7 Nov 2017 07:00
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™, 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 | |
Vigo Communications | +44 (0)207 830 9703 |
Jeremy Garcia / Fiona Henson / Antonia Pollock | |
www.vigocomms.com | |
Stifel (Joint Broker and Nomad) | +44 (0)207 710 7600 |
Fred Walsh / Neil Shah / Ben Maddison / Rajpal Padam | |
Peel Hunt (Joint Broker) | |
Edward Knight / Nick Prowting | +44 (0)207 418 8900 |
About WANdisco
WANdisco is the world leader in Active Data Replication™. 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® 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