WANdsico celebrates deal breakthrough
BIG DATA firm WANdisco has launched a new joint engineered solution with IBM to support relational database technology for the first time, significantly expanding the group’s market.
David Richards, the chief executive and chairman of WANdisco, said: “This coengineered SQL solution with IBM is an exciting breakthrough for WANdisco as this is the first time that our technology has been applied to SQL data.“
He said the launch also represents a significant advancement of WANdisco’s relationship with a key partner and the scope of the market in IBM’s channel.
“WANdisco’s unique technology presents great opportunity to collaborate with partners to address novel data requirements that previously have not been possible to meet,” he added.
“Our close relationship with IBM was built upon further in 2018 with an increased royalty percentage and substantial client contracts.
“We look forward to growing opportunities with IBM in the year ahead, leveraging our new co-engineered product to address as yet untapped data requirements.”
Last week, Sheffield-based WANdisco won its first multicloud contract with one of the largest global mobile network operators in a deal worth £450,000.
The network operator will deploy WANdisco’s patented Big Data and Cloud product, WANdisco Fusion. The contract was won directly by WANdisco, whilst working with Amazon Web Services.
WANdisco said its client will deploy Fusion to enable continuous replication of data across multiple Amazon cloud environments and locations. This marks the first contract where a client will utilise Fusion for both multi-cloud and multi-tenancy use cases.