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Five Considerations to Help Ensure Long-Term AI Program Success

Analytics, AI and Deep Learning continue to make extensive inroads into data-oriented industries presenting significant opportunities for Enterprises and research organizations. However, the potential for AI to improve b Read more…

DDN in Product Line Refresh, Multi-level Security for Lustre

Ahead of next week’s SC16 conference, high end storage vendor DataDirect Networks today announced a raft of product line updates, including a new burst buffer appliance and updates to its block and file storage applian Read more…

Latest DDN Launch Fills out its WOS Object Storage Line

DataDirect Networks (DDN) today introduced a third member to its WOS object storage product line, the WOS 8460, aimed at active archive and collaboration use cases. Object storage, once mainly restricted to ‘cold’ ar Read more…

DDN Flashes New All-flash Arrays for Enterprise Use Cases at Scale

DDN, a high-end storage standard bearer, this morning joined the ranks of storage vendors offering new all-flash technology with the launch of Flashscale, a family of all-flash, scale-out and scale-up products designed f Read more…

DDN Weaves a Little HPC Magic Into Its First Commercial NAS Product

DataDirect Networks is a well-known provider of high-end storage solutions for HPC applications that rely on fast parallel file systems, like GPFS and Lustre. The HPC world will definitely benefit from today's launch of Read more…

DDN Tackles Enterprise Storage Needs as ‘Wolfcreek’ Looms

When it comes to keeping supercomputers fed with data, there are few storage makers that can keep up with DataDirect Networks. But increasingly, DDN is feeling pressure from enterprises that are struggling to keep up wit Read more…

DDN Updates Storage Appliance for Really Big Data

There is big data. And then there is really, really big data. With the capability to store up to 983 petabytes and 32 trillion unique objects in a cluster of object storage systems, the new Web Object Scaler (WOS) offering unveiled by DataDirect Networks today is designed for truly massive collections of unstructured data. Read more…

DDN Casts Hadoop with HPC Hook

Between the ingestion, storage, processing and distribution of large, multi-structured data volumes, there is bound to be complexity, especially when it’s happening within a Hadoop cluster. However, according to HPC storage company, Data Direct Networks (DDN), all it takes to remedy the hassles is a Hadoop appliance that... Read more…

Video Interview: Mellanox CEO, DDN Talk Big Data Future

Mellanox and DDN have been working together for nearly eight years, before the big data enterprise market really started to take shape. Now, the two companies are adapting storage infrastructures to better suit companies looking to store and analyze in the cloud and in Hadoop clusters. Read more…

Simplifying Big Data Storage Management

Today, organizations are facing an exponential increase in the amount of data being created. The ability to successfully manage this data, coupled with the growing complexity of storage infrastructures is creating significant challenges for IT managers. While the cost of maintaining storage infrastructures continues to increase, headcount and budget remains fixed. What is needed is an advanced management platform that reduces the cost and complexity of storage management. Read more…

This Week’s Big Data Big Five

This week we swoop in over Cray’s headquarters in Seattle, where all is uncharacteristically bright and sunny, look into what DDN is doing to simplify big data storage, gaze briefly at Actian Corporation and its... Read more…

Finland’s Big Data Storage Leap

Finland-based CSC, the government-sponsored Center for Science Ltd., provides the balance between academic and industry R&D and IT resource management in the country. In an effort to address its massive storage needs, the organization announced key multi-million-Euro.... Read more…

DDN Addresses Scalability Wall

Data Direct Networks (DDN) issued a letter to the high performance computing community this week following the supercomputing industry's annual conference that addresses the storage side of the big data and exascale eras that are necessitating I/O innovations. Read more…

DDN Intros New Big Data Appliances

Today Data Direct Networks unveiled a new product series that focuses on the needs of data-intensive applications. The SFA12K line is aimed at improving latency for big data workloads. Read more…

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