WANdisco Plc WANdisco announces Co-Sell status with Microsoft (3188H)

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WANdisco Plc

12 March 2018

12 March 2018

WANdisco gains Co-Sell status through Microsoft One Commercial Partner Program

WANdisco's Live Data Platform Enables Microsoft Azure Customers to Seamlessly Move Data Between On-Premise & Cloud

WANdisco plc (LSE: WAND) the Live Data company, is pleased to announce that it has achieved Co-Sell status through the Microsoft One Commercial Partner Program. The new status was achieved after meeting rigorous criteria to become Co-Sell Ready including integration of WANdisco Fusion(R) with Microsoft Azure Databox and Azure HD Insights.

As a result, WANdisco can now take the WANdisco Fusion(R) Live Data Platform to market as a packaged offering with Microsoft Azure. WANdisco's dedicated partner managers will work directly with the Microsoft Field Sales Team on Hybrid Cloud customer opportunities and related account planning activities.

WANdisco Fusion(R) provides continuous replication of selected data at scale between multiple Big Data and cloud environments. With guaranteed data consistency and continuous availability, Microsoft Azure customers will now have easy access to the cost-saving benefits of WANdisco Fusion's(R) hybrid architecture for on-demand data analytics and offsite disaster recovery.

David Richards, CEO and Co-Founder of WANdisco said:

"This is another exciting development in our relationship with Microsoft and significantly expands our sales channel opportunities. Our new Co-Sell status is another validation of our go-to-market strategy and helps to ensure the most effective route to market for our technology."

"We are seeing significant demand from customers who want to expand their on premise data lake into Microsoft Azure," said John 'JG' Chirapurath, General Manager of Data Platform Marketing, Microsoft Corporation. "WANdisco Fusion(R) enables continuous data replication for Microsoft Azure and HDInsight customers who also want to maintain on premise consistency at scale."

For further information please contact:

 
 WANdisco plc                             Via FTI Consulting 
 David Richards, Chief Executive 
  Officer and Chairman 
 Erik Miller, Chief Financial Officer 
 
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 FTI Consulting                            3727 1000 
 Matt Dixon / Harry Staight / Leah 
  Dudley / Kwaku Aning 
 
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 Stifel (Joint Broker and Nomad)           710 7600 
 Fred Walsh / Neil Shah / Ben Maddison 
  / Rajpal Padam 
 
 Peel Hunt (Joint Broker)                 +44 (0)207 
  Edward Knight / Nick Prowting            418 8900 
 WH Ireland Limited (Joint Broker)        +44 (0)207 
  Adam Pollock / Tim Feather               220 1666 
 
 

About WANdisco

WANdisco is shaping the future of data infrastructure with its groundbreaking Live Data platform, enabling companies to put all their data to work for the business - all the time, at any scale.

WANdisco makes data always available, always accurate, and always protected, delivering hyperscale economics to support exponential data growth with the same IT budget. With significant OEM relationships with IBM and Dell EMC and go-to-market partnerships with Amazon Web Services, Cisco, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Oracle and other industry titans - as well as hundreds of customers among the Global 2000 - WANdisco is igniting a Live Data movement worldwide.

For additional information, please visit www.wandisco.com.

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