DDN and Yotta Partner to Propel India’s Sovereign AI Ambitions with Groundbreaking EXAScaler Deployment
In a landmark move to bolster India’s position as a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI), DDN, the global leader in AI and data intelligence solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with Yotta Data Services, India’s premier provider of cloud and AI infrastructure. This collaboration marks a significant milestone in the realization of India’s sovereign AI vision under the IndiaAI Mission, with the deployment of a multi-million-dollar installation of DDN’s EXAScaler AI400X3 systems. These cutting-edge systems will power an impressive 8,000 NVIDIA B200 GPUs within Yotta’s Petascale AI cloud infrastructure, driving the capabilities of Shakti Cloud, Yotta’s end-to-end AI services platform.
This initiative establishes one of the largest sovereign AI platforms in Asia, designed to accelerate innovation, ensure compliance and security, and advance India’s mission to lead the global AI landscape. By leveraging DDN’s high-performance AI storage solutions, Yotta is empowering government entities, public sector organizations, regulated industries, and researchers with the tools needed to unlock the transformative potential of AI while maintaining full control over data sovereignty.
A Foundation for Sovereign AI Leadership
Sovereign AI represents more than just technological advancement—it embodies a nation’s ability to harness the power of AI while retaining strategic independence, ensuring data security, and fostering innovation within its borders. According to Alex Bouzari, CEO and Co-Founder of DDN, “Sovereign AI is not just a goal—it’s the foundation for nations to unleash the full power of artificial intelligence while retaining control, security, and strategic independence. Through our partnership with Yotta and the IndiaAI Mission, we are enabling a new era of AI innovation in India. With EXAScaler at the heart of this effort, DDN is delivering the speed, scale, and multi-tenant capability needed to power world-class sovereign AI, accelerate breakthrough discoveries, and transform the country into a global leader in next-generation artificial intelligence.”
The deployment of DDN’s EXAScaler AI400X3 systems underscores the critical role of high-performance infrastructure in achieving these objectives. Designed for the most demanding AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, EXAScaler ensures unmatched scalability, throughput, and reliability. Its parallel file system architecture delivers exceptional bandwidth, high input/output operations per second (IOPS), and linear scaling, enabling seamless handling of massive datasets and complex AI models.
Empowering India’s AI Ecosystem
Yotta’s Shakti Cloud leverages DDN’s EXAScaler to provide a secure, multi-tenant AI cloud platform tailored to the unique needs of India’s government, public sector, and regulated industries. The platform offers:
- Unmatched Scalability: EXAScaler’s architecture supports high bandwidth and IOPS, ensuring optimal performance for large-scale AI training, inference, and foundation model development.
- Secure Multi-Tenancy: Advanced quality-of-service (QoS) policies and data integrity features ensure compliance with stringent regulatory requirements, making it ideal for sectors such as banking, financial services, insurance (BFSI), and healthcare.
- Proven DGX SuperPOD Performance: As the first NVIDIA ecosystem partner featured in both SuperPOD and NCP reference architectures, DDN guarantees enterprise-grade performance and reliability for AI workloads.
“Through this partnership, we are reinforcing our commitment to advancing India’s AI journey in alignment with the IndiaAI Mission,” said Sunil Gupta, Co-Founder, Managing Director, and CEO of Yotta. “By combining Yotta’s cloud and AI infrastructure expertise with DDN’s industry-leading AI data platform, we are enabling India’s government, enterprises, and research ecosystem to access world-class AI infrastructure and a cloud platform, in Shakti Cloud, that is fully sovereign, compliant, and built for scale.”
Accelerating Innovation Across Industries
The collaboration between DDN and Yotta is designed to democratize access to AI across India’s economy and research landscape, empowering diverse stakeholders to innovate and thrive:
- Government and Public Sector: Sovereign large language models (LLMs), digital citizen services, and AI programs that adhere to strict data residency requirements.
- Regulated Industries: BFSI and healthcare organizations can leverage high-performance AI infrastructure without compromising data sovereignty or regulatory compliance.
- Start-ups and Researchers: Access to GPU-as-a-Service and advanced AI infrastructure eliminates the need for costly dedicated build-outs, enabling smaller players to compete on a global scale.
Strengthening India’s AI Supply Chain
In line with the Make in India initiative, Yotta’s state-of-the-art facilities and skilled workforce ensure local value creation, while DDN’s EXAScaler guarantees data residency within India’s borders. This deployment enhances procurement compliance, lowers the total cost of ownership (TCO) through shared infrastructure, and builds resilience in the domestic AI supply chain. By fostering a robust ecosystem for AI innovation, the partnership strengthens India’s position as a hub for cutting-edge technology development.
A Vision for Global AI Leadership
The DDN-Yotta collaboration represents a pivotal step toward transforming India into a global leader in AI. By providing the high-performance foundation for sovereign AI, this partnership enables breakthroughs in research, drives economic growth, and ensures that India remains at the forefront of the AI revolution. With DDN’s EXAScaler powering Yotta’s Shakti Cloud, the stage is set for unprecedented innovation and progress.
To learn more about how DDN and Yotta are shaping the future of AI in India, visit ddn.com.
About DDN
DDN is a leading AI and data intelligence company, empowering organizations to maximize the value of their data with end-to-end HPC and AI-focused solutions. Its customers range from the largest global enterprises and AI hyperscalers to cutting-edge research centers, all leveraging DDN’s proven data intelligence platform for scalable, secure, and high-performance AI deployments that drive 10x returns. Follow DDN: LinkedIn, X, and YouTube.
About Yotta
Yotta Data Services is a sovereign cloud infrastructure and platform services provider, offering cloud, AI cloud solutions, data center hosting, connectivity, and cybersecurity services; cyber-workspaces; managed applications; and a wide range of managed IT services. Yotta operates its cloud regions at its hyperscale data center parks in Panvel (Navi Mumbai) and Greater Noida (Delhi NCR). Yotta’s homegrown, open-source-based, feature-rich Sovereign hyperscale cloud, Yntraa, is MeitY empanelled (VCC and GCC) and is also deployed in large government-owned CSPs on a white labelled / PPP model. In addition, Yotta has launched Shakti Cloud, a cutting-edge platform that leverages advanced AI capabilities, providing enterprises with a comprehensive suite of AI services, including AI labs, AI workspaces, serverless inferencing, and access to NVIDIA’s NIM services, alongside Kubernetes clusters with GPU resources. Yotta is the only NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) across the APAC region to be part of the NVIDIA Exemplar cloud initiative and is one of only six Reference Architecture Platform NCPs across the world.
