DDN Names Industry Visionary Eric Barton as CTO for Software-Defined Storage

"Eric Barton is a visionary with a proven track record and deep understanding of data-intensive computing and complex distributed storage systems. As we expand our customer base into cloud, AI, machine learning and rack-scale SSD environments, we are excited to have Eric lead our next wave of technological innovation," said Alex Bouzari, chief executive officer, chairman and co-founder, DDN. "The rapid growth of our Software-Defined Storage business and Eric's appointment as CTO reflect DDN's commitment and leadership in developing innovative solutions for the world's most demanding data intensive environments."

Prior to DDN, Barton was lead architect for the High Performance Data Division (HPDD) at Intel Corporation, where he created some of the world's most innovative storage architectures, leveraging object storage, NVMe, distributed file systems, multi-core processors and 3D XPoint. Before Intel, Barton was co-founder and CTO of Whamcloud, the main development arm behind the open-source Lustre file system, which was acquired by Intel Corporation in 2012. Prior to that Barton designed and built one of the first commercially available distributed file systems, actively contributed to the development of advanced networking protocols for technical computing, and implemented the Lustre Networking Layer (LNET).

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"Eric is a true thought leader in distributed and high-performance storage, one of the very finest in the industry, and we are fortunate to have him join the team," said Robert Triendl, SVP for sales, marketing and field services. "With the advent of technologies such as NVMe and 3D XPoint, and innovations in device technologies and storage fabrics, the market for elastic storage solutions is undergoing dramatic changes. As the leader in scalable storage systems with thousands of mission critical customers, DDN is uniquely positioned for a significant expansion of our addressable market."

DDN's appointment of Barton and other recent initiatives aimed at accelerating the expansion of its IME software-defined storage product family exemplify the company's long-term commitment to lead in the creation and delivery of innovative storage solutions for AI, Machine Learning, Enterprise, Cloud and Technical Computing. Available today as both software-only and appliance servers, IME is a scale-out, flash-native storage solution that solves I/O bottlenecks and accelerates applications and workflows in a reliable and cost-effective fashion. IME provides predictable, scalable performance at a fraction of the cost of conventional storage solutions.

"During the past years, DDN has developed a remarkable set of core technologies for scalable storage systems based on flash and non-volatile memory (NVM)," Barton said. "I am excited to join the extremely talented team at DDN and help drive the company's efforts in building a family of elastic, NVM-based storage products that will bring these technologies to a broader enterprise and cloud market."

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About DDN
DataDirect Networks (DDN) is the world's leading big data storage supplier to data-intensive, global organizations. For more than 18 years, DDN has designed, developed, deployed and optimized systems, software and storage solutions that enable enterprises, service providers, universities and government agencies to generate more value and to accelerate time to insight from their data and information, on premise and in the cloud. Organizations leverage the power of DDN storage technology and the deep technical expertise of its team to capture, store, process, analyze, collaborate and distribute data, information and content at the largest scale in the most efficient, reliable and cost-effective manner. DDN customers include many of the world's leading financial services firms and banks, healthcare and life science organizations, manufacturing and energy companies, government and research facilities, and web and cloud service providers. For more information, go to www.ddn.com or call 1-800-837-2298.

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