dunnhumby Deploys WANdisco Fusion to Ensure Business Continuity and Real-Time Performance for Its Big Data Applications

SAN RAMON, CA--(Marketwired - December 09, 2015) - WANdisco (WAND.L), the leading provider of continuous-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of big data, announced today that dunnhumby, the world's leading customer science company, has moved into full production with WANdisco Fusion™ ensuring continuous availability and maximized performance of big data analytics systems.

dunnhumby provides analytic, consulting and media services to a host of retailers and consumer brands. The firm analyzes data from almost 1 billion retail customers worldwide to uncover valuable insights into customer intent and behavior: what customers want, where they want it and how much they are willing to pay for it.

After an extensive review of its IT infrastructure, and a thorough evaluation of the solutions available for enterprise-class Hadoop availability and performance, dunnhumby made the decision to implement WANdisco Fusion. dunnhumby initially invested in Hadoop to reduce the costs of its data warehouse, but is now migrating more applications across in order to attain a greater understanding of the data it analyzes. One new application now running on Hadoop is capable of providing a much richer analysis of future spending habits, enabling dunnhumby to offer more accurate and timely advice on the offers it recommends to its corporate customers.

In addition to WANdisco Fusion's continuous availability and performance, its flexible architecture eliminates vendor lock-in and supports staggered upgrades of Hadoop across locations without any interruption in operation. WANdisco Fusion can be implemented across different versions of the same platform, as well as mixed storage environments, including Oracle BDA, Cloudera, Hortonworks (HDP) and MapR.

"This represents an important development for dunnhumby and will help us address several major challenges that have developed in the business as it scaled," said Andy Williams, dunnhumby Global Head of Infrastructure. "In an industry like ours, the role of IT in helping to drive the growth of the company is absolutely key, and this growth has in turn had a significant impact on our customer science architecture. Over the last decade we have witnessed significant growth in our IT architecture. Ensuring that this architecture is operating at maximum performance and is continuously available is critical to the success of our organization."

Continued Williams, "I've not seen anything quite like WANdisco Fusion. You expect challenges with any new technology, but WANdisco offers us total peace of mind that the business will be able to keep servicing our clients at the same standard as we scale."

"Data analytics is transforming the world's most successful businesses, but the transition from potential to impact is based on enterprise-enabled products being able to combine efficiency and quality," said David Richards, CEO and Co-founder of WANdisco. "Customers see our technology as critical for enterprise big data deployments and as a necessary requirement in mixed storage environments. dunnhumby found that WANdisco Fusion was the only solution capable of meeting their requirements for continuous access with real-time performance across any number of servers and locations."

Availability

The WANdisco Fusion Platform is available now. Visit wandisco.com to learn more and download a free 14-day evaluation.

Webinar

On Wednesday, Dec. 9 at 10 a.m. PT, WANdisco and Hortonworks will host a free webinar entitled, "Meeting and Exceeding Enterprise Application SLAs with Hadoop." Registration is free at http://go.wandisco.com/Hadoop_SLAs_Webinar_Registration.html

About WANdisco

WANdisco (WAND.L) 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 and Halliburton, rely on WANdisco for performance, reliability, security and availability.

For additional information, please visit www.wandisco.com

About dunnhumby:

dunnhumby is the world's leading customer science company. The company analyzes data and applies insights from nearly one billion shoppers across the globe to create personalized customer experiences in digital, mobile and retail environments. Our strategic process, proprietary insights, and multichannel media capabilities build loyalty with customers to drive competitive advantage and sustained growth for clients. dunnhumby employs over 2,000 experts in offices throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas and works with a prestigious group of companies including Tesco, Monoprix, Raley's, Macy's, Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble and PepsiCo. For more information, visit www.dunnhumby.com