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The demand for sovereign AI infrastructure, where data control, compliance, and performance are paramount, is rapidly increasing. In response, DDN has launched its Sovereign AI Blueprints and NVIDIA Reference Designs, providing governments and enterprises with pre-validated architectures to deploy AI at a national or industrial scale confidently. These solutions ensure that critical data remains within defined borders while delivering extreme performance and significant energy efficiency.
DDN introduces Sovereign AI Blueprints based on the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design.
The solutions are designed for governments and enterprises requiring data sovereignty.
Architectures are proven to deliver over 99% sustained GPU utilization.
They offer up to 40% lower energy consumption compared to legacy systems.
The blueprints ensure data remains within sovereign borders with advanced security.
They are already deployed in major national AI initiatives like India's Yotta Shakti Cloud.
Sovereign AI has evolved from a theoretical concept to a critical design standard. Nations and global enterprises require infrastructure that guarantees data protection under local laws, maintains workload compliance, and operates with high power efficiency, all without hindering the pace of innovation. DDN's new blueprints directly address these needs with certified architectures that are sovereign by design, predictable at scale, and operationally efficient.
Alex Bouzari, CEO and Co-Founder at DDN, stated, “The future of AI will be defined by trust—trust in performance, in data control, and in sustainability. DDN’s Sovereign AI Blueprints and NVIDIA Reference Designs set the benchmark for how nations and enterprises can achieve extreme scale without compromise.”
Each DDN Sovereign AI solution is a fully validated, production-ready architecture that combines compute, networking, and DDN's unified data-intelligence platform. These systems are engineered to maximize the performance of leading-edge NVIDIA systems like the GB200 NVL72. Core capabilities include extreme performance for faster checkpointing and ingest, advanced security with fine-grained multi-tenancy and per-tenant encryption, and unified observability for real-time system optimization.
Sven Oehme, CTO at DDN, added, “Sovereign AI is about owning your data destiny, not operating in silos. DDN delivers the performance and efficiency organizations need to control their data, optimize GPU utilization, and scale AI sustainably.”
The effectiveness of these sovereign AI solutions is already demonstrated in real-world deployments. Yotta Shakti Cloud in India is powering the IndiaAI Mission using DDN's architecture. Sunil Gupta, Co-Founder, MD, and CEO at Yotta, confirmed, “This partnership reinforces our commitment to advancing India’s AI journey in alignment with the India AI Mission. By combining Yotta’s cloud & AI infrastructure expertise with DDN’s industry-leading AI data platform, we are enabling India’s government, enterprises, and research ecosystem to access world-class AI infrastructure and a cloud platform, in Shakti Cloud, that is fully sovereign, compliant, and built for scale.”
Similarly, Singtel has adopted the solution for its next-generation AI services. Manoj Prasana Kumar, CTO at Singtel Digital Infraco, said, “Our goal is to support enterprises across industries in accelerating the adoption of agentic AI and large-scale inference with the right balance of performance, economics, security, and compliance. By bringing together the strengths of Singtel’s AI infrastructure, connectivity, and managed services with DDN’s high-performance data platform, customers gain a seamless foundation to scale AI initiatives faster, mitigate risk, and move from proof-of-concept to production with confidence.”
DDN's Sovereign AI Blueprints provide a critical foundation for the next wave of AI adoption. By offering a trusted, tested, and proven path to deployment, they enable nations and enterprises to harness the power of AI while maintaining full control over their data, compliance, and performance destiny.
About DDN
DDN is a leading AI and data intelligence company, empowering organizations to maximize the value of their data with end-to-end HPC and AI-focused solutions. Its customers range from the largest global enterprises and AI hyperscalers to cutting-edge research centers, all leveraging DDN’s proven data intelligence platform for scalable, secure, and high-performance AI deployments that drive 10x returns.
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