN's storage systems.

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* 2014: [[National Association of Broadcasters]]' Best of Show Award for its WOS object storage product.<ref>[http://www.videoedge.net/news/news-articles/and-winners-newbay-media-s-2014-best-show-awards-presented-video-edge-magazine-are/358711 Grotticelli, M.: “And the Winners of NewBay Media’s 2014 Best of Show Awards Presented by 'Video Edge' Magazine Are ...”], Video Edge, May 9, 2014]</ref>

* 2015: Best in Video Surveillance Data Storage Award for its GS7K appliance at the SIA New Product Showcase.<ref>https://www.securityindustry.org/Pages/PressReleases/2015/MorphoWAVE-from-Safran-Morpho-Named-Best-New-Product-at-SIA%E2%80%99s-2015-New-Product-Showcase.aspx</ref>

* 2016:

The company won the [http://www.svcawards.com/index.php SVC] Storage Company of the Year Award.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.svcawards.com/winners2016.php|title=SVC Awards|website=www.svcawards.com|access-date=2016-12-05}}</ref>

[http://www.idc.com/home.jsp IDC MarketScape] named DDN a Global Leader in Object Storage for the fourth year.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.ddn.com/press-releases/ddn-named-global-leader-in-object-storage-by-idc-marketscape/|title=DDN Named a Global Leader in Object Storage by IDC - DDN.com|date=2016-12-15|newspaper=DDN.com|language=en-US|access-date=2016-12-25}}</ref>

DDN won the Storage Visions Product Award in the Professional Class Storage category for its WOS 360 Version 2.0 Object Storage Software.<ref>https://www.storagevisions.com/Press%20Releases/sv16rel18%20010416r1.htm</ref>

The company was honored to be named Object Storage Vendor the Year at the UK Storage Awards.<ref>http://www.storagemagazine.co.uk/storageawards/?page=winners2016</ref>

DDN's FlashScale was recognized as the Golden Bridge Award winner.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.goldenbridgeawards.com/world/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=April 21, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814191346/http://www.goldenbridgeawards.com/world/ |archive-date=August 14, 2016 |url-status = dead}}</ref>

DDN was selected as Best Big Data Innovator: Data Management in the inaugural Datanami Choice Awards.<ref>https://www.datanami.com/2016-readers-choice-awards/</ref>

The company was awarded four of the coveted HPCwire Choice Awards, including Best HPC Storage Product or Technology (Editors), Best HPC Storage Product or Technology (Readers), Best HPC Collaboration between Academia and Industry (Readers), and Best Application of HPC in Entertainment (Editors).<ref>https://www.hpcwire.com/2016-hpcwire-readers-choice-awards/</ref>

2017:

DDN Assigned Patent (9,652,160) for a "Method and system for data migration between data generating entities and data storage devices protected by de-clustered RAID algorithm are enhanced by dynamically controlling the I/O activity towards the data storage devices, (NVM devices) based on their remaining lifespan, (health) with the goal to prevent multiple devices selected for writing a parity stripe information from simultaneous failures." <ref>https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2017/06/22/ddn-assigned-patent-14/</ref>

DDN Assigned Patent (9,639,457) for a "data storage system and method for data migration between high-performance computing architectures and data storage devices using storage controller with distributed XOR capability.<ref>https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2017/05/24/ddn-assigned-patent-13/</ref>

The company was chosen as the 2017 Storage, Virtualization, Cloud (SVC) Award for Storage Company of the Year.<ref>http://www.svcawards.com/winners2017.php</ref>

The company won the Annual HPCwire Editors’ Choice Award for Best HPC Storage Product or Technology, for Infinite Memory Engine (IME).<ref>https://www.hpcwire.com/2017-hpcwire-awards-readers-editors-choice/</ref>

DDN SFA14K® hybrid and hyper-converged solution named the Datanami 2017 Best Big Data Storage Product.<ref>https://www.datanami.com/2017-datanami-readers-editors-choice-awards/14/</ref>

DDN Identified as One of the Top Leaders in the Cloud in the 2017 Stratus Awards.<ref>https://www.bintelligence.com/blog/2017/8/17/these-30-companies-are-soaring-in-the-clouds</ref>

DDN Earns Storage Unicorn Status. To be included in this select club, a private firm must reach a $1 billion valuation.<ref>http://www.storagenewsletter.com/2017/06/06/storage-unicorn-update-june-2017/</ref>

DDN's partner and customer relations manager, Yvonne Walker, has been added by CRN, to its prestigious 2017 Women of the Channel list.<ref>http://www.crn.com/wotc</ref>

DDN assigned patent (9,547,616) for a "high bandwidth symmetrical storage controller." <ref>https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2017/03/03/ddn-assigned-patent-12/</ref>

DDN's IME scale-out flash cache helps JCAHPC's Oakforest-PACS System Earn #1 Position in Inaugural IO500.<ref>https://www.vi4io.org/io500/start</ref>

2018:

DDN Named Intel Data Center Platform Partner of the Year for 2017.<ref>https://www.techproviderzone.com/intel-partner-connect-awards

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==References==

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==External links==

*[httphttps://www.ddn.com/ DataDirectOfficial Networks (DDN) web sitewebsite]

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