WAND.L Regulatory News (WAND)

11 February 2015

WANdisco plc

New Big Data customer win

Global bank selects WANdisco Big Data solution

One of the world's leading banks has selected WANdisco's (LSE: WAND) Big Data solution.

Following rigorous trials, the bank has included WANdisco in its 'reference architecture' for Big Data that will be rolled out as a standard across the bank. From an initial one-year subscription, valued at $150,000, the bank intends to scale up its usage significantly over time. With the bank's data infrastructure covering tens of thousands of data nodes, the potential for its subscription to expand in value is considerable, making it, at full utilisation, WANdisco's largest Big Data customer to date. 

The bank has been using Hadoop to capture and store the unprecedented amount of both structured and unstructured data that it is generating. In a production trial on the Hortonworks partner platform, WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop eliminated data outages that had previously occurred in Hadoop, improved data processing speeds and saved costs, all at levels that were otherwise not achievable.

The bank will initially deploy not only Non-Stop Hadoop's core feature, 'continuous availability', but also 'selective replication' to comply with regulatory requirements. Transactional risk management, trade finance and regulatory reporting are just some of the departments planning to deploy this technology.

David Richards, WANdisco Chief Executive Officer, comments: 

"This new customer has Hadoop data operations across the whole bank, which WANdisco will support in live production. The bank intends to scale up its Non-Stop Hadoop solution very significantly. With this latest new customer, we have signed three of the world's top ten banks in the last three months."

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About WANdisco

(LSE: WAND) is a provider of enterprise-ready, non-stop software solutions that enable globally distributed organizations to meet today's data challenges of secure storage, scalability and continuous availability. WANdisco's products are differentiated by the company's patented, active-active data replication technology, serving crucial continuous availability requirements, including Hadoop Big Data and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), including Apache Subversion and Git. Fortune Global 1000 companies, including Juniper Networks, Motorola, Intel and Halliburton, rely on WANdisco for performance, reliability, security and availability. For additional information, please visit www.wandisco.com.

Disclaimer

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