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Business Wire
15-07-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
DDN and Polarise Partner to Deliver Sovereign, Sustainable AI Factories for Europe
CHATSWORTH, Calif. & PADERBORN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- DDN ®, the global leader in AI and data intelligence solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with Polarise, Europe's emerging pioneer in sovereign, sustainable AI infrastructure. This collaboration brings together DDN's world-class AI data platform technology and Polarise's end-to-end capabilities for building and operating NVIDIA-accelerated AI factories across the continent. 'Our collaboration with Polarise represents a major step forward in democratizing AI infrastructure for Europe,' said Paul Bloch, President and Co-Founder of DDN. Through this partnership, DDN and Polarise will deliver high-performance, resource-efficient AI infrastructure designed for the next generation of sovereign European AI workloads—at scale, with speed, and with sustainability in mind. 'Our collaboration with Polarise represents a major step forward in democratizing AI infrastructure for Europe,' said Paul Bloch, President and Co-Founder of DDN. 'By combining DDN's unparalleled AI data platform with Polarise's innovative approach to AI factories and cloud delivery, we are enabling customers to power their AI ambitions responsibly and without compromise.' Polarise specializes in building turnkey AI factories—end-to-end, AI-centric data centers based on the NVIDIA reference architecture. With locations in Germany and Norway, Polarise offers customers a sovereign alternative for consuming AI computing power through colocation, dedicated/private cloud, or direct API access via its own cloud platform. Polarise's operations emphasize renewable energy, heat reuse, and cutting-edge cooling to ensure low-carbon, future-proof AI deployments. 'This partnership allows us to bring best-in-class storage and data intelligence from DDN into our ecosystem,' said Nicolas Kremer, CTO of Polarise. 'Together, we're creating Europe's answer to the age of AI—an agile, sovereign, and sustainable infrastructure that challenges outdated industry norms.' The joint offering will combine: DDN's enterprise-proven AI storage systems, optimized for NVIDIA DGX and AI factory environments, delivering extreme throughput and efficiency for AI model training, inference, and RAG workloads. Polarise's modular AI factory design and cloud delivery model, ensuring flexible, sovereign, and scalable access to AI compute and storage for enterprise and research customers. Shared commitment to sustainability, reducing carbon impact through intelligent infrastructure design and integration with local communities. The companies will initially focus on joint deployments across Germany and Norway, with further European expansion planned in 2025 and beyond. About DDN DDN is the world's leading AI and data intelligence company, empowering organizations to maximize the value of their data with end-to-end HPC and AI-focused solutions. Its customers range from the largest global enterprises and AI hyperscalers to cutting-edge research centers, all leveraging DDN's proven data intelligence platform for scalable, secure, and high-performance AI deployments that drive 10x returns. About Polarise Now is the time to make responsible AI decisions. Polarise's solutions ensure resource-saving AI workloads that have a future—cutting carbon emissions and integrating in existing communities to do an impact for good. Their growing portfolio of state-of-the-art AI factories, in combination with a sovereign cloud platform, provides unparalleled efficiency and customization for Europe's next-generation AI leaders. Follow Polarise: Linkedin
Business Wire
08-07-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Google Cloud Managed Lustre, Powered by DDN EXAScaler Offering High-Performance File System, Now Generally Available for AI and HPC Workloads
CHATSWORTH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DDN®, the global leader in AI and data intelligence solutions, today announced that Google Cloud Managed Lustre, a fully managed, high-performance parallel file system service, powered by DDN's industry-leading EXAScaler® technology, is now generally available. Designed to accelerate the most demanding workloads in AI, high-performance computing (HPC), and data-intensive enterprise environments, Google Cloud Managed Lustre brings the power of Lustre — the world's most scalable parallel file system — natively into the Google Cloud ecosystem. The service is now generally available globally. 'By bringing our EXAScaler technology to Google Cloud customers as a fully managed service, we're enabling organizations across industries to accelerate innovation without the overhead of managing complex infrastructure,' said Paul Bloch, Co-Founder and President at DDN. "Partnering with DDN allows us to bring their industry-leading parallel file systems to Google Cloud as a deeply integrated, first-party service,' said Asad Khan, Senior Director, Product Management, Google Cloud Storage. 'By combining DDN's decades of expertise in high-performance Lustre with Google Cloud's global infrastructure and AI ecosystem, we are delivering a foundational capability that removes storage bottlenecks and helps our customers solve their most complex challenges in AI and HPC." "Enterprises today demand AI infrastructure that combines accelerated computing with high-performance storage solutions to deliver uncompromising speed, seamless scalability and cost efficiency at scale,' said Dave Salvator, Director of Accelerated Computing Products, NVIDIA. 'Google and DDN's collaboration on Google Cloud Managed Lustre creates a better-together solution uniquely suited to meet these needs. By integrating DDN's enterprise-grade data platforms and Google's global cloud capabilities, organizations can readily access vast amounts of data and unlock the full potential of AI with the NVIDIA AI platform (or NVIDIA accelerated computing platform) on Google Cloud —reducing time-to-insight, maximizing GPU utilization, and lowering total cost of ownership.' Purpose-Built for Performance, Simplicity, and Scale Google Cloud Managed Lustre delivers industry-leading performance of up to 1 TB/s read throughput with <1ms latency and can scale seamlessly from 18 TiB to 8 PiB+. With multiple performance tiers (125 MB/s/TiB to 1000 MB/s/TiB), organizations can tailor performance to meet the specific needs of their AI, simulation, or analytics workloads. The service offers: Fully managed operations through the Google Cloud Console, CLI, and APIs through the Google Cloud Console, CLI, and APIs Native integration with Google Cloud services like Google Cloud Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), IAM, VPC Service Controls, and Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform with Google Cloud services like Google Cloud Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), IAM, VPC Service Controls, and Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform Optimized performance for AI/ML training, financial modeling, rendering, genomic analysis, and more for AI/ML training, financial modeling, rendering, genomic analysis, and more Enterprise-grade reliability with a 99.9% SLA with a 99.9% SLA Terraform support, bulk data movement with Google Cloud Storage, and a Managed CSI Driver for GKE Unlocking Value Across Industries From LLM training and risk analysis to climate research and drug discovery, Google Cloud Managed Lustre serves customers in financial services, life sciences, manufacturing, public sector, and media and entertainment. "I consolidated the previous storage systems into one centralized DDN storage system using a global EXAScaler Lustre file system, which can deliver the needed performance and scalability. Having spent 20 years implementing DDN systems successfully, it was an easy decision for me to choose DDN for Helmholtz Munich's infrastructure rehaul,' said Dr Alf Wachsmann, Head of DigIT Infrastructure & Scientific Computing | Helmholtz Munich. Availability and Getting Started Google Cloud Managed Lustre is generally available. Customers can deploy instances directly through the Google Cloud Console or speak with Google Cloud or DDN representatives for tailored guidance and support. To learn more, read the Google blog: About DDN DDN is the world's leading AI and data intelligence company, empowering organizations to maximize the value of their data with end-to-end HPC and AI-focused solutions. Its customers range from the largest global enterprises and AI hyperscalers to cutting-edge research centers, all leveraging DDN's proven data intelligence platform for scalable, secure, and high-performance AI deployments that drive 10x returns. Follow DDN: LinkedIn, X, and YouTube.
Business Wire
30-04-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
DDN and Nebius Collaborate to Power Next-Generation AI Infrastructure for Seamless Enterprise Adoption
CHATSWORTH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- DDN, a global leader in AI and data intelligence solutions, has partnered with Nebius, one of the world's most advanced AI cloud providers, to deliver unprecedented performance, scalability, and efficiency for enterprise AI workloads. By integrating DDN Infinia and EXAScaler into its AI cloud, Nebius is setting a new industry benchmark—offering enterprises an end-to-end, high-performance solution tailored to the demands of next-generation AI. Powering the Future of AI with an End-to-End AI Cloud As an elite AI cloud provider, Nebius is building some of the world's most highly performant infrastructure to power AI innovation. Recognizing the increasing demand for ultra-fast, scalable AI infrastructure, Nebius sought out a best-in-class data intelligence platform to empower enterprises in training, inferencing, and real-time AI applications. DDN emerged as a clear choice, providing a dual-stack solution—Infinia for high-performance data orchestration and EXAScaler for extreme parallel file system performance—capable of delivering maximum efficiency at scale. Why Nebius Chose DDN Infinia and EXAScaler DDN's AI-native, high-performance data architecture now powers Nebius AI Cloud, providing enterprises with: AI-Optimized, SLA-Driven Performance – Infinia guarantees extreme reliability and speed, accelerating AI model training and deployment while EXAScaler delivers unmatched data throughput and I/O consistency. Seamless Scaling Across Cloud and On-Prem Environments – Businesses can instantly scale workloads across Nebius' AI cloud, hybrid setups, and air-gapped systems without bottlenecks using EXAScaler's industry-leading parallel file system. Ultra-Fast Data Processing for AI at Scale – Infinia and EXAScaler eliminate data latency challenges, ensuring AI pipelines operate at peak efficiency—even for multi-trillion-parameter models. Enterprise-Ready AI Infrastructure – With DDN and Nebius, enterprises can deploy AI workloads faster, more efficiently, and at a lower cost than ever before. A Bold Vision for the Future of AI "To lead in AI, enterprises require infrastructure that delivers breakthrough speed, scalability, and seamless integration,' said Paul Bloch, President and Co-Founder at DDN. "By partnering with Nebius, we're breaking down traditional barriers to AI adoption and delivering a next-generation cloud platform that transforms how AI is built and scaled worldwide." "Our mission is to provide cutting-edge AI cloud infrastructure that enables innovation worldwide at speed and scale," said Arkady Volozh, CEO of Nebius. "With DDN, we're able to help enterprises do this seamlessly and efficiently." Together, Nebius and DDN are redefining enterprise AI, delivering the fastest, most scalable AI cloud infrastructure available today—empowering businesses to lead in the AI era. To learn more, please visit About Nebius Nebius (NASDAQ:NBIS) is a technology company building full-stack infrastructure to service the explosive growth of the global AI industry, including large-scale GPU clusters, cloud platforms, and tools and services for developers. Headquartered in Amsterdam and listed on Nasdaq, the company has a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, North America and Israel. Nebius's core business is an AI-centric cloud platform built for intensive AI workloads. With proprietary cloud software architecture and hardware designed in-house (including servers, racks and data center design), Nebius gives AI builders the compute, storage, managed services and tools they need to build, tune and run their models. A Preferred cloud service provider in the NVIDIA Partner Network, Nebius offers high-end infrastructure optimized for AI training and inference. The company boasts a team of over 500 skilled engineers, delivering a true hyperscale cloud experience tailored for AI builders. To learn more, please visit About DDN DDN is the world's leading AI and data intelligence company, empowering organizations to maximize the value of their data with end-to-end HPC and AI-focused solutions. Its customers range from the largest global enterprises and AI hyperscalers to cutting-edge research centers, all leveraging DDN's proven data intelligence platform for scalable, secure, and high-performance AI deployments that drive 10x returns. Follow DDN: LinkedIn, X, and YouTube.
