Bill Downer is a manager at Seagate handling the federal business development line. The sales and management veteran has over two decades of experience working for data storage technology companies, including sales manager at Sun Microsystems and federal business vice president at DataDirect Networks. Previous roles also include regional director of sales and channel relations at Quantum. More

Bill Downer serves as manager of federal business development at Seagate Technology where he is helping to build a federal subsidiary that will focus on storage offerings for U.S. government customers. Downer worked in BD for Xyratex before it was acquired by Seagate and was vice president of federal sales at DataDirect Networks beginning in 2012. He […] More

DataDirect Networks is providing storage services to the Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory for energy research projects that are intended to help the Energy Department minimize the country’s foreign oil dependence. Atipa Technologies led the technology upgrade at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and modernized to DDNTM SFA 12K block storage platform and EXAScaler file storage appliance, […] More

Data Direct Networks has unveiled its latest generation of storage enclosures that each have a capacity of 5 petabytes per rack, an increase the company says the amount of data that can be kept than was previously offered. The SS8460 is designed for clients with high-performance computing environments that seek big data tools without costs […] More

DataDirect Networks has released an information storage solution that targets performance, scalability and efficiency gains for media and entertainment customers with content-intensive work processes. According to DDN Chief Marketing Officer Molly Rector, the solution is intended to give users room to “create without limitations, collaborate more confidently and shorten time to market.” The storage infrastructure, […] More

DataDirect Networks and Hyve Solutions have partnered to offer an integrated storage infrastructure designed to manage web-scale applications and information in cloud data centers. DDN combined its object-storage software with Hyve’s server appliances in an effort to help organizations meet computing and energy efficiency requirements, DDN said Tuesday. Hyve designs data center equipment through the […] More

Randy Hayes serves as the director of federal sciences and healthcare at DataDirect Networks, where he acts as a strategic technical and business consultant to government organizations. Hayes has led lighthouse bioinformatics and healthcare projects at laboratories run by the Department of Health and Human Services and by other federal agencies. He also focuses on projects […] More

Molly Rector has joined DataDirect Networks to serve as the company’s first-ever chief marketing officer as DDN aims to expand into new markets. Rector will be responsible for increasing corporate brand visibility outside traditional markets, helping grow the partner ecosystem and driving an end-to-end customer experience, DDN announced Tuesday. She succeeds Jeff Denworth and will report directly […] More

DataDirect Networks-built storage infrastructures work to power more than 60 percent of TOP500.org’s list of the world’s largest computing systems by performance. The performance of computers listed in the top 10 increased by 14 times in less than five years and nine of those systems currently use DDN technology, the company said Monday. “Commercial and […] More