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SFA12K Product Family
The most advanced storage platforms for big data massively scalable, highest performance & density, and in-storage processing.

SFA10K-X
The world’s highest performance & most scalable storage platform.

SFA10K-M
Powerful & affordable scale-out big data & file storage foundation.

SFA7700
The hybrid flash storage appliance with application-acceleration to maximize big data insights.

S2A9900
Real-time content storage.

S2A6620
High performance modular storage appliance.

hScaler
The World's First Enterprise Apache™ Hadoop® Appliance

EXAScaler
Massively scalable, high performance, open source file storage appliance.

GRIDScaler
Massively scalable parallel file system and NAS solution.

NAS Scaler
The scale right enterprise file storage solution.

xSTREAMScaler
The most efficient way to share, manage, distribute and protect your content.

SFA12K-20E EXAScaler
The factory-built, plug & play parallel file storage appliance for big data.

SFA12K-20E GRIDScaler
The easy to deploy, all-in-one scalable file storage appliance for big data.

SFA10K-E EXAScaler
The easy to deploy, all-in-one high performance parallel file system.

SFA10K-E GRIDScaler
The easy to deploy, all-in-one scalable file storage for the petabyte age.

GRIDScaler SAS Grid Overview
Reliable and high performance parallel file system solution for a scale out SAS environment.

ScalerServer
Pre-configured, optimized, fully integrated.

StorageScaler 2460 24 Bay Enclosure
2U 24-drive 6G SAS/SATA enclosure.

StorageScaler 7000 60 Bay Enclosure
High density enclosure - 6Gb/s.

StorageScaler 8460 84 Bay Enclosure
World’s highest density enclosure to drastically lower TCO.

DDN for Next Generation Service Provider Infrastructure
Private, Public, Hybrid Cloud & CDN.

WOS 2.5
Big data cloud & object storage, made mainstream.

WOS Access
Ease application integration & realize the benefits of object storage with the familiarity of NFS.

WOS Cloud
The flexible, rapidly deployable, complete multi-tennant cloud storage platform for cloud service providers.

WOS Share
The secure, behind the firewall solution for enterprise file sharing, transfer & collaboration.

DirectMon
Advanced configuration and monitoring solution to optimize IT operations.

DirectMon Server
Pre-configured, optimized, and fully integrated.

DDN for Next Generation Service Provider Infrastructure
Private, Public, Hybrid Cloud & CDN.

SSN Global Support
Maximizing customer information value through big data services expertise.

Customer Guide to DDN Technical Support
DDN offers technical support options to serve a wide variety of customer needs and budgets. This document summarizes what those offerings are and how best to use them in the event of questions, concerns, or outright trouble.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory Infographics
Making the climb to exascale computing

Lawrence Livermore National Labs
Terascale simulation facility employs S2A storage system to deliver a scalable, high performance, high capacity, opensystem solution for high speed scientific simulation, data analysis and visualization.

Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
DataDirect Networks and SGI deliver advanced image acquisition, storage, retrieval, and processing enabling real-time intelligence on the battlefield in the Naval Research Laboratory’s Large Data Joint Capabilities Technology Demonstration.

NOAA on Accelerating Critical Research (Video)
Watch how NOAA keeps citizens informed of the changing environment around them from the surface of the sun to the depths of the ocean floor.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory
ORNL spider file system: world’s fastest HPC storage cluster.

Aalto University
Aalto University boosts supercomputing performance with high-capacity storage solution

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa choses WOS® to enable scientists at two campuses instantaneous access to generated data

Lawrence Livermore National Labs
Terascale simulation facility employs S2A storage system to deliver a scalable, high performance, high capacity, opensystem solution for high speed scientific simulation, data analysis and visualization.

Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
DataDirect Networks and SGI deliver advanced image acquisition, storage, retrieval, and processing enabling real-time intelligence on the battlefield in the Naval Research Laboratory’s Large Data Joint Capabilities Technology Demonstration.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory
ORNL spider file system: world’s fastest HPC storage cluster.

Texas Advanced Computing Center
The Texas Advanced Computing Center, a leading scientific computation facility at The University of Texas at Austin, tackles the research data explosion using high-performance Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers and massively scalable storage from DataDirect Networks.

Tokyo Institute of Technology
Providing researchers & students instant access to immense amounts of scientific data they are generating.

University College London
University College London Transforms Research Collaboration and Data Preservation with Scalable Cloud Object Storage Appliance from DDN

Tokyo Institute of Technology
Providing researchers & students instant access to immense amounts of scientific data they are generating.

The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen)
Racing to find a cure, TGEN uses DDN Storage to unravel the genetic components of disease, faster.

University of Southern California
Researching the genetic basis of behavior, cognition and affect, USC needed a high performance, scalable infrastructure to support next-gen genomics sequencing.

Weill Cornell Medical College
DNA sequencing, proteomics, and computational biology coupled with the art of High Performance Computing.

CATA
Scalable storage solution for high end post-production and DI infrastructure.

Maple Leaf Sports Entertainment (MLSE)
Playing-to-win, MLSE implements a centralized storage solution to increase speed & efficiency across their entire media workflow.

Nice Shoes
Nice Shoes operates a 24x7 highly collaborative environment and needed to enable users to work in real-time.

Speed
Racing to transition to HD, SPEED needed a high velocity file-based workflow for flawless ingest, edit & play-out.

WRN Broadcast
With DDN, this international broadcast managed services company increased the amount of work processed each day by 25%.

Aalto University
Aalto University boosts supercomputing performance with high-capacity storage solution

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa choses WOS® to enable scientists at two campuses instantaneous access to generated data

Texas Advanced Computing Center
The Texas Advanced Computing Center, a leading scientific computation facility at The University of Texas at Austin, tackles the research data explosion using high-performance Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers and massively scalable storage from DataDirect Networks.

Tokyo Institute of Technology
Providing researchers & students instant access to immense amounts of scientific data they are generating.

University College London
University College London Transforms Research Collaboration and Data Preservation with Scalable Cloud Object Storage Appliance from DDN

University of South Florida
The ninth largest university in the United States updates its research center for the Big Data era.

University of Southern California
Researching the genetic basis of behavior, cognition and affect, USC needed a high performance, scalable infrastructure to support next-gen genomics sequencing.

Weill Cornell Medical College
DNA sequencing, proteomics, and computational biology coupled with the art of High Performance Computing.

Anyang City Hall
Conquering urban street crime in a time of lean city budgets requires breakthrough tactics and creative thinking.

The Public Transport Authority of Western Australia
Deploying Storage from DDN to enhance the safety and comfort of PTA’s passengers – and protecting public transportation infrastructure.

Active Archiving
The evolution of the Internet and the online distribution of media content has opened a whole new world of content consumption, which is now driving transformation to the archive.

Content Origin & Delivery
Organizations that are looking to implement or expand their content origin or delivery infrastructure are often faced with the choice of whether to build, buy or rent their solution.

MXFserver: Unified Workflow Solution for NLE Workgroups
The Ultimate Collaboration Solution for True Shared Editing

WOS Cloud – Personal Storage for the Enterprise
Secure, Shared “Drop-in” File Access for Enterprise Users, Anytime and Anywhere

Accelerate Financial Analytics
Breakthrough technical boundaries & seize new market opportunities. DDN accelerates data capture & algorithmic development for back testing and risk management.

Hadoop Analytics with the SFA Big Data Platform
Organizations that need to extract value from all data can leverage the award winning SFA platform to really accelerate their Hadoop infrastructure and gain a deeper understanding of their business.

SAS: DDN GRIDScaler in SAS 9.3 Distributed Grid Environments
A scale out environment with a reliable and high performance shared parallel file system.

WOS Cloud – Personal Storage for the Enterprise
Secure, Shared “Drop-in” File Access for Enterprise Users, Anytime and Anywhere

Federal ISR
The Way to Capture and Analyze the Growing Amount of Data Created by New Technologies

Hadoop Analytics with the SFA Big Data Platform
Organizations that need to extract value from all data can leverage the award winning SFA platform to really accelerate their Hadoop infrastructure and gain a deeper understanding of their business.

Vertica: Overcoming The Big Data Technology Hurdle
Turning data into answers with DDN & Vertica

WOS Server-less Solutions for Megapixel Camera Deployments
Next-generation technologies help optimize and streamline the security enterprise.

WOS for Geospatial Imaging
Cloud storage capturing the world at scale with WOS™

WOS Cloud – Personal Storage for the Enterprise
Secure, Shared “Drop-in” File Access for Enterprise Users, Anytime and Anywhere

Accelerating HPC Data Distribution
EXASCALER™ & SFA12K-20™ Powers the Large Hadron Collider Demo at SC122

Genomics
High Performance, Highly Scalable Solutions that Accelerate Time to Discovery & Simplify Your Workflow

BioPharma Research
Eliminate bottlenecks and speed-up time to results with DDN’s advanced storage platforms.

Academia
Cutting-edge research initiatives benefit from highperformance, scalable and collaborative storage solutions from DDN.

Hadoop Analytics with the SFA Big Data Platform
Organizations that need to extract value from all data can leverage the award winning SFA platform to really accelerate their Hadoop infrastructure and gain a deeper understanding of their business.

SAS: DDN GRIDScaler in SAS 9.3 Distributed Grid Environments
A scale out environment with a reliable and high performance shared parallel file system.

WOS Cloud – Personal Storage for the Enterprise
Secure, Shared “Drop-in” File Access for Enterprise Users, Anytime and Anywhere

CommValut Simpana Sofware with DDN WOS
Simplifying cloud backup & archive. A single information management platform for automated global protection and retention.

Content Origin & Delivery
Organizations that are looking to implement or expand their content origin or delivery infrastructure are often faced with the choice of whether to build, buy or rent their solution.

Hadoop Analytics with the SFA Big Data Platform
Organizations that need to extract value from all data can leverage the award winning SFA platform to really accelerate their Hadoop infrastructure and gain a deeper understanding of their business.

WOS Cloud – Personal Storage for the Enterprise
Secure, Shared “Drop-in” File Access for Enterprise Users, Anytime and Anywhere

Seismic Processing
Driving speed and precision in seismic processing with storage solutions from DDN.

Hadoop Analytics with the SFA Big Data Platform
Organizations that need to extract value from all data can leverage the award winning SFA platform to really accelerate their Hadoop infrastructure and gain a deeper understanding of their business.

WOS Cloud – Personal Storage for the Enterprise
Secure, Shared “Drop-in” File Access for Enterprise Users, Anytime and Anywhere

Accelerating Collaboration in Life Science with DDN Storage
Examine how a state-of-the-art facility like Baylor or Yale Medical Center processes a human genome with analysis and diagnosis.

Any Surveillance, Anywhere, Anytime
DDN Storage Powers Next Generation Video Surveillance Infrastructure.

Any Threat, Anywhere, Anytime (Federal)
Scalable Infrastructure to Enable the Warfighter.

Modernizing Hadoop Architecture for Superior Scalability, Efficiency & Productive Throughput
A Fundamentally Different Approach To Enterprise Analytics Architecture: A Scalable Unit Design Leveraging Shared High-Throughput Storage To Minimize Compute TCO

Minimizing Cloud Latency with WOS
The DDN Web Object Scaler (WOS) is a revolutionary object-based, cloud storage system that addresses the needs of content scale-out and global distribution.

SFA10K-X & SFA10K-E: Extreme IOPS & Bandwidth Performance
Breaking Down Storage Barriers by Providing Extreme Performance in Both Bandwidth and IOPS

SFA 12K: High Performance Solutions for Big Data
High Performance Solutions for Big Data: Setting the Bar in Both Bandwidth & lOPS

Why RAID is Wrong at Hyperscale
When making the leap to hyperscale storage systems, RAID should be left behind. It’s time to consider object storage.

WOS 2.0
Breaking the Limits of Cloud Storage Performance and Scalability – An Introduction to DataDirect Networks’ Web Object Scaler™ (WOS™) Storage Cloud System

WOS for Research
Utilizing iRODS® to manage collaborative research.

The Future of Next-Gen Sequencing (NGS)
Conducted by CHI Professional Marketing Services. Coping with NGS Data Flood Data Direct Networks — Storage Scalability Experts.

IDC: Tackling Big Data with High Performance Computing
IDC Government Insights Opinion

HPCwire: Accelerating Grid Analytics for Big Data with SAS and DDN
Analytics vendors are now addressing Big Data analytics performance issues by relying on grid technology.

HPCwire: Life Sciences Storage Issues and Computational Workflow Acceleration
Today with the continued decrease in sequencing costs, life sciences research is moving from beakers to bytes and increasingly relies on the analysis of large volumes of data.

HPCwire: Reducing Storage Latency in High Performance Financial Applications
How financial services firms are examining every aspect of their infrastructures to squeeze any delays out of their end-to-end computational workflows.

HPCwire: Simplifying Big Data Storage Management
DDN offers an array of storage solutions with different I/O and throughput capabilities to meet the performance requirements of any Big Data analytics workflow. And they are extremely scalable in capacity and density.

Intersect360 Research: Beyond the Trading Bell
DDN Solutions for Financial Service

Intersect360 Research: Data and Discovery
DDN Solutions for Seismic Processing

Intersect360 Research: Searching and Researching
DDN Solutions for Life Sciences

The Big Daddy of Big Data: DataDirect Networks
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.

Teneja Group: 5 Key Questions for Big Data Storage Strategies
Comprehensive Answers from DDN GRIDScaler

Unified Media Workflow
Allow creativity and application flexibility to flourish. DDN enables you to reduce systems and TCO by supporting Apple®, Avid® & Adobe® tools and workflows on ...

Using Big Data Tools for ISR
Government agencies need innovative and massively scalable storage infrastructures to support today's higher resolution video and the deluge of sensor data.

Legal Concerns and Practical Solutions for Media & Entertainment in the Cloud
James Burger (Dow Lohnes), Marty Lafferty (DCIA) and others provide new insights...

Accelerating Results for Financial Services
Storage is a major factor in time to results. Learn how to accelerate and gain competitive advantage.

Fast Data
Introducing the SFA12K, the world's fastest storage & compute platform for Big Data.

Scalable Cloud Storage
Control your content and IT policies. Simply and cost effectively implement your own storage clouds to share files and enable global collaboration behind your firewall.

Solving IO Bottlenecks in Big Data Analytics
Join DDN experts to see how organizations are leveraging developments in storage infrastructure to extract the greatest possible value from their data.

How to Build a Rock Solid Lustre Environment
Come and find out core tips and tricks in building a rock solid Lustre environment that will work specifically for you and your storage environment.

Policy-Based Data Management, Integrated Rule Oriented Data Grid (iRODS)
DataDirect Networks - Storage Fusion Architecture is a highly scalable storage platform capable of hosting iRODS in a tightly coupled solution with a RAID controller and parallel file system providing an appliance like solution that can scale to multiple-petabytes in a single name space.

Think Big. Join DDN the Leader in Big Data & Cloud Storage Video
We're hiring and Big Data is creating tremendous opportunities. it's an exciting time to work at DDN!

hScaler Overview
The World's First Enterprise Apache™ Hadoop® Appliance

hScaler Whiteboard Session
DDN Product Marketing provides an architectural review of hScaler, our Hadoop® analytics appliance

SFA12K Product Demo
The SFA™12K product family is purpose-built to simplify and tame big data growth, enabling you to architect and scale your environment more intelligently, efficiently and cost effectively than ever before.

DataDirect CEO on Cloud Computing
DDN CEO, Alex Bouzari, was interviewed for the show "Street Signs" where he discussed our explosive market opportunity and truly amazing success story.

DDN @ Strata
Jeff Denworth, VP of Marketing for Data Direct Networks, on Silicon Angle's TheCUBE with John Furrier and Dave Vellnate at Strata 2013.

DDN @ SC12
Jeff Denworth, VP of Marketing for Data Direct Networks, talks about seven big announcements DDN made from SC12.

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 seeing a pendulum shift,” said Denworth.

DDN Ramps Up for Exascale at 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 recently announced a $100 Million dollar investment in Exascale technologies.

Steve Simms on the Data Capacitor II at Indiana University
Steve Simms from Indiana University describes a recent upgrade to the Data Capacitor project, a high-speed, high-capacity storage facility for very large data sets. With 5 PB of storage, Data Capacitor II will support big data applications used in computational research. IU partnered with DataDirect Networks, Inc. (DDN) to develop Data Capacitor II, which is scheduled to be installed in the IU Data Center in spring 2013.

Chalk Talk: DirectMon
DDN Product Marketing provides an architectural review of DirectMon, our new Big Data infrastructure management tool.

Unified Media Workflow Video
From the show floor at NAB 2012, take a quick look at how DDN enables you to use a single storage platform for multiple creative tools and workflows...

Dalet & DVS on DDN
Two prominent media leaders talk about how storage is a critical component to their users infrastructure and how DDN accelerates their workflows.

NOAA on Accelerating Critical Research
How NOAA keeps citizens informed of the changing environment around them from the surface of the sun to the depths of the ocean floor.

BBC News | DDN Powers Petabytes of Sanger Institutes DNA Research
See how Sanger accelerates time to discovery as they race for cures to disease.

CNN Money | ORNL's Jaguar
Take a look inside ORNL as DDN powers the USA's fastest supercomputer.

Extraction Point | Big Data & DDN
Jean-Luc Chatelain shares his subject matter expertise and vision about Big Data.