In the race to operationalize AI, organizations are learning a hard truth: traditional data strategies weren’t built for the scale, speed, and flexibility that today’s AI applications demand. Whether you’re training large language models, delivering real-time inference, or transforming massive datasets into business insight, success depends on the ability to seamlessly orchestrate data across environments: cloud, on-prem, and edge.
From Silos to Synergy: Rethinking Data Infrastructure for AI
AI workloads thrive on scale, but scale often creates complexity. Data is scattered across cloud, on-prem, and edge. It’s generated in various multi-modal formats, video, text, images, audio and often tied to strict compliance or performance requirements. The result? Silos. Bottlenecks. Rising costs.
DDN’s data intelligence platform was purpose-built to solve this. It provides a flexible, metadata-rich foundation that makes all data, structured or unstructured, immediately accessible, usable, and actionable. DDN delivers real-time performance for inference, analytics, and model loading, while eliminating the inefficiencies of duplicating or migrating data.
It also provides native multi-tenancy that’s built directly into its architecture, enabling organizations to securely segment users, workloads, and data within a single, unified environment. This makes it easy to deliver storage-as-a-service across teams, business units, or even external partners; all while maintaining strict control over performance, security, and governance. DDN’s platform integrates seamlessly with AI frameworks and data processing engines like NVIDIA NeMo, Apache Spark, and Trino, making it ideal for AI factories, autonomous systems, and enterprise-scale analytics platforms.
Agility Without Sacrificing Control
While cloud services offer rapid scaling, they often come with trade-offs: unpredictable costs, data egress fees, and limited customization. On the other hand, on-prem environments offer more control but can be rigid and resource-intensive.
Building on our recent collaboration with Google Cloud, DDN’s Platform gives organizations complete flexibility to deploy AI at any scale, in any environment, without vendor lock-in. Whether on-premises, in Google Cloud, or across multiple clouds, DDN delivers full feature parity and consistent performance for AI workloads everywhere. This approach empowers customers to choose the right infrastructure for each workload while maintaining unified governance, performance, and cost control. Optimized for AI model training, inference, and high-throughput operations, DDN ensures your infrastructure can keep pace with even the most GPU-intensive demands, enabling you to move faster, operate smarter, and unlock AI innovation on your terms.
Performance That Powers Possibility
Speed matters in AI, not just in training models but in getting insights to users, faster. DDN delivers multiple TB/s of throughput with sub-millisecond response times, optimized for real-time AI applications like Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), recommendation engines, and high-frequency analytics. It outpaces traditional platforms by 25x in latency and 600x in object listing performance, giving your AI pipelines the responsiveness needed for modern inference workflows.
The platform is engineered for peak GPU utilization, allowing training jobs to run with maximum efficiency, reducing time-to-insight and infrastructure costs. This performance edge is why companies like NVIDIA and xAI trust DDN to support some of the largest AI systems in the world.
One Platform, Infinite Outcomes
DDN doesn’t just power AI, it helps organizations unlock real business outcomes. Whether you’re a pharmaceutical company accelerating drug discovery, a financial firm detecting fraud in real-time, or a public sector agency modernizing mission-critical systems, DDN’s platform provides the data intelligence backbone to drive transformation.
Ready to Accelerate Business Outcomes?
The future of AI isn’t about choosing between cloud or on-prem. It’s about harnessing both intelligently, securely, and at scale. With your organization gains the tools to build a smarter, more flexible AI foundation. No more silos. No more compromises. Just faster innovation, everywhere. Learn how DDN can help you unify, accelerate, and future-proof your AI strategy, at any scale.
