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DDN sales of AI storage appliances already outstrip stats for 2022 protein and molecule creation for drug discovery , autonomous driving , and space exploration are just a few examples where massive data processing is required to fuel innovations .

“ The trillions of data objects and parameters required by generative AI cannot be fulfilled without an extremely scalable and high-performance data storage system ,” said Dr James Coomer , SVP of Products , DDN .

DDN says it has sold more AI storage appliances in the first four months of 2023 than it had for all of 2022 .

Sales stats show broad enthusiasm for the business opportunities presented by generative AI have seen a steady increase in investment in AI and AI infrastructure .
Language-based AI applications , such as ChatGPT , have garnered much attention , though there are a number of other AI use cases with significant breakthroughs on the horizon .
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“ DDN has been the solution of choice for thousands of deployments for organizations such as NASA , University of Florida and Naver .”
David Hall , Head of HPC at Lambda , DDN ’ s customer and solution partner , said : “ Teams are moving rapidly to harness generative AI and need highly performant and scalable data platforms to be successful .”

Trinity Broadcasting Network chooses Nyraid and DigitalGlue to safeguard content workloads

Trinity Broadcasting Network ( TBN ) has chosen Nyriad UltraIO storage and the DigitalGlue creative . space solution as the foundation for its editorial and media asset management environment .

In doing so , TBN will be able to improve the performance , resilience , and efficiency of its media production workflows . Launched in 1973 by Christian television pioneers Paul and Jan Crouch , TBN has grown into a family of over thirty twenty-fourhour global networks reaching every inhabited continent with Christian content . Supporting a network of this size and scope was straining TBN ’ s aging data storage infrastructure . TBN needed a storage infrastructure that could handle the demands of a high-volume editorial and media asset management environment . The solution also had to accommodate 100 + users streaming at 1500 kb / s ,” said Larry Haley , Senior Vice President of Engineering , TBN .
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