DDN is growing its services
offerings with embedded onsite professionals and managed services
to support in-house technology teams.
DDN has technologists that can serve as Storage Account
Managers, Technical Account Managers and Storage Analysts, and already has
several customers utilizing the resources across public sector organizations
like federal and state government as well as private businesses. DDN technologists with secret level clearances and above
can advance missions quickly for national security organizations by maximizing
DDN-designed storage solutions as part of an agency's onsite technology team.
"Labor shortage challenges have made it difficult to
hire, train and retain top level technology professionals," said James Coomer,
senior vice president of products, DDN. "While both public and private sectors
are having trouble attracting top talent, this issue is felt more acutely in
government, where the hiring process can take months. DDN's embedded
technologists fill this need by providing specialized talent that can engage
immediately."
Embedded technologists provide strategic and operational
support for DDN-based technologies, including:
- A3I AI-optimized infrastructure - enables insights when processing large amounts of
data, making AI-powered innovation easier with faster performance,
scalability and simplified operations.
- DDN EXAScaler high performance parallel file system - combines flash and disk storage to enable
data-intensive workflows at scale. A fully
integrated EXAScaler appliance combines a hyperconverged data storage
platform with parallel filesystem software in a package that's easy to
deploy.
- DDN
Insight - helps
organizations see across their infrastructure and workloads to improve
service levels and find the root cause of complex issues faster. DDN
Insight can monitor arrays, filesystems, servers, and applications from a
single dashboard.
- EXAScaler
cloud services -
optimizes workloads including AI, machine learning and high performance
computing with stable, fast and scalable file storage deployed on popular
public cloud services.
Organizations
are facing multiple challenges over data management beyond the IT talent gap.
Spiraling cloud costs are driving more frequent data repatriation and the
immense amount of data required for AI, analytics and HPC projects has created
entirely new demands for IT organizations to support. By offering fully managed
services, along with embedded staff, DDN offers organizations a flexible way to
adopt advanced storage capabilities, without additional stress on an existing
IT team.
"As
leaders in large data storage, our solutions are supporting next generation
technology that can solve the world's biggest challenges, including climate
change, deep space exploration and medical research," said Coomer. "With our enhanced services offerings,
organizations can focus on advancing their research and mission, not on hiring
and training specialized storage personnel."