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Thursday, 05 July 2007 |
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 | "Pactitle has been a DataDirect customer for several years, particularly as the post-production company transitioned to an end-to-end digital shop for visual effects, digital compositing and opticals, 3D animation, digital intermediate and digital trailers." Storage Magazine, November 2008 | | | "DataDirect also benefits by being in the right business. Not only is storage a hot market, but the company's core constituency -- supercomputing and media/entertainment -- is nearly recession-proof." HPCWire, November 5, 2008
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| DataDirect Networks is a leading data infrastructure provider for the most extreme, highest performance computing environments in the world and delivers more aggregate throughput to the Top500 Supercomputers than all other vendors combined, powering six of the world's Top10 and 48 of the Top100. Supercomputing, October 31, 2008
|  | "DataDirect Networks has been waiting for the public market to come back so they can get out. The market isn't exactly cooperating, so instead of feeling bad for themselves, they have instead recorded never-ending positive growth and profitability. In the middle of the financial meltdown they had another record quarter – to the tune of $40 plus million bucks – and I'm pretty sure none of the 23 Petabytes this quarter were sold to Wall St." ESG, October 12, 2008
|  | "The manufacturer's systems are also used in all applications requiring the calculation and display of images at very high resolution, such as simulations of nuclear reactions, molecular chemistry or oil exploration." Ecran Total, October 7, 2008
|  | "I recently had a chance to sit and chat with the CEO and co-founder of DataDirect Networks Inc. , Alex Bouzari. Over a cup of coffee, we discussed customer value propositions, storage growth, competition, green technologies, and what keeps us both up at night." Byte & Switch, October 9, 2008 | 
| "One partnership that is in the works is Voltaire and DataDirect. The two are collaborating on bringing native Infiniband storage to the enterprise by combining the Voltaire Grid Director with the S2A9900 StorageScaler system. The companies claim the joint solution can provide up to 6 GBps using 20 Gbps Infiniband DDR host connections." IT Business Edge, September 25, 2008
|  | "The company recently used DataDirect Networks' S2A storage platform to produce trailers and visual effects for the Warner Bros. picture The Dark Knight, which has broken box office records around the world." SNS Europe, September 22, 2008
|  | Interview at IBC 2008 with DDN President and Co-Founder Paul Bloch and Andy Tran of The Dark Knight fame. Interview with Kurt Grubaugh, Chief Architect of Microsoft XBox Live. | | | "Take for example DataDirect Networks, who gave a clear overview of how their storage solution works with Apple’s Final Cut Pro software where they can support more than 30 uncompressed HD workstations in real-time from a single storage system. This kind of capability, and the ability to articulate the solution, enabled this vendor to shine at the conference." Byte & Switch, September 22, 2008
|  | "DDN has focused on high throughput and that makes them unique in the market," and "the additional investment into the Japanese market will focus on channel expansion and customer support, " followed by "DDN has delivered over 160PB in the world and sold 11 billion yen in FY2007. In 2011, they plan to sell 50 billion yen including EU, India, Australia, China, and Japan." Open Enterprise Magazine (Japan), September 9, 2008
|  | "DataDirect Networks has validated its S2A9900 storage appliance to support in real-time more than 30 Final Cut Pro workstations running uncompressed High Definition video. The S2A9900 manages up to 1.2 petabytes of storage capacity, offering sustained throughput of up to 6 gigabytes per second for both writes and reads. An S2A cluster can deliver more than 100GB/sec of throughput for high-performance environments, according to the manufacturer." Macworld, September 2, 2008 |  | "Shattering the bandwidth and concurrency limitations associated with conventional storage systems supporting Apple’s leading content editing suite, Final Cut Pro, DataDirect Networks validated that its flagship S2A9900 storage appliance is the only system that can support more than 30 Final Cut Pros running on uncompressed HD in real-time—orders of magnitude greater than any comparative offering." Storage Newsletter, September 2, 2008
|  | "Extremely scalable storage supplier DataDirect has taken its existing sleep mode technology and branded it D-MAID, saying its dyamamism is better than the rigid static RAID schemes offered by Copan, EMC and HDS." Blocks & Files, August 28, 2008
|  | "Hollywood's PacTitle called on DataDirect's S2A storage platforms while producing 4K, 2K and HD theatrical trailers and VFX for the trailers for Warner Bros.' The Dark Knight." Post Magazine, August 27, 2008
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| "With more and more unstructured data being created in the form of email attachments and new media, expertise in storing unstructured data is becoming increasingly important, Bouzari said. With more than 160 petabytes installed worldwide, DataDirect can scale to high levels of capacity and throughput, and is therefore able to meet the high demands of clients such as Microsoft Xbox Live and NASA. DataDirect's storage systems take up about one-third of the space of traditional storage systems, he said." MergerMarket, August 12, 2008
|  | "In Japan, DDN already has approx. 10 business partners and 50 clients. They established the DDN Japan office in January 2008. DDN invested a half billion yen in July 2008 to enhance their new channels and customer support. They plan to have 20 partners next year." ITPro (Japan), August 15, 2008
|  | "The Web 2.0 data explosion creates a requirement for storage technologies that are exceedingly energy efficient,” said Paul Bloch, President, DataDirect Networks.“Our S2A architecture allows the use of ultra high capacity SATA drives without compromising on performance. Together with Dynamic MAID, this translates into fewer spinning disks and lower energy consumption. We’re excited about teaming with Wikibon and the utilities industry to provide added incentives for our customers to conserve energy by adopting these advanced technologies." Wikibon Press Release, August 4, 2008
|  | Alex Bouzari saw the trend coming and built a company focused on providing data storage for the entertainment. (Interview) San Fernando Valley Business Journal, July 21, 2008
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| "When Pacific Title & Art Studio put together the movie trailer for "The Dark Knight," the firm needed to easily and quickly cull clips from the upcoming Batman movie. So it turned to an up-and-comer in the digital storage industry -- DataDirect Networks -- to handle its high-speed demands for scanning a digitally made film." IBD, July1, 2008
|  | This is not technology that you will install in your own ISP. It's a snapshot of the absolutely top of the line in storage performance. ISP-Planet, July 15, 2008
| | DataDirect has over 1,000 customers, around half of whom are in the broadcast sector. Big-name users of the S2A technology include social networking Website Slide.com, Ferrari, and Xbox Live, which is using the hardware to support an online gaming community of 10 million people. Byte & Switch, July 11, 2008
|  | DataDirect Networks might be the biggest storage company that most storage administrators have never heard of. DataDirect CEO Alex Bouzari says his clustered storage systems company has more than 160 PB of its clustered storage installed at customer sites, which include AOL, Facebook, Universal Studios and Ford. The company's OEM partners include IBM, Dell and Sony. SearchStorage, July 8, 2008
| | | Extreme scale out storage provider DataDirect Networks (DDN) is spending 500 million yen ($4.7225 million) to expand its Japanese operations. According to sources it is also thinking about a possible IPO in nine months or so, depending upon market conditions. Blocks & Files, July 2, 2008
|  | In addition to digital media, the HPC industry is a big target for DDN. Tsukuba University currently has the #2 supercomputer in Japan and the largest Lustre file system. The T2K system can churn out data at over 12GB/s into five DDN S2A platforms with over 1PB of disk capacity. insideHPC.com, July 2, 2008
| | | Only DataDirect Networks delivers the types of next generation data infrastructure platforms required to support the consistent, massive streams of large image files and unstructured data driving the content explosion, enabling users to thrive in their extremely competitive markets. StorageNewsletter.com, July 1, 2008 | 
| To address the demand for scalable data infrastructure solutions in the digital media, Internet and high performance computing sectors in Japan, DataDirect Networks, Inc., today announced it is investing half a billion yen to rapidly expand its sales and support operations throughout Japan. HPCwire, July 1, 2008 |  | Companies with content-intensive requirements such as Pacific Title & Art Studio have few options when it comes to storage infrastructures. So to meet its need for an extremely fast and flexible storage solution, the post-production company turned to DataDirect Networks. Enterprise Storage Forum, July 1, 2008
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| After extremely rigorous and thorough testing and analysis of DataDirect Networks and several comparative offerings, CCTV determined that no other storage system came close to the performance, throughput, maximum bandwidth and scalable capacity of DataDirect Networks' S2A solutions. Byte & Switch, June 3, 2008 | | | DDN just so happens to sell into the sweet spot of the media, entertainment and Web 2.0 worlds. DDN was used to create the new Batman movie trailers and effects for The Dark Knight. ESG, June 2, 2008
|  | Objectively, there are other companies in the market supplying storage to the extreme I/O requirement user; however, this one really appears to be leading the pack in this space. Analytico, May 28, 2008 |  | Leading post-production house Pacific Title & Art Studio used DataDirect Network's S2A storage platforms to produce dynamic theatrical trailers and vfx for Warner Bros. Pictures' THE DARK KNIGHT, which opens in U.S. theaters nationwide on July 18. VFXWorld, May 28, 2008 | | Storage a High Priority for Entertainment Firms, SearchStorage.com, Web Pubs, April 17, 2008
| | Storage Networking Is in Focus at Broadcast Confab, A flurry of announcements at the NAB Show target the media industry's data explosion, Byte & Switch, Web Pubs, April 15, 2008 | | | April 14 (Enterprise Strategy Group) - "DataDirect Networks has built a reputation delivering ultra-high performance storage arrays in niche markets such as high-performance computing and rich media--and suddenly finds itself in the perfect position to take advantage of the explosion of data being generated in the Internet computing era." Steve Duplessie, Enterprise Strategy Group, April 14, 2008 |  | April 4 (Reuters) - Caris & Co downgraded Isilon Systems Inc to "Sell" from "below average," saying it does not expect the data storage systems maker to be profitable anytime soon as it increases headcount and operating expenses in 2008. The brokerage, which also lowered its price target to $3.50 from $4.00, said the company is facing daunting competition from larger rivals such as EMC Corp and NetApp Inc and private companies like DataDirect Networks." Reuters, Web Pubs, April 4, 2008
|  | More Storage Deals for Dell?, The New York Times, Web Pubs, February 21, 2008 | | University of Arkansas Installing Supercomputer, SuperComputing Online, Web Pubs, February 20, 2008 | | | High-performance systems boost backup, SearchStorage.com, Web Pubs, January 2008
|  | DataDirect Networks Wins Storage Visions Award for Production/Post-Production Class Media for the S2A9900 StorageScaler, News Wire, January 6, 2008 |  | DataDirect’s “sleep mode” for green storage, ZDNet, Web Pubs, December 26, 2007
| | | DataDirect Gears Up for Next Generation Storage Appliance, HPCWire, Web Pubs, December 14, 2007
|  | Storage built for HPC speed, InfoWorld, Web Pubs, November 16, 2007 |  | Supercomputing 2007 product highlights, InfoStor, Web Pubs, November 16, 2007 |  | DataDirect announces eighth generation S2A storage system, CBR Online, Web Pubs, November 15, 2007 | | | SDSC, IBM, DataDirect and Brocade Process 1 Billion Files, HPC Wire, Web Pubs, November 15, 2007 | | | SC07... Fade toBlack: DataDirect Ups the Anty, HPCWire, Web Pubs, November 15, 2007 | | | DataDirect launches 1 PB-plus StorageScaler, SearchStorage.com, Web Pubs, November 13, 2007 | | | Storage Suppliers Show Off HPC Wares, Byte & Switch, Web Pubs, November 13, 2007 |  | DataDirectAnnounces S2A9900 Storage System, InsideHPC.com, Web Pubs, November 13, 2007
|  | Petabyte array follows trend to SAS, EE Times, Web Pubs, November 11, 2007 |  | BreakingNews - DataDirect Networks Announces High-Bandwidth Storage System, Database Trends and Applications, Web Pubs, November 12, 2007 |  | Voltaire, Synopsys Create High-Performance Compute Solution, EDA Geek, Web Pubs, September 11, 2007 | | | New solution reduces cycle time for semiconductor mask manufacturing, SuperComputing Online, Web Pubs, September 11, 2007 |  | Synopsys teams with grid backbone supplier to speed semiconductor mask making, EDN, Web Pubs,
September 11, 2007 | | | Storage, heal thyself, SearchStorage.com, Web Pubs, September 10, 2007 |
| DataDirect Claims Dominance in Top HPC Systems, HPC Wire, Web Pub, August 22, 2007 | | | SATA takes on a life of its own, SearchStorage.com, Web Pubs, August 13, 2007 |  | DataDirect Networks Storage System Enables Next-Generation Design For Manufacturing On Synopsys Electronic Design Automation Tools, Data Storage Connection , Web Pub, August 8, 2007 |  | Storage news weekly compilation:mainframe VTL, virtualisation, San and more , Computer Weekly, Web Pubs, July 17, 2007 |  | Enterprise Grade "No-Compromise" Backup/Recovery, DataDirect Networks VTLS Solution, Linux Magazine, Whitepaper |  | Enterprise Grade "No-Compromise" Backup/Recovery, DataDirect Networks VTLS Solution , Network World, Whitepaper |  | Silicon Storage Appliance, Server Watch (Product), Web Pubs, July 10, 2007 |  | Silicon Storage Appliance, Enterprise IT Planet (Product), Web Pubs, July 10, 2007 | | | Disk Speed Stuck in Neutral, ITBusinessEdge, Web Pubs, July 6, 2007 | | | IBM Adds HPC Storage to Deep Computing Portfolio, HPC Wire Web Pubs, May 22, 2007 | | | Introducing 'data warehouse appliances', Teneja Group Web Pubs, May 18, 2007 |  | Wall Street's Quest To Process Data At The Speed Of Light, Information Week Web Pubs, 2007 |
| RIOT Selects DataDirect, Byte and Switch, Web Pub, February 8, 2007, 2007 | 
| Tips for Implementing Storage, studiodaily.com, Web Pubs, February 1, 2007 |  | DataDirect Reports 53% Growth in 2006, EWeek.com, Web Pubs, February 5, 2007
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