WANdisco announced that it has become a member of the Fusion-io Technology Alliance Program (TAP). The program focuses on working with members across markets to provide solutions, access to resources, and expertise to enhance the value of technology offerings.

"The Fusion-io Technology Alliance Program enables us to work with innovative companies to provide powerful solutions that maximize ROI for customers by integrating Fusion-io reliability and performance to the unique value added by our TAP members," said Tyler Smith, Fusion-io vice president of alliances.

By applying WANdisco's active-active replication technology to Hadoop, enterprises can put business continuity strategies in place by having globally distributed data synchronized in real-time. WANdisco claims 100 percent uptime with performance and scalability by providing multiple active NameNodes in a single cluster, and it works over both Wide Area Networks (WANs) as well as over Local Area Networks (LANs). This allows administrators to take servers offline for maintenance without interrupting user access.

"The complexity of big data makes it compelling to aggregate the expertise of leaders in innovation, underscoring the value of partnership programs like the Fusion-io Technology Alliance Program in developing ideal solutions for enterprise customers," said Mark Schreiber, vice president of business development for WANdisco. "WANdisco addresses the crucial non-stop availability and performance issues related to Hadoop to ensure enterprises can quickly begin to benefit from their big data."