DDN says Lustre-based EXAScaler remains central despite Infinia push
Blocks & Files, Monday, January 5th, 2026
DDN briefed us on how it sees the future of Lustre and its broader storage portfolio. Chief Product Officer Omer Asad outlined the positioning of DDN's Lustre-based EXAScaler parallel file system alongside Infinia, its object storage software, arguing the two are complementary rather than competing products.
The Lustre Collective (TLC) says: 'Our team helped invent Lustre in 2001, and was directly responsible for shipping every major release since 2003. TLC will keep Lustre open, free, and the fastest parallel file system on earth.'
It's tempting to see object-based Infinia as a competing storage software product to file-based EXAScaler (Lustre), but Asad says they are complementary and not competing products.