WANdisco and Dataguise Form Strategic Alliance

SAN RAMON, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 20, 2013) - WANdisco (LSE: WAND) and Dataguise have partnered to deliver a certified solution to protect data privacy and deliver risk assessment intelligence for enterprises using WANdisco Distro (WDD). With this announcement, DG for Hadoop™ is certified for WDD customers.

WDD is the first 100% open source, commercially supported, fully tested, production-ready version of Apache Hadoop 2. WDD is based on the most recent stable release, including the latest fixes. All fixes and enhancements are submitted to the Apache Hadoop community by WANdisco's Hadoop committers, senior developers on staff who have been involved in the Hadoop open source project since its inception and have the authority to make changes to the code base, ensuring rapid delivery of fixes and enhancements.

DG for Hadoop is a comprehensive, flexible and modular solution that delivers enterprise-class protection to sensitive data aggregated in Hadoop installations. Offering actionable intelligence to decision makers about their compliance risk and mitigation policies, DG for Hadoop adapts easily to different deployments and data utilization needs.

"Our customers demand continuous availability to critical data our technology protects. WANdisco brings 100% up-time and availability with their unique, patented technology," said Manmeet Singh, CEO, Dataguise. "Together, WANdisco and Dataguise can meet the requirements our customers demand in their mission critical Hadoop environments."

"Data security is a critical requirement in today's enterprise environment. Big data brings new challenges to security and Dataguise meets those requirements and accelerates the adoption of Hadoop in these environments," said David Richards, CEO of WANdisco. "Our mutual customers can look forward to meeting data protection challenges as well as overcoming global availability challenges with this partnership."

Both companies will be at Hadoop Summit in San Jose, California next week.

About Dataguise
Dataguise helps organizations safely leverage their enterprise data with a comprehensive risk-based data protection solution. By automatically locating sensitive data, transparently protecting it with high performance masking, encryption or quarantine, and providing enterprise compliance intelligence to managers, Dataguise improves data risk management and operational efficiencies while reducing regulatory compliance costs. For more information, call 510-824-1036 or visit www.dataguise.com.

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 high availability (HA) requirements, including Hadoop Big Data and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Fortune Global 1000 companies, including AT&T, Motorola, Intel and Halliburton, rely on WANdisco for performance, reliability, security and availability. For additional information, please visit www.wandisco.com.

Hadoop is a registered trademark of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their registered owners.