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28Thursday, Mar. 2013
Gartner
Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose Disk Arrays
Updated: February 26, 2013 “Leading analyst firm positions DataDirect Networks as a challenger in Magic Quadrant for General Purpose Disk Arrays.” Read the Report
26Tuesday, Feb. 2013
The Taneja Group
Big Data Appliance Wrapped Up for the Enterprise
Updated: February 26, 2013 “One standout announcement this week is DDN's hScaler appliance - a monster of a Hadoop machine.” Read the Report
26Tuesday, Feb. 2013
Wikibon
DDN hScaler: HPC Meets Big Data
Updated: February 26, 2013 This appliance is very well thought through, and builds on DDNs experience in providing storage for High Performance Computing Read the Report
02Friday, Nov. 2012
451 Research
DataDirect Networks Scales Up revenue, Fortifies WOS Cloud Storage Platform
Updated: November 2, 2012 The high-performance storage specialist has long-term aspirations to push beyond the billion-dollar-revenue mark while ramping up its sales and engineering. Will DataDirect...
30Friday, Nov. 2012
Storage Switzerland
DDN’s WOS Sets the Performance Bar in Object Storage Systems
Updated: November 30, 2012 WOS is a top choice for environments where access latency does matter and data throughput is of paramount importance. Read the Report
28Friday, Sep. 2012
Storage Switzerland
The “New” Storage Company to Know About
Updated: September 28, 2012 Over the past decade or so, DataDirect Networks (DDN) has been quietly making a name for itself in the specialized environment of high performance computing (HPC) with...
25Thursday, Oct. 2012
Taneja Group
5 Key Questions for Big Data Storage Strategies: And Comprehensive Answers from DDN GRIDScaler
Updated: October 25, 2012 If you are evaluating big data storage solutions for your enterprise or mid-sized company, Taneja Group has identified 5 strategic questions that you should ask your vendors...
17Wednesday, Oct. 2012
Storage Strategies NOW
The Big Daddy of Big Data
Updated: October 2012 If there is any company that Big Data is tailored for, it's DataDirect Networks. That's because DataDirect has been doing Big Data for years, at least that is what they told us...
12Wednesday, Sep. 2012
Intersect360 Research
Data Discovery: DDN Solutions for Seismic Processing
Updated: September 2012 There are two ways in which oil companies are pushing their boundaries of scientific discovery. One is in the adoption of higher resolution capture methods, beginning with...
12Wednesday, Sep. 2012
Intersect360 Research
Beyond the Trading Bell: DDN Solutions for Financial Services
Updated: September 2012 DDN’s strength in HPC is anchored by its Storage Fusion Architecture (SFA), winner of the HPCwire Editor's Choice Award for "Best HPC Storage Product or Technology" in each of...
15Wednesday, Aug. 2012
Intersect360 Research
Searching and Researching: DDN Solutions for Life Sciences
Updated: August 2012 HPC users identify DDN as their storage provider more than any other storage-focused company, with more than twice the mentions of EMC, NetApp, Hitachi Data Systems, or Panasas.
06Monday, Aug. 2012
Taneja Group
DDN and Big Data’s Value Chain
Updated: August 06, 2012 DDN … now offers a toolset both for highly scalable capacity and for active data management on a very large scale, Read the Report
09Saturday, Jun. 2012
451 Group
DataDirect Networks' SFA12K Supports IBM's GPFS and Lustre Parallel File Systems
Updated: June 09, 2012 The company has expanded its offerings for high-performance computing, increasing performance, scalability and functionality... Read the Report
07Thursday, Jun. 2012
Pacific Crest
Big Data: Crossing the Adoption Chasm
Updated: June 07, 2012 IBM and DDN listed as “most strategic” big data hardware suppliers by CIOs Read the Report
06Monday, Feb. 2012
Oppenheimer & Co.
Equity Research Industry Update: Storage Industry Trends
Updated: February 06, 2012 This report is an excerpt of an Industry Update published by Ittai Kidron of Oppenheimer & Co. The storage industry is growing rapidly and in a constant state of flux....
21Tuesday, Feb. 2012
The 451 Group
DataDirect Networks – The Largest Private Storage Company – Gears Up for Hyperscale
Updated: February 21, 2012 DDN's continued growth through a tough period indicates that the privately held specialist is onto something. The company is slowly but surely expanding beyond its HPC...
22Thursday, Dec. 2011
IDC - Government Insights
Tackling Big Data with High-Performance Computing
Updated: December 22, 2011 Big Data is a term used to describe a new generation of technologies and architectures designed to extract value (including intelligence information, changes, and trends)...
14Friday, Oct. 2011
Wikibon
DDN Announces the Biggest Big Data Object System
Updated: Oct 14, 2011 DataDirect Networks has announced WOS 2.0, which is positioned as the world's fastest object storage system. WOS 2.0 is a fully integrated system including DDN storage, erasure...
12Wednesday, Aug. 2009
The 451 Group
DataDirect Accelerates Sales Past $200m Plateau, Eyes Analytics
"DataDirect has competitive technology in vertical markets that are expecting rapid growth in the coming years." Read the Report
14Saturday, May. 2011
Taneja Group
DataDirect Networks (DDN): Incredibly Well Positioned
"From computing perspective this decade is looking very different than the previous one. Data centers are in the midst of metamorphosis in almost every dimension. Physical servers running single...
26Saturday, Mar. 2011
Wikibon
Information is the New Currency of Business Says Jean-Luc Chatelain
Updated: March 26, 2011“We’re entering a new world where information is essentially going to be the currency of the global enterprise,” Jean-Luc Chatelain, the new executive vice...
23Wednesday, Feb. 2011
Wikibon
Case Study: PhotoBox and Big-Data
Updated: Feb 23, 2011 Introduction Recently Wikibon spoke to PhotoBox about its approach to big data. PhotoBox is a rapidly growing European-based online digital photo printing and developing company...
17Thursday, Dec. 2009
Storage Switzerland
Extreme Storage for the Cloud
12/17/2009 DataDirect Networks (DDN) is a leader in high performance computing (HPC) storage systems, counting 8 out of the top 10 HPC systems worldwide as customers. Their systems deliver remarkable...
03Friday, Apr. 2009
Enterprise Strategy Group
DDN xStreamScaler, Flexible, High-Performance Scale-out NAS
04/03/2009 DataDirect Networks' xSREAMScaler File Storage solution brings all the benefits of scale-out NAS to the table and then some. For starters, it has a low entry cost--users can start out...
05Thursday, Jun. 2008
Canaccord Adams
What is NetApp Going to do with Another $1.1 Billion?
"DataDirect Networks. If NTAP really wanted to stretch its technological capabilities, it could acquire DataDirect Networks, another private company. DataDirect has historically offered extremely...
19Friday, Dec. 2008
Wikibon
DDN Breaks Enterprise Storage Cost Barriers
Published: December, 2008 Recently, Wikibon received a red flyer that caught our eyes. The headline of the email push was "It's not too late to stretch your storage dollar." Given our emphasis on...
03Thursday, Apr. 2008
Frost & Sullivan
2008 World Disk Storage for Digital Media Market Product Differentiation Innovation Award
"The 2008 Product Differentiation Innovation Award for the World Disk Storage for Digital Media Market is being presented to DataDirect Networks for their dedicated storage solutions for rich media...
09Wednesday, Jun. 2010
Think Equity
Innovating to Optimize in a Resource Constrained World
"A parallel storage architecture helps Chatsworth, CA-based DataDirect Networks achieve an unprecedented throughput performance of 6 GB, which is more than double that achieved by clustered NAS or...
05Tuesday, Aug. 2008
Coughlin Associates
The Need for (Reliable) Speed
"Chatsworth, CA based DataDirect Networks fills an important role in the post production environment. The S2A offers low latency application performance for real-time collaborative workflow and file...
27Wednesday, Aug. 2008
Illuminata
DataDirect S2A: RAID for a Petabyte World
"DataDirect Networks has one alternative that is unique, designed for applications that want big capacity at a reasonable cost and without performance penalties. It has significant traction in rich...
02Monday, Jun. 2008
Enterprise Strategy Group
Steve Duplessie's State of the Union
06/02/2008 DDN just so happens to sell into the sweet spot of the media, entertainment and Web 2.0 worlds. DDN was used to create the new Batman movie trailers and effects for The Dark Knight. Read...
04Thursday, Dec. 2008
Data Mobility Group
DataDirect Networks: A Storage Platform for the Extreme Demands of Today, and Tomorrow
"Storage vendors have been scrambling to develop systems to meet these needs, but one vendor--DataDirect Networks--got a significant head start on the competition and has already developed a storage...
06Monday, Oct. 2008
Taneja Group
S2A6620: Extreme Storage Heads for the Channel, Targets the Midrange
"The S2A6620 offers enterprise options at a moderate price tag through its specialized channel partners, an offering that should prove Mightily Attractive to the mid-market."
13Thursday, May. 2010
The 451 Group
DataDirect Networks Expands Its Reach as it Tops the $100m Revenue Mark
"Unlike other storage startups in the space, DDN's five-year track record of profitability makes it stand out from the crowd." Read the Report
18Thursday, Sep. 2008
Taneja Group
DDN Company Profile
"It is its sheer bandwidth and brute force ingest capabilities that make DDNs' S2A products so attractive for unstructured data applications."
07Monday, Jul. 2008
Canaccord Adams
DDN Report
"Data Direct Networks is the leading supplier of storage systems for large capacity and high bandwidth applications. Using its proprietary Silicon Storage Architecture (S2A), its products address the...
07Saturday, May. 2011
OVUM
DataDirect Networks -- Innovative High-Bandwidth Storage
"DataDirect Networks has reset the functionality, reliability and performance bar for cost-effective unstructured data storage for scale-out applications. The company's focus on performance and...
13Wednesday, Jan. 2010
Analytico
Computing in the Clouds
"With high performance storage platforms in leading companies such as the number one oil producer in the world, Saudi Aramco; to Lawrence Livermore Lab, which attains more than 100GB/s of usable...
18Thursday, Sep. 2008
Wikibon
Holy Olympic Gold Batman, DataDirect Networks Has Done it Again!
Published: September, 2008 "Discussions within the Wikibon community including those with DDN's OEM and end customers suggest that DataDirect has developed a unique solution, delivering a sustained...
07Sunday, Sep. 2008
Analytico
Extreme Storage for an Extremely Digitized World
"Analytico believes that over 10 years experience in design and delivery of high performance storage systems has evolved into an ability by DataDirect Networks to deliver products that go beyond...
21Monday, Apr. 2008
Wachovia
Interview with DataDirect Networks executive team
Published: 04/21/2008 "At the NAB conference we had the opportunity to meet with the top executives at one of the fastest growing players in the digital storage systems market -- DataDirect Networks...
25Friday, Apr. 2008
John Krischer & Associates
Silicon Storage Architecture (S2A) series from DataDirect Networks
Published: April, 2008 "DataDirect Networks has the right products and enough prestigious references to support its claims regarding performance and availability. What is still on the drawing boards...
14Monday, Apr. 2008
Analytico
DataDirect Networks; No Longer the Best Kept Secret in Storage Performance!
Published: 04/14/2008 "With the introduction of the new high capacity, high throughput S2A9700 & the entry-level S2A6620, purpose-built storage systems, DataDirect Networks has strengthened not...
26Saturday, Apr. 2008
Enterprise Strategy Group
DDN Company Brief
Published: April, 2008 "DataDirect Networks has built a reputation developing ultra-high performance storage arrays in niche markets such as high-performance computing and rich media -- and suddenly...
19Friday, Dec. 2008
Wikibon
DDN: A Well-Kept Secret
Published: 12/19/2008 "DataDirect Networks (DDN) is one of the storage industry's best secrets. The company generates more than $100M in revenue, is growing rapidly and earns a nice profit serving...
25Monday, Feb. 2008
Wachovia
Enterprise Storage: Bifurcating Storage Market; Interview with Scott Genereux, SVP of DataDirect Networks Worldwide Sales, IT Spending Thoughts, & More
Traditional Versus Next-Gen Storage Workloads--Interview With Scott Genereux, Exec. Vice President Of Worldwide Sales At DataDirect Networks--In this note we highlight our updated thoughts on what...
03Thursday, Apr. 2008
Caris & Company
Interview with DDN - One of Isilon's Headaches
Published: 04/03/2008 "We recently interviewed two executives from DataDirect Networks (DDN), a fastgrowing private storage competitor to Isilon (which just reported weak CQ3 and CQ4 07 numbers--see...

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Industry Research Covering DDN

28Thursday, Mar. 2013

Gartner

26Tuesday, Feb. 2013

The Taneja Group

26Tuesday, Feb. 2013

Wikibon

02Friday, Nov. 2012

451 Research

30Friday, Nov. 2012

Storage Switzerland

28Friday, Sep. 2012

Storage Switzerland

25Thursday, Oct. 2012

Taneja Group

17Wednesday, Oct. 2012

Storage Strategies NOW

12Wednesday, Sep. 2012

Intersect360 Research

12Wednesday, Sep. 2012

Intersect360 Research

15Wednesday, Aug. 2012

Intersect360 Research

06Monday, Aug. 2012

Taneja Group

09Saturday, Jun. 2012

451 Group

07Thursday, Jun. 2012

Pacific Crest

06Monday, Feb. 2012

Oppenheimer & Co.

21Tuesday, Feb. 2012

The 451 Group

22Thursday, Dec. 2011

IDC - Government Insights

14Friday, Oct. 2011

Wikibon

12Wednesday, Aug. 2009

The 451 Group

14Saturday, May. 2011

Taneja Group

26Saturday, Mar. 2011

Wikibon

23Wednesday, Feb. 2011

Wikibon

17Thursday, Dec. 2009

Storage Switzerland

03Friday, Apr. 2009

Enterprise Strategy Group

05Thursday, Jun. 2008

Canaccord Adams

19Friday, Dec. 2008

Wikibon

03Thursday, Apr. 2008

Frost & Sullivan

09Wednesday, Jun. 2010

Think Equity

05Tuesday, Aug. 2008

Coughlin Associates

27Wednesday, Aug. 2008

Illuminata

02Monday, Jun. 2008

Enterprise Strategy Group

04Thursday, Dec. 2008

Data Mobility Group

06Monday, Oct. 2008

Taneja Group

13Thursday, May. 2010

The 451 Group

18Thursday, Sep. 2008

Taneja Group