DDN

DDN supplies high-performance data storage and management infrastructure for artificial intelligence and supercomputing work. The company describes itself as a data intelligence platform and says it has more than 25 years of experience in high-performance data storage and management. Its systems support more than 11,000 organisations worldwide and power 60% of the world's top supercomputing systems. The business is the largest privately held data storage company and was valued at $5 billion in 2024, when it received a $300m strategic investment from Blackstone.

The DDN Intelligent Data Platform is used for AI workloads including autonomous vehicles, drug discovery, financial modelling and genomic research, as well as for supercomputing and nation-scale sovereign AI initiatives. The company says the platform fuels more than 500,000 NVIDIA GPUs at up to 98% GPU utilisation, delivers 10x better performance than competitors, and allows genomic research to move 10x faster.

DDN's technical work spans high-performance data storage, data management, AI infrastructure and high-performance computing. Its customer base includes Fortune 500 enterprises and organisations in sectors such as telecommunications, financial services and life sciences; clients named include Singtel. The company operates a global presence and is involved in nation-scale sovereign AI programmes.