DataDirect Networks, one of the world’s biggest data storage and processing solution provider, threw out a few milestones today, touting its leadership in large scale, high capacity parallel files storage systems. The company said DataDirect is now powering more than 60 percent of the top 50 fastest computer storage solution in the world. www.top500.org produced a list in the June 2011 edition of the TOP500 list.

DataDirect storage systems now power over 19,500 TeraFlops/s of compute power for the top 500 companies. The top 500 list is based on trends and leadership of companies across clustered computing marketplace.

DataDirect storage system provides large scale open parallel file storage systems to world’s most scalable data centers.

“Around the world, the brightest minds in government, academia and the private sector safely rely on DDN storage to help find cures for diseases, neutralize threats to national security, uncover the fundamental building block of our universe, and advance research and innovation across all major scientific domains,” said Alex Bouzari, Chief Executive Office of DataDirect.

“We are honored that research, academia and industry turn to DDN more times than to any other technology company in the world when they need to process, store, manage and understand their data and content.”

In April, DataDirect announced its new network attached storage (NAS) Scaler enterprise file storage platform, a cost-efficient and scalable multi-protocol NAS solution. NAS Scaler is aimed for providing NAS solution to high-growth cloud service providers, unstructured data, and machine-generated data sets.

Supercomputers are epic achievements, no matter where you stand in the line.  Japanese supercomputer, K Computer, located at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) in Kobe, is now crowned as the new number one supercomputer in the world. K Computer is capable of performing more than 8 quadrillion calculations per second (petaflop/s).

Intel, on the other hand, showcased a photonics chipset on its 50^th anniversary, that offers 50 gigabits per second calculation and can be scalable up to one terabit per second. The new chipset will help scientists build more advanced and powerful supercomputers capable of handling complex cloud computing storage transactional data.

Speaking on the need for speed and the rapid expansion of data storage, top enterprises are now adopting and deploying faster clusters and supercomputing power to rapidly access transactional data.  IBM reached an agreement with the US Department of Energy, to bring Mira to the Illinois-based Argonne National Lab. Mira is an IBM Blue Gene Q 10-petaflop supercomputer scheduled to become operational in 2012. The supercomputer will be capable of performing more than 2.57 petaflops calculations per second and will conquer the Tianhe-1A supercomputer based in Tianjin, China.