DDN and Zadara Partner to Power Sovereign, Multi-Tenant AI Factories Built on NVIDIA Reference Architecture

San Jose, CA - [March 16, 2026] - 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.

This partnership is a key component of DDN's enterprise AI strategy, which is built around two pillars:

1. Enterprise AI at scale, and
2. 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.

Together, the two companies will enable service providers, telcos, and enterprises to deploy NVIDIA-powered, AI infrastructure quickly, securely, and efficiently-while maintaining full control over compliance, cost, tenant isolation, and performance SLAs.

A Unified Foundation for Sovereign AI and Multi-Tenant AI Factories

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.

Making Enterprise AI Practical: Accessible, Affordable, and Fast

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
• 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.

NVIDIA GTC Launch + Go-To-Market

"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."

Why This Partnership Matters

• AI Factories are becoming the default infrastructure model for enterprises, telcos, and cloud service providers.
• Sovereign and multi-tenant deployments require tenant isolation, compliance, and predictable SLAs-not just raw performance.
• Tenant isolation spans across storage, compute and networking in tight integration.
• AI infrastructure must be delivered as an integrated system-GPU + networking + data, with orchestration and policy built in.
• Enterprise AI must be practical, with faster time-to-value and a clear path to production-not months of integration work.

Together, DDN and Zadara deliver a production-ready foundation for sovereign, multi-tenant AI factories-combining the high-performance AI data layer required to keep GPUs fully utilized with the cloud-native orchestration, policy control, and tenant isolation required to operate AI infrastructure securely at scale.

The joint solution enables customers to deploy AI infrastructure powered by NVIDIA to:

• DDN EXAScaler performance at scale, delivering high throughput and massive concurrency for training, inference, checkpointing, and large dataset pipelines
• Cloud-native multi-tenant orchestration, including GPU-performance-aware scheduling and automation
• Policy-based segmentation and sovereign controls, supporting compliance, tenant isolation, and data locality requirements
• Integration with NVIDIA networking and DPU technologies, enabling secure, high-performance AI factory architectures
• Predictable performance SLAs and faster time-to-value, reducing operational complexity while accelerating AI deployment across enterprise and service provider environments

To learn more about DDN at NVIDIA GTC 2026, schedule a private demo, book a meeting, or visit the DDN booth at #1621. To learn more about Zadara at NVIDIA GTC 2026, schedule a private demo, book a meeting, or visit the Zadara booth at GTC South Market lot, booth #7034.

About DDN

DDN is the world's leading provider of AI data storage and data management platforms, powering over 20 years of innovation across HPC, enterprise, and the largest AI deployments on Earth. With its EXA, Infinia, and intelligent data management platforms, DDN delivers unmatched performance, scale, and business value for customers building next-generation AI factories, hyperscale clouds, and Sovereign AI initiatives. DDN is the trusted partner for thousands of the world's most data-intensive organizations, including the leading national labs, research institutions, enterprises, hyperscalers, financial firms, and autonomous vehicle innovators. For more information, visit https://www.ddn.com.

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About Zadara

Zadara (https://www.zadara.com) 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.

Zadara's fully-managed clouds are designed to accommodate any workload, anywhere - whether on-premises, hybrid, multi-cloud or at the edge.

Zadara operates worldwide with a highly skilled team that provides 24/7 follow-the-sun support and services. Zadara is headquartered in Irvine, California.

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