WANdisco partnership with Hortonworks

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WANdisco Plc

26 September 2013

 



26 September 2013

WANdisco plc

("WANdisco" or the "Company")

Partnership with Hortonworks

- Hortonworks and WANdisco Partner to Make Hadoop Continuously Available -

Sheffield, UK - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a provider of continuous-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data and distributed software development and Hortonworks, the leading contributor to and provider of enterprise Apache™ Hadoop® announce that the Hortonworks Data Platform ("HDP") will support WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop technology. With this announcement, Hortonworks and WANdisco are addressing critical enterprise requirements around multi-datacentre data availability so customers can better leverage Apache Hadoop globally across data centres.

The two companies will jointly go to market to provide integrated, high performance Big Data solutions built on HDP with full integration of WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop software. Together, WANdisco and Hortonworks will deliver 100 per cent uptime for global enterprises using HDP across multiple data centres.

HDP is the only 100 per cent open source Hadoop distribution with all code contributed to the Apache Software Foundation ("ASF"), and is the only distribution that runs natively on Windows and Linux that enables organizations to capture, process and share data in any format and at scale. With WANdisco's support, HDP is quickly becoming the preferred distribution for the ecosystem to deliver enterprise Hadoop to their customers.

Hortonworks recently entered a reseller agreement with SAP, whereby SAP will resell HDP integrated with the SAP HANA platform.   Other Hortonworks customers include eBay, Spotify, Xing and CDW.

Irfan Khan, senior vice president and general manager, SAP Big Data, SAP said:

"Global organizations require big data solutions that can meet stringent data and availability needs across wide geographies. We believe the integration of WANdisco's active-active replication technology with the Hortonworks enterprise Apache Hadoop distribution makes sense for SAP customers looking to leverage big data."

David Richards, Chairman and CEO of WANdisco said:

"Enterprises are increasingly adopting Apache Hadoop as a core element of their IT infrastructure.  Working with Hortonworks is a natural fit given their leadership in the Apache Hadoop community and opens up a new and exciting route to market for us.  A major enterprise requirement is continuous data availability and WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop Technology is the only technology available that addresses it. The combination of WANdisco, Hortonworks and SAP together will provide a reference architecture for Hadoop in the Enterprise."

Rob Bearden, CEO of Hortonworks said:

"With WANdisco, we share a vision to deliver an enterprise viable data platform for our mutual customers. HDP together with WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop technology provides enterprises with a truly integrated Big Data solution that guarantees data access and global disaster recovery."

For further information please contact:

WANdisco plc:
David Richards, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer	via FTI Consulting
Paul Harrison, Chief Financial Officer
FTI Consulting:	[phone]
Matt Dixon / Sophie McMillan / Jon Snowball / Roger Newby
Panmure Gordon & Co.	[phone]
Fred Walsh / Grishma Patel / Ben Roberts (Investment Banking)
Adam Pollock / Charles Leigh-Pemberton (Corporate Broking)

About WANdisco plc

WANdisco (LSE: WAND) is a provider of enterprise-ready, continuous-availabilitysoftware 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.

About Hortonworks

Hortonworks is the only 100-percent open source software provider to develop, distribute and support an Apache Hadoop platform explicitly architected, built and tested for enterprise-grade deployments. Developed by the original architects, builders and operators of Hadoop, Hortonworks stewards the core and delivers the critical services required by the enterprise to reliably and effectively run Hadoop at scale. Our distribution, Hortonworks Data Platform, provides an open and stable foundation for enterprises and delivers a modern data architecture with the support of key technology partners. Hortonworks also provides unmatched technical support, training and certification programs. For more information, visit www.hortonworks.com.

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