DDN, premier provider of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data
Management software and hardware solutions enabling Intelligent Infrastructure,
today unveiled its new corporate brand identity, including a new logo and
refreshed website and informational materials. This dramatic revolution to the
brand underscores the new company vision and direction to deliver best-in-class
technology to the broader enterprise market that DDN's current AI and big data
customers trust with their crucial and ever-growing data.
"Over the last two decades,
DDN has developed a strong reputation and a significant global footprint in the
areas of AI, big data, multicloud, and high-performance computing. Our
customers' sustained trust in us and our products has made us the largest
privately held storage company," said Alex Bouzari, CEO and co-founder, DDN.
"With our recent acquisitions and continued investment in innovation, we have
the technology and expertise to optimize business operations with Intelligent
Infrastructure for a changing world."
In 2019, DDN
acquired the IntelliFlash business from Western Digital Corp.,
as well as Nexenta, the market leader in Software Defined Storage (SDS) for 5G
and Internet of Things (IoT). These companies joined Tintri, acquired in 2018,
to deliver a different enterprise customer experience through the utmost
flexibility, speed at any scale and data insight for on-premise and multicloud
environments, powered by Intelligent Infrastructure innovations that advance
real-time and predictive application analytics. IntelliFlash, Nexenta and
Tintri, have all been consolidated under the Tintri brand to spearhead its
product and service efforts globally in the enterprise space.
With more than
10,000 customers, 20 exabytes of value-add storage solutions delivered to many
of the most demanding datacentric companies, government and research facilities
in the world, 1,000 DDN employees predominantly focused on R&D and
customer-facing technical areas, and more than 140 patents, DDN continues to
push the boundaries of innovation to constantly exceed customer requirements.
"Our data is our
company, so we needed a robust storage architecture to support our AI-driven
models. Managing our at-scale data needs required faster ingest, optimized
processing and reduced application run times," said Kris Howard, principal
systems engineer, at Recursion, a digital biology company industrializing drug
discovery. "We wanted to change the drug discovery paradigm, and we knew that
storage played a big part in that. DDN tailored an ideal configuration for our
performance and budget requirements, and then helped sell the concept to upper
management on how it works-which was just what we needed."
"DDN has quickly
evolved from an HPC storage provider to an award-winning technology solution provider
that serves the needs of any customer that puts a premium on its data," said
Kurt Kuckein, vice president, marketing, DDN. "Our new logo, design aesthetic
and corporate messaging reflects this broader market direction, delivering a
consistent approach that encompasses the technologies and companies we've
acquired and opens the door to future opportunities that support our business
strategy."
DDN's new circular
segmented logo symbolizes the company's new energy and reflects its path of
continuous innovation and renewal. A bright and vibrant new color scheme pays
tribute to its legacy and modernizes the brand to underscore the company's
dedication to its customers and the desire to combine the best technologies
with dynamic expertise to deliver a streamlined experience with deeper more
valuable insight into their data assets.