DDN Expands Technical Certification Program

DataDirect Networks, Inc. announced the launch of the company’s official technical
certification program.

The three-level curriculum is designed to enable organizations to develop
in-house resources to manage DDN’s scalable portfolio of SAN, NAS and object
storage appliances.

Available, customers
and partners can enroll in multi-level courses that are held either within
DDN’s facilities around the world or via custom onsite classes. Additionally,
the company announced expanded support for all DDN partners to develop a
minimum of two DDN Certified Storage Professionals on staff as part of the DDN
PartnerLink ecosystem.

"The launch of our certification program
helps to ensure that DDN customers and partners can fully leverage the
incredible benefits of DDN big data solutions, and it also provides members of
our worldwide end user community a way to enhance their professional
development," said Erwan Menard, COO, DDN. "Establishing a robust certification program is an important milestone
as we scale our operations for massive growth."

Tests and
preparation materials for first level of certification, DDN Certified Storage
Professional, are available and classroom preparation is available worldwide in
six languages, including English, French, German, Japanese, Mandarin, and
Spanish.

DDN Education provides
DDN customers and partners with official training and certification programs on products, technology and best practices. Its training curriculum includes
instructor-led, virtual instructor-led, and self-paced online courses. Training courses and certification programs enable IT professionals to keep up
with advances in the most cutting-edge big data technologies.

DDN PartnerLink is a channel program that
provides rewarding incentive programs, marketing support, and sales tools to
DDN channel partners. PartnerLink also provides access to sales and
technical resources as well as access to extensive solution, product, market
and competitive information and tools.