LONDON, March 7, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --
- WANdisco Fusion to be embedded as a standard component in
selected Alibaba Cloud
solutions
- Represents WANdisco's first OEM agreement in China significantly expanding addressable
market
WANdisco (LSE: WAND), the Live Data Company, announces it has
entered into a non-exclusive OEM ('Original Equipment
Manufacturer') sales agreement with Alibaba Cloud, the cloud
computing arm of Alibaba Group.
Under the sales agreement, WANdisco Fusion, a solution that
seamlessly replicates transactional data at petabyte scale without
downtime or disruption, will be sold as a standard component on
Alibaba Cloud, covering several key
aspects including Live Data migration to Alibaba Cloud, Alibaba
Cloud for disaster recovery and hybrid big data with
Alibaba Cloud. The partnership
represents a substantial increase in WANdisco's addressable market
and a significant extension of its channel strategy.
Mr. Hong Tang, Chief Architect of
Alibaba Cloud,
commented:
"We believe WANdisco's unique Live Data
platform can significantly help our customers
to leverage cloud for their data computing
demands, whether it is to migrate their
on premise data to our cloud, utilize cloud for
disaster recovery solutions or maintain a
hybrid-cloud solution, while ensuring their data is always
available, accurate and protected."
Mr. David
Richards, Chief Executive Officer and Interim
Chairman of WANdisco, commented:
"Partnering with Alibaba
Cloud marks another significant milestone in our
emergence as a critical part of cloud infrastructure. Our
channel strategy has enabled us to expand our addressable market
by; opening up new use cases for
WANdisco Fusion, moving into new sectors, and
now, growing our platform in
new geographies. This is our first
OEM agreement in the Chinese market and Alibaba
Cloud is the largest provider of public cloud services in
China, which adds
significant market reach and scale to our
business."
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
http://www.wandisco.com.
For further information, please contact:
FTI
Consulting
+44-(0)20-3727-1000
Matt Dixon / Harry Staight / Leah
Dudley / Kwaku Aning
wandisco@fticonsulting.com
SOURCE WANdisco