Vendor passport · Updated Oct 2026
DDN
Placed in 1 PeMa market most often placed as a Seasoned vendor, with its strongest showing in Data + AI Platform Providers.
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PeMa market
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Leader placements
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AIM reports
1998
Founded
New York, New York, USA
Headquarters
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Profile
About DDN
DDN is a data infrastructure company founded in 1998 that supplies storage and data management for AI and high-performance computing.
Its Data Intelligence Platform pairs the EXAScaler parallel file system with Infinia, a software-defined data platform built for AI training, inference and retrieval workloads. DDN works closely with NVIDIA and cloud providers, and its products underpin many large GPU clusters and sovereign AI deployments. In 2026 it shipped Infinia 2.4, added an inference partnership with Nebul and expanded its executive team. Its customers include research labs, cloud builders, financial services firms and life sciences organisations that need high-throughput data access at scale. AIM Research places DDN in the Seasoned category of Data + AI Platform Providers, reflecting its strength in infrastructure for data-intensive AI.
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1 AIM Research report
Analyst scorecard
Scores, strengths and buyer signals
Market names and placements are public. Scores and buyer signals are for signed-in buyers.
| Market | Placement | Penetration | Maturity | Buyer signal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data + AI Platform Providers | Seasoned |
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DDN is a data infrastructure company founded in 1998 that supplies storage and data management for AI and high-performance computing. Its Data Intelligence Platform pairs the EXAScaler parallel file system with Infinia, a software-defined data platform built for AI training, inference and retrieval workloads.