Santa Clara, CA, August 5, 2025 – DDN, the global leader in AI and data intelligence solutions, proudly announces that it has received a Best in Show honor at FMS: the Future of Memory and Storage for the Most Innovative Customer Implementation—recognizing the company’s continued leadership in advancing the performance, scalability, and efficiency of AI and data-intensive environments.
This prestigious award underscores DDN’s unmatched ability to deliver innovation across both technology and customer success, especially in the era of generative AI, where storage performance and data movement are critical to business outcomes.
The Best of Show for the Most Innovative Customer Implementation award was presented to DDN for its work with CINECA, one of the world’s premier supercomputing centers. At the heart of the collaboration is CINECA’s groundbreaking nuclear research—paving the way for clean, safe, and sustainable energy that is foundational to the future of AI and our planet. Leveraging the DDN Data Intelligence Platform, CINECA is also advancing pioneering medical discoveries, enhancing early warning systems for natural disasters, and supporting efforts to digitally restore and preserve cultural heritage.
This award underscores how DDN is eliminating data bottlenecks, accelerating time to insight, and enabling critical global research across hybrid HPC and AI environments.
“The real challenge in AI isn’t compute—it’s moving and managing data fast enough to keep up,” said Sven Oehme, Chief Technology Officer at DDN. “This recognition underscores the innovation we’ve brought to bear in real-world deployments—solving for the bottlenecks that stall AI at scale. From national labs to global enterprises, our platforms are eliminating GPU waste, accelerating AI pipelines, and delivering measurable outcomes across science, healthcare, and industry. We’re proud to help customers turn infrastructure into insight faster than ever before.”
“Nuclear fusion is increasingly being considered as a viable source of clean, limitless energy to solve the world’s increasing needs for energy security and sufficiency,” said Jay Kramer, Chair of the Awards Program and President of Network Storage Advisors Inc. “We are proud to recognize Cineca, Italy’s national supercomputing center and one of Europe’s most powerful AI/ HPC facilities partnered with the DDN Data Intelligence Platform. The DDN solution delivers sub-millisecond latency and TBs throughout for real-time plasma simulation and modeling, along with real-time metadata indexing. This ensures that simulations run continuously and efficiently. DDN provides built-in multi-tenancy, encryption, and a fault-tolerant architecture so that Cineca can scale securely from terabytes to exabytes, supporting thousands of compute units without compromising reliability.”
Held annually in the heart of Silicon Valley, FMS: the Future of Memory and Storage is the world’s premier event for storage, memory, and high-speed data infrastructure. The “Best of Show” awards represent the highest recognition for product and customer innovation in the space, spotlighting technologies that are reshaping the future of computing. For more information about DDN and its award-winning solutions, please visit www.ddn.com.
About DDN
DDN is the world’s leading AI and data intelligence company, empowering organizations to maximize the value of their data with end-to-end HPC and AI-focused solutions. Its customers range from the largest global enterprises and AI hyperscalers to cutting-edge research centers, all leveraging DDN’s proven data intelligence platform for scalable, secure, and high-performance AI deployments that drive 10x returns.
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About FMS: the Future of Memory and Storage
FMS: the Future of Memory and Storage, produced by Conference ConCepts, is the premier global event showcasing cutting-edge developments in multi-billion-dollar high-speed memory and storage technologies. As the world’s largest conference and exhibition in this sector, FMS highlights mainstream applications, breakthrough innovations, key enabling technologies, and the full spectrum of players—from leading vendors to disruptive startups. This event spans critical application areas including AI, enterprise data centers, high-performance computing, mobile devices at the edge, and embedded systems. FMS serves as a dynamic hub where technology professionals, executive leaders, customers, cloud providers, hyperscaler companies, and industry analysts converge to explore the evolving landscape of memory and storage. With a renewed commitment to inclusivity and innovation, FMS is shaping the future of storage – especially at its intersection with artificial intelligence.
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