DataDirect Networks (DDN) has announced that Penguin Computing has signed an agreement to offer DDN's award-winning suite of HPC and Big Data storage solutions to its global customer base. Effective immediately, customers will be able to source DDN products from Penguin Computing, including the SFA storage platforms, the GRIDScaler and EXAScaler parallel file storage systems, NAS Scaler, DDN's enterprise scale-out NAS platform, and WOS, the company’s hyperscale object storage system.
‘Since 1998, DDN has been synonymous with award-winning storage solutions for data-intensive computing. Their ground-breaking parallel file storage solutions keep them on the cutting edge of the Big Data era and support mission-critical computation around the world 24/7,’ said Dean Koester, vice president of Worldwide Sales at Penguin Computing. ‘We are pleased to provide the full range of DDN's proven, powerful storage solutions that provide best-in-class storage efficiency, scalability, flexibility and performance to our data-intensive customer base.’
DDN delivers more bandwidth to the Top500 fastest computers than all other vendors combined. Penguin currently has an installed base of more than 18,000 systems in more than 40 countries, making the company the world's largest HPC-focused solutions provider.