Product Performance and Capabilities - DDN ExaScaler delivers massive scale and performance with 190 GB/s (gigabytes per second) for reads and 8 million random read IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second) on the new 400 X3M 2U platform[27][28] - ExaScaler achieves approximately 30% performance expansion within the same 2U platform by reducing memory copies through internal software optimizations[28] - The platform integrates ExaScaler Management Framework (AMF), representing thousands of engineer hours to simplify deployment, management, configuration, and online upgrades[17][18][24] - Hot pools technology blends HDD (Hard Disk Drive) with flash storage to help customers manage high flash pricing and maintain HPC (High-Performance Computing) or AI expansion strategies economically[18][19] Market Trends and AI Infrastructure - The industry is experiencing an exponential growth curve in context size or KV cache (Key-Value cache), driven by multi-turn agentic modeling and large language models[33] - DDN storage acts as an all-flash platform to massively expand the memory and context available to AI models, supporting up to 10 million times expansion (e.g., scaling from gigabytes to 10 petabytes) to improve answer quality and speed[38][39][40] - Utilizing real-world traces (such as Mooncake conversation traces with median input sequence lengths around 100k tokens and a 38% cache hit rate), DDN storage enables an 8-GPU system to achieve 3.5% more output by leveraging cache hits and avoiding recomputation[46][50][61][62] - Managing cache reuse within the DDN system reduces the cost per token output by one-third for standard agentic conversations at a relatively small cost of a few terabytes of storage per GPU[63][64] Multi-Tenancy and Enterprise Security - DDN ExaScaler provides a secure partitioning framework for multi-tenancy, allowing external users, customers, or departments to access shared infrastructure privately[21][22] - Tenants can be added dynamically via API, assigned soft and hard quotas, and configured with optional encryption managed by external key management servers[22][23]