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/

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/

WANdisco Grabbing Headlines with High Availability Hadoop

Maria Deutscher | August 22nd

WANdisco is making big gains in the Hadoop ecosystem with its active-active replication technology. The company’s Non-Stop Name Node platform promises to eliminate the single point of failure inherent in the framework by synchronizing all NameNode servers deployed over a WAN. This approach has the added benefit of minimizing the chance of data corruption.

The latest version of the solution features several major enhancements, including the ability to add and remove NameNodes on the fly without risking downtime. This addition is joined by new node configurations that deliver improved availability and higher CPU utilization, and a rapid recovery function for nodes that have been unavailable for extended periods of time.

“Non-Stop NameNode WAN Edition is designed to meet the 100% uptime requirements of today’s enterprises,” said David Richards, the chief executive officer of WANdisco. “The enhancements within this release further ensure mission-critical Big Data applications can scale as workload grows and keep running even if an entire data center goes down.”

WANdisco announced Non-Stop NameNode 1.1 a few days before it received an integration and interoperability certification from Dell. According to the company, customers can now deploy the platform on the hardware vendor’s PowerEdge servers.

Non-Stop NameNode was introduced in June to complement the WANdisco Distro (WDD,) an open source Hadoop distribution that ships with the company’s active-active replication software. The most notable feature of WDD 3.6 is that it’s fully compatible with Amazon S3, which means that enterprises can deploy the service in-house and seamlessly migrate applications and data between their on-premise environments and the cloud.

Also new in v3.6 are connectors that make it much simpler for developers to import data sets from web servers, data appliances, RDBMS servers and other traditional silos into HDFS.

Holding up well, up 5%

Management Team Appointments

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Management Team Appointments



WANdisco Appoints Former British Telecom, MapR and CollabNet Executives to Management Team



San Ramon, CA - August 28,2013 - 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 three executive appointments. Richard Fletcher, former British Telecom executive, is the company's new Vice President of Worldwide Engineering; Brad Mandell, former MapR Worldwide VP of Field Operations, is VP of Global OEM Big Data Sales; and former CollabNet Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations Mike Hallett has been appointed Vice President of Sales for Development Tools.



Richard Fletcher joins WANdisco from British Telecom where he was CIO of BT Conferencing, British Telecom's teleconferencing division. Mr. Fletcher will lead WANdisco's engineering team in developing the company's Big Data and ALM applications to accommodate the rapidly growing Hadoop, Subversion, and Git markets. Prior to BT, Mr. Fletcher served as COO of voice and communications services provider Ribbit, which was acquired by BT. Before Ribbit, he was COO of broadband and telecommunications provider PlusNet, where he was part of a team that successfully doubled the company's revenue and customer base in less than two years. Mr. Fletcher has a degree in Politics from the University of Sheffield.



Mike Hallett, who will assist in developing WANdisco's sales strategy for its Subversion and Git enterprise solutions, joins WANdisco from CollabNet, where he expanded the company's field operations by developing and executing a variety of channel strategies. Prior to CollabNet, Mr. Hallett was Senior VP with software provider Questra Corporation, where he grew the business from startup to $7M revenue in two years. Prior to Questra, he held senior executive positions with Kintana, Siebel Systems, and Oracle. Hallett has his degree in Business Economics from Brislington Enterprise College, Bristol.



Brad Mandell joins WANdisco from MapR, where he was Worldwide VP of Field Operations. Mr. Mandell has built and expanded field operations teams in field marketing, business development and services and support for over 25 years. Prior to MapR, he was Worldwide VP of Enterprise Business for Juniper, responsible for developing the strategic enterprise business for entering the switching market, new acquisition due diligence and lead field integration of enterprise solutions. Before Juniper, he held senior management positions with Peribit Networks, 3Com, Consentry and Cisco. Mr. Mandell has his BSc in Finance and Management from the University of Santa Clara, California.



"I am delighted that WANdisco continues to attract the best talent in the industry," said David Richards, CEO of WANdisco. "Richard, Brad and Mike are industry leaders and we're thrilled they're joining WANdisco, especially at such an exciting time."



About WANdisco

WANdisco (LSE: WAND) is a provider of enterprise-ready, non-stop software solutions that enable globally distributed organizations to meet today's data challenges of secure storage, scalability and availability. WANdisco's products are differentiated by the company's patented, active-active data replication technology, serving crucial high availability (HA) requirements, including Hadoop Big Data and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Fortune Global 1000 companies, including AT&T, Motorola, Intel and Halliburton, rely on WANdisco for performance, reliability, security and availability. For additional information, please visit www.wandisco.com.

WANdisco PLC (WAND:LSE) set a new 52-week high during today's trading session when it reached 1,050. Over this period, the share price is up 292.52%.

An account from day one to the present time -

Company profile from innovation and growth investor.

Wandisco rides the Big Data Wave.

Wandisco provides enterprise software solutions to thousands of major corporations worldwide including Apple, ATT, HP, Sony, Nokian Siemens Networks and Intel, to name a few. The company's highly successful 2012 initial public offering on the London stock exchanges Aim platform was three times oversubscribed and raised more than £24 million. Following its flotation, Wandisco made strategic move into the Big Data space, a market forecast to exceed $47 billion in revenue by 2017, according to research firm Wikibon. It acquired Silicon Valley based Big Data vendor Altostor in November 2012, adding highly valuable technology and expertise.

Big Data, huge opportunity

Traditional databases were good enough at handling rows and columns of structured textual data but since the advent of the internet and mobile devices, huge volumes
of unstructured and semi-structured data are created every second. This deluge includes digital images, videos, twitter and other social media feeds, GPS sensor data, and machine data that traditional database technology can no longer handle.
Hadoop is the most widely used big data software in the world. Few people have heard of Hadoop but we all use it via social networking websites and online shopping sites. Major companies in virtually every industry are implementing big data technology because of the competitive advantage that this rich information can provide if is rapidly processed and analysed.
Hadoop's biggest challenge is availability, and that is where Wandisco comes into its own. WANdisco's patented technology delivers continuous availability'100% system uptime' - across data centres thousands of miles apart.
It enables companies to put global business continuity and disaster recovery plans into place, so they do not suffer losses due to interruptions in service when servers or networks fail, or natural disasters strike

Patented Technology

The acquisition of Altostor and its highly experienced and talented founders provide WANdisco with unrivalled expertise. Dr Konstantin Shvachko was one of the original
developers of Hadoop and Jagane Sundar oversaw Yahoo's Hadoop big data rollout.
By combining WANdisco's unique patented replication technology with this talent, the company quickly developed and launched its first Big Data products, following up with additional solutions and services shortly thereafter.
Users, regardless of their location, always have access to the same data, can make changes to the data and see each other's changes as if they were all at one location. It delivers 24/7 availability, with unparalleled performance and scalability. No other technology can deliver these capabilities and they are critical to Hadoop's wide-scale
adoption in the enterprise. In addition to its product portfolio based on its patented
technology, WANdisco offers a range of professional training, consulting and support services.

Strong team

In the past year, WANdisco has been very active, displaying strong momentum from both operational and financial perspective. In addition to delivering a robust financial performance at its maiden full year results, the company established a wholly-owned foreign enterprise (WOFE) in the city of Chengdu to strengthen its presence in China.
WANdisco was also awarded a patent for its active-active replication technology and filed three additional patents related to distributed computing with applications in Big Data. In addition, the £198m cap announced a partnership programwith founding partners Hyve and SUSE, launched a replication solution for open source Git, and passed certification testing with US computing giant Dell. Chief executive officer and co founder David Richards has more than 15 years experience in the software industry and is a member of countless advisory and executive boards of Silicon Valley start-up ventures. Along with co-founders James Campigli and Yeturu Aahlad, Richards led the company to its successful Aim quotation.
Richards is also deputy chairman of Aim-quoted geospatial Big Data firm 1Spatial (SPA:AIM). The board and management team are made up of highly experienced executives with extensive expertise in software, distributed computing, and Big Data, as well as many successful start-up enterprises.
Joining the co-founders on WANdisco's board of directors are two non-executive directors with extensive experience in the technology industry and in managing high growth companies - Paul Walker, the former CEO of Sage, and Ian Duncan, formerly finance director of Royal Mail Holdings. In May 2013 WANdisco further bolstered its board and senior management team with the appointment of Paul Harrison as the company's new chief financial officer. Mr Harrison joins WANdisco from the FTSE 100 constituent Sage.


Powerful momentum

WANdisco announced its first Big Data customer in April, shortly after its ahead of schedule Big Data product launch. The client, a tier-one UK telecoms operator with operations in Britain and around the world, will use WANdisco's Big Data solutions to ensure 100% uptime for business critical data storage facilities, which are both numerous and distributed across multiple geographies.
In June WANdisco announced NSN would use its solutions to deliver 100% uptime for Big Data storage and access across its product portfolio.
'Our customers recognise the competitive edge that harnessing Big Data technology can deliver in telecommunications. Leveraging Hadoopp enables us to provide them with the real -time insight that is the foundation for business value' says Soma Vaelayutham, head of customer insight and experience product management at NSN.
'WANdisco has the expertise and experience in Hadoopm that is key for implementing Big Data in the telecommunications industry.'
The rapid sales growth delivered by WANdisco's Application Lifecycle management
solutions for the widely used Subversion and Git version control systems, combined with the Big Data (Hadoop) market's forecast growth, is likely to drive WANdisco customer bookings to levels higher than initially anticipated.

Edison today -


WANdisco (WAND)
INVESTMENT SUMMARY
H1 bookings of $6.1m were up 80% year-on-year. A significant acceleration is required in
H2 to reach our $14.4m estimate, but the company looks well placed to deliver this - sales
from Hadoop and the newly launched GIT product should be largely incremental, while
newsflow (such as the OEM agreement with NSN and certification of the Non-Stop
NameNode by Dell) suggests very rapid commercial progress continues. A step change in
financial performance is being priced in, but if the company continues to cement itself as
key player in Hadoop, financials should be transformed.
INDUSTRY OUTLOOK
Over the past 12 months, Hadoop cemented its position as one of the core technologies on
which big data implementations will run. Levels of interest and the rate of deployments have
accelerated as enterprises seek to gather and analyse vast amounts of unstructured data to
gain a competitive advantage or develop new business models.