British Gas Major Big Data Project

RNS Number : 7396C

WANdisco Plc

20 March 2014

 



20 March 2014

WANdisco plc

("WANdisco" or the "Company")

British Gas Selects WANdisco for Major Big Data Project

British Gas to deploy WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop for Continuous Availability of Next Generation Data Centres

Wide range of Smart Meter and Business Process Data to be Aggregated in Continuously Available Database  

London, UK - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), the  provider of continuous availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data, is pleased to announce that British Gas will deploy WANdisco's unique Non-Stop Hadoop for Hortonworks. This solution will enable British Gas to take advantage of Big Data with continuous availability, reduce data storage costs and enable mission critical applications to be implemented without downtime or data loss. 

British Gas is looking to replace its legacy enterprise database technology due to its high cost, lack of functionality and inability to handle the large volumes and variety of data required for new Big Data applications. As a part of this, British Gas has chosen WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop technology for Hortonworks to store and manage its business critical data. This will ensure that crucial data, such as customer and operational information, is available 100% of the time, therefore meeting British Gas's strict business continuity and regulatory requirements.

British Gas will undertake a production deployment covering a 100 node Hadoop cluster in a live environment. The potential exists, dependent on the success of this initial test implementation, to significantly scale the deployment over time.

David Cooper, CIO, British Gas, said:

"We are implementing WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop technology that we believe will enable us to roll out Hadoop for critical applications in our data centers. Our residential and business customers will benefit from new applications such as smart meters that make it possible for them to take greater control of their energy use."

David Richards, WANdisco Executive Chairman and CEO, said:

 
"Like so many organizations, British Gas is implementing Big Data to reap the huge benefits of storing and querying massive amounts of data that previously could not be achieved. In the process, British Gas will rid itself of the high cost and limited functionality of traditional enterprise database technology with a new strategy based on Hadoop. Both internal users and external customers will benefit from the new applications British Gas will now be able to deploy. Like all large organizations, continuous availability is a hard requirement for British Gas, but efficiency and limiting waste is also important. WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop technology has a critical part to play in enabling enterprises to implement Big Data for strategic applications like this."

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For further information please contact:

WANdisco plc	via FTI Consulting LLP
David Richards, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Paul Harrison, Chief Financial Officer
FTI Consulting  LLP	[phone]
Matt Dixon / Sophie McMillan / Jon Snowball / Roger Newby
Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited (Joint Broker and NOMAD)	[phone]
Fred Walsh / Grishma Patel / Ben Roberts (Investment Banking) Adam Pollock / Charles Leigh-Pemberton (Corporate Broking)
UBS Investment Bank  (Joint Broker)	[phone]
Tim Pratelli / Sandip Dhillon

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About WANdisco

WANdisco (LSE: WAND) is a provider of enterprise-ready, non-stop software solutions that enable globally distributed organizations to meet today's data challenges of secure storage, scalability and availability. WANdisco's products are differentiated by the company's patented, active-active data replication technology, serving crucial high availability (HA) requirements, including Hadoop Big Data and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), including Apache Subversion and Git. Fortune Global 1000 companies, including Juniper Networks, Motorola, Intel and Halliburton, rely on WANdisco for performance, reliability, security and availability. For additional information, please visit www.wandisco.com.

About British Gas

British Gas is the UK's leading energy supplier, and serves around 12 million homes in Britain - nearly half the country's homes - as well as providing energy to one million UK businesses.  British Gas provides value for money, dedicated customer service, innovative energy solutions and the highest quality Home Services expertise in the country.  Find out more at www.britishgas.co.uk. 

 

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