WANdisco Fusion Certified for IBM Big Data Platform

SAN RAMON, CA--(Marketwired - August 06, 2015) - WANdisco (LSE: WAND) a leading provider of continuous-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data, today announced IBM (NYSE: IBM) certification of WANdisco Fusion on IBM BigInsights® version 4.0 for Apache™ Hadoop®, IBM's enterprise solution for managing and analyzing big data. WANdisco Fusion's patented active-active replication delivers always-on availability, performance and scalability across IBM Open Platform clusters running IBM BigInsights, across any distance. Both WANdisco and IBM are members of the Open Data Platform (ODP) and offer interoperability with big data solutions aligned with the goal of the ODP Core.

"The combination of IBM BigInsights, the IBM Open Platform and WANdisco Fusion present an enterprise solution that enables organizations to meet stringent data availability and compliance requirements for global deployments that drive analytics with Hadoop," said Phil Francisco, VP Data Infrastructure Offerings, IBM Analytics. "Our combined solution lets you build an effective, fast, and secure Hadoop deployment quickly for businesses to see business value from big data. These resilient systems also support the ODP goals of accelerating of Hadoop adoption across the enterprise."

"We are pleased to announce WANdisco Fusion's certification for the latest version of IBM BigInsights," said David Richards, WANdisco Co-Founder and CEO. "Hadoop is now a critical component of every major organization's data infrastructure and both IBM and WANdisco are committed to the ODP's mission of creating a common core for Hadoop that takes the guesswork out of deploying enterprise-class big data applications that perform and scale."

Availability

WANdisco Fusion is available now. Visit wandisco.com to learn more and download a free evaluation.

About IBM Big Data & Analytics

Each day we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data generated by a variety of sources -- from climate information, to posts on social media sites, and from purchase transaction records to healthcare medical images. At IBM we believe that data is emerging as the world's newest resource for competitive advantage, and analytics is the key to make sense of it. IBM is helping clients harness Big Data & Analytics to provide insights needed to make better decisions, create value, and deliver that value to customers and society. IBM has the world's deepest and broadest portfolio of Big Data & Analytics technologies and solutions, spanning services, software, research and hardware.

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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 high availability (HA) requirements, including Hadoop Big Data and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), including 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 www.wandisco.com.