As AI innovation accelerates, enterprises and AI builders require cloud infrastructure that can keep up with the exploding demands of large-scale model training, inference, and AI data management. Achieving success in AI today demands more than just faster cloud storage, it requires fully integrated, intelligent data solutions.
Gemini 2.5 Flash, Google Cloud’s first fully hybrid reasoning model, is a groundbreaking leap forward, delivering unparalleled performance and efficiency to meet the needs of the most data-hungry AI and generative AI workloads. Engineered to maximize throughput, minimize latency, and seamlessly integrate with Google Cloud’s extensive services, Gemini 2.5 Flash powers AI training, deployment, and real-time inference at a global scale.
However, to fully harness the value of Gemini 2.5 Flash, organizations must also solve for the end-to-end data lifecycle, ensuring that data is always accessible, governed, and AI-ready across hybrid, edge, and cloud environments. This is where DDN’s collaboration with Google Cloud brings game-changing capabilities to the table.
Announced at Google Cloud Next 2025, DDN is collaborating with Google Cloud to deliver Google Cloud Managed Lustre powered by DDN EXAScaler®. This technology supercharges the speed and accuracy of Gemini 2.5 Flash by unlocking seamless, persistent data access, superior scalability, and unmatched efficiency for enterprises and GenAI innovators. With Google Cloud Managed Lustre, organizations can move massive, multi-modal datasets with ease, orchestrate AI data pipelines across environments, and eliminate traditional storage bottlenecks.
This partnership marks a defining milestone in DDN’s strategy: bringing enterprise-grade AI data intelligence to cloud-native environments at hyperscale. As Alex Bouzari, DDN’s CEO, noted, “By fusing our industry-leading EXAScaler with Google Cloud’s global reach and cutting-edge compute power, we’re unleashing an entirely new era of AI innovation.”
Google Cloud Managed Lustre ensures enterprises benefit from a supercomputing-class, persistent parallel file system for extreme throughput and business-critical reliability. Whether for training the largest LLMs, executing HPC applications, or deploying large-scale inference, this unified approach accelerates outcomes while reducing costs.
Together, Gemini Flash 2.5 and Google Cloud Managed Lustre deliver:
- Unmatched Performance
Terabytes per second of throughput to maximize GPU utilization and dramatically accelerate AI training and inference workflows. - Effortless Scalability
Seamlessly expand from terabytes to exabytes without rearchitecting, supporting edge, core, and multi-cloud environments. - Broad Accessibility
Enterprise-class AI and data intelligence capabilities available to businesses of all sizes through a fully software-defined, cloud-native platform. - Cost Efficiency
Minimized data movement, higher GPU utilization, and optimized resource sharing to reduce infrastructure and operational costs. - Reliability at Scale
99.9%+ uptime with full integration into Google Compute Engine, GKE, and Cloud Storage environments, backed by fault-tolerant, cloud-optimized architecture.
From global enterprises to GenAI startups, customers now manage AI data more efficiently, train models faster, infer smarter, and unlock real-time insights with no compromise between speed, scale, and simplicity.
Whether your organization is building next-generation AI models, scaling real-time analytics, or accelerating research breakthroughs, the combination of Gemini 2.5 Flash and Google Cloud Managed Lustre provides the foundation to move from aspiration to realization faster, smarter, and at any scale.
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