DDN Federal Government Business Grows 30% and Doubles Team

DDN (DataDirect Networks, Inc.) expanded DDN Federal division, doubling the size of its team over the past 9 months.

DDN’s Federal Government group is expanding under the guidance of new VP of Federal sales, Jeff Jordan, who is bolstering the team with technical, system architecture and sales expertise to provide optimized solutions for scalable multicloud, AI and converged storage requirements. These long-term investments are in response to the accelerating demand for DDN’s storage systems by the US government, which resulted in more than 30% annual sales growth in 2021.

“DDN is proud to be a trusted partner for the Federal Government, Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Energy (DoE), and Federal Healthcare agencies,” said Jordan. “With DDN solutions, our customers are accelerating their digital transformation and achieving unmatched levels of scale, efficiency and reliability with better and faster decisions from their massive datasets.“

DDN is growing its field technical and engineering headcount and expertise under the leadership of Keith Miller, VP of technical sales, and Andreas Krause who brings extensive system architecture and file system experience to DDN’s Federal Government team. DDN’s new Federal leadership team also includes Justin Collins, a former member of Oracle’s National Security Group, and Rob Genkinger, VP of programs and strategy with Army Special Forces and storage experience.

Additional hires are planned to ensure the success of future projects and expanded collaboration with government-focused channel resellers, systems integrators, and technology partners such as Nvidia and Intel.

“Our foundation in the federal market has been diligently developed by serving agencies running the most demanding applications out there,” said Paul Bloch, president and co-founder. “The US government has entrusted DDN with its storage needs for more than two decades, and we continue to deliver uncompromising performance, availability and security at massive scale to help them achieve their goals.“

The company supplies data management solutions to more than two-thirds of the top HPCs globally, including the world’s most powerful system, Riken’s Fugaku, and Nvidia’s Selene, the largest commercial AI system and 5th largest HPC. These, and similar systems found in federal agencies and national laboratories, require data management and performance characteristics found in DDN solutions.

The firm introduced its latest EXAScaler scalable storage solution, EXA6, this summer, with enhancements that simplify the deployment and management of massive data repositories. It also announced enhancements to its Intelliflash product line, with improved performance and scalability to support the largest enterprise data workloads.