SC25: DDN Launches Sovereign AI Solutions based on Nvidia AI Data Platform Reference Design - Trusted, Tested, and Proven for Sovereign-grade AI

At SC25, DDN, an active player in AI and data intelligence solutions, announced its new Sovereign AI Blueprints and NVIDIA Reference Designs – a portfolio of validated, production-ready architectures that enable governments, enterprises, and research institutions to deploy AI at national or industrial scale with trusted performance, verified compliance, and maximum energy efficiency.Aligned with the Nvidia AI Data Platform reference design and Nvidia Certified Systems for AI factories, these solutions, built on DDN’s unified data-intelligence software stack Nvidia-Certified Systems, ensure AI infrastructure is sovereign by design, efficient at scale, and sustainable in operation.

“The future of AI will be defined by trust-trust in performance, in data control, and in sustainability,” said Alex Bouzari, CEO and co-founder, DDN. “DDN’s Sovereign AI Blueprints and Nvidia Reference Designs set the benchmark for how nations and enterprises can achieve extreme scale without compromise.”

Why Sovereign AI Matters Now
DDN is already powering the world’s largest Sovereign AI programs-from Yotta Shakti Cloud in India to emerging national AI initiatives and commercial GPU-as-a-Service platforms across Europe and Asia.

These deployments prove that Sovereign AI is no longer a concept – it’s a design standard. Nations and enterprises need infrastructure that ensures data stays protected, workloads stay compliant, and power stays efficient – without slowing innovation.

DDN Sovereign Nvidia Blueprints and reference designs directly address these challenges with certified architectures that make AI infrastructure:

Sovereign by Design: Keeps data within defined borders, governed under local policies, and protected through verifiable encryption and access control
Predictable at Scale: Certified Nvidia AI Factory reference designs ensuring consistent performance across training, inference, and RAG workloads
Operationally Efficient: Delivers > 99 % sustained GPU utilization and up to 40 % lower energy draw across data centers of any size
Sustainable and Secure: Built for environments where power efficiency, traceability, and regulatory compliance are as critical as speed

Each blueprint gives governments, enterprises, and research organizations a repeatable framework to deploy AI at national or industrial scale- with full control of data, compliance, and performance.

“Sovereign AI is about owning your data destiny, not operating in silos,” said Sven Oehme, CTO, DDN. “DDN delivers the performance and efficiency organizations need to control their data, optimize GPU utilization, and scale AI sustainably.”

Proven, Certified Architectures for Extreme-Scale AI
Each DDN Sovereign AI solution is a fully validated architecture combining compute, networking, and DDN’s unified data-intelligence platform to enable secure, high-performance AI pipelines built for national and enterprise scale.

Core Capabilities

DDN AI Factory solutions: DDN AI400X3 are engineered to maximize the performance of Nvidia GB200 NVL72, Nvidia GB300 NVL72 systems
Extreme Performance: Up to 15× faster checkpointing, 4× higher ingest throughput, and sub-millisecond latency for training, RAG, and inference workloads
Energy Efficiency: 11× better performance per watt and up to 40% lower power consumption than legacy architectures
Advanced Security: Fine-grained multi-tenancy, per-tenant encryption, and immutable storage for data integrity across sovereign and regulated environments
Unified Observability: Real-time telemetry, anomaly detection, and power-efficiency analytics to ensure sustained optimization across training and inference

“AI-ready storage is no longer optional-it’s foundational to running at scale with data that moves at the speed of compute. Leveraging the Nvidia AI Data Platform reference design, DDN powers AI factories with the performance, throughput, and scale needed to turn data into intelligence in real time,” said Justin Boitano, VP, enterprise AI products, Nvidia.

“By combining DDN’s data-intelligence software with Supermicro’s high-density Nvidia systems, we enable fully validated, high-efficiency AI Factory and Sovereign AI deployments,” said Sachin Menon, VP, cloud engineering, Oracle.

Proven in Real Deployments
Yotta Shakti Cloud, India: Powers the India AI Mission with 8,000 Nvidia BlackwellB200 GPUs on DDN architecture, achieving 99 % GPU utilization, 40 % lower energy use, and full data-sovereignty alignment:

“This partnership reinforces our commitment to advancing India’s AI journey in alignment with the India AI Mission,” said Sunil Gupta, co-founder, MD, and CEO, Yotta. “By combining Yotta’s cloud & AI infrastructure expertise with DDN’s industry-leading AI data platform, we are enabling India’s government, enterprises, and research ecosystem to access world-class AI infrastructure and a cloud platform, in Shakti Cloud, that is fully sovereign, compliant, and built for scale.”

Singtel, a leading sovereign AI cloud provider, has adopted the solution as part of its next-gen AI services:

“Our goal is to support enterprises across industries in accelerating the adoption of agentic AI and large-scale inference with the right balance of performance, economics, security, and compliance,” said Manoj Prasana Kumar, CTO, Singtel Digital Infraco. “By bringing together the strengths of Singtel’s AI infrastructure, connectivity, and managed services with DDN’s high-performance data platform, customers gain a seamless foundation to scale AI initiatives faster, mitigate risk, and move from proof-of-concept to production with confidence.”

Ecosystem Integration
Delivered through a network of trusted partners, DDN’s Sovereign AI Blueprints and Nvidia Reference Designs provide turnkey deployment and compliance frameworks worldwide:

Global System Integrators: Accenture, Deloitte, Wipro, and HCL Tech integrate DDN Blueprints into national-scale AI deployments
Cloud Partners: Through the Powered by DDN Cloud Program, validated designs extend to AI cloud leaders, including CoreWeave, Nebius, and Scaleway
OEMs: Lenovo and Supermicro embed DDN Blueprints into turnkey AI infrastructure solutions