
The rapid increase in data creation, driven by the proliferation of digital content and machine generated data has created significant challenges for IT managers. Today, growing capacity or performance means selecting either scale-up or scale-out approaches that usually result in over provisioning, and are costly and inefficient at scale. This limited choice results in overhead associated with managing either multiple islands of storage or inefficient budgetary spend, leading to lower returns on investment.
Leveraging over a decade of leadership in the highest end of Big Data, GRIDScaler is designed to handle the diverse and dynamic demands of today's massive unstructured data generators. It is an extremely versatile solution that can be configured as a parallel file system as well as a Network Attached Storage solutions based on the customer's requirements. With scalable data and metadata technology, the GRIDScaler platform eliminates all bottlenecks to achieve true parallelism and maximum application performance.














Seamless access using NAS protocols for Industry Standard Access as well as Parallel Clients for up to 300% added performance boost
Performance beyond 200 GB/sec and 10,000s of file operations per second
Efficient, modular scalability to handle tomorrow's unpredictable growth
Hierarchical Storage Manager to move data between Online/Nearline/Backup/Archive tiers, all within the same namespace
Get up to 80% efficiency from storage at scale to lower TCO
Start small and scale to hundreds of PBs in a single system
Flexible RAID, Quotas, Snapshots, Replicated Volumes and Defragmentation Tools
Lower TCO with Leading Rack, Energy and Disk Performance Efficiency
Intelligent journaling identifies changed files for backup up to reduce the load on metadata server
Fully configured turnkey appliance that plugs seamlessly into the existing infrastructure
Enables you to manage one or dozens of DDN systems from a single point.
The SFA10K-M & SFA12K configurations provide a server-less option, where the file system is embedded right inside the storage controller.
How to Buy DDN Storage Systems & Solutions are available through a variety of channels:
Direct DDN's Worldwide Presales Team of Account Managers and Systems Engineers will assess your business objectives and technical requirements and prescribe a GRIDScaler solution that fits your needs and budget.
OEM System Providers The world's largest technology companies provide DDN Storage as individual systems or as part of a larger integrated solution.
Resellers and Integrators Specialized VARs and System Integrators provide DDN Storage as individual systems or as part of a larger integrated solution.
Contact sales@ddn.com and we will work with you to understand your needs and determine the best source.
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Traditional NAS solutions limited market modeling, slowed algorithm enhancement and reduced competitiveness.
DDN delivered a full GRIDScaler solution, with full InfiniBand support, to increase responsiveness by 10x, enable better modeling and higher profits.

Across the NIH campus, various research organizations were challenged with deploying the right amount of performance and capacity to their organizations.
DDN deployed over 4 Petabytes of GRIDScaler and Direct-Attached solutions to several divisions of the NIH who depend on DDN mission-critical offerings to support their daily cancer and disease research.

Urgently required an extremely scalable and high performing storage platform that could seamlessly grow to support the archive and distribution requirements from over 300,000 file new file uploads per day.
A petabyte-scale GRIDScaler SFA10K solution was selected to deliver the performance required by 10,000s of large scale transfers per hour and the scalability to meet anything tomorrow presents their high-growth business.

Deploy a dynamically-scalable solution to manage 10x the sequencing throughput as compared to other state-of-the-art sequencing systems.
ION Torrent purchased GRIDScaler to serve as their research data infrastructure with the capability to grow over 1000% in the future.

Needed a scalable storage platform to digitize 50 PBs of Genealogy Records in the form of 1 Billion images that had to be scanned at the rate of 2,000 images per second.
Deployed a GRIDScaler solution that allowed FAMILYSEARCH to scale their business to any level – current and into the future while simultaneously increasing customer satisfaction by improving image load time and enhancing user experience.

DDN has long been a partner of choice for organizations that need to scale far beyond conventional file system limits. DDN continues to
reaffirm its position at the vanguard of the scalable systems marketplace, and therefore as one of the storage leaders of the contemporary Big
Data era.— Mark Peters, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group