WANdisco celebrates as China group signs up for its software

The Chinese firm, Miaozhen Systems, said Sheffield-based WANdisco’s software will ensure continuous data availability.

Miaozhen will use WANdisco’s patented technology in its customers’ data centres to provide 100 per-cent uptime.

Uptime is a computer industry term for the time during which a computer is operational. Downtime is when it isn’t operational due to faults with the system.

Miaozhen is the leading third-party advertising technology company in China. The company processes more than two TeraBytes of data each day, with a data processing capability of 100 billion advert requests every day.

WANdisco said its system delivers 100 per-cent uptime, providing the first and only continuous availability solution.

Zhu Wei, CEO of Miaozhen Systems, said: “Downtime is unacceptable for us. We thoroughly investigated the market and WANdisco is the only option for Hadoop continuous availability.”

David Richards, chairman and CEO of WANdisco said: “For companies like Miaozhen, downtime is extremely risky and very expensive. Our unique technology is perfectly suited to support their continuous data availability needs.”

Analyst George O’Connor, at Panmure, said: “This is a great win ahead of forthcoming interim results on September 26 – with a high volume Hadoop business which admits that ‘downtime is unacceptable for us’. Interims afford WANdisco the opportunity to show off what should be a watershed set of results.”