WANdisco and Microsoft Announce General Availability of LiveData Platform for Azure
Microsoft´s preferred and native solution for Hadoop-to-Azure migrations without business disruption
Move to Azure with ease
WANdisco's partnership with Microsoft helps you migrate data to the Azure cloud quickly and easily so you can exploit the power and capabilities of the Azure environment and services.
WANdisco LiveData Migrator for Azure and LiveData Plane for Azure offer migration and real-time replication of your Hadoop data and Hive metadata between geographically dispersed sources and targets, even while the data is under active change.

Microsoft
- Gold Partner
- Co-Sell Prioritized Solutions
- Deep integration into Azure control plane
“There’s nothing else like LiveData Migrator for Azure on the market.”
Jeff King, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
Use cases
Whether you have already embarked on your digital transformation journey or plan to soon, the use cases around data lake migration usually fall into the following scenarios:
Hadoop Migration
Hybrid Cloud
Disaster Recovery
Hybrid Data Estate
Maintain on-premises assets for as long as necessary. Organizations can maintain critical on-premises applications while expanding their investment and innovation in the cloud.
Disaster Recovery
Enterprises that wish to decommission costly on-premises environments, which sit idle and are only maintained for regulatory purposes, can utilize the cloud as the new secure repository.
Cloud Burst
Enables enterprises to access compute and storage in the cloud when required, rather than building out on-premises infrastructure for peak capacity.
Backup
Take advantage of cloud economics and maintain scheduled backups to the cloud.
“WANdisco LiveData Migrator and LiveData Plane are the first offerings to provide a fully-integrated and turnkey experience for customers migrating Hadoop data into Azure Data Lake Storage seamlessly and without business disruption.”
Tad Brockway, Corporate Vice President for Azure Network and Storage

Native integration with Azure
WANdisco LiveData Migrator for Azure and LiveData Plane for Azure are deeply integrated with native Azure resources such as Azure Portal and CLI, as well as other Azure security and manageability features. This means you can deploy and manage your data lake migrations using the same Azure management experience you enjoy today through the Azure Portal and Azure CLI. Further billing integration means customers are billed through Azure, eliminating the need to add a new vendor contract or require additional vendor approvals.
Migrate from Hadoop to cloud without disruption or downtime
LiveData Migrator for Azure is a native Azure service that enables users to migrate petabyte-scale Hadoop data and Hive metadata to the Azure cloud with zero application downtime and zero risk of data loss, even while the source data is under active change.
LEARN MOREConsistent data everywhere
LiveData Plane for Azure provides active-active data and metadata consistency across two or more distributed Hadoop environments. LiveData Plane for Azure is driven by WANdisco’s patented distributed coordination engine, which uses consensus to ensure 100% data consistency at all times. You can use LiveData Plane for Azure to ensure the changes that originated at your on-premises Hadoop cluster are replicated to your Azure HDInsight cluster backed by ADLS--and vice versa.
LEARN MORECustomer Stories

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