DataDirect Networks (DDN) develops AI data intelligence and high-performance data infrastructure for organizations running large-scale AI, HPC, analytics, and hybrid cloud workloads. Its portfolio spans storage appliances, parallel file systems, object-based data services, and preconfigured AI infrastructure built to keep data flowing efficiently across training, inference, simulation, and analytics environments.
The company centers its portfolio on a Data Intelligence Platform that combines Infinia and EXAScaler, then extends that foundation into appliances, cloud offerings, orchestration software, and industry-ready deployments. DataDirect Networks (DDN) serves customers building AI factories, sovereign AI environments, cloud platforms, research systems, and enterprise AI estates that require multi-tenant, scalable, high-throughput infrastructure from core to cloud to edge.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
DataDirect Networks (DDN) combines high-throughput file and object data services, metadata-rich data management, multitenancy, security controls, and lifecycle orchestration to support the full AI pipeline. Its capabilities are designed to reduce idle GPU time, accelerate checkpointing and data preparation, support inference and retrieval workflows, and simplify data access across distributed environments.
The company supports deployment across on-premises, public cloud, hybrid, and edge architectures, with offerings tailored for AI factories, private AI clouds, and service-provider environments. It also extends beyond core storage with orchestration for AI-as-a-service models and prevalidated industry pipelines that help customers move from pilot projects into production operations more quickly.
Products and Services
- HyperPOD™: Pre-configured enterprise AI infrastructure package built on NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference designs, using Infinia and partner hardware to accelerate deployment of inference and retrieval-augmented generation environments.
- Data Intelligence Platform: Unified AI data foundation that combines Infinia and EXAScaler to support data preparation, model training, analytics, and inference across enterprise, cloud, and edge environments.
- AI400X3: Next-generation AI data appliance designed for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD and cloud-provider environments, optimized for large-scale AI training and HPC workloads.
- AI400X2 Turbo: All-NVMe high-performance storage appliance built for very large AI workloads, dense GPU environments, and fast checkpointing at scale.
- IntelliFlash: Unified flash platform for midrange AI and enterprise workloads, combining low-latency performance with data reduction, analytics, and multiprotocol consolidation.
- EXAScaler: Parallel file system and appliance family for AI, analytics, and HPC workloads that need extreme throughput, scalable checkpointing, and large namespace performance.
- EXAScaler Cloud: Cloud-native EXAScaler deployment for public cloud and hybrid environments, giving customers parallel file system performance for AI, analytics, and HPC workloads.
- Infinia: AI-native data intelligence platform that unifies distributed data for inference, data preparation, analytics, and model operations across cloud, core, and edge.
- Horizon: AI-as-a-service orchestration platform that adds self-service provisioning, governance, multitenancy, chargeback, and lifecycle management for large GPU and data environments.
- IndustrySync: Prevalidated, industry-specific AI pipelines built on HyperPOD and NVIDIA reference designs to help organizations move from experimentation to production AI more quickly.
- Inferno: Inference acceleration offering built on Infinia to deliver low-latency, high-utilization AI inference across on-premises, cloud, edge, and hybrid environments.
- xFusionAI: Unified AI infrastructure offering that combines EXAScaler and Infinia to support large-scale training, inference, and hybrid data orchestration.
Target Customers
DataDirect Networks (DDN) targets organizations operating large GPU clusters and other data-intensive environments, including hyperscalers, cloud service providers, NVIDIA cloud providers, sovereign AI initiatives, research centers, and large enterprises. Its portfolio also fits internal platform teams building private AI clouds that need multitenancy, governance, chargeback, and fast deployment across data center and cloud environments.
Industry demand spans financial services, healthcare and life sciences, automotive, manufacturing, media and entertainment, telecommunications, higher education, energy, security-focused environments, and the public sector. The company also addresses midrange enterprise requirements for structured-data and mixed workload storage, alongside customers running large-scale training, simulation, analytics, and inference pipelines.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS Marketplace: EXAScaler Cloud is offered for AWS-oriented deployments, supporting AI, HPC, and hybrid cloud bursting use cases with parallel file system performance.
- Microsoft Azure Marketplace: EXAScaler Cloud has a Microsoft Azure Marketplace listing for cloud-native, Lustre-based storage supporting AI, HPC, big data, and hybrid data analysis in Azure.
- Google Cloud Marketplace: Infinia and EXAScaler Cloud are available on Google Cloud Marketplace, and Google Cloud Managed Lustre is based on DDN EXAScaler technology for AI and HPC workloads.
- Oracle Cloud Marketplace: Infinia is available through Oracle Cloud Marketplace for OCI, providing S3-compatible, multitenant AI storage and data intelligence for enterprise cloud deployments.
Key People
- Alex Bouzari: Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder
- Paul Bloch: Chairman of the Board & Co-Founder
- Kevin Delane: President & CRO
- Guido Torrini: Chief Financial Operating Officer
- Omer Asad: Chief Product Officer
- Sven Oehme: Chief Technology Officer
- Mohsen Moazami: Vice Chair
- Stephen Burke: SVP Technical Support & Professional Services
- Amanda Lee: VP, Marketing
- Wendy Stusrud: VP, Worldwide Channel Sales
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Chatsworth, California, United States
- Employees: Approx. 1,300-1,400
- Annual Revenue: $400M-$750M
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: Tintri by DDN, Inc.; Nexenta by DDN, Inc.; IntelliFlash by DDN, Inc.
- Publicly Listed: Private
Analyst Recognitions
- Gartner: 2025 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Enterprise Storage Platforms – Ranked #1 in the U.S. for AI use case.
