{"id":51534,"date":"2025-10-20T15:27:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/?p=51534"},"modified":"2025-11-17T12:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:58:13","slug":"ddn-and-yotta-partner-to-power-indias-sovereign-ai-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/2025\/10\/20\/ddn-and-yotta-partner-to-power-indias-sovereign-ai-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"DDN and Yotta partner to power India\u2019s sovereign AI initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>DDN has announced a partnership with Yotta Data Services to deliver a high-performance AI foundation for India\u2019s sovereign AI initiative under the IndiaAI Mission.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DDN announced a landmark partnership with Yotta Data Services, India\u2019s leading provider of cloud and AI infrastructure, to deliver the high-performance foundation for India\u2019s sovereign AI initiative under the IndiaAI Mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of this strategic collaboration, Yotta has deployed a multi-million-dollar installation of DDN EXAScaler AI400X3 systems to power 8,000 NVIDIA B200 GPUs within Yotta\u2019s Petascale AI cloud infrastructure, powering Shakti Cloud, its end-to-end AI services platform. This deployment establishes one of the largest sovereign AI platforms in Asia, designed to accelerate India\u2019s innovation, strengthen compliance and security and advance the nation\u2019s vision of global AI leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSovereign AI is not just a goal &#8211; it\u2019s the foundation for nations to unleash the full power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) while retaining control, security and strategic independence,\u201d said Alex Bouzari, CEO and Co-founder of DDN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThrough 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Driving India\u2019s AI growth with performance and sovereignty<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yotta\u2019s deployment of DDN EXAScaler enables a secure, multi-tenant AI cloud that provides government, public sector and regulated industries with advanced infrastructure for AI training, inference and foundation models. Designed for the highest performance AI and HPC workloads, EXAScaler pitches:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Unmatched scalability and throughput with parallel file system architecture delivering high bandwidth, high IOPS and linear scaling.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Secure multi-tenancy with QoS policies and data integrity features critical for regulated industries, including BFSI and healthcare.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Proven DGX SuperPOD-class performance, with DDN as the first NVIDIA ecosystem partner featured in both SuperPOD and NCP reference architectures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis partnership reinforces our commitment to advancing India\u2019s AI journey in alignment with the IndiaAI Mission,\u201d said Sunil Gupta, Co-founder, MD and CEO at Yotta. \u201cBy combining Yotta\u2019s cloud and AI infrastructure expertise with DDN\u2019s industry-leading AI data platform, we are enabling India\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Accelerating innovation across sectors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DDN-Yotta collaboration is designed to make AI accessible across India\u2019s economy and research landscape:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Government and public sector: Sovereign LLMs, digital citizen services and AI programmes with strict data residency<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Regulated industries: BFSI and healthcare organisations gain compliant, high-performance AI without data leaving India.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Start-ups and researchers: Access to GPU-as-a-Service and advanced AI infrastructure without costly dedicated build-outs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Strengthening India\u2019s AI supply chain<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In alignment with the Make in India initiative, Yotta\u2019s facilities and workforce ensure local value creation, while DDN EXAScaler guarantees data residency within India\u2019s borders. The deployment enhances procurement compliance, lowers total cost of ownership (TCO) with shared infrastructure and builds resilience in the domestic AI supply chain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DDN has announced a partnership with Yotta Data Services to deliver a high-performance AI foundation for India\u2019s sovereign AI initiative under the IndiaAI Mission. DDN announced a landmark partnership with Yotta Data Services, India\u2019s leading provider of cloud and AI infrastructure, to deliver the high-performance foundation for India\u2019s sovereign AI initiative under the IndiaAI Mission. 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