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


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WANdisco's subscriptions hit a record level
By John Harrington July 18 2013, 10:50am The second half of the year has traditionally been the stronger trading period and WANdisco anticipates this trend continuing.The second half of the year has traditionally been the stronger trading period and WANdisco anticipates this trend continuing.

WANdisco (LON:WAND), the enterprise software company, saw subscription bookings reach a record level in the second quarter.

Bookings rose 66% from a year earlier to US$3.06mln. When combined with bookings of US$3.04mln achieved in the first quarter, the company notched up total bookings for the first half of US$6.1mln, an 80% increase year-on-year. Meanwhile, the annualised renewal rate by booking value was 109%.

The period has also seen the company make significant steps forward with its plans to target the opportunity open to it in the Big Data space, WANdisco said.

‘Big data’ is computer industry jargon to describe the welter of information that is available to enterprises in the modern world, and the need to make sense of it.

WANdisco has already announced the release of significant new products for the fast growing Hadoop Big Data market, and these products are currently in trial with a number of customers.

The company secured its first Big Data customers, including a UK-based tier-1 telecommunications company and Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) during the period. NSN has embedded WANdisco's Hadoop technology across its product portfolio, replacing traditional database technology. WANdisco reckons the NSN deal will yield significant sales over the coming period.

House broker Panmure Gordon said the second quarter subscription levels were a whisker ahead of its top of the range estimate.

The broker is also impressed that NSN is placing so much trust in the Hadoop technology. “To remind, the database market is worth cUS$25.5bn with the associated enterprise application software market worth US$115bn, according to Gartner analysts. So, there is a big prize and so far no Hadoop presence,” the broker notes.

“If enterprise folks are now thinking about migrating to Hadoop as a replacement more so than additive, or indeed are using in anger there will be an associated requirement for RASS features. RASS – a.k.a. [also known as] reliability, availability security and serviceability - are necessary key requirements of enterprise buyers when there is a business risk should core applications fail.

“As the ‘Continuous Availability on Hadoop’ vendor, supported by patented technology, WANdisco then emerges as the ‘go to’ guy for any vendor, OEM [original equipment manufacturer], integrator or user looking at deploying Hadoop in an Enterprise setting,” the broker continues, while noting that “possibly NSN is the exception that proves the rule.”

Investors were not, perhaps, as wildly enthusiastic about the company’s prospects as Panmure Gordon, but still pushed the share price up 3% to 984p in mid-morning trade

UKHotViews




Thursday 18 July 2013

Bookings heading north at WANdisco




There was a nice Q2 update from WANdisco which showed subscription bookings up 66% yoy compared to a 43% yoy rise this time last year. It does have good growth story – see here. For H1 bookings were up 80%. Renewals are excellent and it is pulling in new customers – the latest set includes Canon, Cisco, Blue Cross Blue Shield, LSI Corp, ADP and Areva. H2 is traditionally stronger than H1 so there may be even better things to come. WANdisco is worth watching as it will be a guide to big data adoption in the UK and elsewhere. It has started to talk of big data pilots - we hope to see these roll into full implementations.

http://www.techmarketview.com/ukhotviews/archive/2013/07/18/bookings-heading-north-at-wandisco?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Forrester Report Reveals 357% ROI and Payback Period of Less than 2 Months for WANdisco’s SVN MultiSite

http://www.wandisco.com/news/press-releases/forrester-report-reveals-357-roi-and-payback-period-less-2-months-for-wandisco%E2%80%99s

David Richards.

President, CEO and Co-Founder of WANdisco


A New Tech Britain

Posted: 26/07/2013 09:35


A report published by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research this week has shown that our digital economy is far healthier than official statistics would have us believe. While London has traditionally been the focus for the industry, this report has shown that the tech sector is thriving across the country - there are 270,000 tech businesses throughout the UK, compared to just 51,500 in London.

This is something I and others have known for some time - for the sector to be a national success, it needs to be more than just London-centric; indeed, WANdisco is co-headquartered in Silicon Valley and Sheffield.

Not only are tech companies a British economic strength (the UK generated over $59bn worth of high-tech exports in 2010), but digital companies' revenues grow faster and employ more people than non-digital ones - 11% of Brits now work in the digital sector.

The sector therefore is important to our economic recovery, and by leading in this field, Britain can shape what the future technology landscape will look like.

Britain once led the world in technological innovation. Our economy grew rich because we were at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution. Steam power, textile manufacturing, the railways - all these innovations of the early 19th Century put Britain in a different technological class to the rest of the world and swelled our coffers. Other nations had to imitate us to keep up.

China and India on the other hand, turned their backs on the technological changes that were taking place at that time and their economies suffered - a lesson in the dangers of not keeping up to speed with the evolving tech world. Since then, they have realised the importance of technology and invested heavily in it; they have become two of the world-leaders in this field and we now look to emulate their success.

I firmly believe that Britain can get back to the days of being the leading light in the world of technology. It is not enough to accept that the BRIC economies will expand, that China will soon surpass the US as the world's largest economy and that Silicon Valley will remain the byword for technological innovation. To do so would be to admit defeat.

Our record in technology businesses is outstanding. Nomad Digital, the leading global wireless provider for transportation, and Equal Experts, a fast-growing software company, are two businesses to come out of the UK in the last couple of years that have led the way in their field. Let's feed off the self-confidence that this should inspire and think bigger than Silicon Valley, or a roundabout in East London: why can't all of Britain become a centre of technological excellence?

I am constantly reminded of the Industrial Revolution when I am in my Sheffield office because of ties that the city shares with such an exciting age of innovation, the city that became synonymous with steel. While it's great that policymakers are finally understanding that the tech sector is bigger than an area of East London, we now need to do our best to support our young entrepreneurs and encourage the next generation of start-ups to be the Brunels of their age, to learn from our innovative predecessors and apply those lessons to a modern business world.


http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/david-richards/a-new-tech-britain_b_3657182.html

A Forrester Total Economic Impact™ Study Prepared For WANdisco
The Total Economic Impact Of WANdisco SVN
MultiSite


http://www.wandisco.com/get?f=documentation%2Fwhitepapers%2FWANdisco-SVN-MultiSite-TEI-Study-2013.pdf

WANdisco Offers Certified Git Binaries Available for Free Download


San Ramon, CA – July 30, 2013 - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a provider of high-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data and distributed software development, announced its complete, fully tested and certified version of Git binaries are available for free download from its website. Git is a distributed version control system that emphasizes speed and developer control.




http://www.wandisco.com/news/press-releases/wandisco-offers-certified-git-binaries-available-for-free-download

Sheffield Wednesday have announced global software development company WANdisco as the club's new home shirt sponsors for the 2013/14 campaign.

WANdisco's logo will replace that of previous home shirt sponsor Gilder Honda.

Lifelong Wednesday fan David Richards co-founded WANdisco, originally based in the Silicon Valley, in 2005.

Richards, chairman and chief executive of the company, said: "I am thoroughly delighted to align the WANdisco brand to that of Sheffield Wednesday.

"This club always has and always will have a place in my heart and I could hardly be more proud that the WANdisco logo will adorn the home shirt of the Owls."

Wednesday chairman Milan Mandaric added: "We take great pride in our commercial partners and WANdisco is the ideal fit for Sheffield Wednesday.

"Quite apart from being co-founded by a supporter of our club, WANdisco are renowned worldwide in the software industry.

"In addition, I have a tangible connection with the company given my own business background in Silicon Valley."





WANdisco are now the main sponsor for British soccer team Sheffield Wednesday Football Club

Meet the innovators changing our world


David Richards (WANdisco)
Every day, I get to work with some extraordinary entrepreneurs. One, David Richards – and I should declare an interest here, as I represent him – is the ultimate example of “from small acorns, do mighty oaks grow”.

He co-founded WANdisco in my home city of Sheffield eight years ago and has built it into a technology powerhouse, the backbone to the global phenomenon which is Big Data. WANdisco debuted on the Aim market at £1.80 and, little over a year on, its value has mushroomed to £9.

His company, now headquartered in Silicon Valley, makes software that allows companies to synchronise the computer programmes and documents they’re using in different locations. Hewlett-Packard, for example, has more than 40,000 software engineers in 40 different global locations running WANdisco’s software every day.

Richards is now tapping into the hyper-growth Big Data market, working with some of the key developers of Hadoop, the software that powers your Facebook updates and drives your Google Searches. To explain the value of Big Data, I am going to borrow one of David’s analogies: every 20 minutes, the world creates more information than currently contained in the Library of Congress. Think about it. Every 20 minutes.

The significance of this goes well beyond smart statistics. It’s what has allowed an MIT research team to help reduce the risk of repeat heart attacks – analysing data that would previously have been thrown away to identify deadly trends. It is allowing scientists to break down the DNA of cystic fibrosis sufferers and developed tailored drugs that give them a way of life that would have previously been impossible.

Prediction: He will equip the inventors of the future.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/yourbusiness/10226901/Meet-the-innovators-changing-our-world.html

WANdisco and Comrise Partner to Deliver Hadoop Big Data Solutions to Global Enterprises


San Ramon, CA – August 8, 2013


http://www.wandisco.com/news/press-releases/wandisco-and-comrise-partner-deliver-hadoop-big-data-solutions-global-enterprise

Hey D/C ask Richard's who their next manager is going to be, because sure as hell Jones won't be their much longer -):

He might have put Wandisco on the Arsenal kit, if that's what you mean Stan. :-))
Not a good move if that's what you mean. There is no rns to say it was company money to sponsor the football team, could have been his private money. Perhaps unlikely though. We need some big data perhaps US companies to sign up soon. A lot of conferences/courses going on with out a lot of Rns's with firm LARGE bookings.
For me he has performed excellent, with the football team sponsorship a poor choice at this time. Perhaps when David gets this company to $1bn then is the time to make sponsorship money available, not when still in loss and using share holders funds.
He has made me lets say a fortune so far and I hope for a lot more future news and sp rises.

Or did you mean Melise Jones, Stan ? If its not to do with the above, can you explain why Jones will not be there much longer?

Got there in the end :-))
Edit-you mean Dave Jones, Sheffield Wednesdays manager. Is he rubbish Stan?
must confess not a great football follower.

I think it's true to say that he is not the manager he once was D/C, IMHO of course -):

I trust you Stan. :-))

Careful now -):

Not sure now. lol

WANdisco 100% Hadoop Uptime Solution Certified by Dell
MarketwiredPress Release: WANdisco, Plc. – 4 hours ago

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/wandisco-100-hadoop-uptime-solution-130000752.html;_ylt=AlDzaVLd1RDMh2VaPA4.MTrSr7FG;_ylu=X3oDMTRmbHQxMjdmBGNjb2RlA3ZzaGFyZWFnMnVwcmVzdARtaXQDTmV3cyBGb3IgWW91BHBrZwMyODA3MmQyMy0wMjJlLTM3YzMtYTgyNi1lMTNiMWMwNjBmM2EEcG9zAzEEc2VjA25ld3NfZm9yX3lvdQR2ZXIDZjk4YjEwNDEtMDRlMS0xMWUzLWFmOGUtMmIzN2IyODI5MjFm;_ylg=X3oDMTBhY2IwdWc5BGxhbmcDZW4tR0I-;_ylv=3

Another 150,000 shares for Schroders plc

http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4651398

WANdisco Earns Dell’s Seal of Approval

Maria Deutscher | August 16th



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.

MoneyWeek, The UK’s best-selling financial magazine

One UK company that is focused entirely on big data is Sheffield-based WANdisco (WAND), headquartered in Sheffield, with the management and key IT developers in California, David Richards, chairman and CEO, founded the company in 2005 and expects it to achieve $1bn in sales in the fullness of time. WANdisco’s expertise is in Hadoop, which is the main big data open-source platform used by Yahoo, Facebook, Linkedin and the like.

In April, it announced its first big data contract (with a top-tier global telecom company). This came on top of first quarter revenue growth of almost 100%, and complements a client list of technology blue-chips (including Apple, Cisco, Emerson, and Fujitsu).

Growth should be rapid, and the company is investing heavily in product development, an expanded sales team and software engineers as it grabs territory in this fast-growing market. This investment will hold back short-term profits, but if Richards’ predictions are correct, the stock will be an exciting ride.




http://moneyweek.com/penny-sleuth-big-data-and-the-vast-potential-for-returns/