Sanlam Group to use LiveData Migrator and LiveData
Plane to optimize its disaster recovery
infrastructure
SAN RAMON, Calif., Aug. 31, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- WANdisco (WAND.L),
the LiveData company, announced today that it has won a contract
with South African financial services group, Sanlam, to migrate
hundreds of terabytes of business-critical unstructured data to a
new environment, which will serve as its disaster recovery
infrastructure. As one of South
Africa's largest financial services businesses with a
presence in 44 countries globally, including 33 African countries,
Sanlam selected WANdisco to migrate their Hadoop data from Cloudera
CDP on-premises to another on-premises CDP cluster, which will
continue to replicate any ongoing changes from the primary CDP
environment. The long-term goal is to also replicate this data to
cloud data lake solutions to enable additional analytical
use-cases.
WANdisco LiveData Migrator will be used for the initial
migration as well as for the ongoing replication of changes from
source to target. The new infrastructure will be used to scale out
and handle additional capacity and changes within either
environment while automatically replicating data to ensure 100%
data consistency and integrity between the two environments.
"We were impressed with WANdisco's unique capabilities for
real-time replication without disrupting our production
environments," said Sanlam Big Data Platform Owner Jacques
Joubert. "It was critical to us that data in our disaster recovery
cluster is kept in sync with our primary cluster as closely as
possible to enable a near zero Recovery Point Objective and
Recovery Time Objective. WANdisco and its partners provided Sanlam
with great support during the product evaluation. They addressed
our questions and concerns in an efficient and professional manner,
and delivered results within the timeline they promised. We look
forward to building a productive and ongoing relationship with
WANdisco."
WANdisco worked on this agreement in tight collaboration with
its local South African partners Blue Turtle, a leading
systems integrator. Headquartered in South Africa, Sanlam is listed on the
Johannesburg Stock Exchange, the Namibian Stock Exchange and the
A2X Stock Exchange. Founded in 1918, Sanlam is classified as a
domestic systemically important financial institution in
South Africa, empowering
generations to be financially secure, confident and prosperous in
all the markets where they are present.
"LiveData Migrator and LiveData Plane combine to deliver a
risk-free disaster recovery solution," said WANdisco Founder and
CEO, David Richards. "LiveData
Migrator makes it easy to move business critical data at any scale
while LiveData Plane ensures fully consistent replication across
all environments. Customers from a wide variety of industries and
regions are discovering and utilizing WANdisco's technology to help
them remain competitive by ensuring their data is secure, and
accessible from anywhere and at any time."
About WANdisco
WANdisco is the LiveData company.
WANdisco solutions enable enterprises to create an environment
where data is always available, accurate, and protected, creating a
strong backbone for their IT infrastructure and a bedrock for
running consistent, accurate machine learning applications. With
zero downtime and zero data loss, WANdisco LiveData Cloud Services
keep geographically dispersed data at any scale consistent between
on-premises and cloud environments allowing businesses to operate
seamlessly in a hybrid or multi-cloud environment. WANdisco has
over a hundred customers and significant go-to-market partnerships
with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Oracle,
and others as well as OEM relationships with IBM and Alibaba. For
more information on WANdisco, visit www.wandisco.com.
For more information, contact:
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LaunchSquad
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