DDN Opens Largest R&D Facility

DataDirect Networks Inc. (DDN) announced the expansion of its India operation with a larger office space in Pune.

DDN India inaugurated its new office in Baner, Pune, to accommodate its growing employee base. With its presence in both Pune and Bengaluru, the company currently has approximately 25% of employees WW based in India and plans to increase headcount by the end of 2023.

In 2021, DDN began manufacturing storage solutions under the Make in India initiative and is now augmenting its workforce in the research, product development, engineering, and IT divisions.

Atul Vidwansa, GM for India and S.E. Asia, DDN

“India is a strategically important market for DDN, and we have witnessed tremendous demand for our storage solutions, despite the pandemic,” said Atul Vidwansa, GM for India and S.E. Asia,. “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 gen storage solutions.“

The US-based multinational company is a known name in HPC and AI community with multi-petabyte storage solutions deployed at 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.

To further strengthen its presence in India, DDN plans to tap human talent to build and develop storage products faster and enhance the trust and experience of its domestic and global clients.