DDN and Inspur Sign Sales and Marketing Agreement

DataDirect Networks, Inc. (DDN) signed a joint sales and marketing agreement with Inspur Technologies Co., Ltd., a China-based, cloud-computing and total-solution-and-services provider, in which the companies will leverage their core strengths and powerful computing technologies to offer computing solutions to HPC customers worldwide.

“DDN is delighted to expand our work with Inspur globally and to build upon the joint success we have achieved in China,” said Larry Jones, DDN’s partner manager for the Inspur relationship. “DDN’s leadership in massively scalable, high-performance storage solutions, combined with Inspur’s global data center and cloud computing solutions, offer customers extremely efficient, world-class infrastructure options.“

Under the terms of the agreement, DDN and Inspur will offer complete, tested solutions based on DDN storage platforms integrated with servers, networking, software and services provided by Inspur. The jointly-marketed systems will allow customers throughout the world to deploy powerful, cost-effective infrastructure solutions from a single source.

Inspur has capabilities in HPC R&D, system design, manufacturing, deployment, operation, service and maintenance of petascale supercomputers. It offers complete HPC software, hardware and professional services for application development. Inspur HPC and Deep Learning solutions have contributed to solving the complex scientific, engineering and data analysis problems.

The two companies will target several industries with their joint solutions, including oil and gas, life sciences, financial services and academia. Experts from the two firms are working on new IT architecture solutions for several key customers.

“Inspur has worked closely with DDN on projects across China for many years, and we are excited to expand our collaboration with DDN to deliver joint solutions to customers worldwide,” said Vangel Bojaxhi, WW business development manager, Inspur. “Together, we offer customers some of the most effective and compelling HPC, Deep Learning, big data and Cloud Computing solutions in the market.“