Distribution agreement with Carahsoft Technology

RNS Number : 9911B

WANdisco Plc

11 March 2014

 



11 March 2014

WANdisco plc

("WANdisco" or the "Company")

Carahsoft to Distribute WANdisco Continuous Availability to US Government Agencies

Reston, VA and San Ramon, CA - March 11, 2014 - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), the provider of continuous availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data and distributed software development, announces a distribution agreement through which WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop for Cloudera  will be marketed and sold directly by Carahsoft Technology Corp. to US federal agencies.

Carahsoft is the trusted Government IT solutions provider and top-ranked General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule Contract holder, serving as the master government aggregator for many of its best-of-breed vendors, supporting an extensive ecosystem of manufacturers, resellers and consulting partners.

Through Carahsoft, WANdisco will gain access to the important US government market. Carahsoft will provide proactive sales and marketing activities to generate demand for WANdisco's software products and services as part of its Big Data go-to-market initiatives for the federal government. WANdisco is the only vendor working with Carahsoft to provide US government customers with non-stop Hadoop solutions that deliver continuous availability for distributed deployments across multiple data centers regardless of distance.

Carahsoft signed a deal with Big Data company and WANdisco strategic technology partner Cloudera in 2012.

Craig Abod, Carahsoft CEO said:

"We believe this partnership will bring significant value to both companies and enable Federal Government Agencies to easily find and purchase WANdisco's products and services from approved schedules through a highly trusted supplier. Meeting service level agreements, and achieving security and compliance requirements are high priorities for government institutions. With WANdisco's  Non-Stop Hadoop Technology added to our offerings, our customers in the federal government will have easy access to technologies that will significantly improve the reliability of their critical Big Data systems."

David Richards, WANdisco Executive Chairman and CEO, said: 

"This partnership provides us with significant access to the US government market and enables us to leverage the progress Cloudera has already made through their relationship with Carahsoft. WANdisco's solutions will add significant value for Carahsoft's US government agency customers by helping them to meet system availability, compliance, and audit requirements."

WANdisco's patented replication technology is now available on Carahsoft's GSA Schedule.  

For further information please contact:

WANdisco plc	via FTI Consulting LLP
David Richards, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Paul Harrison, Chief Financial Officer
FTI Consulting  LLP	[phone]
Matt Dixon / Sophie McMillan / Jon Snowball / Roger Newby
Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited (Joint Broker and NOMAD)	[phone]
Fred Walsh / Grishma Patel / Ben Roberts (Investment Banking) Adam Pollock / Charles Leigh-Pemberton (Corporate Broking)
UBS Investment Bank  (Joint Broker)	[phone]
Tim Pratelli / Sandip Dhillon

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About Carahsoft

Carahsoft Technology Corp. is the trusted Government IT solutions provider. As a top-ranked GSA Schedule Contract holder, Carahsoft serves as the master government aggregator for many of its best-of-breed vendors, supporting an extensive ecosystem of manufacturers, resellers, and consulting partners committed to helping government agencies select and implement the best solution at the best possible value.

 The company's dedicated Solutions Divisions proactively market, sell and deliver VMware, Symantec, EMC, Adobe, F5 Networks, Open Source, HP, SAP, and Innovative and Intelligence products and services, among others. Carahsoft is consistently recognized by its partners as a top revenue producer, and is listed annually among the industry's fastest growing firms by CRN, Inc., Washington Technology, The Washington Post, Washington Business Journal, and SmartCEO. Visit us at http://www.carahsoft.com/opensource/. 

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, Intel and Halliburton, rely on WANdisco for performance, reliability, security and availability. For additional information, please visit www.wandisco.com. 

About Cloudera

Cloudera is revolutionizing enterprise data management by offering the first unified Platform for Big Data: The Enterprise Data Hub. Cloudera offers enterprises one place to store, process and analyze all their data, empowering them to extend the value of existing investments while enabling fundamental new ways to derive value from their data. Founded in 2008, Cloudera was the first and is still today the leading provider and supporter of Hadoop for the enterprise. Cloudera also offers software for business critical data challenges including storage, access, management, analysis, security and search. With over 15,000 individuals trained, Cloudera is a leading educator of data professionals, offering the industry's broadest array of Hadoop training and certification programs. Cloudera works with over 700 hardware, software and services partners to meet customers' big data goals. Leading organizations in every industry run Cloudera in production, including finance, telecommunications, retail, internet, utilities, oil and gas, healthcare, biopharmaceuticals, networking and media, plus top public sector organizations globally. www.cloudera.com

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