WANdisco, is a well-known provider of active-active replication solutions that dived into the Big Data last November when it acquired AltoStar for just over $5 million. This week, the company announced that it’s just landed its first Big Data deal with a UK carrier, that chief executive David Richards calls “one of the biggest in the world”.

“For a company like ours you have to look at the growth . . . the average deal size has trebled, which shows confidence in the company,” the CEO boasted.

WANdisco did not disclose the name of the customer or the value of the deal, but the telecom’s location and supposed size should narrow the list down. The news comes on the back of the firm’s record-breaking first quarter earnings report earlier this month: the company touted a 96 percent year-over-year increase in subscriptions booking to $3.035 million, from $1.545 million in the same period 12 months prior.

WANdisco added several high-profile customers in the first quarter, including General Atomics, Huawei’s FutureWei group and Maxim. The company also said that annualized renewal rate by booking value was up 134 percent, an increase it credits to Sony, McGraw Hill, Raytheon, Vanguard, Borg Gais and Blue Shield. Lastly, it reported “significant growth” in several existing customer accounts including Home Depot, Nokia, John Deere and McAfee.

WANdisco is advancing on all fronts. Earlier this month it announced the latest version of its Hadoop distribution, which featured a streamlined interface and support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 2, RedHat Enterprise Linux and CentOS. The update was rolled out just two weeks after the WANdisco Distro launched into generally availability.

WDD’s main selling point is that it leverages the company’s homegrown replication technology to eliminate the single-point-of-failure inherent in Hadoop.