The life sciences industry is undergoing a rapid transformation driven by artificial intelligence (AI), with applications ranging from drug discovery to real-time diagnostics. But while AI holds immense promise, its success depends on a fundamental yet often overlooked component: data infrastructure.
Data is the fuel for every AI engine, and DDN’s Data Intelligence Platform is purpose-built to deliver that fuel at unmatched speed, scale, and intelligence. Designed to unify data across the enterprise and accelerate every stage of the AI lifecycle, DDN’s platform empowers life sciences organizations to innovate faster, improve patient outcomes, and reduce time to discovery.
AI in Life Sciences: High Adoption, Even Higher Expectations
According to the 2025 State of AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences report, 63% of organizations in the sector are actively using AI, while another 31% are piloting or evaluating projects. These efforts span everything from foundational models for drug candidate discovery to AI assistants for clinical documentation and medical imaging analysis.
The momentum is clear, and so are the business outcomes. An overwhelming 81% of AI adopters in the healthcare and life sciences space report increased revenue, with 45% realizing that return in less than a year
But adoption alone is not enough. AI initiatives often stumble due to infrastructure limitations, fragmented data silos, performance bottlenecks, and governance complexity. That’s why forward-thinking organizations are turning to data intelligence as the next strategic imperative.
What Is the Data Intelligence Platform?
DDN’s Data Intelligence Platform is a fully integrated software stack that unifies structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data across edge, core, and cloud environments. It supports the entire AI data lifecycle, from ingestion and preparation to training, inference, and governance.
This platform enables:
- Real-time data access and insight across globally distributed datasets
- Seamless AI integration with leading frameworks like NVIDIA NeMo and RAG workflows
- Full metadata intelligence and multi-tenancy for collaborative, compliant environments
- Flexible deployment across hybrid, cloud, and edge architectures
In short, DDN provides a single pane of glass for life sciences organizations to manage their AI data pipelines at scale, securely and efficiently.
How Life Sciences Organizations Benefit
1. Accelerated Drug Discovery
AI models like AlphaFold2 have revolutionized the prediction of protein structures. DDN’s platform supports the ingestion, storage, and real-time triggering of workflows as new proteins are modeled, drastically accelerating the research process. Infinia’s ability to list and search objects is 600x faster, enabling massive-scale experiments with zero performance degradation.
2. Faster Genomic Processing
From whole-genome sequencing to real-time bioinformatics, DDN supports the extreme throughput and latency-sensitive workloads that modern genomics demands. The platform’s scalable metadata engine and native object storage ensure seamless integration with next-gen sequencing tools and high-performance analytics frameworks.
3. Intelligent Clinical AI
Life sciences organizations are increasingly adopting LLMs to streamline clinical workflows and decision-making. DDN’s platform is optimized for inference and RAG architectures, delivering ultra-low latency and maximizing GPU utilization while maintaining secure, governed access to sensitive datasets.
Why Data Intelligence Matters More Than Ever
The 2025 AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences report reveals a common industry priority: unifying data and AI governance. A full 98% of organizations see a single governance model as important, while 72% say real-time data access is critical to achieving their technology goals.
With DDN, life sciences leaders don’t have to choose between performance, compliance, or scalability, they get all three.
- Any Data: Structured, unstructured, and semi-structured formats including genomics, EHRs, video, and image.
- Any Application: AI model training, inference, data analytics, and RAG workflows.
- Anywhere: Cloud, edge, or on-prem—DDN’s platform unifies operations with zero data silos.
DDN: Your Partner in Life Sciences Innovation
Life sciences is one of the most data-intensive industries in the world, and it’s also one of the most impactful. With the right infrastructure, organizations can unlock new discoveries, accelerate research timelines, and improve the human condition.
DDN’s Data Intelligence Platform is the foundation that enables this transformation. Trusted by global leaders like NVIDIA, Roche, and Scripps Research DDN is helping life sciences companies move beyond artificial, into real-world results.
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