DDN and Yotta Power Sovereign AI for India with Multi-Million-Dollar EXAScaler Deployment

MUMBAI, India--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DDN, the global leader in AI and data intelligence solutions, today announced a landmark partnership with Yotta Data Services, India’s leading provider of cloud and AI infrastructure, to deliver the high-performance foundation for India’s sovereign AI initiative under the IndiaAI Mission.

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’s 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’s innovation, strengthen compliance and security, and advance the nation’s vision of global AI leadership.

“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,” said Alex Bouzari, CEO and Co-Founder of DDN. “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.”

Driving India’s AI Growth with Performance and Sovereignty

Yotta’s 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 ensures:

• Unmatched scalability and throughput with parallel file system architecture delivering high bandwidth, high IOPS, and linear scaling.
• Secure multi-tenancy with QoS policies and data integrity features critical for regulated industries, including BFSI and healthcare.
• Proven DGX SuperPOD-class performance, with DDN as the first NVIDIA ecosystem partner featured in both SuperPOD and NCP reference architectures.

“This partnership reinforces our commitment to advancing India’s AI journey in alignment with the IndiaAI Mission,” said Sunil Gupta, Co-Founder, MD and CEO at Yotta. “By combining Yotta’s cloud & 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 Sectors

The DDN-Yotta collaboration is designed to make AI accessible across India’s economy and research landscape:

• Government and public sector: Sovereign LLMs, digital citizen services, and AI programs with strict data residency.
• Regulated industries: BFSI and healthcare organizations gain compliant, high-performance AI without data leaving India.
• Start-ups & researchers: Access to GPU-as-a-Service and advanced AI infrastructure without costly dedicated build-outs.

Strengthening India’s AI Supply Chain

In alignment with the Make in India initiative, Yotta’s facilities and workforce ensure local value creation, while DDN EXAScaler guarantees data residency within India’s borders. The deployment enhances procurement compliance, lowers total cost of ownership (TCO) with shared infrastructure, and builds resilience in the domestic AI supply chain.

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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.

Yotta has won numerous accolades and certifications, including RBI’s cybersecurity framework and localization framework, ISO 27017 for the protection of personal information in public cloud, ISO 27701 for Privacy Information Management (PIMS), PCI-DSS, SOC2-Type 2, and SOC3. For more information, visit www.yotta.com.