Value-add distributor Exertis Hammer announced an EMEA-wide distribution agreement with big data storage supplier DDN.
The vendor designs, develops, deploys, and optimises systems, software and storage solutions that enable enterprises, service providers, universities, and government agencies to generate more value and accelerate time to insight from their data, on premise and in the cloud.
Exertis Hammer General Manager Adam Blackwell said: “New and existing customers will hugely benefit from DDN’s focus on artificial intelligence, big data and high performance computing (HPC) that this partnership will bring to our offering.”
“DDN, gives Exertis Hammer the ability offer a true end-to-end solution, ideal for key vertical markets such as AI, M&E, and HPC”, Blackwell said.
DDN has also, within the past month, announced support for Nvidia DGX A100 systems in its A3I solutions. DGX A100 is the world’s first 5-petaflops AI system that consolidates the power and capabilities of an entire data centre into a single flexible platform.
A3I combines DDN storage, DGX A100 systems and Nvidia Mellanox high-speed networking to supply optimised compute and I/O based on common principles of parallelism, performance and scale.
DDN product marketing head Vice President of Marketing head Kurt Kuckein said that Exertis Hammer is an ideal distribution partner with a heritage in the delivery of performance-intensive computing solutions that complement DDN’s AI, big data, multicloud, and high-performance computing storage.
“With Exertis Hammer’s technical and market understanding, and in-country support, DDN partners will be well placed to convert Intelligent Infrastructure opportunities and push the boundaries of AI on a much greater scale.”
