DDN EXAScaler Wins 2026 SiliconANGLE TechForward Award for Data Storage & Management

DDN, the global leader in AI and data intelligence solutions, announced that DDN EXAScaler has been named the winner of the 2026 SiliconANGLE TechForward Award in the Data Storage & Management category.

EXAScaler was selected as the top submission among the category’s finalists in the largest and most competitive SiliconANGLE Media Awards program to date. The recognition highlights EXAScaler’s technical innovation, market differentiation, and proven ability to support data-intensive AI and high-performance computing workloads at extraordinary scale.

“AI success depends on keeping accelerated computing resources continuously supplied with data,” said Alex Bouzari, Co-Founder and CEO at DDN. “EXAScaler was engineered to eliminate the data bottlenecks that leave valuable GPUs waiting. This recognition from SiliconANGLE reinforces the critical role that intelligent, high-performance data platforms play in helping organizations increase utilization, accelerate time to insight, and realize greater value from their AI investments.”

Built for the extreme requirements of modern AI factories, EXAScaler delivers a scalable, high-throughput data foundation for model training, fine-tuning, checkpointing, and other performance-intensive workloads. Its parallel architecture enables organizations to maintain predictable performance as data volumes, model sizes, and computing environments grow.

EXAScaler provides:

Massive parallel performance capable of supporting the world’s largest AI and supercomputing environments;

A scalable POSIX namespace designed to accommodate exabyte-scale datasets;

Sub-millisecond latency and aggregate throughput at terabytes-per-second scale;

NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage integration to streamline data movement and improve GPU utilization;

Enterprise capabilities for multi-tenancy, data security, observability and workload management;

A proven foundation for research institutions, enterprises, government organizations and AI service providers.

With more than one million GPUs supported in production environments worldwide, DDN helps organizations transform increasingly complex and distributed data into business, scientific and societal outcomes. EXAScaler is a foundational component of the DDN AI Data Fabric, providing the high-performance data services required throughout the AI lifecycle.