DDN

DDN builds high-performance data storage and management infrastructure for artificial intelligence and supercomputing. Its DDN Intelligent Data Platform is designed to handle the data-layer complexity of large AI workloads; the company says it fuels more than 500,000 NVIDIA GPUs and supports over 11,000 organisations. DDN states that it powers 60% of the world's top supercomputing systems and claims up to 98% GPU utilisation and a 10x performance advantage over competitors, alongside 10x faster genomic research.

The technical work spans high-performance data storage, data management and data intelligence platforms, with engineering problems specific to AI infrastructure, GPU-accelerated computing and supercomputing. Application domains include autonomous vehicles, drug discovery, financial modelling and genomics, and the company's AI data infrastructure solutions are aimed at these workloads. Customers and partners include NVIDIA, xAI, Singtel and Fortune 500 enterprises, and DDN reports involvement in nation-scale sovereign AI initiatives.

DDN describes more than 25 years of experience in high-performance data storage and management and is the largest privately held data storage company. It was valued at $5 billion in 2024, the year Blackstone made a $300 million strategic investment. The company operates globally, serving industries ranging from artificial intelligence and high-performance computing to pharmaceuticals, financial services, telecommunications and government.