SC19: DDN Expands Data Management Capabilities and Launches Platforms for AI and HPC

DataDirect Networks, Inc. (DDN) announced infrastructure and multicloud solutions ahead of its return to the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC19).

At the conference, the company will demonstrate the next gen of SFA platforms, data management features of its EXAScaler EXA5 file solution, which will be generally available over the next two calendar quarters.

These solutions and features reinforce the firm’s position as the data platform of choice for performance at scale by further helping customers deploy, manage and accelerate next generation AI and analytics workloads. The booth will be an opportunity to review how these products were designed and perfected for production-level AI workloads and use cases.

“We are adding serious data management, collaboration and security capabilities to the most scalable file solution in the world. EXA5 gives you mission critical availability whilst consistently performing at scale,” said James Coomer, SVP, product, DDN. “Our twenty years’ experience in delivering the most powerful at-scale data platforms is all baked into EXA5. We outperform everything on the market and now we do so with unmatched capability.“

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EXA5 file system is enhanced to support multicloud productivity with a scalable S3 object interface. Currently, many AI deployments are made up of multiple storage types which are deployed depending on the stage of the data lifecycle. This creates distributed islands of data and additional administrative complexity. By supporting parallel file access, NFS/SMB and S3 from a single data platform, EXA5 solutions simplify data access by creating a single data repository that can service the entire workflow at scale.

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The entire lineup of SFA platforms will be refreshed for additional performance efficiency and expanded capability. The SFA18KX, SFA7990X, SFA400NVX, and SFA200NX systems bring a combination of more appliance functionality and performance, with new levels of simplicity

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Additionally, the company will reveal details of its vision for HPC and AI at-scale roadmap and its collaboration with Nvidia Corp. on a number of solutions at the DDN User Group in association with SC19 on at the Denver, Embassy Suites Downtown. Also featured will be customer presentations highlighting how they are leveraging ease of management and parallelism at-scale within the firm’s infrastructure to achieve breakthrough results.

SFA 7990X

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