LONDON (ShareCast) - (ShareCast News) - 'Active data replication' specialist WANdisco announced on Tuesday that its patented technology, WANdisco Fusion, is now fully integrated with Microsoft Azure Data Box, enabling Microsoft customers to transfer information from 'Big Data' applications to Microsoft Azure without the downtime and cost usually involved in bulk data transfer over the network.
The AIM-traded firm said that, by deploying WANdisco Fusion, users could continue to write to their local data source while Azure Data Box is deployed and subsequently being uploaded, and replicate those changes to the Azure Cloud with "guaranteed consistency" once the upload is complete.

"The integration of WANdisco Fusion with Azure Data Box means Microsoft customers can take full advantage of the lower cost of storage and range of services available with Azure whilst still being able to replicate any changes on-premises - something no other solution can provide," said WANdisco chief executive and interim chairman David Richards.

Dean Paron, general manager for Azure Data Box at Microsoft, added: "By using WANdisco Fusion for Microsoft Azure Data Box, customers can burst their big data processing needs to the Azure while maintaining on-premises consistency."

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