The Aim-listed cloud computing outfit, which splits its operations between Sheffield and Silicon Valley, reached a deal with the Chinese internet giant that will see its technology bundled with Alibaba’s cloud services.Alibaba is best-known for its Chinese internet retail empire, but also is rapidly emerging as a challenger to Amazon, Microsoft and Google in cloud computing - services that let start-ups and other businesses rent out online storage and computing capacity.

WANdisco, the Sheffield and California big data specialist, has secured a sales agreement with Bytes Technology Group UK, a major provider of software licensing and cloud services and a subsidiary of the $2.75bn Altron Group.The deal will see WANdisco co-sell and re-sell its Live Data platform WANdisco Fusion.Bytes’ customers include brands such as Marks & Spencer, BBC, NHS, Clifford Chance, United Utilities and thousands more across the retail, media, finance, manufacturing, legal and the public sectors.David Richards, CEO and co-founder of WANdisco, said: “We are very excited about ou

Dr Thurimella joins the company with extensive experience in algorithm design and information security.Prior to joining WANdisco he was Director of Cybersecurity and the Chair of Computer Science at the University Denver where he conducted sponsored research for the National Science Foundation in algorithms and cybersecurity.He will be working with Chief Scientist, Inventor and Co-Founder, Dr Yeturu Aahlad Ph.D, in Fusion Kernel, WANdisco’s technology incubator, which looks at new use cases for the Company’s patented Distributed Coordination Engine™ (DConE) and their transformation into suc

WANdisco (LSE: WAND), the live data company, announced today that Envestnet | Yodlee, a leading data aggregation and data analytics platform powering dynamic, cloud-based innovation for digital financial services, used live data platform, WANdisco Fusion, to perform a live upgrade of major releases from Cloudera: CDH 4.4 to CDH 5.7.  Envestnet | Yodlee evaluated several leading market solutions for an external upgrade service and found WANdisco Fusion was the only solution that would enable an upgrade with no downtime, no business disruption and guaranteed data consistency.

The company will announce on Wednesday morning that it has won a $4.3m (£3.2m) contract with “one of the world’s leading financial institutions”.It did not name its customer but it is the second major financial services company that WANdisco signed up in 2017, a year in which it recovered from a boardroom bust-up and began to break even.WANdisco, which splits its operations between Sheffield and Silicon Valley has endured a tumultuous six years as a public company, with its shares soaring before repeated losses led to a stock market rout.Its founder and chief executive David Richards was br

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San Ramon, California - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), the world leader in Active Data Replication™, is pleased to announce the release of WANdisco Fusion®...