Live data company launches new platform with Microsoft

Live data business WANDisco in launching a LiveData Platform for Azure with Microsoft, which it is believed could accelerate digital transformation

This marks the culmination of years of co-development by the Sheffield-based business with Microsoft and the beginning of the next stage in the product’s maturity as an Azure native solution.

WANdisco’s LiveData Platform for Azure enables data migrations to be managed through the Azure portal, initiated in minutes and with zero business downtime, compared to other cost or time prohibitive alternatives.

WANdisco CEO and chairman David Richards, 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.”

Thew new platform has already been well received with Dawit Alemu, technical architecture lead analytics CoE, Johnson Controls, who has trialled the system stating: “We were intrigued by Analytics services on Azure and wanted to use them to make data-driven decisions more effectively but migrating Hadoop data lakes is a problem we have had for some time. We were very happy to try the new WANdisco LiveData Platform for Azure and were able to quickly migrate our data without issues. We were also impressed that we could manage our migration entirely through the Azure portal.”