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DDN, the global leader in AI and data intelligence solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with Yotta Data Services, India's premier provider of cloud and AI infrastructure, to establish a high-performance foundation for the nation's sovereign AI initiative under the IndiaAI Mission. This collaboration features a multi-million-dollar deployment of DDN EXAScaler AI400X3 systems, supporting 8,000 NVIDIA B200 GPUs within Yotta's Petascale AI cloud infrastructure and fueling Shakti Cloud, its comprehensive AI services platform. The setup creates one of Asia's largest sovereign AI platforms, boosting innovation, compliance, security, and India's aspirations for global AI leadership.
Yotta’s deployment of DDN EXAScaler creates a secure, multi-tenant AI cloud tailored for government, public sector, and regulated industries, providing robust infrastructure for AI training, inference, and foundation models. Optimized for top-tier AI and HPC workloads, EXAScaler delivers unmatched scalability and throughput via its parallel file system architecture, ensuring high bandwidth, high IOPS, and linear scaling.
“Sovereign AI is not just a goal—it’s the foundation for nations to unleash the full power of artificial intelligence while retaining control, security, and strategic independence,” said Alex Bouzari, CEO and Co-Founder of DDN. “Through our partnership with Yotta and the IndiaAI Mission, we are enabling a new era of AI innovation in India. With EXAScaler at the heart of this effort, DDN is delivering the speed, scale, and multi-tenant capability needed to power world-class sovereign AI, accelerate breakthrough discoveries, and transform the country into a global leader in next-generation artificial intelligence.”
The system incorporates secure multi-tenancy with QoS policies and data integrity features essential for sectors like BFSI and healthcare. As the first NVIDIA ecosystem partner in both SuperPOD and NCP reference architectures, DDN ensures proven DGX SuperPOD-class performance.
“This partnership reinforces our commitment to advancing India’s AI journey in alignment with the IndiaAI Mission,” said Sunil Gupta, Co-Founder, MD and CEO at Yotta. “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.”
The DDN-Yotta collaboration democratizes AI access throughout India's economy and research ecosystem. For government and public sector entities, it facilitates sovereign LLMs, digital citizen services, and AI programs with rigorous data residency requirements. Regulated industries such as BFSI and healthcare benefit from compliant, high-performance AI solutions where data remains within India.
Startups and researchers gain from GPU-as-a-Service and advanced AI infrastructure, eliminating the need for expensive dedicated setups and fostering rapid innovation.
In line with the Make in India initiative, Yotta’s facilities and workforce promote local value creation, while DDN EXAScaler enforces data residency within India's borders. This approach improves procurement compliance, reduces total cost of ownership through shared infrastructure, and fortifies resilience in the domestic AI supply chain.
This partnership positions India at the forefront of sovereign AI, leveraging DDN's data intelligence expertise and Yotta's cloud prowess to drive scalable, secure deployments that fuel national progress and global competitiveness.
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. Follow DDN: LinkedIn, X, and YouTube.
Yotta Data Services is a sovereign cloud infrastructure and platform services provider, offering cloud, AI cloud solutions, data center hosting, connectivity, and cybersecurity services; cyber-workspaces; managed applications; and a wide range of managed IT services. Yotta operates its cloud regions at its hyperscale data center parks in Panvel (Navi Mumbai) and Greater Noida (Delhi NCR). Yotta’s homegrown, open-source-based, feature-rich Sovereign hyperscale cloud, Yntraa, is MeitY empanelled (VCC and GCC) and is also deployed in large government-owned CSPs on a white labelled / PPP model. In addition, Yotta has launched Shakti Cloud, a cutting-edge platform that leverages advanced AI capabilities, providing enterprises with a comprehensive suite of AI services, including AI labs, AI workspaces, serverless inferencing, and access to NVIDIA's NIM services, alongside Kubernetes clusters with GPU resources. Yotta is the only NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) across the APAC region to be part of the NVIDIA Exemplar cloud initiative and is one of only six Reference Architecture Platform NCPs across the world.
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