Sheffield tech firm WANdisco celebrates significant milestone

The platform is being launched by Microsoft as the preferred solution for Hadoop data lake migrations to Azure.

Sheffield-based WANdisco says the launch is "of great significance" to the company and marks the culmination of years of co-development with Microsoft.

David Richards, CEO and chairman of WANdisco, said: "This is a defining moment in the Company's history. Alongside Microsoft, we have worked hard over the last 15 months to co-engineer a turnkey experience for Azure customers migrating business-critical Hadoop to Azure.

"We are confident that with the ongoing support from Microsoft, this will open up more opportunities to our addressable market by removing the complexity and risk of migration for all customers.

"Enterprises can now accelerate their digital transformation and take advantage of the insights from analytical services in Azure.

"We are confident in achieving our goals for 2021, including the signing of over 50 customers on Azure and migrating at least 100PB of data."

WANdisco's LiveData Platform for Azure enables Hadoop data lake migrations to be managed through the Azure portal. Data migration can be initiated in minutes with zero business downtime.

Following the delivery of the strategic milestone in line with the firm's expected timeline and go-to-market activity by Microsoft, the WANdisco board re-iterated its confidence in the guidance given to the market at the time of its interim results.

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