2012 Press Releases
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14Wednesday, Nov. 2012
DDN Announces $100 Million Investment In Exascale Computing
Strategic investments will drive dramatic advancements in next-generation application scalability and data-intensive computing efficiency SUNNYVALE, CA, —(November 14, 2012) — DataDirect Networks...
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14Wednesday, Nov. 2012
DDN SFA12K Big DataStorage Appliance Wins Multiple Readers’ Choice Awards; Makes DDN the Most Decorated Storage Company in HPCwire History
With a combined total of 13 lifetime HPCwire awards, DDN is now the most recognized storage company in the history of the HPCwire awards SUNNYVALE, CA, —(November 14, 2012) — DataDirect Networks...
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13Tuesday, Nov. 2012
DataDirect Networks (DDN) Announces Worldwide Academic Research Partnership (WARP) and $100,000 Annual Award for Big Data Innovation
$100,000 prize to recognize scientific breakthroughs enabled by high performance computing; major research institutions pledge their support SUNNYVALE, CA, —(November 13, 2012) — DataDirect...
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12Monday, Nov. 2012
DDN Adds Enterprise Class Cloud Tiering, NAS and SSD Capabilities to its Parallel File System Appliances, Making Them Big Data Ready
DDN GRIDScaler and EXAScaler scale-out file storage platforms now feature enterprise NAS connectivity; cloud storage tiering; automated flash acceleration; small and large configurations and simple...
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09Friday, Nov. 2012
DataDirect Networks (DDN) Announces Hybrid Flash Storage Appliance with Application Awareness to Accelerate Big Data Insights
New SFA7700™ Hybrid Storage Appliance Intelligently Integrates Flash and Spinning Disk with Applications to Optimize Performance & TCO SUNNYVALE, CA, —(November 9, 2012) — DataDirect Networks...
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08Thursday, Nov. 2012
DDN CTO Jean-Luc Chatelain to Discuss the Future of Cloud Infrastructure at Cloud Computing West Conference
Industry information systems visionary to explore leading-edge object and cloud storage technologies that overcome web-scale scalability issues SUNNYVALE, CA, —(November 8, 2012) — DataDirect...
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08Thursday, Nov. 2012
DDN and General Atomics Introduce Cloud-Based Data Curation and Protection System to Enable Global Big Data Insight
DDN WOS Cloud Storage and General Atomic Nirvana SRB Empowers Researchers, Intelligence Analysts, Bio-Scientists and Big Data Analytics Environments to Convert Big Data into Globally Accessible...
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07Wednesday, Nov. 2012
DataDirect Networks (DDN) Accelerates 2K/4K Ingest and Editing Workflows at Japanese Postproduction Industry Leader Imagica Corp.
SUNNYVALE, CA, —(November 7, 2012) — DataDirect Networks (DDN™), the leader in massively scalable storage, announced it has completed delivery of more than 400 TB of storage capacity to Japanese...
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31Wednesday, Oct. 2012
DataDirect Networks (DDN) Expands Its Big Data Infrastructure Technical Certification Program
Three-level certification program now available to DDN customers and DDN PartnerLink program partners SUNNYVALE, CA, —(October 31, 2012) — DataDirect Networks (DDN™), the leader in massively...
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24Wednesday, Oct. 2012
DDN Ushers In New Era of Enterprise Cloud Storage Adoption, Resiliency, Scale and Savings with Updated WOS Appliance
WOS 2.5 release features enterprise NAS connectivity, hardened reliability, world-renowned DDN performance and dramatic gains in efficiency CHATSWORTH, CA, —(October 24, 2012) — DataDirect...
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04Thursday, Oct. 2012
DataDirect Networks (DDN) Enhances Leadership in HPC and Increases its Share of Top500® Fastest Computers by More Than 30%
DDN Delivers Best in Class Performance, Reliability and Cost-Effectiveness to More Than 60% of the World’s Top 100 Fastest Computers CHATSWORTH, CA, —(October 4, 2012) — DataDirect Networks (DDN™),...
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04Thursday, Oct. 2012
DataDirect Networks (DDN) SFA Technology Puts Automotive Research on the Fast Track at World-Renowned Data-Intensive Computing Center
High-Performance DDN Storage Cluster Powers Research With Industrial Partners Including Porsche AG and T-Systems at HLRS CHATSWORTH, CA, —(October 4, 2012) — DataDirect Networks (DDN™), the leader...
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07Friday, Sep. 2012
DataDirect Networks (DDN) Joins Quarterly Listing Of World’s Largest Storage Systems Providers
CHATSWORTH, CA, —(September 7, 2012) — DataDirect Networks (DDN™) today announced its inclusion as one of the companies tracked in the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker, as of the...
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06Thursday, Sep. 2012
DataDirect Networks (DDN) is Named America’s Fastest Growing $200M+ Privately Held Computer Company by Inc. Magazine
Leadership in High-Growth Big Data Applications Propels DDN’s Inclusion on Prestigious List of Highest-Growth Private Companies for 3rd Consecutive Year CHATSWORTH, CA, —(September 6, 2012) —...
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06Thursday, Sep. 2012
DataDirect Networks (DDN) Accelerates Complex Big Data Queries
DDN Flash-Optimized Storage Combined with Vertica Analytics Software Delivers Near-Real Time Complex Analysis of More Than 1 Trillion Rows in US Public Sector Laboratory Test CHATSWORTH, CA, —(...
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06Thursday, Sep. 2012
DataDirect Networks (DDN) Supercharges SAS Grid Computing
SAS solution for business analytics, workload balancing and predictive modeling records fastest runtimes ever when paired with industry-leading Big Data solutions from DDN in SAS laboratory testing...
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05Wednesday, Sep. 2012
DataDirect Networks (DDN) Object Storage Enables Distributed Media Workflows
DDN’s WOS supports enterprise Windows and Linux media editors while eliminating issues of security, speed and integration CHATSWORTH, CA, —(September 5, 2012) — DataDirect Networks (DDN), world...
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29Wednesday, Aug. 2012
Industry Veteran Pascal Barbolosi Joins DDN as Company Accelerates Worldwide Adoption of its Big Data Solutions
Former Bull and SGI exec joins as company as Vice President of EMEA CHATSWORTH, CA, —(August 29, 2012) — DataDirect Networks (DDN™), the leader in massively scalable storage, has appointed Pascal...
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16Thursday, Aug. 2012
Enterprise CIO Survey Ranks DataDirect Networks (DDN) Above EMC, NetApp, and Dell as Strategic Big Data Hardware Supplier of Choice
24% of Surveyed Enterprise CIOs Rank DDN As Their Top Choice for Big Data; DDN Rapid Revenue Growth Validates High Market Demand for Its Enabling Big Data, Web and Cloud Applications CHATSWORTH, CA...
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09Thursday, Aug. 2012
DataDirect Networks (DDN) Announces Rapid Uptake of Award-Winning SFA Technology Across Australia’s Research Computing Community
DDN Technology Selected Time and Again to Power Australia’s Super Science Initiative Across Many of the Country’s Largest HPC Facilities CHATSWORTH, CA — (August 9, 2012) — DataDirect Networks (DDN...
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01Wednesday, Aug. 2012
DataDirect Networks (DDN) Debuts Comprehensive Management Suite to Simplify Big Data Infrastructure Scale Up and Scale Out
DDN's DirectMon Monitoring and Administration Suite Provides Simple Experience for Storage, File System, and In-Storage Processing™ Resources CHATSWORTH, CA — (August 1, 2012) — DataDirect Networks...
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19Thursday, Jul. 2012
DDN and Alliance Technology Group Enable Data-Intensive Intelligence & Surveillance Organizations To Economically Harness The Power of Big Data And Cloud Collaboration
DDN massively scalable cloud appliance now available through SEWP IV; makes high-scale intelligence applications easy to deploy and simple to manage CHATSWORTH, CA — (July 19, 2012) — DataDirect...
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27Wednesday, Jun. 2012
DataDirect Networks (DDN) Powers Industrial Innovation with NCSA Private Sector Program
Groundbreaking modeling and simulation projects are accelerated with award-winning DDN SFA storage; Rolls Royce, Boeing, GE among users CHATSWORTH, CA — (June 27, 2012) — DataDirect Networks (DDN™),...
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17Thursday, May. 2012
DDN Announces WOS Object Storage Support for Open Compute Project (OCP) Hardware to Enable Efficient and Connected Hyperscale Data Centers
WOS Software on OCP Storage Hardware Enables Global Organizations to Build Hyperscale Storage Clouds Capable of Serving Over 55B Objects Per Day CHATSWORTH, CA — (May 17, 2012) —...
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23Monday, Apr. 2012
DataDirect Networks (DDN) Selected to Support NCSA’s Blue Waters Supercomputer
CHATSWORTH, CA — (April 23, 2012) — DataDirect Networks (DDN™), world leader in massively scalable storage, today announced that the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has...
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18Wednesday, Apr. 2012
Alex Bouzari, CEO and Co-Founder of DataDirect Networks (DDN), to Discuss High Growth and Leadership in the Technology Field of Big Data
CHATSWORTH, CA — (April 18, 2012) — DataDirect Networks (DDN), world leader in massively scalable data storage, today announced that Alex Bouzari, CEO and co-founder of DDN™, will participate in a...
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17Tuesday, Apr. 2012
DDN Lowers Big Data Total Cost of Ownership & Deployment With New NAS Scaler File Storage System Enhancements
DDN's highly scalable NAS platform complemented by enterprise offerings for virtual machines and deduplication to lower Big Data application complexity and cost; showcasing at NAB'12 CHATSWORTH,...
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17Tuesday, Apr. 2012
DataDirect Networks (DDN) Chief Scientist to Speak on New Approaches to Increase Data-intensive Processing Efficiency by up to 400% with Massive Data Storage Scalability
Industry luminary to explore efficiencies in data reduction, analysis and distribution to resolve the challenges of the Big Data and Exascale eras CHATSWORTH, CA — (April 17, 2012) — DataDirect...
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17Tuesday, Apr. 2012
DataDirect Networks (DDN) Accelerates Media Production Velocity at Leading Artist-Driven U.S.Content Production Studio
Highly-scalable, real-time storage powers award-winning creativity at Nice Shoes CHATSWORTH, CA — (April 17, 2012) — DataDirect Networks (DDN™), the leader in massively scalable storage, today...
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17Tuesday, Apr. 2012
DDN First-To-Market With Simple, Enterprise Lustre Storage Appliances
Strategic Partnership With WhamCloud Delivers Chroma Enterprise Management For DDN ExaScaler appliance, to Simplify and Accelerate Deployment and Administration CHATSWORTH, CA and DANVILLE, CA...
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16Monday, Apr. 2012
DataDirect Networks (DDN) Technology Visionary Jean-Luc Chatelain to Present on the Future of Cloud Computing and Big Data at NAB Show® 2012
Industry luminary to explore how emerging cloud technologies will impact media organizations around the world CHATSWORTH, CA — (April 16, 2012) — DataDirect Networks (DDN), world leader in...
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13Friday, Apr. 2012
DataDirect Networks (DDN) Enables Freedom of Choice and Accelerated Performance for Media Workflows
Collaborative editing solution launches at NAB Show® in Las Vegas to unify and accelerate media workflows on consolidated storage CHATSWORTH, CA — (April 13, 2012) — DataDirect Networks (DDN...
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02Monday, Apr. 2012
DataDirect Networks (DDN) Selected by International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) for Exabyte-Scalable Big Data Processing System
Award-Winning DDN In-Storage Processing™ Technology Chosen as Converged Storage + Computing Infrastructure to Scale to Support Exabyte Imagery Processing CHATSWORTH, CA — (April 2, 2012) —...
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30Friday, Mar. 2012
DataDirect Networks (DDN) Provides Big Data Storage for University of South Florida
One of America's largest universities deploys DDN massively scalable storage technology and Lustre file system expertise CHATSWORTH, CA — (March 30, 2012) — DataDirect Networks (DDN), world...
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29Thursday, Mar. 2012
CSC Finland Selects DDN to Power Its Evolution Into a Data-Intensive Computing Powerhouse
Multi-Million Euro, Tiered Storage Environment from DDN Accelerates World-Renowned Scientific Computing and Evolves CSC’s Focus Toward Big Data Computing CHATSWORTH, CA — (March 29, 2012) —...
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26Monday, Mar. 2012
DataDirect Networks (DDN) Minimizes Entry Point and Footprint for World’s Leading Big Data Storage and Processing Platform
New SFA10K-M modular Big Data storage offerings provide award-wining SFA performance at up to 40% lower entry pricing, reduces form factor by 57% and features promotional pricing CHATSWORTH,...
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13Tuesday, Mar. 2012
DataDirect Networks (DDN), Worldwide Leader in Lustre® Storage Systems, Renews Support for OpenSFS Lustre Community
DDN continues to invest in essential open-source supercomputing file system CHATSWORTH, CA — (March 13, 2012) — DataDirect Networks (DDN), world leader in massively scalable...
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29Wednesday, Feb. 2012
DataDirect Networks (DDN) Award-Winning Big Data and HPC Solutions Now Available Through Penguin Computing
Penguin Computing to Offer DDN Parallel File Systems, NAS & Object Storage for Data-Intensive HPC Environments FREMONT, CA and CHATSWORTH, CA — (February 29, 2012) — DataDirect Networks (DDN...
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10Friday, Feb. 2012
DataDirect Networks (DDN) to Present at Pacific Crest Emerging Technology Summit
DataDirect Networks (DDN) to Present at Pacific Crest Emerging Technology Summit CHATSWORTH, CA — (February 10, 2012) — DataDirect Networks (DDN), the world's largest privately held...
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09Thursday, Feb. 2012
DataDirect Networks (DDN) to Present at Barclays Big Data Conference
DataDirect Networks (DDN) to Present at Barclays Big Data Conference CHATSWORTH, CA — (February 9, 2012) — DataDirect Networks (DDN), the world’s largest privately held information storage...
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07Tuesday, Feb. 2012
DataDirect Networks (DDN) CEO Alex Bouzari Recognized as Industry Luminary and 2012 “Person to Watch” in HPC and Big Data Computing Markets
DDN CEO and Cofounder Alex Bouzari Recognized by Prestigious Publication HPCwire for Sustained Leadership and Vision in One of Fastest Growing Markets in Technology CHATSWORTH, CA — (February...

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- Alex Bouzari
CEO & Co-Founder - Erwan Menard
Chief Operating Officer - Jean-Luc Chatelain
Executive Vice President, Strategy and Technology - Chris O’Meara
Chief Financial Officer - Philippe Ciampossin
Senior Vice President, Engineering
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