WANdisco Plc WANdisco launches OEM partnership with Virtustream (7107V)

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RNS Number : 7107V

WANdisco Plc

07 November 2017

7 November 2017

WANdisco plc

("WANdisco" or the "Company")

WANdisco launches OEM sales partnership with Virtustream

- WANdisco Fusion to be embedded as a key replication solution for hybrid cloud across Virtustream solutions worldwide

   -      Partnership significantly expands Fusion's addressable market 

WANdisco (LSE: WAND), the world leader in Active Data Replication(TM), has entered into a non-exclusive OEM ('Original Equipment Manufacturer') sales agreement with enterprise-class cloud service and software leader, Virtustream, a Dell Technologies business, to sell WANdisco's patented Fusion ("Fusion") product as an embedded replication solution for hybrid cloud. Virtustream will use WANdisco Fusion as an S3 object to S3 object active/active replication platform worldwide.

Fusion will be sold as a standard Virtustream product covering on-premises and cloud environments.

David Richards, Chief Executive Officer of WANdisco, commented:

"This new OEM agreement firmly embeds Fusion into Virtustream's offerings, which adds significant market reach and scale to our business as we benefit from Virtustream's global sales reach as a part of the Dell Technologies family of businesses. It also marks another significant milestone in our emergence as a critical part of the cloud and on-premises ecosystem and is another strong endorsement of WANdisco's unique technology from one of the world's leading technology players."

Rodney Rogers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Virtustream said:

"When considering core technology partners for our next generation hybrid cloud solutions, WANdisco was an obvious choice. This provides our customers with the ability to leverage best-in-class technology across both public and private cloud deployments to ensure that continuous and consistent data replication occurs seamlessly with no downtime."

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                                   9703 
 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 as partnerships with Amazon Web Services, Cisco, Dell EMC's Virtustream, 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 gives them the real insight they need.

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

About Virtustream

Virtustream, a Dell Technologies business, is the enterprise-class cloud service and software provider trusted by enterprises worldwide to migrate and run their mission-critical applications in the cloud. For enterprises, service providers and government agencies, Virtustream's xStream(R) management platform and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) meets the security, compliance, performance, efficiency and consumption-based billing requirements of complex production applications in the cloud - whether private, public or hybrid.

*Virtustream and xStream are the registered trademarks of Virtustream, Inc. in the United States or in other countries.

For additional information, please visit Virtustream.com

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