WANdisco, a rising star in the increasingly crowded Big Data space, announced that its newly released Non-Stop NameNode software has been certified for integration and interoperability with Dell PowerEdge servers.

Non-Stop NameNode WAN Edition is a networking solution that does away with the single point of failure inherent in Hadoop. It achieves this by turning every NameNode into a synchronized mirror of all the other NameNodes in a cluster, a technique that minimizes downtime, nullifies the chance of split brain scenarios, and eliminates the need for costly load-balancers and NAS devices.

“As enterprise organizations migrate Apache Hadoop from pilot projects to business critical environments, the requirement to meet business SLAs is critical to success,” said David Richards, the chief executive officer of WANdisco. “WANdisco’s Non-Stop NameNode is the only solution available for Apache Hadoop that provides 100% availability to data stored in HDFS during both planned and unplanned NameNode outages.”

WANdisco bought its way into the analytics market in November with the acquisition of AltoStor for $5 million. The company has since released an open source Hadoop distribution that combines its active-active replication with public cloud functionality.

The latest release of the WANdisco Distro (WDD) packs full compatibility with Amazon’s S3 storage service, a feature that enables enterprises to seamlessly move data and apps between their private environments and the cloud. WDD v3.6 also includes a set of utilities that makes it easier for admins to import records from web servers, data appliances, RDBMS servers and other traditional silos into Hadoop.

Earlier this week, Hortonworks – one of WANdisco’s first Big Data partners – got the green light to offer its own flagship Hadoop distribution to Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 users. The Windows edition of HDP ships with HBase, Flume, ZooKeeper and Mahout.