WANdisco Launches OEM Sales Partnership with Alibaba Cloud

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LONDON, March 7, 2018 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

    - 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."

    For further information, please contact:

    FTI Consulting                                  +44-(0)20-3727-1000

Matt Dixon/Harry Staight/Leah Dudley/Kwaku Aning    wandisco@fticonsulting.com

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.

SOURCE: WANdisco