WANdisco stands for Wide Area Network Distributed Computing, and we make software happen.

This is because our technology is the secret ingredient behind the products that you use every day – from mobile phones to machinery. We are an active member of the community that develops the world’s most popular Source Code product: Subversion, and our technology is used by half of the world’s software developers.

Our customers include a host of Fortune 1000 companies such as Hewlett Packard, Intel, John Deere, European Southern Observatory, Barclays Capital, Walmart, GE and Cisco.

How it works

With our patented technology, software developers in distributed locations can work simultaneously, creating a seamless global network. Users at every site where WANdisco is installed have local access to the same data at all times, which means that they can make changes locally and see each other’s changes immediately.

We are proud to have a 98% customer renewal rate – which is driven by compelling ROI data: a recent study from Forrester Research has shown that our Subversion MultiSite offers a 167% return on investment with a nine-month payback period.

The company

Co-founded in 2005 by David Richards, Jim Campigli and Dr Yeturu Aahlad, WANdisco has dual headquarters in Silicon Valley and Sheffield, England. WANdisco grew, without raising any private equity, venture capital or angel finance to become a leading provider of global collaboration software to the software development industry.

On June 1st, 2012 the company had a highly successful IPO on the London Stock Exchange raising over $24 million. The IPO was oversubscribed by over 300% and the list of investors included Fidelity, Legal & General, Blackrock, Artemis, Hargreave Hale, Cazenove, M&G, Octopus and Standard Life. WANdisco's ticker is WAND.L


http://www.wandisco.com/

As of Feb 23, 2013, the consensus forecast amongst 2 polled investment analysts covering Wandisco PLC advises investors to purchase equity in the company. This has been the consensus forecast since the sentiment of investment analysts improved on Feb 11, 2013. The previous consensus forecast advised that Wandisco PLC would outperform the market.



http://markets.ft.com/research/Markets/Tearsheets/Forecasts?s=WAND:LSE

WANdisco Launches Flagship Big Data Product
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WANdisco's 'Non-Stop NameNode' Solution to Meet Hadoop

Availability, Performance and Scalability Requirements for Enterprises



Sheffield, UK - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a provider of high-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data and distributed software development, today announced the launch of its flagship Big Data product, Non-Stop NameNode, the only 100 percent uptime solution for Hadoop.

Built on the company's Non-Stop patented technology, Non-Stop NameNode completely eliminates the single point of failure that risks data availability - the NameNode - which tracks the data's location within a Hadoop cluster and coordinates client access to it.

On February 8, WANdisco unveiled WANdisco Distro, the world's first production ready Apache Hadoop 2 Distribution platform for which all of the company's products for the high growth Big Data market will be based. Today's launch of the Non-Stop NameNode is suitable for deployment on this platform in addition to Cloudera's CDH.

Non-Stop NameNode enables multiple active NameNode servers to act as peers, maintaining continuous synchronization and simultaneously supporting client access to the Hadoop cluster. If one server fails, or is taken down for scheduled maintenance, others take over automatically without any downtime. When the server comes back up, it immediately resynchronizes itself with the others in the cluster and resumes normal operation. This completely eliminates the risk of downtime and data loss due to human error during failover and recovery.

Key features of the Non-Stop NameNode include:



· Every server is a continuous hot backup of every other. This is leveraged to provide automated failover and recovery after server outages without administrator intervention.

· Automated failover and recovery features can be used to eliminate downtime for scheduled maintenance.

· Risk of data corruption due to "split-brain" is eliminated because all NameNode servers actively support clients and are always in sync.

· Scalability as more servers are added to the cluster to support increased workload without sacrificing performance.

· Unlike other solutions limited to a LAN or Metropolitan Area Network, WANdisco's Non-Stop NameNode delivers the same capabilities over a WAN regardless of distance, enabling global business continuity.

· Provides full support for HBase and works with Hadoop 2, WANdisco Distro (WDD) and CDH 4.1.x.



Commenting on the launch, WANdisco Chairman and CEO, David Richards, said:



"The launch of Non-Stop NameNode, our flagship product for the Big Data market, represents an important milestone not only in the development of WANdisco's product suite but in our strategy to help enterprises eliminate critical productivity risks by deploying Hadoop in their production environments today. Offering unrivalled performance and scalability, our Non-Stop NameNode solution eliminates the key issues of data loss and corruption while also allowing for planned maintenance without downtime."

Jeff Kelly, Big Data Analyst at Wikibon, added:

"Hadoop was not originally developed to support real-time, mission critical applications, and thus its inherent single point of failure was not a major issue of concern. But as Hadoop gains mainstream adoption, traditional enterprises rightly are looking to Hadoop to support both batch analytics and mission critical apps. With WANdisco's unique Non-Stop NameNode approach, enterprises can feel confident that mission critical applications running on Hadoop, and specifically HBase, are not at risk of data loss due to a NameNode failure because, in fact, there is no single NameNode. This is a major step forward for Hadoop."



Mani Chhabra, CEO of Cloudwick Technologies, a provider of professional Big Data services and WANdisco systems integration partner, said:



"WANdisco is delivering Hadoop solutions for enterprises with mission critical applications. Non-Stop NameNode removes the single point of failure risk, which eliminates the challenge enterprises currently face with Hadoop. WANdisco is the first company delivering solutions capable of deploying global Hadoop clusters spanning multiple data centers. We¹re excited to be one of their first Big Data partners."

WANdicso: Panmure Gordon raises target price from 763p to 1015p retaining its buy recommendation
On Wednesday, WANdisco PLC (WAND:LSE) closed at 825.00, 1.20% below its post-IPO high of 835.00, set on Feb 13, 2013.

More news today -



WANdisco Announces Free Online Hadoop Training Webinars



Santa Clara, CA – February 28, 2013 - Strata - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a provider of high-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data and distributed software development, today announced a series of free one-hour online Hadoop training webinars beginning with four bi-weekly sessions scheduled during March and April. Time will be allowed for audience Q&A at the end of each session.

The first, “A Hadoop Overview,” will be held Wednesday, March 13 at 10:00 AM Pacific/1:00 PM Eastern. During this webinar, attendees will learn about Hadoop’s history and architecture. This session will include an overview of major components such as HDFS, MapReduce, and HBase - the NoSQL database management system used with Hadoop for real-time applications. A summary of Hadoop’s ecosystem will also be provided. Other topics to be covered include a review of public and private cloud deployment options and common business use cases.

Other webinars include:

“Hadoop: A Deep Dive,” March 27, 10:00 AM Pacific, 1:00 pm Eastern: This webinar will cover Hadoop misconceptions (not all clusters are comprised of thousands of machines), information about real world Hadoop deployments, a detailed review of Hadoop’s ecosystem (Sqoop, Flume, Nutch, Oozie, etc.), an in-depth look at HDFS, and an explanation of MapReduce in relation to latency and dependence on other Hadoop activities. This webinar will introduce attendees to concepts they will need as a prerequisite for subsequent training webinars covering MapReduce, HBase and other major components at a deeper technical level.

“Hadoop: A MapReduce Tutorial,” April 10, 10:00 AM Pacific, 1:00 pm Eastern: This webinar will cover MapReduce at a deep technical level. This session will cover the history of MapReduce, how a MapReduce job works, its logical flow, the rules and types of MapReduce jobs, de-bugging and testing MapReduce jobs, writing foolproof MapReduce jobs, various available workflow tools, and more.

“Hadoop: HBase In-Depth,” April 24, 10:00 AM Pacific, 1:00 pm Eastern: This webinar will provide a deep technical review of HBase and cover flexibility, scalability, components (cells, rows, columns, qualifiers), schema samples, hardware requirements and more.

Free registration is available at www.wandisco.com/training/webinars/hadoop. WANdisco recommends early registration as space is limited.

Wandisco news of 2013 -


Feb 28, 2013

WANdisco Announces Free Online Hadoop Training Webinars


Feb 27, 2013

WANdisco Launches Non-Stop NameNode for 100% Hadoop Uptime


Feb 26, 2013

WANdisco Launches Non-Stop Hadoop Alliance Partner Program to Accelerate Adoption and Scale-Out of...


Feb 20, 2013

MEDIA ALERT: WANdisco Announces Hadoop Expert Co-Presenters at ApacheCon


Feb 19, 2013

WANdisco Announces Hadoop Console for Simplified Enterprise Hadoop Deployment and Management


Feb 11, 2013

WANdisco Teams with Fusion-io to Advance Enterprise Adoption of Apache Hadoop


Feb 8, 2013

WANdisco Launches World’s First Production-Ready Apache Hadoop 2 Distribution for Big Data


Jan 30, 2013

WANdisco Joins Hortonworks’ Technology Partner Program


Jan 29, 2013

WANdisco Announces Issuance of Patent for Distributed Computing Systems Covering Active-Active Data...


Jan 23, 2013

WANdisco Appoints Mark Schreiber Vice President of Business Development


Jan 22, 2013

WANdisco Announces China Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise


Jan 21, 2013

WANdisco Teams with Cloudera to Accelerate Adoption of Apache Hadoop-based Business Solutions


Jan 16, 2013

Q4 2012 Bookings Update


Jan 10, 2013

WANdisco Announces Appointment of Veteran Apache Hadoop Developer, Dr. Konstantin Boudnik

I expect 1000p in due course.

Feb 28, 2013

David Richards and Jagane Sundar - Strata 2013 - TheCUBE

Silicon Angle

http://www.youtube.com/embed/9Rk88l42qs0?autoplay=1

Well worth watching the above to see the stage that WAND is at and the speed and competitive advantage this company has over its rivals.David mentions that those companies without Big Data are going to be in a far less competitive field than the ones that have this. They are a very rare top in their game team and if this comes off in my view this company will be huge. They are talking changing working practices
in the work field. The sp with the kind of news they are talking about will be through £10 by Easter. Than who knows ? I can guess but not going to put it on here. A company does not come along like this in a blue moon, very exiting and for its shareholders.

Broker profile research 28 Feb -

http://www.wandisco.com/get?f=documentation%2Fanalyst-reviews%2FWAND-20130228-Update.pdf

Panmure Gordon and Co -WANdisco

Cometh the hour – cometh the flagship


WANdisco’s financials could be transformed in fairly short order (see below),
so shares should rally on this news (the opportunity being for WANdisco to
play a significant role in a US$23.8bn estimated market). We leave our
estimates unchanged but would expect Q2 update to guidance as customer
adoption trends are clearer. Our forecasts do not have any ‘Big Data’ revenue
component; although the share price does. On conservative assumptions (see
below) we increase our target price from 763p to 1015p. Buy.



http://www.wandisco.com/get?f=documentation%2Fanalyst-reviews%2FWANdisco-Flash-27-02-13.pdf

GECR -We expect a Q2 update will provide a clearer picture regarding customer adoption numbers, and have therefore kept our forecasts unchanged. However, given the encouraging progress made so far and the positive response from vendors, we believe WANdisco is capable of commanding a larger share of the total market, and have therefore adjusted our DCF model. Accordingly, our stance remains speculative buy, but with an increased target price of 1,091p (previously 823p).



http://www.wandisco.com/get?f=documentation%2Fanalyst-reviews%2FWANdisco-28022013.pdf

CITY INTERVIEW: WANdisco has right moves in data danceDavid Richards, the 42-year-old chief executive and co-founder, last year opted to list its shares on London’s junior AIM market, rather than in the US, and watched his company become one of the most successful floats of 2012 – or indeed ever




Richards clearly believes WANdisco has the potential to become very big in Big Data. But isn’t that name a hindrance?


He says the first pitch he ever did to an investor was to billionaire Ram Sriram. ‘He wasn’t interested in my idea. I went home and told my wife he was an idiot, because he had invested in a company with a name like Google.


‘He put in $250,000 and it turned into $3billion, so I decided never to criticise a firm for having a daft name again.’ Point taken.



http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/article-2289199/CITY-INTERVIEW-WANdisco-right-moves-data-dance.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Acquisition of Pioneering Big Data Company Accelerates Entry into Big Data Market

http://www.datacenterpost.com/2013/03/acquisition-of-pioneering-big-data.html

Software creates hi-tech ambitions




David Richards, president and chief executive of WANdisco, speaking to Prime Minister David Cameron




Published on Wednesday 20 February 2013 07:52



More Yorkshire technology businesses could float on the stock market following the success of two software businesses with strong Sheffield connections.



According to accountancy and professional services firm Deloitte, 2013 is shaping up to be a good year for Yorkshire technology businesses that want to raise finance from the equity markets.

Deloitte cites the success of companies like WANdisco and EMIS as examples which other Yorkshire technology companies could follow.

WANdisco is based in Silicon Valley in the US and at Electric Works, on Sheffield’s Digital Campus, and was co-founded by Sheffield-born David Richards.

The company’s products are used by blue chip corporates around the world to ensure software developers in different offices are always working on the latest version of the business’s bespoke systems.

Following a significantly over-subscribed floatation on the Alternative Investment Market last May, the company has made a number of key acquisitions.

It has moved into the fast growing “Big Data” sector, providing applications for companies needing to store and process vast amounts of information and has launched a new subsidiary in Sheffield’s twin city of Chengdu, in China.

EMIS is a market leading primary care software provider, based in Leeds, which supplies software that is used by more than half the GP practices in the UK and includes systems that securely store the records of 39 million patients.

The company is run by Sheffield Hallam University graduate Neil Laycock, the former chief executive of city-based internet service provider PlusNet.

Mr Laycock originally joined EMIS to head a Sheffield-based team developing www.patient.co.uk, now the UK’s most popular health information and advice website.

Deloitte partner Rob Seldon said: “Yorkshire firms are typically led by strong, entrepreneurial management teams who are keen to explore financing options to meet their strategic goals.

“The capital markets will continue to provide an alternative option for ambitious firms looking to raise capital for expansion.

“Developing strong technology platforms and exporting to developing markets both involve a mix of risk and reward which, when coupled with strong management governance makes them attractive to the equity markets.”

WANdisco Appoints CollabNet and HP Veteran Bas Nijjer to Director of EMEA Sales

San Ramon, CA – March 12, 2013 - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a provider of high-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data and distributed software development, today announced Bas Nijjer has joined the company as Sales Director, EMEA, reporting to Peter Scott, Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Nijjer, who joins WANdisco from LivePerson UK and CollabNet before that, will focus on opportunities for large enterprise software deployments, continuing to grow WANdisco’s market share throughout the UK and Europe.

Nijjer, who built CollabNet UK from startup to multimillion dollar recurring revenue, has a proven track record of increasing customer wins, accelerating revenue and providing customer satisfaction. He has had tremendous success building high-performance sales teams through recruitment, mentoring and motivation.

"Bas is an excellent addition to our team, with great insight on developing and strengthening sales teams and customer relationships as well as enterprise software," said David Richards, CEO of WANdisco. "His expertise and familiarity with EMEA and his results-oriented attitude will help strengthen the WANdisco team and increase sales and renewals. We are pleased to have him join us."

Nijjer joins WANdisco from LivePerson UK, where he was EMEA Sales Executive for Financial Services, managing accounts for customers such as HSBC, Aviva, Lloyds Bank, ING and more. Prior to LivePerson, he was Sales Director at CollabNet, where he managed and grew strategic European accounts and consistently grew UK revenues with double-digit performance. Prior to CollabNet, Nijjer held sales management positions with IONA Technologies (now Progress Software), Hewlett Packard, Easel UK, and Computer Associates. Nijjer earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic Engineering from Nottingham City University.

From the company web site news section also in this weeks Shares mag.

http://www.wandisco.com/get?f=documentation%2Fpress%2FFantastic-Floats-Shares-Magazine.pdf

07:00


WANdisco Plc - WANdisco Files Three Patents with USPTO


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WANdisco Files Three Patents with USPTO



Sheffield, UK - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a provider of high-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data and distributed software development, announces that it has filed three new patents with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) related to distributed computing. Most recently on January 29, 2013, WANdisco was issued patent number 8,364,633 for "Distributed computing systems and system components thereof" for the fundamentals of "active-active replication" over a Wide Area Network ("WAN"), enforceable until July 11, 2028.



WANdisco's three new patent applications represent significant additions to WANdisco's portfolio of distributed computing technology. These three new innovations developed by a team of five PhD's led by WANdisco's co-founder Dr Yeturu Aahlad involve methods, devices and systems that enhance security, reliability, flexibility and efficiency in the field of distributed computing. WANdisco's solutions, particularly with these patent-pending innovations, are expected to have significant benefits for users of WANdisco's new Hadoop Big Data product line.


Commenting on the patent application, WANdisco Chairman and CEO, David Richards, said:

"Our team continues to break new ground in the field of distributed computing technology. We are proud to have some of the world's most talented engineers in this field working for us and look forward to the eventual approval of these most recent patent applications. We are particularly excited about their application across our new Big Data product line."

Picking up again.

WANdisco a big hit in the States


WANdisco chief executive David Ridhards, front centre, and members of the team outside the Silicon Valley and Sheffield company's Electric Works headquarters

http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/business/wandisco-a-big-hit-in-the-states-1-5533564

Session to Address Enterprise Data Center Availability, Scalability and Performance Needs and How Hadoop Can Meet Them


San Ramon, CA – March 28, 2013



http://www.wandisco.com/news/press-releases/ovum-wandisco-webinar-big-data-enterprise-enabling-hadoop-for-data-center