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https://www.hpcwire.com/2020/06/16/ddn-rebrands-targeting-hpc-and-enterprise/ June 16, 2020 Long-time HPC storage technology leader DDN unveiled a new strategy today replete with a new logo, refreshed website, and two distinct business units, DDN, serving its traditional HPC plus AI base, and Tintri, serving traditional enterprise and virtualized/cloud environments. The rebranding has been two years in the making during which DDN made key acquisitions and set out to expand its market footprint. “Over the last two decades,  DDN  has developed a strong reputation and a significant global footprint in the areas of AI, big data, multicloud, and high-performance computing. Our customers’ sustained trust in us and our products has made us the largest privately held storage company,” said Alex Bouzari, CEO and co-founder, DDN, in the official announcement. “With our recent acquisitions and continued investment in innovation, we have the technology and expertise to optimize bu...

https://www.hpcwire.com/2019/06/17/at-isc-ddn-launches-exa5-for-ai-big-data-hpc-workloads/ June 17, 2019 DDN, for two decades competing at the headwaters of high performance storage, this morning announced an enterprise-oriented end-to-end high performance storage and data management for AI, big data and HPC acceleration. In so doing, the company said it’s bringing to the burgeoning enterprise market for AI some of the transferable capabilities – with an emphasis on small file speed-ups required in AI workloads –that the company has developed for HPC. Launched here at the  ISC High Performance Conference  in Frankfurt, EXA5 is the newest version of DDN’s EXAscaler Storage, designed to make the EXAscaler infrastructure easier to consume by offering what the company said are deeper integrations into AI and HPC ecosystems through simpler implementation and scaling models, visibility into workflows and global data management features. DDN said EXA5 allows for scaling ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. ,  Nov. 22, 2019  — DDN, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multicloud data management, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of the IntelliFlash business from Western Digital Corp. The acquisition of IntelliFlash expands DDN’s portfolio of intelligent infrastructure offerings for the enterprise with best-in-class NVMe flash solutions and highly versatile hybrid storage arrays, backed by an industry leading AI-enabled, predictive analytics platform. With IntelliFlash, DDN extends its market leadership in end-to-end data management solutions and enables enterprises to solve their most demanding data center requirements across AI, analytics, IoT, multicloud, and virtualized environments. “IntelliFlash adds the most powerful and versatile NVMe, hybrid flash and predictive analytics platform in the industry to DDN’s market leading enterprise storage offering for virtualized environments, IoT and data at scale re...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 25, 2018 — DataDirect Networks (DDN) today announced its acquisition of Intel’s Lustre File System business and related assets for undisclosed terms. This important acquisition reinforces DDN’s presence as the global market leader for data at scale, while providing Lustre customers with enhanced field support and a well-funded technology roadmap. The acquisition also enables DDN to expand Lustre’s leading position from high performance computing (HPC) and Exascale into high growth markets such as analytics, AI and hybrid cloud. DDN has spent the past decade developing and bringing to market some of the most advanced technologies for data processing at scale targeted at on premise or hybrid cloud environments, including DDN’s SFA OS Big Data embedded software, its distributed cloud and object technology, and more recently its IME software suite for flash, NVMe and GPU acceleration. The acquisition of Intel’s Lustre file system capability is a ...

Discover the developments that are advancing Lustre into the next decade! At the 2018 Lustre User Group (LUG) , DDN will share how we are substantially increasing our commitment to Lustre* and how this greatly benefits the HPC community: $20+ million investment in Lustre* file system-related engineering and support activities. Development work focused on performance, RAS, data lifecycle management and security . Innovative Lustre-based work for Analytics, AI, Deep Learning and Machine Learning applications . Exciting new products in all-flash, midrange cost-optimized platforms, high-end flagship high performance solutions, and file systems. Paul Bloch, Robert Triendl, and key Lustre developers will be available to solicit your feedback, share DDN Lustre community contributions, and explore the full r...

A Shared Vision of the Future of HPC Drives this Successful, Multi-Generation Collaboration SANTA CLARA, Calif. – February 1 7 , 2017 – DataDirect Networks (DDN®) today announced that the  Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech)   has selected DDN as its strategic storage infrastructure provider for the new TSUBAME3.0 supercomputing system. The innovative design of the TSUBAME3.0 is a major step along an evolutionary path toward a fundamental convergence of data and compute. TSUBAME3.0 breaks with many of the conventions of the world’s top supercomputers, incorporating elements and design points from containerization, cloud, artificial intelligence (AI) and Big Data, and it exhibits extreme innovation in the area of power consumption and system efficiency. “As we run out the clock on Moore’s law, performance enhancements will increasingly be driven by improvements in data access times that come from faster storage media and networks, innovative...

업계에서 가장 빠른 스토리지 플랫폼 및 Intel® 엔터프라이즈 에디션 for Lustre 3.0을 통합 한 EXAScaler 3.0 솔루션은 세계에서 가장 선진적인 Lustre 기기이며, 특히 HPC 및 데이터 집약적 인 기업 환경에 이상적입니다. 2016년 10월 18일 보도 자료  데이터 다이렉트 네트웍스는 오늘 EXAScaler ®의 최고 성능의 Lustre 솔루션을 발표했습니다.  당사의 업계 최고 속도의 스토리지 플랫폼 및 Intel® 엔터프라이즈 에디션 for Lustre 3.0을 통합 한 EXAScaler 3.0 솔루션은 세계에서 가장 선진적인 Lustre 기기이며, 특히 HPC 및 데이터 집약적인 기업 환경에 이상적입니다.  Intel®과의 긴밀한 협력을 통한 개발 및 글로벌 규모로의 전면적인 지원을 통해 EXAScaler는 세계 최고의 Lustre의 최대 성능을 도입, 확장, 관리를 쉽게 할수있는 어플라이언스로 제공 할 수 있습니다.  우리는 EXAScaler 3.0의 Lustre의 핵심인 Intel® 엔터프라이즈 에디션 for Lustre 3.0의 모든 주요 기능의 개발자이며, 주요 테스터 이었지만, EXAScaler 3.0은 Intel® 엔터프라이즈 에디션의 기능 외에도 데이터의 다운 시간을 크게 줄일 가용성 및 메타 데이터의 확장 효율적인 프로젝트 쿼터 (DSS differentiated storage services) 지원 등 DDN 고유의 성능을 제공합니다.  ■ 공유 프로젝트  수백개의 노드의 기능 테스트의 병행 실시를 지원하는 Lustre 자동화 테스트 시스템  · Collectd과 NoSQL 데이터베이스와 Hadoop위한 elasticsearch 기능 Grafana에서의 시각화와 같은 업계 표준에 따라 한 Lustre 관리 프레임워크 플랫폼  · 보다 효율적으로하고 동시에 OST (오브젝트 스토리지 대상) 사이 네임...