FRANKFURT, Germany and SANTA CLARA, Calif. – June 26, 2018 –- DataDirect Networks (DDN) today announced a set of data platforms for artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning (DL). Engineered for the AI data center, DDN’s A3I™ (Accelerated, Any-Scale AI) solutions are optimized to handle the spectrum of AI activities concurrently from data ingest and preparation to training, validation and inference. Rigorously tested and integrated around a comprehensive set of widely-used DL frameworks, network topologies and purpose-built GPU computing appliances, A3I solutions provide: