Resource Library
BROCHURES
DDN Corporate
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DDN Company Overview The Leading Big Data Storage Supplier to Data-Intensive, Global Organizations |
Block Storage
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SFA14KX Datasheet High Performance Block Storage (SFA14KX) with Embedded Application Option (SFA14KXE) |
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SFA7700X Datasheet The hybrid flash storage appliance with application-acceleration to maximize big data insights. |
Flash Storage
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Flashscale Product Brochure Hyperconverged, Built for Flash, High Performance At-scale Building Block |
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IME Datasheet IME® SOFTWARE / IME240 Appliance Application Aware I/O Acceleration and Burst Buffer |
File Storage
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ES7K Data Sheet World’s fastest entry-level Lustre® solution delivers easy migration to parallel file systems |
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EXAScaler Product Family Datasheet Massively Scalable, High Performance, Open Source File Storage Appliance |
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GS7KX Data Sheet An easy-to-deploy, scale-out file system appliance for Big Data. Massively Scalable - Highest Performance and Density - Cloud and NAS Extensions |
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MEDIAScaler® Product Brochure High-Performance Converged Media Storage for End-to-End Data Management |
Object Storage
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WOS Enterprise Protect Product Brochure Complete, Simple & Secure Backup, File Sync & Share Solutions for Organizations with Mobile, Private and Public Cloud Requirements |
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WOS Object Storage Datasheet High Performance Object Storage Appliances |
Storage Enclosures
Monitoring
Support
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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. |
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DDN-GlobalServices-Support-Brochure Maximizing customer information value through big data services expertise. |
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Support Portal Quick Start Guide |
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Support Portal User Guide DDN’s web-based Support Portal provides online access to customer Service Requests (SRs) around the clock and around the world. |
SUCCESS STORIES
Financial Services
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Accelerating Financial Services Success Story |
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Financial Services Success Stories DDN Delivers Big Rewards from Big Data in Backtesting, Risk Management, Pricing & Fraud Detection |
Academic Research
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NCSA - Success Story National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) builds storage environments with DDN® SFA10K™ & SFA12K™ to house vital research data for advanced scientific discovery. |
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University College London (UCL) - Success Story University College London Transforms Research Collaboration and Data Preservation with Scalable Cloud Object Storage Appliance from DDN |
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University of Southern California (USC) - Success Story Researching the genetic basis of behavior, cognition and affect, USC needed a high performance, scalable infrastructure to support next-gen genomics sequencing. |
Life Sciences
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Children's Mercy Kansas City - Success Story Children’s Mercy Kansas City Reduces Time to Achieve Major Medical Breakthroughs for Critically Ill Children by Nearly 2x with Rapid Genome Sequencing Powered by High-Performance DDN Storage |
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Edinburgh Genomics - Success Story Founded in 1583, Scotland’s University of Edinburgh is the sixth oldest university in the English-speaking world. At the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), scientists take advantage of world-class computing to speed breakthroughs in areas including genomics, molecular simulation, particle physics, cosmology, new materials, combustion, and climate modeling. |
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Einstein - Success Story Medical school deploys end-to-end solution from high performance storage to offsite data protection |
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National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG) - Success Story NIBMG deploys DataDirect™ Networks storage to increase scientific collaboration and high performance analysis for cutting-edge oral cancer research |
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Public Health England - Success Story |
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Sanger Institute - Success Story The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute relies on scalable, high-performance storage from DDN to reduce global health burden. |
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Scripps - Success Story The Scripps Research Institute Unlocks Scientific Secrets Using Cryo-EM, Robust HPC, and DDN Storage. |
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The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) - Success Story Racing to find a cure, TGEN uses DDN Storage to unravel the genetic components of disease, faster. |
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University of Florida - Success Story The University of Florida’s Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research (ICBR) deploys new converged storage infrastructure into its production environment. |
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University of Miami - Success Story University of Miami’s Center for Computational Science Correlates Viruses with Gastrointestinal Cancers for The Cancer Genome Atlas 400% Faster Using DDN Storage |
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Van Andel Research Institute - Success Story Van Andel Research Institute Optimizes HPC Pipeline, Driving Research Discoveries and New Drug Therapies with End-to-End DDN Storage Solution |
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Weill Cornell Medicine - Success Story |
Media
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Kollins Communications - Success Story Kollins Communications Speeds High-End Video Production to Help Customers Like Samsung Blaze a New Trail in Retail Marketing |
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Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema - Success Story Top-notch Film and Arts school takes its 4K ingest and editing workflows to the next level |
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MLB - Success Story MLB Network Speeds Access to Massive Baseball Archive While Streamlining Management of 40PB Tape Storage Repository with DDN’s MEDIAScaler Storage Platform |
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Speed - Success Story Racing to transition to HD, SPEED needed a high velocity file-based workflow for flawless ingest, edit & play-out. |
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Starz - Success Story Starz accelerates digital media workflows with DataDirect Networks. |
National Laboratories
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CSIR - Press Release The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa choses WOS® to enable scientists at two campuses instantaneous access to generated data |
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Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) - Success Story 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 |
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NERSC - Success Story NERSC reaped immediate operational benefits from its decision to deploy DDN’s SFA storage appliance with four petabytes of usable storage capacity. |
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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. |
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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. |
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TRIUMF - Success Story |
Oil & Gas
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Achieving the Ultimate Efficiency for Seismic Data Analysis with Paradigm and DDN The pressure to reduce both operating and capital costs in seismic data analysis drives an on-going demand for efficiency improvements in computational processing facilities. |
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Dramatically Improving Time To Results For Seismic Processing With DDN Storage And Landmark Seispace Faster And More Accurate Exploration Using Shared Storage With Parallel Access |
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Intersect360 Research: Data and Discovery DDN Solutions for Seismic Processing |
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Reducing Time to Oil Solution Brief DDN delivers unparalleled performance for acquisition, processing & modeling workflows |
Video Surveillance
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Maricopa County Sheriff's Office - Success Story Maricopa County Sheriff ’s Office Strengthens Law Enforcement Leadership with Advanced Video Surveillance System Powered by High-Performance, Reliable DDN® Storage |
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Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) - Success Story 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 |
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PTA of Western Australia - Success Story Deploying Storage from DDN to enhance the safety and comfort of PTA’s passengers – and protecting public transportation infrastructure. |
SOLUTION BRIEFS
Cloud & Web
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Content Delivery Networks Solution Brief |
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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. |
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DDN for Next Generation Service Provider Infrastructure Private, Public, Hybrid Cloud & CDN. |
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Web, Cloud and xSP Solution Brief DDN cloud storage solutions deliver cost-effective, massive scale, performance and availability for multi-site collaboration, content creation and delivery. |
Financial Services
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Financial Services Solution Brief Break through technical boundaries and seize new market opportunities. DDN accelerates data capture and algorithmic development for back testing and risk management. |
Government Intelligence
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Accelerating US Federal Workflows Solution Brief DDN has been working with Federal programs in the US and allied countries for over 15 years. |
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Vertica Solution Brief Queries were completed on the Trillion row database in as little as two seconds, with equally impressive results on more complex queries. |
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Video Surveillance Solution Brief The volume, velocity and variety of surveillance data are growing exponentially. |
Academic Research
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CSIR - Press Release The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa choses WOS® to enable scientists at two campuses instantaneous access to generated data |
Life Sciences
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Life Sciences Solution Brief Massive increases in instrument data are revolutionizing life sciences research across a number of fields including personalized medicine, agritech, epidemiology, and drug development |
Manufacturing
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Deliver Better Products Faster Solution Brief DDN products power 30% of the world’s top aero and auto manufacturers |
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Electronic Design Automation Solution Brief DataDirect Networks Accelerates Design Process To Reduce Time To Market And Design Costs |
Media
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Accelerate Media Workflows End To End - SolutionBrief Media workflows in broadcast, post-production and content delivery are demanding—and getting more so all the time. Changing formats, camera resolutions and evolving techniques can make your infrastructure obsolete in short order. |
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Active Archive Solution Brief 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. |
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Central Data Store Solution Brief DDN’s Central Data Store consolidates persistent storage tiers across the enterprise into a centralized storage solution. Data across flash, spinning media, and tape is presented with a single view to end users and applications, making the environment simple to manage, secure, and cost-effective. |
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DDN Solution Brief Spectra Logic DDN and Spectra Logic Joint Solution Brief |
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GRIDScaler™ High Performance Tape Management Solution Storage Solution Bridging High Performance GPFS to Deep Archive Tape |
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MXFServer Solution Brief |
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Tiger Technology - Combined Production & Active Archive Solution DataDirect Networks and Tiger Technology provide a fast, efficient and seamless workflow solution for production, backup, restore and archive |
National Laboratories
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BioPharma Research Solution Brief Eliminate bottlenecks and speed-up time to results with DDN’s advanced storage platforms. |
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GRIDScaler™ High Performance Tape Management Solution Storage Solution Bridging High Performance GPFS to Deep Archive Tape |
Oil & Gas
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Reducing Time to Oil Solution Brief DDN delivers unparalleled performance for acquisition, processing & modeling workflows |
Video Surveillance
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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. |
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Federal ISR The Way to Capture and Analyze the Growing Amount of Data Created by New Technologies |
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Vertica Solution Brief Queries were completed on the Trillion row database in as little as two seconds, with equally impressive results on more complex queries. |
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Video Surveillance Solution Brief The volume, velocity and variety of surveillance data are growing exponentially. |
WHITEPAPERS
Analyst Whitepapers
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Intersect360 Research - Beyond the Trading Bell: DDN Solutions for Financial Services The financial services industry is not new to High Performance Computing (HPC). Large investment banks and insurance agencies have invested in generations of systems to protect their assets for decades. |
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Intersect360 Research: Data and Discovery DDN Solutions for Seismic Processing |
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Object Storage: The Unified Storage Infrastructure For The Cloud Era White Paper Enterprise storage needs are quickly changing and traditional unified storage systems are no longer sufficient to cope with the demand generated by a multitude of different devices and locations. |
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Object Stores Essential Capabilities - WhitePaper Object storage continues to draw serious interest for a range of applications from data archiving to sharing. However, users are still finding it difficult to determine which solution best fits their needs as features in available solutions do not always complement their specific requirements. Download this white paper from Chris M Evans of Architecting IT as he explores the nine most important features in object storage technology that can help you focus your decisions on choosing the right technology. Want to learn more about object storage technology?
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The Tabb Group: The Secret to Generating Alpha from Big Data: Parallelization | ||
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Why Big Oil Keeps Spending on Massive Supercomputers |
DDN Whitepapers
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A Beginner's Guide to Next Generation Object Storage Object Storage is the new storage paradigm. There is a high level of interest from organizations, as this new approach resolves the challenges of effi ciently storing massive volumes of unstructured data - Big Unstructured Data. This paper addresses the why, what and how of object storage. |
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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. |
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Accelerating Kx kdb+ with DDN SFA & Intel Lustre With high-performance data access solutions from DDN, Intel and Kx, proprietary trading firms, hedge funds and banks have seen up to 10x faster results than traditional approaches, and up to 2x faster results than when using flash. |
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Achieving the Ultimate Efficiency for Seismic Data Analysis with Paradigm and DDN The pressure to reduce both operating and capital costs in seismic data analysis drives an on-going demand for efficiency improvements in computational processing facilities. |
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Any Surveillance, Anywhere, Anytime Whitepaper DDN Storage Powers Next Generation Video Surveillance Infrastructure. |
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Any Threat, Anywhere, Anytime (Federal) Scalable Infrastructure to Enable the Warfighter. |
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Dramatically Improving Time To Results For Seismic Processing With DDN Storage And Landmark Seispace Faster And More Accurate Exploration Using Shared Storage With Parallel Access |
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Faster SAS Analytics Using DDN® Storage Solutions Read this SAS-Grid white paper to learn more about the next-generation analytics storage platforms that eliminate performance bottlenecks, optimise your environment, and greatly increase return on investment! When you choose a DDN storage solution in conjunction with SAS-Grid analytics, you’ll experience more than 400% higher throughput per core, more than 50% reduction in your data center footprint, the elimination of data silos, and the simplification of your data management infrastructure. To learn more about DDN solutions for SAS-GRID, click here. Watch this user presentation video from Fannie Mae to see how they significantly improved their SAS-Grid workflows. |
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GS7K™ Parallel File System Appliance Extreme scale-out performance and enterprise features in an all-in-one appliance |
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IME Whitepaper: Scale-Out Storage Cache for the Flash Era |
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Storage Fusion Xceleration (SFX) An overview of DataDirect Networks’s (DDN) unique Storage Fusion Xceleration™ (SFX) technology. SFX extends the functionality of the system cache using solid state media to accelerate both application and file system performance at a much lower TCO. |
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The End Of Scale-Out NAS? Traditional scale-out NAS has many strengths, but its inability to scale with today’s growing data storage performance and capacity needs makes it nearly obsolete. |
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WOS Enterprise Protect Whitepaper WOS® ENTERPRISE PROTECT - Data Protection and Sharing Considerations for the Mobile Workforce |
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WOS Object Storage Whitepaper 360 Full Spectrum Object Storage |