2013 Media Coverage
DDN in the news
10Friday, May. 2013
Datacentre Solutions Europe
Top 4 Server Cluster boosts study of the stars
"...enabling researchers...to better understand the universe by allowing them to model phenomena ranging from solar flares to the formation of galaxies." Read the Article...
09Thursday, May. 2013
HPCwire
Durham University Cluster Boosts Study of the Stars
"With the new cluster we can...for the first time in the world model thousands of galaxies in a single region of the universe all at the same time…" - Adrian Jenkins, COSMA project scientist at...
09Thursday, May. 2013
Scientific Computing World
Cluster Allows Researchers to Reach for the Stars
"The cluster is...a combination of Cosma5, a new IBM and DDN technology infrastructure integrated with Durham University’s existing cluster..." Read the Article...
08Wednesday, May. 2013
Storage Newsletter
IBM Intelligent Cluster Portfolio Includes Flex Systems
"The DDN StorageScaler 8460...in conjunction with the SFA 12K storage platform family...delivers performance and scalability for big data challenges." Read the Article...
08Wednesday, May. 2013
Tech World
Durham University upgrades supercomputer for cosmology research
"A high performance server cluster is enabling researchers at Durham University to better understand the universe..." Read the Article...
06Monday, May. 2013
Storage Networking Solutions
Big Data Accelerates Object Storage Adoption in the Data Centre
"With a proper multi-datacentre architecture, such as featured in DDN’s WOS, any organization can now build exabyte-scale object storage platforms..." Read the Article...
05Sunday, May. 2013
Inside Big-Data
Video: DataDirect Networks Update
“For enterprises with a deluge of data but a limited IT budget, the DDN hScaler appliance should be on the short list of potential solutions." - Dave Vellante, Chief Research Officer, Wikibon.org....
03Friday, May. 2013
SearchStorage
Object technology comes to storage: What's all the fuss about?
"...the disadvantage of object storage has been performance...vendors like DataDirect Networks and Scality are challenging that notion." Read the Article...
22Monday, Apr. 2013
Silicon Valley Business Journal
DataDirect plugs into Santa Clara
"DataDirect Networks Inc. has grabbed a 50,500-square-foot office in Santa Clara as the storage-maker preps for local growth in headcount." Read the Article...
22Monday, Apr. 2013
Storage Newsletter
DDN Powers HPC Titan
"Using DDN's SFA12K-40 storage systems as the backbone for Spider II, this new file storage system is designed with 40PB of raw capacity" Read the Article...
20Saturday, Apr. 2013
Forbes
The World's Fastest Supercomputer Will Have The World's Fastest Data Storage
"After a competitive bid process, the Laboratory selected DataDirect Networks to build the file system." Read the Article...
19Friday, Apr. 2013
Silicon Angle
Meet the Titan Supercomputer and the World’s Fastest Storage System
"Research likes to live on the bleeding edge and DataDirect Networks provided a sharp one." Read the Article...
19Friday, Apr. 2013
SNS Europe
Building the world’s fastest storage system
"DDN continues to push the frontiers of science and technology from laptop to petaflop..." Read the Article...
17Wednesday, Apr. 2013
Phys.Org
Supercomputer Titan to get world's fastest storage system
"They say it will give Titan the fastest such system in the world." Read the Article...
17Wednesday, Apr. 2013
Scientific Computing World
DataDirect Networks takes on Titan challenge
"...the platform will deliver performance in excess of 10 times what is achievable with contemporary scale-out NAS systems, says DDN." Read the Article...
17Wednesday, Apr. 2013
inside - Big Data
You Can’t Keep a Good god Down
"Titan at ORNL, with some help from DDN, rules supreme…at least for now." Read the Article...
16Tuesday, Apr. 2013
ExtremeTech
Titan supercomputer will have world’s fastest storage at 1.4TB/s
"...Oak Ridge is stepping up Titan’s storage game, adding a new file system that has 40PB of storage." Read the Article...
16Tuesday, Apr. 2013
Engadget
Titan supercomputer to be loaded with 'world's fastest' storage system
"...the new hardware will endow the number cruncher with a peak performance of 1.4 terabytes a second…" Read the Article...
16Tuesday, Apr. 2013
TechWorld
Titan supercomputer gets new 40-petabyte storage system
"DDN's SFA12K-40 storage appliance will form the backbone of a new storage system called Spider II..." Read the Article...
16Tuesday, Apr. 2013
Tech Hunter
Titan Supercomputer equipped with ‘world’s fastest storage system’ – Spider II
"...this new file storage system…is capable of ingesting, storing, processing and distributing research data at unprecedented speed." Read the Article...
16Tuesday, Apr. 2013
KnoxNews - Atomic City Underground Blog
DataDirect to provide 40 petabytes of storage for Titan; contract valued at $9.8M
"...enables ORNL to dramatically increase Titan's computational efficiency and deliver vastly more accurate predictive models than ever before." Read the Article...
16Tuesday, Apr. 2013
Geeky Gadgets
Titan Supercomputer To Receive Worlds Fastest Storage System
"The massive Titan Supercomputer, which currently hold the title for the worlds fastest computer as of November 2012, will soon be receiving the worlds fastest storage system." Read the Article...
16Tuesday, Apr. 2013
inside - HPC
DDN to Build World’s Fastest Storage System for Titan Supercomputer
"The DDN storage system...to drive radical advances in science and Big Data analysis..." Read the Article...
11Thursday, Apr. 2013
Post Magazine
A Flashier NAB in 2013
"Many other companies exhibiting at the 2013 NAB used flash memory...These included DDN..." Read the Article...
10Wednesday, Apr. 2013
Security Info Watch
Myriad of new partners extend OnSSI’s universality
"(DDN) partnership bundles OnSSI’s Ocularis with DDN’s Storage Fusion Architecture (SFA) platform enabling organizations to monitor, manage and control hundreds to thousands of IP cameras and...
03Wednesday, Apr. 2013
Scientific Computing World
Digging for Black Gold
"DDN has years of experience in providing the storage behind HPC, and more recently has been supplying such products to the oil and gas market. ‘The real data-intensive part of oil and gas is seismic...
02Tuesday, Apr. 2013
B2B Insights
When Is Hybrid Cloud Storage Right for Your Business?
"For video and design firms working with CGI rendering, you’ll need extensive bandwidth for reads and writes. For organizations like this, Isilon, NetApp/LSI or DataDirect Networks storage system is...
28Thursday, Mar. 2013
The Recorder (Subscription Required)
Edward Rockwell
"Edward Rockwell...came on board as the company's first general counsel last March, says his job is to prepare DDN for the various routes that lie before it...'I had a long-term ambition to be the...
27Wednesday, Mar. 2013
StorageNewsletter.com
Gartner Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose Disk Arrays
"DataDirect Networks, Inc.'s (DDN) midrange and NAS/unified storage arrays have strong positions in the HPC, entertainment and surveillance markets." Read the Article...
26Tuesday, Mar. 2013
Big Data for Finance Blog
DDN Touts STAC Benchmark Performance
"Storage vendor DataDirect Networks is pointing to new record benchmark results for financial analytics for its SFA12K-40 platform." Read the Article...
25Monday, Mar. 2013
Mellanox Blog
Product Flash: DDN hScaler Hadoop Appliance
"Based on DDN’s award-winning SFA 12K architecture, hScaler is the world’s first enterprise Hadoop appliance. Unlike many Hadoop installations, hScaler is factory-configured and simple to deploy,...
14Thursday, Mar. 2013
Low-Latency Blog
Latency - All About A, B and C (for Compute)
"...recent news from DataDirect Networks related to its STAC-M3 benchmark, involving processing of tick histories managed by Kx Systems' kdb+ database running against its SFA12K-40 hybrid flash/...
13Wednesday, Mar. 2013
HPCwire
Annual Lustre Community Event LUG 2013 Agenda Announced
"LUG 2013 is sponsored by OpenSFS, EOFS, and the Lustre community and includes vendor sponsorship from...Cray, DataDirect Networks, Intel..." Read the Article...
13Wednesday, Mar. 2013
Storage Newsletter
DDN Said to Get Faster Performance Than Flash for Financial Services
"With DDN systems, financial institutions can cost-effectively model massive data sets faster than disk- and flash-based storage solutions, making it possible to respond to market dynamics more...
05Tuesday, Mar. 2013
Datanami
DataDirect Improves Algorithm Development and Risk Management for Financial Services
"(DDN)...today announced new record results for financial analytics response times and corresponding throughput as reported by the Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC)." Read the Article...
04Monday, Mar. 2013
Datanami
DDN Casts Hadoop with HPC Hook
"...all it takes to remedy the hassles is a Hadoop appliance that seamlessly knits together all the elements of such a cluster and put them under the blanket of a single management interface." Read...
04Monday, Mar. 2013
Storage Newsletter
DDN Unveils hScaler Appliance
"...DDN is resolving key scalability and systems management challenges with the hScaler product, an appliance which is IT friendly and focused on deriving business value at scale." Read the Article...
04Monday, Mar. 2013
Trajectory Magazine
Monday News Kick Off: DigitalGlobe Contracts MDA
"The hScaler is engineered to allow IT departments to power Hadoop-based analytics with a lower learning curve. The product features a plug-and-play experience and boasts better performance during a...
02Saturday, Mar. 2013
SiliconAngle
Hadoop Overdose @ Strata: This Week in Big Data
"DataDirect Networks also made a splash at Strata when it debuted hScaler, a Hadoop appliance that takes advantage of sophisticated software to eliminate bottlenecks and increase throughput by a...
01Friday, Mar. 2013
Government Computer News
New tools help bring Hadoop into the enterprise
"DataDirect Networks' pre-configured hScaler appliance is designed to take the complexity out of setting up Hadoop-based analytics." Read the Article...
27Wednesday, Feb. 2013
The Register
Wheeeee... CRUNCH: DDN pushes out monster Hadoop appliance for biz
“Supercomputer storage firm DataDirect Networks (DDN) has brought out a scale-out Hadoop storage array, the hScaler, to both ingest and digest Big Data using Hadoop, combining compute and storage in...
27Wednesday, Feb. 2013
Forbes
Hadoop Appliances -- the Lengthening List
“If I believed that intelligent storage could solve all IT problems (and I do), the DDN hScaler is what I’d come up with.” Read the Article...
26Tuesday, Feb. 2013
Silicon Angle
DDN Sits Atop the Scalability Spectrum, Making Hadoop Work for Storage “People”
“In an interview with our live news desk at the Strata conference today, theCube hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, along with Jeff Denworth VP Marketing, DataDirect Networks, talked about...
26Tuesday, Feb. 2013
InsideHPC
Slidecast: New DDN hScalar is World’s First Enterprise Apache Hadoop Appliance
“DDN has developed a Hadoop solution that is all about time to value: It simplifies rollout so that enterprises can get up and running more quickly.” Read the Article...
26Tuesday, Feb. 2013
v3 (UK)
DataDirect Networks speeds up big data use with hScaler Hadoop appliance
“The hScaler appliance is built on top of DDN's SFA12K-40 converged storage array which is capable of 40GB per second sustained block throughput…” Read the Article...
26Tuesday, Feb. 2013
Computer Weekly (UK)
DDN launches hScaler Hadoop appliance for enterprises
“The DDN product is part of the rise of ready-configured Hadoop products … that are suited to enterprise customers and IT departments that are not willing to develop homemade infrastructures in the...
26Tuesday, Feb. 2013
GigaOm
DataDirect Networks brings out Hadoop appliance for enterprises
“DataDirect Networks, a hardware vendor with roots in providing storage for high-performance computing, is introducing a Hadoop appliance for enterprises...”. Read the Article...
26Tuesday, Feb. 2013
StorageBytes Now
DDN Announces Enterprise Hadoop Appliance
“DDN has provided enterprise-scale organizations with a fully supported and predictably performing Hadoop solution. While its customers include the who’s who of web-scale providers, DDN is further...
26Tuesday, Feb. 2013
Silicon Angle
DDN’s hScaler is the “Best Appliance for Hadoop So Far”
“The newly announced hScaler appliance leverages DDN’s SFA shared storage architecture to deliver an easy-to-manage, “robust and high performance server framework” that can improve analytics...
26Tuesday, Feb. 2013
ChannelBiz (UK)
DDN Launches Hadoop-based Big Data Simplifier For Enterprises
“The savings come through being four times denser than conventional systems, reducing the space taken up by hardware in the data centre.” Read the Article...
21Thursday, Feb. 2013
CNBC StreetSigns
DataDirect CEO on Cloud Computing
"You probably have not heard of this next company, but it is fastbecoming a small-time heavyweight in cloud computing. It is called DataDirect Networks." Watch the Video...
18Monday, Feb. 2013
Enterprise Storage Forum
Big Data and In-Storage Processing
“That's exactly what in-storage processing attempts to do in big data scenarios. Instead of moving terabytes of data from the storage systems to the processors, it runs applications on processors in...
08Friday, Feb. 2013
IT Knowledge Exchange
DDN Boss Sees Big Data, HPC Storage Loom Large in ‘13
“Big Data and Hadoop gained a lot of attention for their role in storage in 2012, but those technologies remained mostly in the high performance computing (HPC). Alex Bouzari, CEO of HPC storage...
04Monday, Feb. 2013
New York Times
Billion-Dollar Club, and Not So Exclusive
"In addition, many of the billion-dollar companies, including MobileIron, Pure Storage, Marketo, DDN and SurveyMonkey (which two weeks ago raised $794 million, to reach a value of $1.35 billion),...
30Wednesday, Jan. 2013
The Register
Company you never heard of builds 3.4 petaflops super for DOE
“Including a 2.7PB shared file system that will be delivered by DataDirect Networks, a specialist supercomputing storage supplier, the HPCS-4A system will cost the DOE's Office of Science a mere $17m...
15Tuesday, Jan. 2013
The Register
DDN grabs first slab of 100PB storage cloud
“UTAS’ choice of DDN is therefore potentially significant, as the interoperability and data federation the project desires will surely be easier to achieve with a homogenous collection of appliances...
02Wednesday, Jan. 2013
Information Week
'The Hobbit' Creates Big Data Challenge For Moviemaker
“High-definition cameras and the new wave in which people create effects and try to enthrall the audience have resulted in a pretty big explosion in the amount of content produced per movie," said...
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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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Wednesday May 22, 2013
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON EMBARKS ON FIRST PHASE OF 100PB CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE BUILD OUT... -
Tuesday April 16, 2013
DATADIRECT NETWORKS TO BUILD WORLD’S FASTEST STORAGE SYSTEM FOR TITAN, WORLD’S MOST... -
Wednesday April 03, 2013
DataDirect Networks (DDN) Showcases Expertise in Cloud Storage Innovation and Data...
