WANdisco Blog

The COVID-19 pandemic has made working from home the norm. This new work structure has proven to be productive. Given this, WANdisco has moved to a 4-day work week to attract and retain talent and enhance employee well-being.

Today, we announced that WANdisco’s LiveData Platform for Azure is generally available. The first native Azure service provided is LiveData Migrator for Azure

it’s worth taking a minute to better understand what Databrick’s tech really represents. In this post, we’ll take a look at data lakes, data warehouses, and how Databricks’ data lakehouse paradigm proposes to offer the next step in the evolution of cloud data analytics.

Peter Scott, WANdisco’s SVP for Business Development, is no stranger to hard work and commitment: before making the leap to the technology world, he put in six years with the British Army, serving as part of the Royal Engineers to provide military engineering and other technical support to the British Armed Forces. Peter joined WANdisco in 2008, coming...

2020 was one of the most surprising and challenging years in generations. With the pandemic, protests and social upheaval that it brought on, our models for working and technology have shifted fundamentally. The year rewrote the map entirely from where we thought we were heading in 2019.

And that’s why WANdisco this month has quite a bit to celebrate — we’ve just become a whole lot stronger. With an emphasis on both scale and strategy, WANdisco is shifting to a partner-first model, a move that will propel global expansion through the quality of our product and the deep power of our new, influential partners.

Organizations are moving more IT resources to hybrid and multi-cloud environments - accelerating automation and digital transformation. In terms of flexibility and speed, there’s simply no competing with the elasticity of the cloud – which is exactly why McAfee found that 97% of organizations already use public or private cloud services, and IDG found t...

Migrating Big Data Moving small amounts of data is simple, but moving large amounts is extremely complex. This nonlinear challenge has held back cloud adoption for big data environments that have grown on-premises. This is the well-known “data gravity” challenge, where it makes more sense to add datasets to where they already reside, because it is easie...

LiveData Migrator is the first of several WANdisco LiveData Platform for Microsoft Azure service to be made available in public preview, giving Hadoop users a 100% Azure-native experience to deploy, configure and manage WANdisco’s world-class solution for migrating actively used Hadoop data from HDFS to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2. By integrating with...

Cloud Adoption and Data Architecture Modernization Cloud adoption has seen significant increases over the past decade. Much of that growth has been with the adoption of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. For example, in 2008 only 12% of businesses used cloud-based CRM and today that number is 87%.1 While SaaS applications still account for the m...