2012 Media Coverage
DDN in the news
27Thursday, Dec. 2012
ChinaByte Storage (in Chinese)
Latest DDN Cloud and Big Data Strategy
“DDN chief operating officer Erwan Menard said that with exciting trends and challenges in the field of global IT, now there is a large amount of data and information generated every day, which...
27Thursday, Dec. 2012
IT 168 (in Chinese)
The Latest DDN Cloud and Big Data Strategy is Gaining Momentum
“Cloud and big data is affecting all levels of IT — not only is there unprecedented innovation in user experience, at a deeper level, the entire IT infrastructure is in upheaval.” Read the Article...
26Wednesday, Dec. 2012
ZDNet China
ZDNet interview: Big Data and HPC popularity
“Mr. Erwan Menard gave ZDNet an exclusive interview to share a strategic view of the latest trends in big data and cloud computing.” Read the Article...
24Monday, Dec. 2012
IT Expert (in Chinese)
New DDN Products to Accommodate More Disk
“DataDirect Networks customers can now use fewer racks and enclosures to expand capacity...” Read the Article...
24Monday, Dec. 2012
CIO/CTO (in Chinese)
DDN Launches Mixed Big Data Storage Appliance
“DDN's latest"bast-level" device can hold its own against other flash file managers on the market.” Read the Article...
21Friday, Dec. 2012
SearchStorage China (in Chinese)
DDN Faces New Challenges in Cloud and Big Data
“Recently, DDN's chief operating officer Erwan Menard introduced to the media the SFA big data storage platform as well as the WOS cloud storage system.” Read the Article...
21Friday, Dec. 2012
Network World China (in Chinese)
DDN: Not Just HPC Experts But Forerunner of Big Data
“DDN's chief operating officer, Mr. Erwan Menard, presented and analyzed the current problems facing high-performance computing and intelligent cloud storage systems...” Read the Article...
19Wednesday, Dec. 2012
ZOL (in Chinese)
The Future of Data Storage: Faster Access and More Capacity
“The high-performance storage company's executive vice president, Jean-Luc Chatelain, believes that the current storage system will collapse...” Read the Article...
18Tuesday, Dec. 2012
Watch Stor (in Chinese)
The Ultimate in Bandwidth: DDN Cloud and Big Data Conference
“DDN chief operating officer Erwan Menard said that Big Data continued to grow exponentially.” Read the Article...
18Tuesday, Dec. 2012
InsideHPC
Cray Awarded $39 Million Supercomputer Contract with German HLRN
“As part of this contract, the HLRN-III system will also include a Cray storage solution, which will incorporate products from DDN” Read the Article...
17Monday, Dec. 2012
The Register
Here's a free tip, Cisco: Don’t buy NetApp unless you're crazy
“But applications are beginning to move to machines with a lot of DAS and, in some cases, to storage arrays with excess server engines in them. NetApp is nowhere in this area. EMC is pushing the idea...
13Thursday, Dec. 2012
The Register
Big Data storage of the future: Fat spinning tubs smothered in NVRAM gravy
“DDN supplies huge great drive arrays that suck in and pump out data at great rates for supercomputing, high performance computing, media and entertainment, pharma and geo-science apps - all the...
13Thursday, Dec. 2012
Newhua (in Chinese)
Annual Inventory: 2012 Storage Industry Top Ten
“I also predicted that in 2012 will be a significant improvement of performance for parallel file system - the metadata extended data. This is undoubtedly taking place in new equipment from IBM GPFS...
12Wednesday, Dec. 2012
The Register
The Future of Storage
"I've been talking to Jean-Luc Chatelain, EVP strategy & technology for DataDirect Networks, and I'd like to check out his view of things with you; it being surprising." Read the Article...
12Wednesday, Dec. 2012
HPCwire
BP Brings Petascale Computing to Oil and Gas Industry
“Their storage systems have been gathered from various vendors, including ... DataDirect Networks.” Read the Article...
10Monday, Dec. 2012
Enterprise Storage Forum
The Year in Storage: Reflection on 2012 and Predictions for 2013
“I forecast that in 2012 there would be significant improvements in parallel file system performance for metadata scaling data. This is happening...” Read the Article...
10Monday, Dec. 2012
DCIA
DCIA Weekly Newsletter
Then a keynote by Jean-Luc Chatelain of DataDirect Networks will highlight the top-line Entertainment Industry Benefits & Drawbacks of Cloud-Delivered Content: Flexibility and Reach vs....
05Wednesday, Dec. 2012
InsideHPC
Video: DDN Ramps Up for Exascale at SC12
“In this video from SC12, Jeff Denworth from Data Direct Networks describes the company’s high performance storage solutions for HPC. Used by 60 percent of the TOP100 supercomputers in the works, DDN...
05Wednesday, Dec. 2012
Network Computing
Object Storage's Path to the Enterprise
“DDN takes an API-agnostic approach on its WOS (Web Object Scaler); it supports its native high-performance API as well as Amazon S3's and CDMI's object APIs. The company also integrates with...
30Friday, Nov. 2012
Ray On Storage
Object Storage Summit Wrap Up
“WOS object storage supports just about any interface you want...” Read the Article...
29Thursday, Nov. 2012
Computer Technology Review
Why Raid is Wrong at Hyperscale
“One of the dirtiest secrets in the storage industry today is its near-universal dependency on RAID-protected disks to prevent the loss of data.” Read the Article...
28Wednesday, Nov. 2012
Wired
Indiana University Deploys 5 Petabyte Data Capacitor II
“In early December, Indiana University will begin receiving storage equipment from DataDirect Networks to begin construction of Data Capacitor II (DCII).” Read the Article...
28Wednesday, Nov. 2012
Datanami
Video Interview: Mellanox CEO, DDN Talk Big Data Future
“According to Denworth, traditional enterprise storage systems require copying data multiple times, an inefficient use of storage space for an organization trying to run big data analytics. “We’re...
28Wednesday, Nov. 2012
Extreme Tech
Caltech and UVic set 339Gbps internet speed record
“There was also a Data Direct Networks (DDN) system, with a total of 288 SAS (serially-attached SCSI) 15,000 rpm drives.” Read the Article...
27Tuesday, Nov. 2012
Cloud Computing Journal
Ceph Day Amsterdam 2012 (Object and Cloud Storage)
“There are also the tin wrapped software (e.g. appliances or pre-packaged) solutions such as Dell DX (Caringo), DataDirect Networks (DDN) WOS, EMC ATMOS … these solutions can be used to build...
25Sunday, Nov. 2012
Inside Big Data
Steve Simms on the Data Capacitor II at Indiana University
“IU partnered with DataDirect Networks to develop Data Capacitor II, which is scheduled to be installed in the IU Data Center in spring 2013.” Read the Article...
23Friday, Nov. 2012
Computerworld (UK)
Wide area storage solutions.... A redux of Wide Area File Services?
“DDN on the other hand has designed its Web Object Scaler (WOS) platform as a distributed peer-to-peer, shared nothing system with an inherent design that eliminates both local and geographic single...
23Friday, Nov. 2012
Inside HPC
Video: DDN Powers Genomics at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
“Working to bring personalized medicine to the masses, the Institute uses DDN storage to store and compare genomes in a high bandwidth configuration.” Watch the Video...
22Thursday, Nov. 2012
Scientific Computing World
WOS 2.5
“DataDirect Networks has released Web Object Scaler (WOS) 2.5, the latest version of its massively scalable, geo-distributed cloud storage appliance.” Read the Article...
21Wednesday, Nov. 2012
Scientific Computing World
DDN to invest $100 million in exascale R&D
“DataDirect Networks has announced the establishment of a $100 million investment in its research and development efforts.” Read the Article...
20Tuesday, Nov. 2012
HPCWire
Blog: HPCWire Soundbite
“The SFA 7700 is a hybrid system specifically targeted at Big Data (applications)...” Read the Article...
19Monday, Nov. 2012
Los Angeles Business Journal
Making It Big, Then Making It Bigger
“It’s notable that a handful of large L.A. companies have managed to grow significantly over the past year, making on the Business Journal list of Fastest Growing Companies. DataDirect Networks Inc....
19Monday, Nov. 2012
Los Angeles Business Journal
Fastest Growing Private Companies
DataDirect Networks Inc: Data storage infrastructure Read the Article...
19Monday, Nov. 2012
Storage Networking Solutions (UK)
DDN announces worldwide academic research partnership (WARP) and $100,000 annual award for Big Data innovation
“In conjunction with the WARP program, the company also announced $100,000 in annual prizes to recognize emerging scientific breakthroughs enabled by technology, including a $75,000 first prize and a...
17Saturday, Nov. 2012
Inside Big Data
DDN Announces $100 Million Investment In Exascale Computing
"This is exciting news for the HPC community looking to see more vendors step up to the plate for the incredibly daunting goal of Exascale computing within this decade. I can tell you that the DDN...
16Friday, Nov. 2012
Silicon Angle
DDN Invests $100M in Tomorrow’s Supercomputers
“DataDirect Networks is convinced thatcurrent technology will not be able to keep up with Moore’s law in the coming years, so it set out to develop its own.” Read the Article...
15Thursday, Nov. 2012
The Register
DataDirect to spunk $100m on storage array disguised as a supercomputer
“The goal is to hit one quintillion floating-point operations per second, and DDN hopes this mind-boggling level of number-crunching will be reached by 2018.” Read the Article...
15Thursday, Nov. 2012
Data Center Knowledge
Big Data News: DDN and General Atomics power big data insight
“With WOS, Nirvana SRB benefits from industry-leading cloud storage performance, infrastructure and advanced data protection advantages that scale to manage up to 256 billion information assets from...
15Thursday, Nov. 2012
TechZone 360
DataDirect Networks to Invest $100M in Exascale, Big Data Computing
“The company will be greatly expanding its efforts to resolve a number of key challenges toward delivering “Exascale” levels of performance in scientific computing. The challenge here is a “big data...
15Thursday, Nov. 2012
Storage Newsletter
DDN Delivers 400 TB to Japanese Post-Production Shop Imagica
“The deployment expands upon an existing DDN xStreamScaler solution and upgrades the workflow, providing two uncompressed 4K streams for real-time editing.” Read the Article...
15Thursday, Nov. 2012
HPCWire
DDN@SC12 (video report)
“Jeff Denworth, VP of Marketing for Data Direct Networks, talks about seven big announcements DDN made from SC12.” Watch the Video...
14Wednesday, Nov. 2012
InfoTech
DataDirect Networks Unveils Hybrid Flash Storage Appliance
"Big data continues to grow at an unprecedented rate. To accelerate workflows, gain valuable insight, shorten time to discovery and gain a competitive advantage, companies are looking for innovative...
14Wednesday, Nov. 2012
The Register
Petabyte provider makes a run at Amazon's fattest customers
"DDN aims to outflank Isilon as well as NetApp, offering greater performance and scalability, gambling that its HPC heritage and technology will blow Isilon and NetApp out of the water when Big Data...
13Tuesday, Nov. 2012
HPCWire
2012 Annual HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards
DDN SFA12K: “Best HPC Storage Product or Technology,” “Best HPC Storage Cluster Solution or Technology,” “Top 5 New Products or Technologies to Watch.” Read the Article...
13Tuesday, Nov. 2012
ChannelBiz (UK)
DDN Enhances EXAScaler and GRIDScaler Product Line Up
“This will help those looking to support big data workflows, be it in financial modelling, academic research, or manufacturing design.” Read the Article...
13Tuesday, Nov. 2012
The Register
Compute-storage mashup: Great for Big Data, but what of my mobile?
“DataDirect Networks is actually doing it by running file systems such as GPFS and Lustre inside its storage arrays via the ExaScaler and Gridscaler products.” Read the Article...
13Tuesday, Nov. 2012
HPCWire
IDC Announces Innovation Excellence Winners
“Understanding how anti-viral drugs work on rhinoviruses and related viruses can potentially speed up the development of new treatments, and could produce savings in development costs. The research...
12Monday, Nov. 2012
SearchStorage.com
DataDirect Networks adds hybrid scale-out storage for 'big data'
“DataDirect Networks Inc. plans to begin shipping its first hybrid flash array in early 2013. The 4U SFA7700 is a midrange scale-out storage system that will include multi-level cell flash and...
12Monday, Nov. 2012
eWeek
DataDirect Launches ‘Intelligent’ Hybrid Storage Appliance
“The company uses its new Storage Fusion Xcelerator software to integrate intelligence into the hybrid drive, which then assigns the most effective storage media to the application according to the...
12Monday, Nov. 2012
Computer Technology Review
DDN adds enterprise class cloud tiering, NAS and SSD capabilities to its Parallel file system appliances
“DDN announced Monday an extensive set of parallel file storage product enhancements engineered to accelerate Big Data and HPC workflows.” Read the Article...
10Saturday, Nov. 2012
Inside HPC
New DDN Hybrid Appliance Anticipates and Optimizes Big Data Movement
“According to the company, the SFA7700 hybrid storage appliance is an ideal entry-level system for organizations with big data storage needs.” Read the Article...
09Friday, Nov. 2012
Computer Weekly (UK)
DataDirect Networks takes aim at clustered NAS with SFA7700
“The SFA7700 is the first DDN platform with the Storage Fusion Xcelerator automated tiering feature, which moves data between flash and spinning disk as well as caching hot read and write data.” Read...
09Friday, Nov. 2012
The Register
DDN pulls muzzle off hybrid Big Data gobbler
“DataDirect Networks has announced its SFA7700 hybrid flash and disk drive scale-out filer appliance for Big Data and high-performance computing-type applications.” Read the Article...
09Friday, Nov. 2012
Silicon Angle
Breaking Analysis: DDN’s Hot Flash – Check Out This New Hybrid Array
“DDN has joined the ranks of companies releasing new hardware this week. Today they announced the SFA7700 hybrid flash array.” Read the Article...
09Friday, Nov. 2012
Storage Newsletter
DDN With HDD/SSD Appliance SFA7700
“The SFA7700 is a redundant hybrid storage platform engineered for performance and capacity optimization of block- and file-based applications.” Read the Article...
09Friday, Nov. 2012
Phys Org
Massive data storage resource to support Big Red II supercomputer
“After an extensive and competitive procurement process, IU partneredwith DataDirect Networks (DDN) to supply the highly scalable data infrastructure for DCII. The system - at its core - is built...
09Friday, Nov. 2012
Storage Bytes Now
DDN rolls out hybrid flash array
“The SFA7700 uses DDN’s Storage Fusion Xcelerator (SFX) tiering software and the SFA parallel OS. The Storage Fusion Xcelerator is flash tiering software that accelerates writes, caches reads and...
06Tuesday, Nov. 2012
HPCWire
For DDN's Alex Bouzari: Big Data is the Democratization of HPC
"We recently spoke with DDN CEO Alex Bouzari to get his take on the industry churn and other trends that are reshaping the storage market..." Read the Article...
29Monday, Oct. 2012
The Datacenter Journal
Little data, big data and very big data (VBD) or big BS?
"Where big data revenues are strongest for most vendors today are centered around solutions for hosting, storing, managing and protecting big files, big objects. These include scale out NAS solutions...
29Monday, Oct. 2012
The Storage Newsletter
DDN Updates WOS With V 2.5
"DataDirect Networks, Inc. (DDN) announced a step forward for cloud storage in the enterprise with therelease of Web Object Scaler (WOS) 2.5..." Read the Article...
25Thursday, Oct. 2012
Storage Bytes Now
DataDirect upgrades WOS, adds replicated erasure coding
"WOS 2.5 now includes support for the Common Internet File System (CIFS), SMB 1, 2.1 and 2.2, and the ability to scale the WOS namespace across as many as 64 sites. In addition, and the most...
25Thursday, Oct. 2012
Silicon Angle
More Data Protection, Connectivity in DDN’s Latest WOS
"DataDirect Networks is launching a new version of Web Object Scaler, its homegrown scale-out cloud storage system. The 2.5 edition features dataprotection enhancements and improved connectivity."...
24Wednesday, Oct. 2012
Computer Technology Review
DDN improve data protection with new Web Object Scaler 2.5
"WOS 2.5 builds on the efficient object storage infrastructure at the core of WOS, and also offers enterprises and service providers secure "behind the firewall" file sharing and synchronization from...
24Wednesday, Oct. 2012
TechTarget
DataDirect tunes up Web Object Scaler cloud storage platform
"DataDirect Networks (DDN) today took steps to improve data protection and performance of its Web Object Scaler (WOS) cloud storage platform, adding the ability to applyreplication and erasure coding...
19Friday, Oct. 2012
CIO Magazine
Cloud Storage Specification Gets ISO Approval
"CDMI has been gaining adoption among vendors and governments. Currently five vendors -- Mezeo Software, Scality, NetApp, Data Direct Networks and Compuverde -- sell software products that are CDMI...
18Thursday, Oct. 2012
HPCWire
Cray Expands Storage and Data Management Team
Bolding added, “This announcement is another positive milestone in a recent string of new customer announcements for our scale-out Sonexion storage system, as well as our portfolio of storage...
09Tuesday, Oct. 2012
HPCWire
Indiana University to Deploy Petascale Cluster
"Cray and Data Direct Networks will also work togetherspecifically to expand and enhance Big Red II's capacity for the movement, management and analysis of massive data sets." Read the Article...
09Tuesday, Oct. 2012
Information Management
Indiana University Plans for Petaflop Supercomputer
"Big Red II will consist of more than 21,000 processor cores, more than five-times the number of the original Big Red. The new supercomputer will use the university’s Lustre disk storage system from...
09Tuesday, Oct. 2012
IT Knowledge Exchange
DataDirect Networks: 10 years old but maybe new to you
"DDN makes some of the fastest storage systems in the world." Read the Article...
28Friday, Sep. 2012
Federal Computer Week
12 Hot Companies to Watch
"Agencies find themselves in a perpetual struggle to house growing stores of data and keep tabs on storage systems that affect application performance. DataDirect Networks (DDN) … provides...
24Monday, Sep. 2012
Information Week
Big Data 'Cloud Appliance' Offers Storage Alternative
"It may be cheaper, simpler, and more secure to keep data stored where it's collected, process some of the information locally, and then send only that data that needs additional processing up to the...
20Thursday, Sep. 2012
ZDNET Japan
Being employed in 60% of the top 100 supercomputers proof of trust - DDN CEO Bouzari
"60% supercomputing users in the top 100 leverage DDN storage systems. It is a sign of trust in DDN..." Read the Article...
16Sunday, Sep. 2012
Digital Media World
DataDirect Networks Integrates Cloud Storage into Media Workflows
"DDN demonstrated these workflows at IBC and showed how drives in its storage system can fail, rebuild and restore without droppingframes, degrading performance or rebuilding complete drives." Read...
14Friday, Sep. 2012
Defense Systems
Selecting the right cloud architecture
"As the defense industry increases communication to the theater, data obtained from sensors could be sent through a network transmission to private clouds for processing, rather than waiting,"...
07Friday, Sep. 2012
Silicon Angle
DDN Comes Out on Top, Again
"Nearly a quarter of the participants in the survey said that DDN is their number one choice for big data solutions – more than those who favored EMC, Dell, and NetApp. The company’s analytics-...
07Friday, Sep. 2012
Datanami
This Week’s Big Data Big Five: DDN Accelerates Complex Big Data Queries
"The DDN SFA10K-X, configured to optimize the customer application with SSD and harddisk drives, was recognized for its ability to provide significantly fastertime to actionable information from...
31Friday, Aug. 2012
Defense Systems
The options beside RAID storage for hyperscale
"Examples of object storage erasure coding on a Hyperscale level include DDN’s WOS, which erases codes across multiple drives in a single local storage system, providing protection against a dual...
30Thursday, Aug. 2012
San Fernando Valley Business Journal
DataDirect Networks Appoints New Executive
"Data storage provider DataDirect has appointed Pascal Barbolosi as its vice president, EMEA." Read the Article...
30Thursday, Aug. 2012
Socaltech.com
DataDirect Networks Names European Head
"Chatsworth-based storage provider DataDirect Networks has named a new head of its European operations…" Read the Article...
21Tuesday, Aug. 2012
Trajectory Magazine
New Product Combines the Best of Local Networks and the Cloud
"DDN takes a non-traditional approach to big data storage… to create better efficiency." Read the Article...
21Tuesday, Aug. 2012
Security Magazine
Determining the Right Storage Option for Video
"According to DataDirect Networks (DDN) robust storage platforms are the key to providing the scalable bandwidth needed to capture and store 100s to 1,000s of high-definition and megapixel...
21Tuesday, Aug. 2012
Silicon Angle
Top Big Data Hardware Suppliers in 2012
"Each customer is matched with the ideal DDN File System and DDN Storage Engine for optimal performance, capacity, and scalability. " Read the Article...
16Thursday, Aug. 2012
Silicon Angle
CIOs Say DDN is One of the “Most Strategic” Big Data Hardware Vendors
"The research firm reports that nearly a fourth of the executives it surveys, 24 percent pointed at DataDirect as their number one choice for hardware that is specifically designed to support big...
10Friday, Aug. 2012
Cloud Computing Journal
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Practical Solutions in the Cloud
" Michael King, Director of Cloud Content & Media at DDN, talked to SYS-CON.tv at Cloud Expo New York… " Read the Article...
10Friday, Aug. 2012
Business Insider
Inside Facebook's Plan To Revolutionize The Entire Hardware Industry
" The OCP now has dozens of members… like DDN. " Read the Article...
06Monday, Aug. 2012
Database Trends and Applications
DataDirect Networks Ships Big Data Management Suite
" DataDirect Networks announced a centralized management solution for its storage, file system, and in-storage processing technology. " Read the Article...
02Thursday, Aug. 2012
Storage Bytes Now
DataDirect Networks debuts central management console
" DataDirect Networks on Wednesday introduced DirectMon, a central management console for its DDN storage " Read the Article...
02Thursday, Aug. 2012
Services Angle
DDN Unveils Management Software for Analytics Environments
" DataDirect Networks is offering a new consolidated management platform" Read the Article...
01Wednesday, Aug. 2012
eWeek
DataDirect Networks Launches Centralized DC Management
" DirectMon is designed to handle all aspects of Big Data storage infrastructure administration and minimize administrator overhead " Read the Article...
25Wednesday, Jul. 2012
HPCWire
NASA Builds Supercomputing Lab for Earth Scientists
"The system also includes 9.3 petabytes of DataDirect storage. Given that, AMES is now able to host the three petabytes of image data at a single location." Read the Article...
25Wednesday, Jul. 2012
Government Computer News
Big data system ready to handle fed intell, surveillance sensor data
" The system integrates DataDirect Networks’ Web Object Scaler cloud storage appliance with YottaStor’s mobile computing and big data storage system called YottaDrive. " Read the Article...
23Monday, Jul. 2012
SearchStorage UK
Academic Supercomputer Gets 27PB of HPC Storage
"The University of Edinburgh-based HECToR (High-End Computing Terascale Resource) supercomputer has had an HPC storage upgrade that includes 7.8 petabytes (PB) in a DataDirect Networks array…" Read...
20Friday, Jul. 2012
Computer Technology Review
DDN, Alliance Technology Group Offer Improved Big Data and Cloud Collaboration
" The combined solution is ideal for government agencies that are challenged by the need to capture, store, process and distribute massive volumes of intelligence and surveillance sensor data." Read...
17Tuesday, Jul. 2012
HPCWire
Storage Environment for UK Cluster Provided by DDN
" A new storage environment providing 7.8PB of storage and an additional 19.5PB of backup capability is to improve long-term data storage for hundreds of UK users of the HECToR (High-End Computing...
09Monday, Jul. 2012
Broadcasting and Cable (Subscription required)
Taking the League Everywhere: Pac12 Huddles on TV Everywhere Game Plan
"... series switcher, Sony studio cameras, DataDirect Networks (DDN) storage system and Calrec audio mixers, and lighting consulting company …" Read the Article...
09Monday, Jul. 2012
The Register
Finland beefs up HPC oomph with Cray 'Cascade' super
"CSC also inked a €2.5m contract with DataDirect Networks to build and support an SFA 10K clusteredstorage array, a multi-petabyte tape library, and data migration software to move data from disk to...
01Sunday, Jul. 2012
Federal Computer Week
Using Big Data Tools to Manage the Deluge of ISR Data
In the case of ISR, DDN systems can scale more than a terabyte/second of throughput and store almost 7 petabytes in two racks of equipment… Read the Article...
01Sunday, Jul. 2012
Storage Magazine (Registration required)
I/O performance, storage infrastructure lead big data issues list
"bleeding-edge industries that have been dealing with big data issues for years were early adopters of scale-out storage systems designed with enough bandwidth to handle large file sizes. We're...
21Thursday, Jun. 2012
The Register
Whamcloud flogs wild Lustre pig into obedience with data whip
"Whamcloud said it has been encouraged by the DDN and NetApp announcements that they're shipping Chroma-based products…" Read the Article...
20Wednesday, Jun. 2012
CNET
Navy's Supercomputing Center for Weather Forecasting
A row of DataDirect Network computer clusters, part of Fleet Numerical's unclassified supercomputer data center... Read the Article...
18Monday, Jun. 2012
MarketWatch
Whamcloud's Chroma Enterprise, New Complete Storage Solution for Building Lustre Appliances, Out of Beta and Available to Partners
Chroma Enterprise provides access to the power and scalability of Lustre, the world's fastest technology for consolidating mass storage into a single coherent file system. Both DataDirect Networks...
18Monday, Jun. 2012
Network World
Big Data and your Network
Jablonski is the principle analytics architect at Data Direct Networks, a data storage infrastructure provider. WANs are hardly predictable and while Hadoop ... Read the Article...
15Friday, Jun. 2012
Technology Decisions
ANU selects Fujitsu to supply NCI supercomputer
“Fujitsu partners with DataDirect Networks to supply high-performance supercomputer to the Australian National University (ANU), to be installed within the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI...
15Friday, Jun. 2012
ARN
Fujitsu to provide supercomputing to Australian National University
Fujitsu's project partners include APC power and cooling; Brocade and Xenon/Mellanox InfiniBand switching; Data Direct Networks high speed storage; and Intel chipsets. Read the Article...
12Tuesday, Jun. 2012
CIO
Hollywood's Elite Data Centers Must Deliver Star IT Performances
Nice Shoes uses the DDN S2A9900, a scalable storage appliance that can re-create massive data sets as needed using erasure-coding algorithms when the data is not available from primary disks. Read...
10Sunday, Jun. 2012
eWeek
Facebook's Open Compute Project Gaining Momentum After First Year
MENLO PARK, Calif. — A little over a year after Facebook launched its Open Compute Project, organizers of the unusual open-source hardware and software initiative report that it is gaining traction...
22Tuesday, May. 2012
Inside HPC
Podcast: DDN WOS Software on OCP Storage Hardware to Enable Hyperscale Storage Clouds
In this podcast, Jeff Denworth from DDN provides details on the company’s recent announcement that their Web Object Scaler (WOS) will support Open Compute server and storage platforms in cooperation...
09Wednesday, May. 2012
San Francisco Chronicle
Silicon Valley-Based University ITU to Sponsor the 2012 Symposium of Ideas
The Infuse Entrepreneurship Foundation sponsors entrepreneurial projects for students of inner-city schools which provide students with hands-on experience… Read the Article...
04Friday, May. 2012
Inside HPC
Video: DDN 2012 Lustre User Group Update
In this video, Jeff Denworth from Data Direct Networks presents: DDN 2012 Lustre User Group Update. Recorded at LUG 2012 in Austin.Read the Article...
03Thursday, May. 2012
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페이스북서버 1년, 생각보다 충격 적었다(in Korean)
지난 4 월에했습니다. 세계 페이스 북 - 개발 서버를 공개하는 놀라움이었습니다. 확실히 서버 컴퓨팅의 독립적인 것으로 간주되는 서버 벤더의 통치에 나가 일은 매우 비쌉니다. 강도를 얻을 듯 Sun의 오픈 소스 하드웨어 프로젝트. 기사를 읽고 ...
02Wednesday, May. 2012
ZDNet
Facebook celebrates one year of Open Compute Project growth
“Dozens of new companies have joined as official members of the project, including HP, AMD, Fidelity, Quanta, Tencent, Salesforce.com, VMware, Canonical, DDN...” Read the Article...
02Wednesday, May. 2012
GigaOM
Open Compute one year later. Bigger, badder and less disruptive than we thought.
At its third Open Compute Summit the socialnetworking giant and other members of the recently formed Open Compute Project are adding new partners, showing off cool use cases and adding new...
02Wednesday, May. 2012
EE Times
Facebook, China merge server rack specs
Members of Facebook's Open Compute Project include AMD, Alibaba, Avnet, Canonical, DDN Read the Article...
27Friday, Apr. 2012
Data Center Knowledge
HPC News: Intel, Cray, Data Direct Networks, SGI
"The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has selected the DDN SFA12K storage array to build an unparalleled system delivering 100GB/s of storage performance" Read the Article...
19Thursday, Apr. 2012
Computer Business Review
DataDirect Networks unveils upgraded data storage platform
DataDirect Networks (DDN) has rolled out its updated version of data storage platform, the DDN NAS Scaler 1.1. With VMware integration and data deduplication features, NAS Scaler allows companies to...
18Wednesday, Apr. 2012
Tech Republic
This supercomputer is rethinking the future of software
The lab at Daresbury is working with hardware companies - such as IBM, Intel .. and scalable storage specialist DataDirect Networks (DDN) and others - and with as yet unnamed software makers to help...
17Tuesday, Apr. 2012
Federal Computer Week
How Cloud Storage Could Catch Up With Big Data
“Jean-Luc Chatelain, executive vice president of strategy and technology at DataDirect Networks,said financial concerns are driving interest in erasure coding among customers who don’t want to...
14Saturday, Apr. 2012
Supercomputing Online
DataDirect Networks (DDN) Enables Freedom of Choice and Accelerated Performance for Media Workflows
Teaming with FilmPartners BV enables us to provide the most integrated collaborative editing solution possible… Read the Article...
12Thursday, Apr. 2012
Manchester Evening News
Big growth plans for Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus
Two firms from the US have also opened offices at Daresbury – biotech regulatory experts, Synchrogenix, and the data storage giant, Data Direct Networks. Read the Article...
10Tuesday, Apr. 2012
Datanami
SKA Makes Data Work to New Beat
To help develop the storage technology needed to process data generated by the telescope, ICRAR tapped DataDirect Networks… Read the Article...
06Friday, Apr. 2012
Silicon Angle
DataDirect Networks to Provide the Storage Behind New Telescope
The instrument will generate roughly one Exabyte of space info per day… it looks like this is where DataDirect comes in... Read the Article...
06Friday, Apr. 2012
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
Big Data Showcase: Establishing the Infrastructure
Data Direct Networks: DDN is the world's largest, privately-held, data storage infrastructure provider. It specializes in storing complex data for the most demanding fields such as high performance...
05Thursday, Apr. 2012
Liverpool Daily Post (UK)
Daresbury attracts overseas investment
It’s fantastic to see a multi-million dollar US firm come to Daresbury to benefit from the campus’ investment in high performance computing... Read the Article...
04Wednesday, Apr. 2012
The Register
Blighty's new top supercomputer bagged by software boffins
DDN reckons that the Daresbury system could enter the Top 500 supercomputer list at number 10, if not higher... Read the Article...
03Tuesday, Apr. 2012
Computer Weekly
STFC ploughs £30m into high performance computing centre with IBM
DDN will provide 7.2 petabytes of storage... Read the Article...
03Tuesday, Apr. 2012
CRN (UK)
OCF plays its part in multimillion-pound HPC deal
Storage vendor Data Direct Networks is also involved in the deal, supplying 7.2 Petabytes... Read the Article...
02Monday, Apr. 2012
Channelbiz (UK)
DDN gets slice of giant HPC pie
Storage player DataDirect Networks (DDN) has landed part of a large contract to build a major centre of software development for the Science and Technology Facilities Council … Read the Article...
02Monday, Apr. 2012
HPCWire
DataDirect Networks Looks to Supply Radio Telescope Storage
The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) has partnered with DDN to develop part of a system architecture capable of processing over one exabyte of data per day to support the...
02Monday, Apr. 2012
SearchStorage.com
Firms pleased with Red Hat, Gluster as storage investment increases
The Cornell University Institute for Biotechnology and Life Science Technologies... runs the virtual appliance on file servers and DataDirect Networks arrays Read the Article...
30Friday, Mar. 2012
HPCwire
Finland's IT Center for Science Selects DDN Storage
Multi-million Euro, tiered storage environment from DDN accelerates world-renowned scientific computing and evolves CSC'S focus toward big data computing . . . Read the Article...
28Wednesday, Mar. 2012
Silicon Angle
DataDirect Reveals Two New Data Crunching Appliances
DataDirect Networks unveiled its two latest offerings today for general availability – the DDN SFA10K-M and SFA10K-ME appliances, designed to handle large data-driven workloads. Read the Article...
27Tuesday, Mar. 2012
SearchStorage
DataDirect adds mini array for big data
DataDirect Networks (DDN) launched two storage systems for people who want to start small in their approach to “big data”. Read the Article...
27Tuesday, Mar. 2012
Bime (in French)
GigaOM StructureData – le Big Data a l'ombre des cerisiers New Yorkais en fleurs
Jean-Luc Chatelain, CTO-EVP Strategy & Technology chez Datadirect Networks, basé en Californie. Pour lui: "Le Bigdata n’est pas nouveau pour des secteurs comme le High Performance Computing,...
27Tuesday, Mar. 2012
Hostingtecnews.com
DataDirect Networks Launches Big Data Appliances
New SFA10K-M modular Big Data storage offerings provide award-wining SFA performance at up to 40% lower entry pricing..Read the Article...
26Monday, Mar. 2012
Silicon Angle
DataDirect Reveals Two New Data Crunching Appliances
DataDirect Networks unveiled its two latest offerings today for general availability – the DDN SFA10K-M and SFA10K-ME appliances, designed to handle large data-driven workloads. Read the Article...
26Monday, Mar. 2012
InsideHPC
DDN Brings Economical HPC-Class Storage to Big Data Market
Today DDN announced the Big Data appliances based on their SFA10K storage platform. According to the company... Read the Article...
26Monday, Mar. 2012
eWeek
DataDirect Networks Offers Two Big Data Storage Appliances
Data storage and processing solutions specialist DataDirect Networks (DDN) announced the release the DDN SFA10K-M and SFA10K-ME Big Data appliances... Read the Article...
26Monday, Mar. 2012
Taneja Group
DDN Delivers Big Data in Small Packages
In the long run, we believe this initiative will be just as important to DDN’s mission of enabling users of all shapes and sizes to extract significantly greater value from their information... Read...
26Monday, Mar. 2012
The Register
DDN delivers pint-sized big data boxes
DataDirect Networks (DDN) is offering its big data array technology in small data arrays that can grow to become big ones, and come at a lower price point. Read the Article...
26Monday, Mar. 2012
Bio-IT World
New Entry Level Storage for Biotechs
DataDirect Networks today announced the newest additions to DDN’s SFA10K family: the 10K-M Block Appliance and 10K-ME ExaScaler and GridScaler Appliances. Read the Article...
26Monday, Mar. 2012
Information Week
Cleversafe, DataDirect Unveil High-Performance Storage
The new DataDirect arrays are targeted for high-performance computing applications, file-sharing, data analytics, video surveillance, and Web content storage. Read the Article...
17Saturday, Mar. 2012
PR.com
DCIA Brings CLOUD COMPUTING CONFERENCE to NAB
... including software developers, broadband network operators, and content ... Jean-Luc Chatelain, EVP, Strategy & Technology, DataDirect Networks; ... Read the Article...
15Thursday, Mar. 2012
InsideHPC
DDN Touts $10 Million Investment in Lustre Technology
This week DataDirect Networks (DDN) announced continued support for OpenSFS at the highest membership level. According to the company, DDN’s ongoing investment in Lustre has exceeded more than $10M...
05Monday, Mar. 2012
InsideHPC
Podcast: Interview with Penguin Computing and DDN on their New Alliance for HPC
In this podcast, Rich Brueckner from insideHPC speaks with Dean Koester from Penguin Computing and DDN’s Jeff Denworth about the new partnership between the two companies. This week Data Direct...
01Thursday, Mar. 2012
Hi-Tech Security Solutions
Camsecure Installs DDN Storage
Camsecure is the first specifier and installer of the NASA-endorsed DDN content intensive storage option in South Africa. “We have three installed applications of DDN’s storage solutions and we are...
01Thursday, Mar. 2012
Security Sales and Integration
Report: IT Vendors Benefit from Crossover in Enterprise Video Storage
As a result of an increased use of external platforms, many IT vendors have seen increasedtraction of their storage solutions for use in video surveillance applications… Read the Article...
01Thursday, Mar. 2012
Broadcast Engineering
Microsoft Production Studios, Winner of of new studio technology - non-broadcast
One key update involved outfitting the entire infrastructure to use high-resolution video and computer systems... Read the Article...
01Thursday, Mar. 2012
The Register
Oz Square Kilometre Array bid picks DataDirect for storage
Australia's International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) has signed an agreement with DataDirect Networks to “develop the extraordinary new data storage capability” needed to cope with...
29Wednesday, Feb. 2012
HPCWire
DataDirect Networks Signs Agreement with Penguin Computing
DataDirect Networks(DDN), the world's largest privately held information storage company, today announced that Penguin Computing, experts in high performance computing (HPC) solutions, has signed an...
22Wednesday, Feb. 2012
The Register
Japanese Boffins Fire Up 802 Teraflops Ceepie-Geepie
The servers are linked to a little more than a half petabyte of S2A storage arrays from DataDirect Networks. Read the Article...
20Monday, Feb. 2012
Asian Scientist
Australia Gears Up For Square Kilometer Array Telescope With New Supercomputer
ICRAR, a joint venture between Curtin University and The University of Western Australia, has signed an agreement with DataDirect Networks to develop new data storage capability for the telescope....
16Thursday, Feb. 2012
HPCWire
ICRAR to Partner with DDN for SKA Research
Combining DataDirect Networks' expertise in providing ultra high-speed access to large amounts of data with our experience in how astronomers need to access their material gives us the opportunity to...
16Thursday, Feb. 2012
The Epoch Times
Researchers Readying for Massive Data Flood From Telescope
Work preparing for the SKA project is “bringing together some of the world’s leading minds to figure out how to solve the data deluge,” said ICRAR Director Peter Quinn, in a press release. The...
14Tuesday, Feb. 2012
HPCWire
Japanese University Boots Up 800-Teraflop GPU Supercomputer
External storage amounts to just over half a petabyte, based on DataDirect Network's SFA10000 gear. As a result of the high computational density afforded... Read the Article...
13Monday, Feb. 2012
PHYSORG.com
Gearing up for data deluge from world's biggest radio telescope
Professor Andreas Wicenec, ICRAR's head of computing, said DataDirect Networks were world leaders in the type of high-performance computing data storage required for a new era of advanced radio...
13Monday, Feb. 2012
EPCC
Minister Launches Next Generation of Supercomputers for UK Researchers
Imagine if every person on the planet were able to carry out 250,000 calculations per second simultaneously. This is the combined capability of the next stage of development, announced today, of two...
03Friday, Feb. 2012
tweakers.net
HP bouwt grootste supercomputer van België (in Dutch)
HP gaat voor de Universiteit Gent een nieuwe supercomputer bouwen. Het rekenmonster draait RedHat Linux en moet een piekprestatie van 155 teraflops kunnen behalen. De nieuwe supercomputer wordt de...
03Friday, Feb. 2012
Wikibon
Designing Systems and Infrastructure in the Big Data IO Centric Era
Read the Article...
27Friday, Jan. 2012
Data Center Knowledge
DataDirect Networks Builds Niche in Big Data
If your company’s entire services are built on cloud storage, how do you accommodate growth in your business and the need to move and store massive volumes of data? That was the challenge facing...
24Tuesday, Jan. 2012
HPCWire
People to Watch 2012
Each year, HPCwire announces its annual ‘People to Watch’ list, comprised of an elite group of community leaders selected from academia, government, business, and industry who we predict will be...
18Wednesday, Jan. 2012
SHOOT
The Hollywood Post Alliance Presents The HPA Tech Retreat 2012
Sponsors of HPA Tech Retreat 2012 include: AJA, Dolby, DataDirect Networks, and Testronic Labs, and Media Sponsors Createasphere and Post Magazine. Read the Article...
10Tuesday, Jan. 2012
Bio IT World
Scalable Storage Products, Deployments, and News in Supercomputing
The DataDirect Networks booth was busy as the company released new storage offerings tied to its Storage Fusion product line. The company’s Storage Fusion Architecture was chosen by Munich-based...
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