Vidwansa reports tremendous demand for data storage solutions
DDN®, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions from Chatsworth in California, has opened a second office in Pune and plans to increase headcount significantly by the end of 2023.
“India is a strategically important market for DDN, and we have witnessed tremendous demand for our data storage solutions, despite the pandemic,” said Atul Vidwansa, General Manager for India and South East Asia, DDN.
“We plan to increase our workforce in India by 50% over the next few years to support ‘Make in India’ and the development of next-generation storage solutions,” he said on 16 Feb 2023 from Pune.
To further strengthen its presence in India, DDN plans to tap human talent to build and develop data storage products faster and enhance the trust and experience of its domestic and global clients.
Approximately 25% of employees worldwide are based in Pune and the first office Bengaluru, said DDN which began manufacturing storage solutions under the ‘Make in India’ initiative in 2021 and is now augmenting its workforce in the research, product development, engineering, and IT divisions.
The US-based multinational company is already a well-known name in High Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) community with multi-petabyte storage solutions deployed at prestigious customers like the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology & National Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, C-DAC, ONGC, CSIR Labs, ISRO and National Institute of Biomedical Genomics.
DDN is the world’s largest private data storage company and the leading provider of intelligent technology and infrastructure solutions for enterprise at scale, AI and analytics, HPC, government, and academia customers.
Over the last two decades, DDN has established itself as the data management provider of choice for over 11,000 enterprises, government, and public-sector customers, including many of the world’s leading financial services firms, life science organizations, manufacturing and energy companies, research facilities, and web and cloud service providers. fiinews.com
