DDN, the world's leading AI data platform provider, and Zadara, a pioneer in AI-optimized cloud-native Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), today announced a strategic technology partnership to deliver high-performance AI infrastructure for sovereign clouds and multi-tenant AI factories, built on NVIDIA Reference Designs for multi-tenant clouds.
DDN and Zadara announced a strategic partnership to deliver AI infrastructure for sovereign clouds and multi-tenant AI factories built on NVIDIA Reference Architecture.
DDN EXAScaler will serve as the high-performance AI data foundation for Zadara's AI-optimized, multi-tenant sovereign cloud-native infrastructure platform.
The partnership addresses core enterprise AI blockers including infrastructure complexity, unpredictable GPU performance, data compliance, and multi-tenant governance.
The joint solution combines DDN's proven performance for large-scale AI training with Zadara's cloud-native orchestration and GPU-aware infrastructure.
The offering enables service providers, telcos, and enterprises to deploy NVIDIA-powered AI infrastructure with tenant isolation, compliance controls, and predictable performance SLAs.
Both companies are showcasing the partnership at NVIDIA GTC 2026, with DDN at booth #1621 and Zadara at booth #7034.
This partnership is a key component of DDN's enterprise AI strategy, which is built around two pillars: Enterprise AI at scale, and a growing ecosystem of partners committed to making AI infrastructure easier to deploy, faster to operationalize, and more affordable to run. By partnering with innovators like Zadara, DDN is accelerating its mission to make enterprise AI accessible, affordable, and fast - not just for hyperscalers, but for service providers, telcos, regulated industries, and global enterprises that need sovereign control, predictable performance, and secure multi-tenant operations.
As NVIDIA accelerates the global evolution of AI infrastructure through standardized reference architectures, enterprises, service providers, and telcos are increasingly focused on deploying software-defined AI factories that deliver predictable performance, rapid time-to-value, and secure multi-tenant operations across sovereign, private, and hybrid environments. The DDN-Zadara partnership directly addresses these requirements by combining Zadara's AI-optimized, cloud-native orchestration and GPU-aware infrastructure platform, built-on NVIDIA Reference Designs for Multi-Tenant Clouds, with DDN EXAScaler's proven performance for large-scale AI training and inference.
Zadara's platform is designed to abstract the operational complexity of AI infrastructure while preserving the performance and governance requirements demanded by sovereign and multi-tenant environments. The company supports secure GPU networking, policy-based orchestration, and strong and secure tenant segmentation with native alignment to NVIDIA guidance on best practices for GPU virtualization and allocation. Through this partnership, DDN EXAScaler will serve as the high-performance AI data layer for Zadara's AI Factory and sovereign cloud deployments - enabling consistent throughput, massive concurrency, and predictable scaling for GPU-intensive workloads.
"AI factories are the new operating model for modern enterprises and service providers—but they only succeed when the data layer can keep GPUs productive at scale," said Alex Bouzari, CEO and Co-Founder at DDN. "Partnering with Zadara is part of DDN's broader enterprise AI strategy and ecosystem commitment—making AI infrastructure more accessible, affordable, and fast for enterprises that need sovereign control and multi-tenant performance. Together, we're delivering a proven path to deploy NVIDIA-powered AI factories with performance, security, and operational confidence."
"NVIDIA reference designs are accelerating the broad adoption of AI factories. Yet organizations need a cloud-native platform that can operationalize them simply and efficiently in real-world, multi-tenant environments while complying with data sovereignty regulations," said Yoram Novick, CEO at Zadara. "DDN EXAScaler brings the high-performance AI data foundation needed to meet demanding sovereign and enterprise requirements while Zadara delivers the orchestration, isolation, and policy control required to deploy AI infrastructure quickly, securely, and efficiently."
Enterprise AI adoption is accelerating—but many organizations still face the same core blockers: high infrastructure complexity, unpredictable GPU performance, data locality and compliance requirements, multi-tenant governance and operational control, and cost and time-to-value constraints. This partnership directly addresses those barriers by delivering an integrated, production-ready foundation for real-world AI factories—where the AI stack is not only powerful, but also operationally scalable.
While many AI factory strategies remain theoretical, Zadara and DDN are focused on delivering real-world deployments that customers can operationalize immediately, including containerized AI stacks, high-performance GPU networking, and multi-tenant controls required by regulated industries and national AI initiatives.
The joint solution enables customers to deploy AI infrastructure powered by NVIDIA to achieve DDN EXAScaler performance at scale, delivering high throughput and massive concurrency for training, inference, checkpointing, and large dataset pipelines. It also provides cloud-native multi-tenant orchestration, including GPU-performance-aware scheduling and automation, along with policy-based segmentation and sovereign controls supporting compliance, tenant isolation, and data locality requirements. The integration with NVIDIA networking and DPU technologies enables secure, high-performance AI factory architectures, delivering predictable performance SLAs and faster time-to-value while reducing operational complexity across enterprise and service provider environments.
About DDN
DDN is the world's leading AI and data intelligence company, powering the world's most demanding AI workloads by keeping GPUs fed, efficient, and productive—at massive scale—so organizations can train, checkpoint, and infer faster with less footprint and power while achieving tremendous ROI from their AI investments. From hyperscalers and next-gen cloud builders to enterprises, governments, and research institutions, DDN delivers proven data intelligence at exabyte scale across hundreds of thousands of GPUs—so customers can deploy AI with confidence, accelerate time-to-value, and realize outsized returns.
About Zadara
Zadara is a leading provider of sovereign AI edge clouds offering a revolutionary distributed cloud platform that simplifies operational complexity and enables seamless multi-tenancy through automated end-to-end provisioning of compute, storage, and networking. With over 500 edge cloud locations worldwide and with the ability to deploy a cloud in any location, Zadara's clouds are uniquely positioned to meet the unique demands of various cloud-based use cases, including sovereign cloud and AI inference at the edge for service providers and the modern enterprise. Zadara clouds are AWS compatible and feature consumption-based pricing with zero data egress fees.
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