WANdisco secures first multi-cloud contract
WANdisco, the listed Sheffield-headquartered big data specialist, has secured its first multi-cloud contract with one of the largest mobile network operators in the world in a deal worth $565,000.
The contract was won directly by WANdisco, whilst working with Amazon Web Services. The client will deploy WANdisco’s Fusion product to enable continuous replication of data across multiple Amazon cloud environments and locations. WANdisco said the deal marked the first contract where a client would utilise Fusion for both multi-cloud and multi-tenancy use cases.
The initial three-year subscription contract is valued at $565,000 with opportunities for expansion during the term. The contract was closed and will be recognised in FY 2018.
WANdisco Fusion for Multi-Cloud allows for consistent global data across an organisation allowing customers to replicate data across a multi-cloud architecture with guaranteed data accuracy. The technology allows for the optimisation of a multi-vendor cloud strategy ensuring data is concurrently available in different cloud applications, preventing vendor lock-in while cutting total cost of ownership through reducing switching costs across different cloud vendors.
David Richards, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of WANdisco, said: “It is becoming increasingly unlikely that businesses of this scale will chose to depend on a single cloud vendor for their data requirements. We are seeing businesses with complex data requirements choose multiple suppliers for a range of specialised data use cases. This requires data to be replicated across a multi-cloud architecture with guaranteed data accuracy. The only technology that can enable such live data at scale is WANdisco Fusion.
“We built strong momentum during the second half of FY18, leveraging the full power of our sales model and winning contracts which are increasingly recurring in nature, both directly through our salesforce and through our partnerships with IBM, Microsoft and Amazon.”
