WANdisco Plc Microsoft Azure HDInsight agreement

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WANdisco Plc

26 September 2017

26 September 2017

WANdisco plc

("WANdisco," or the "Company")

Microsoft Azure HDInsight agreement

WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a world leader in Active Data Replication(TM), today announces its patented technology, WANdisco Fusion(R) ("Fusion"), is fully integrated with Microsoft Azure HDInsight.

Microsoft Azure customers can now add WANdisco Fusion(R) via the Azure Marketplace to provide continuous replication of selected data at scale between multiple Big Data and Cloud environments.

With guaranteed data consistency and continuous availability, customers will now have easy access to the cost-saving benefits of Fusion's hybrid architecture for on-demand data analytics and offsite disaster recovery.

David Richards, Chief Executive Officer and Interim Chairman of WANdisco, commented:

"We are delighted that Microsoft customers will now be able get the most value from their data without wasting budget on idle backup servers, whilst also meeting strict service level agreements across Big Data and Cloud deployments.

"We continue to see significant demand from enterprises wishing to move large volumes of data across both on-premises and cloud environments with guaranteed consistency and no downtime or disruption to operations, and we believe WANdisco Fusion is central to this becoming a reality."

Bharat Sandhu, Director, Product Marketing, Microsoft AI at Microsoft Corp., added:

"The integration of WANdisco Fusion with Microsoft Azure HDInsight enables organisations to meet stringent data availability and compliance requirements. At the same time, customers are able to seamlessly move production data at petabyte scale from on-premises big data deployments to Microsoft Azure."

For further information, please contact:

 
 WANdisco plc                       via Vigo Communications 
 David Richards, Chief Executive 
  Officer and Interim Chairman 
 Erik Miller, Chief Financial 
  Officer 
 
                                    [phone] 
 Vigo Communications                 9700 
 Jeremy Garcia / Fiona Henson 
  / Antonia Pollock 
  www.vigocomms.com 
 
                                    [phone] 
 Stifel (Joint Broker and Nomad)     7600 
  Fred Walsh / Neil Shah / Ben 
   Maddison / Rajpal Padam 
 
 Peel Hunt (Joint Broker)           [phone] 
  Edward Knight / Nick Prowting      8900 
 

About WANdisco

WANdisco is the world leader in Active Data Replication(TM). Its patented WANdisco Fusion technology enables the replication of continuously changing data to the cloud and on-premises data centers with guaranteed consistency, no downtime and no business disruption. It also allows distributed development teams to collaborate as if they are all working in one location. WANdisco has an OEM with IBM as well partnerships with Amazon Web Services, Cisco, Google Cloud, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle to resell its patented technology. WANdisco also works directly with Fortune 1000 companies around the world to ensure their data can give them the real insight they need.

For additional information, please visit wandisco.com.

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