SANTA CLARA, Calif. – September 14, 2026 – — DDN, the global leader in AI and data intelligence solutions, today announced that DDN EXAScaler has been named the winner of the 2026 SiliconANGLE TechForward Award in the Data Storage & Management category.
EXAScaler was selected as the top submission among the category’s finalists in the largest and most competitive SiliconANGLE Media Awards program to date. The recognition highlights EXAScaler’s technical innovation, market differentiation, and proven ability to support data-intensive AI and high-performance computing workloads at extraordinary scale.
“AI success depends on keeping accelerated computing resources continuously supplied with data,” said Alex Bouzari, Co-Founder and CEO at DDN. “EXAScaler was engineered to eliminate the data bottlenecks that leave valuable GPUs waiting. This recognition from SiliconANGLE reinforces the critical role that intelligent, high-performance data platforms play in helping organizations increase utilization, accelerate time to insight, and realize greater value from their AI investments.”
Built for the extreme requirements of modern AI factories, EXAScaler delivers a scalable, high-throughput data foundation for model training, fine-tuning, checkpointing, and other performance-intensive workloads. Its parallel architecture enables organizations to maintain predictable performance as data volumes, model sizes, and computing environments grow.
EXAScaler provides:
- Massive parallel performance capable of supporting the world’s largest AI and supercomputing environments
- A scalable POSIX namespace designed to accommodate exabyte-scale datasets
- Sub-millisecond latency and aggregate throughput at terabytes-per-second scale
- NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage integration to streamline data movement and improve GPU utilization
- Enterprise capabilities for multi-tenancy, data security, observability and workload management
- A proven foundation for research institutions, enterprises, government organizations and AI service providers
With more than one million GPUs supported in production environments worldwide, DDN helps organizations transform increasingly complex and distributed data into business, scientific and societal outcomes. EXAScaler is a foundational component of the DDN AI Data Fabric, providing the high-performance data services required throughout the AI lifecycle.
“SiliconANGLE’s editorial awards programs recognize the technologies that are meaningfully advancing enterprise innovation,” said [INSERT SILICONANGLE-APPROVED EXECUTIVE NAME AND TITLE]. “DDN EXAScaler stood out for its technical innovation, market differentiation and demonstrated customer impact, earning it the top position in the Data Storage & Management category.”
The SiliconANGLE TechForward Awards recognize established enterprise solutions and breakthrough technologies shaping the future of business across AI, security, cloud, data platforms and blockchain. Entries are evaluated by an independent panel of SiliconANGLE Media executives, industry analysts, journalists, venture capitalists and enterprise technology practitioners.
As a 2026 TechForward Award winner, DDN EXAScaler will receive a first-place, full-page feature in the 2026–2027 SiliconANGLE TechForward Buyer’s Guide. The searchable digital guide is scheduled to be published on the SiliconANGLE website on September 28, 2026.
The complete list of 2026 TechForward Award winners is available at siliconangle.com/awards.
About DDN
DDN is the world’s leading provider of AI data storage and data management platforms, powering over 20 years of innovation across HPC, enterprise, and the largest AI deployments on Earth. With its EXA, Infinia, and intelligent data management platforms, DDN delivers unmatched performance, scale, and business value for customers building next-generation AI factories, hyperscale clouds, and Sovereign AI initiatives. DDN is the trusted partner for thousands of the world’s most data-intensive organizations, including the leading national labs, research institutions, enterprises, hyperscalers, financial firms, and autonomous vehicle innovators. For more information, visit www.ddn.com.
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