9 March 2015

            WANdisco plc

WANdisco joins Open Data Platform with new product

- Big data leaders forming common Hadoop core -

WANdisco (LSE: WAND) has joined the Hadoop Open Data Platform ("ODP") as a founding member. The ODP is a shared industry effort to promote Hadoop and other Big Data technologies for the enterprise. Members of the ODP initiative include industry-leading vendors such as Hortonworks, IBM, EMC, Splunk, General Electric, Pivotal, Cap Gemini, Teradata and SAS.

The ODP's mission is to accelerate delivery of Big Data solutions by providing a common core including, but not limited to, Hadoop distributions. This enables Big Data applications to flourish on top of a consistent platform. Because its components interoperate seamlessly and interchangeably, customers will be freed from vendor lock-in. 

With these partners, WANdisco will market its next-generation Big Data product, WANdisco Fusion, which unifies data access and availability across Hadoop and Hadoop-compatible storage providers including Hortonworks, EMC, MapR and Amazon. WANdisco Fusion takes our patented replication technology for Hadoop and extends it across a much wider set of underlying data storage environments, including mixed on-premise and cloud deployments. It expands our market of potential addressable customers, to whom the product is already being demonstrated.

WANdisco Fusion replicates between storage environments in a way that is non-invasive to the underlying technologies of our partners, so can be easily deployed with them without heavy integration efforts. WANdisco Fusion will also be able to connect with vendors outside of the ODP, such as Cloudera, without access to their underlying technology.

Jeff Kelly, Principal Analyst at Wikibon, comments:

"WANdisco's Hadoop offerings are crucial elements in speeding up Hadoop enterprise adoption, which is the Open Data Platform's overarching mission."

David Richards, WANdisco Chief Executive, adds:

"Our invitation into the Open Data Platform initiative with some of the largest players in the industry is clear recognition of the value our technology brings to mission-critical Big Data deployments, as well as our commitment to give customers choice and flexibility, instead of locking them into proprietary platforms."

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About WANdisco

WANdisco (LSE: WAND) is a provider of enterprise-ready, non-stop software solutions that enable globally distributed organizations to meet today's data challenges of secure storage, scalability and availability. WANdisco's products are differentiated by the company's patented, active-active data replication technology, serving crucial continuous availability requirements, including Hadoop Big Data and Application Lifecycle Management with Apache Subversion and Git. Fortune Global 1000 companies, including Juniper Networks, Motorola, and Halliburton, rely on WANdisco for performance, reliability, security and availability. For additional information, please visit http://tiny.cc/5reasons 

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