DDN is a pioneer in high-performance data storage and management, dedicated to delivering innovative solutions that empower organizations across the globe. The company’s commitment to excellence, coupled with cutting-edge technology, enables it to drive performance, scalability, and reliability for its clients. DDN’s expertise and passion for data are transforming industries and shaping the future. DDN has been fortunate to work with some of the best and brightest innovators, and innovation is at the core of what the company does. DDN’s data intelligence platform and parallel processing capabilities are vital for deep learning algorithms, AI, autonomous vehicles, robotics, and complex computing systems. Its GPU-powered AI solutions enable enterprises to develop services and products that were previously unattainable with traditional computing methods. For the past 20 years, DDN’s team has kept the company at the forefront of data technology and has provided the foundation for enabling researchers to push the limits of what can be done. With over $500 million invested in research and development, DDN continues to lead the industry in developing essential technologies for accelerated computing. Its comprehensive platform strategy supports a broad range of use cases and has been adopted by the largest industries, including autonomous driving, financial services, healthcare, research, and academia. DDN powers many of the world’s top supercomputers, underscoring its leadership in high-performance computing and AI development. DDN prides itself on the success and satisfaction of its customers. Leading cloud service providers, consumer internet companies, and public sector entities rely on DDN’s data intelligence platform to enhance their services and deliver exceptional value and results to their clients. DDN’s approach is defined by the following: Industry-Leading Innovation: The company continuously pushes the boundaries of technology, providing cutting-edge solutions that drive performance and efficiency across diverse industries. Unmatched Expertise: The company’s team of experts brings unparalleled knowledge and experience, ensuring clients receive the best solutions tailored to their specific needs. Scalable Solutions: Whether an organization is small or large, the company’s scalable solutions grow with it, offering flexibility and reliability to meet evolving demands. Dedicated Customer Support: The company prioritizes customer satisfaction with a dedicated support team that provides personalized assistance and ensures seamless integration and operation of its solutions. For more information, visit www.ddn.com.

Platforms

HyperPOD™: DDN’s HyperPOD™ platform is a turnkey AI-native data platform that unifies compute, networking, and storage to eliminate data bottlenecks and deliver real-time insights for enterprise AI workloads. It is purpose-built to accelerate inference, RAG, and other AI pipelines with minimal friction and near-real-time data access. HyperPOD™ supports scalable deployments from day one with optimized performance across edge, cloud, and data center environments.

Data Intelligence Platform: DDN’s Data Intelligence Platform is a unified foundation that delivers high performance, efficiency, and flexibility for AI and HPC operations. It maximizes throughput, simplifies data access, and accelerates insights across edge, core, and cloud environments. The platform is built to eliminate data bottlenecks and support large-scale deployments with seamless scalability.

AI400X3: The AI400X3 Series is part of DDN’s next-generation data intelligence platform, purpose-built for the most intensive AI model training and HPC environments. It delivers cutting-edge performance, streamlined deployment, and seamless scalability, making it a core platform for enterprise AI infrastructure. The AI400X3 enables reduced costs, simpler deployments, and high throughput for demanding AI pipelines.

AI400X2 Turbo: DDN’s AI400X2 Turbo is a flagship high-performance storage appliance designed to accelerate the world’s largest AI workloads with unprecedented throughput and ultra-fast networking. It delivers multi-million IOPS and ultra-low latency to maximize GPU utilization and shorten data processing times. The AI400X2 Turbo supports scalability and high operational efficiency for large-scale AI environments.

Inferno: DDN Inferno is an industry-leading inference acceleration solution that cuts latency by up to 10× and delivers sub-millisecond response times for real-time AI applications. Built on the DDN Infinia data platform, it optimizes GPU utilization to achieve peak performance across diverse AI workloads. Inferno seamlessly integrates AI inference workflows across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments to accelerate results.

IntelliFlash: DDN’s IntelliFlash™ provides consistent, scalable performance for structured AI and midrange workloads with low-latency NVMe and intelligent data services. It combines microsecond latency with deduplication, compression, and automated tiering to optimize capacity and throughput. Enterprises choose IntelliFlash™ as a versatile intelligent infrastructure platform that consolidates workloads while simplifying storage administration.

Systems

Cloud: DDN’s EXAScaler Cloud powers AI, HPC, and data-intensive workloads with a high-performance, parallel file system optimized for cloud scalability, delivering blazing throughput and ultra-low latency for large operations such as AI training and simulations. It enables seamless migration across cloud and on-premises environments without performance trade-offs or platform lock-in, helping organizations maximize application output per compute hour. Available in major cloud marketplaces, EXAScaler Cloud supports elastic scaling and rapid deployment, keeping GPUs fully utilized and accelerating AI breakthroughs.

Data Software: DDN’s Data Intelligence Platform unifies, accelerates, and simplifies end-to-end AI pipelines, maximizing performance while reducing cost for AI workloads across edge, core, and cloud. It delivers unmatched speed, efficiency, and reliability, shrinking model training time from weeks to hours and powering continuous inferencing for real-time decision-making.
The platform’s software-defined approach integrates effortlessly across environments, providing comprehensive data management, security, and performance-optimized access for enterprise AI at scale.

Software

EXAScaler®: DDN’s EXAScaler is a high-performance parallel file system that accelerates AI, HPC, and data-intensive workloads by maximizing throughput and minimizing latency. It feeds GPUs with the data they need—keeping them fully utilized and driving faster insights and model training. EXAScaler’s scalable architecture supports massive performance across deployment environments.

EXAScaler Cloud: DDN’s EXAScaler Cloud brings the power of the EXAScaler parallel file system to cloud environments, enabling high-performance file storage for AI and HPC workloads without managing complex infrastructure. It enables scalable operations with consistent performance and access. Organizations can accelerate AI outcomes using managed Lustre services on major cloud platforms.

IndustrySync: IndustrySync provides tailored AI acceleration for specialized workloads by orchestrating metadata-driven data movement and integrating structured and unstructured data across environments. It supports unified AI data pipelines with security and compliance at scale. IndustrySync works across NVIDIA DGX systems and cloud AI platforms to optimize AI workflows.

Infinia Software: DDN’s Infinia software delivers a software-defined data management platform that unifies data access, improves performance, simplifies operations, and scales across core, cloud, and edge environments. It reduces data movement and maximizes efficiency within AI workflows. Infinia provides multi-protocol support, native security features, and high-performance throughput.

Insight Software: DDN Insight offers visibility into the entire environment, enabling monitoring of operations, tracking of resource utilization, and proactive management of performance issues. It provides insights that help maintain peak performance and address challenges before they impact workloads. Insight enhances operational control and system health across deployments.

xFusionAI: DDN’s xFusionAI integrates the high-performance EXAScaler® parallel file system and DDN Infinia into a single, unified platform purpose-built for high-performance AI training and ultra-efficient inference. It optimizes every stage of the AI pipeline to deliver scalable performance, cost efficiency, and seamless data orchestration across hybrid, multi-cloud, and on-prem environments. xFusionAI unites DDN EXAScaler’s high-performance parallel file system with DDN Infinia’s AI-native object-based architecture, creating a single platform for large-scale model training, inference acceleration, and real-time AI applications.

NVIDIA On the Future of Al: NVIDIA explains how AI is evolving from virtual to physical-world applications – and why DDN’s high-performance Data Intelligence platform is a foundational component in this shift. With NVIDIA’s internal AI factories running on DDN for over eight years, the partnership ensures scalable, end-to-end performance that enterprises can replicate with confidence. NVIDIA is Powered by DDN! ~Jensen Huang Founder & CEO / NVIDIA (Read).

Scripps Research Leverages Advanced Data Solutions to Enhance Structural Biology and Vaccine Research: By implementing a high-performance data intelligence platform, Scripps Research optimized data storage, accessibility, and processing, leading to faster research outcomes and groundbreaking discoveries in vaccine development (Read).

DDN EXAScaler Supercharges CINECA’s Early Warning Tsunami Forecasting with the Speed to Save More Lives: One of CINECA’s most critical tasks is what they call “urgent computing”, or the need to compute something in a small fixed time window. Computing these tasks within a small enough window, however, presents an enormous infrastructure challenge that necessitates paramount speed and efficiency. To ensure their newest cluster, Leonardo, would be able to take on these tasks at the speed required, CINECA turned to DDN’s EXAScaler software (Read).​

Powering the AI Era: DDN’s Alex Bouzari

Alex Bouzari, Co-Founder and CEO

Alex Bouzari, Co-Founder and CEO of DDN, is a visionary leader shaping the future of AI and data intelligence. For over two decades, Alex has redefined how organizations harness data to drive innovation, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in AI, high-performance computing (HPC), and analytics. His early recognition of the symbiotic relationship between data-centric computing and AI has positioned DDN as the technology partner of choice for companies tackling humanity’s greatest challenges—from pioneering space exploration to breakthroughs in personalized medicine.

Under Alex’s leadership, DDN has contributed to the transformation of High Performance Computing from a niche field into a foundational pillar of enterprise AI and data-driven decision-making across industries. His relentless focus on innovation, scalability, and customer impact has driven DDN to power AI factories, complex simulations, and financial modeling for over 85 of the Fortune 500, including 7 of the top 10 global financial services firms and 6 of the top 10 automotive companies. Visionary customers such as NVIDIA and Elon Musk’s xAI trust DDN’s data intelligence platforms to accelerate their AI pipelines and reduce time-to-market for groundbreaking products. Alex’s ability to anticipate technological inflection points has led to partnerships that deepen DDN’s integration across the AI ecosystem, enabling customers to thrive in an era of exponential data growth and compute demands.

Together with co-founder Paul Bloch, Alex has spearheaded initiatives that empower enterprises to unlock new business models through AI. His thought leadership on AI-driven business transformation has inspired a generation of data leaders, cementing DDN’s role as the preeminent force in AI data intelligence. Through a combination of strategic foresight, product excellence, and a passion for customer success, Alex Bouzari continues to shape the future of AI, ensuring that organizations across the globe can fully realize the potential of their data to drive human progress and prosperity.

Paul Bloch, President and Co-Founder 

Paul is the President and Co-Founder of DataDirect Networks (DDN), a global leader in AI and data intelligence infrastructure, where he has helped guide the company’s growth and strategic direction. He is a successful and driven serial entrepreneur in technology fields, with extensive experience in driving innovation and performance in high-performance computing and data storage solutions. Bloch holds a degree from the California Institute of Technology and is a long-standing leader in the technology community. Under his leadership, DDN has expanded its role powering mission-critical AI, scientific research, and enterprise applications worldwide.

Jyothi Swaroop, Chief Marketing Officer

Jyothi is the Chief Marketing Officer at DDN, where he leads the company’s global marketing strategy and positioning in AI and data intelligence. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Information Science from Visvesvaraya Technological University. Swaroop has extensive experience in technology marketing leadership, including senior roles across enterprise software and tech companies prior to joining DDN.

Sven Oehme, Chief Technology Officer

Sven is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at DataDirect Networks (DDN), driving the company’s innovation in AI-driven data intelligence. He leads the technological vision and strategy to empower enterprises, research institutions, and AI-driven organizations with scalable, high-performance data platforms that accelerate business transformation.

With over 30 years in the industry, Sven has a deep track record of delivering AI-optimized data platforms that enable organizations to extract real-time insights, optimize AI workflows, and maximize the value of their data assets. His expertise spans AI infrastructure, data intelligence, and high-performance computing (HPC), positioning DDN as the trusted partner for organizations seeking efficient, AI-ready data ecosystems.

At DDN, Sven leads a world-class engineering team focused on unlocking the full potential of AI through intelligent data management, automated optimization, and seamless multi-cloud integration. His work ensures that businesses can scale AI initiatives with speed, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness—enabling breakthroughs in areas such as AI/ML model training, generative AI, real-time analytics, and autonomous decision-making.

A recognized thought leader, Sven holds multiple patents in AI-driven data technologies and has authored numerous scientific papers. He serves as a strategic advisor to DDN’s largest global customers, helping them navigate the challenges of AI infrastructure, data governance, and enterprise AI adoption. His global perspective, shaped by experience in both Germany and the United States, allows him to align AI innovations with real-world business impact.

As a frequent speaker at industry events, Sven shares insights on the future of AI infrastructure, data intelligence, and HPC, advocating for AI as a force multiplier in business and research. His leadership ensures that DDN remains at the forefront of AI-powered data solutions, enabling organizations worldwide to drive innovation, efficiency, and competitive advantage in the AI era.

DDN Poised for Historic Growth in Enterprise AI with a $300 Million investment from Blackstone at $5 Billion Valuation: DDN, the global leader in AI and data intelligence solutions, today announced a strategic investment of $300 million from Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager, valuing the company at $5 billion. This investment cements DDN’s position as the only choice for organizations seeking to implement scalable, reliable, and secure AI applications that deliver tangible business outcomes with up to 10x returns (Read).

DDN Launches DDN CORE – The Unified Data Engine Powering the AI Factory Era: At the Supercomputing Conference (SC25), DDN, the global leader in AI and data intelligence solutions, unveiled DDN CORE, a breakthrough unified data engine built to sustain the world’s most data-intensive AI and HPC environments (Read).

DDN Infinia Named the Most Innovative Product of the Year in CRN’s 2025 Tech Innovator Awards: the global leader in AI and data intelligence solutions, today announced that its groundbreaking AI data platform, DDN Infinia, has been named the Most Innovative Product of the Year in the AI Infrastructure category of CRN’s 2025 Tech Innovator Awards (Read).

DDN’s Alex Bouzari and Paul Bloch Named EY US Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2025 Greater Los Angeles Award winners: DDN, the global leader in AI and data intelligence solutions, today announced that Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) has named Co-Founders Alex Bouzari, CEO, and Paul Bloch, President, the Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2025 Greater Los Angeles Award winners. Entrepreneur Of The Year is the preeminent competitive awards program for entrepreneurs and leaders of high-growth companies (Read).

DDN Teams With NVIDIA to Help Enterprises Transform Unstructured Data into AI-Driven Business Value: DDN®, the global leader in AI and data intelligence solutions, today announced it is redefining enterprise infrastructure by turning storage into an intelligent, AI-native platform that fuels real-time insight, faster decisions, and measurable impact with the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design (Read).

DDN Secures Top Position on CRN’s Cloud 100 List for 2025: DDN, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and data intelligence solutions, has been recognized on the 2025 Cloud 100 list by CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company. This prestigious CRN list spotlights 100 leading channel-focused cloud companies across five key categories: cloud infrastructure, management, security, software, and storage (Read).

For the first time, Indian companies are investing 20x in high-performance computing: Paul Bloch of DDN: The president and co-founder of data storage company DDN on being the backbone of Nvidia, and why India is one of their largest markets (Read).

DDN received a $300 million strategic investment from funds managed by Blackstone, valuing the company at $5 billion to help fuel its growth in AI and data intelligence infrastructure. DDN’s earlier funding rounds included backing from ClearLight Partners and other investors prior to the January 9, 2025 Blackstone deal, indicating a mix of private equity support over time (Read).

Corporate Social Responsibility

DDN is committed to maintain high standards of business and professional conduct. The company has taken the initiative to develop a management system based on its core values.

DDN’s company culture is based on its core values which define its business policies and practices which provide accountability and enable establishing relationships with environmentally responsible business partners. DDN’s core values are aligned to the fundamentals of the Code of Conduct as established by the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC).

DDN’s Commitment

In its commitment to maintain high standards of Corporate Social Responsibility, DDN conducts ethical business which is in compliance to applicable laws and regulations. In doing so, the company has designed and developed its management system around the following structure.

Management System

• Organization
• Objectives

Business Ethics

• DDN’s Business Ethics
• Code of Conduct

Operations

• Environmental
• Health & Safety
• Business Continuity

Supply Chain Management

• Supplier Responsibility
• Conflict Minerals