WANdisco has announced that it has accepted an invitation to join the Open Data Platform Initiative.
The ODP is an industry effort to promote and advance the state of Apache Hadoop and Big Data technologies for the enterprise.
WANdisco will join existing members IBM, EMC, Hortonworks, VMware, Verizon and Splunk along with several others.
David Richards, WANdisco co-founder and CEO, said: "I am delighted that WANdisco has been invited to participate in the ODP Initiative with some of the largest players in the industry."
"This is clear recognition of the value our patented technology brings to mission critical Hadoop big data deployments, as well as our commitment to software based on open standards that give customers a choice, instead of locking them in to a proprietary platform."
The purpose of the ODP is to accelerate the delivery of Big Data solutions through providing a core platform which enables users to avoid vendor lock-in.
WANdisco‘s decision to join the ODP means that the company’s replication technology will be available to global enterprises that run mission critical big data applications which are built on the ODP Core.
The company’s technology allows for continuous Hadoop availability across data centres as well as integration between Hadoop clusters that are running on a mix of storage systems which enables support for all forms of cloud deployment.
