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/

Questor share tip: Aim-listed WANdisco is well worth watching as the shares rocket
WANdisco has tapped into one of the fastest growing technology markets and the shares have rocketed as it wins more business, says Questor
By John Ficenec, Questor editor
6:00AM BST 03 Sep 2013
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Questor says HOLD

SHARES in the Aim-listed technology company WANdisco are plugged into some of the fastest growing markets in the world. And if the company can deliver on its early promise then shares in the Sheffield-based technology start-up could continue to rocket.

Investors who backed the initial public offering have seen their money increase over six times in little over a year. The shares came to market in June 2012 at 180p and have risen to £10.94 today. The £26m raised at IPO has been used to build a sales team and add new products. Brokers believe this is only the beginning and have consistently ripped up forecasts as new contract wins are announced.

The group’s products are in fast-growing markets. The most exciting market is for a database system called Apache Hadoop; this is a system that companies such as Facebook and Amazon use to store all your data. WANdisco has developed some of the most efficient programmes for accessing and using that data. Independent analysts estimate the big data market will be worth $18.1bn (£11.6bn) by the end of 2013, from $11.4bn just a year earlier, and could reach $50bn by 2017.

WANdisco is keeping pace with this growth. Cash bookings – contracted work to be undertaken – for the first half of 2013 were $6.1m, up 80pc from the same time last year. Once clients are signed they tend to stay, as renewal rates were 109pc during the first half.



There is more to this than just technology hype. WANdisco has signed some blue-chip clients such as Nokia, Cisco and Apple. They also announced in May that they had poached Paul Harrison from FTSE 100-listed Sage to take over as chief financial officer. It seems unlikely that such a well-respected name in technology would jump ship without good reason.

Questor is always wary of technology stories; 2001 lives long in the memory and brokers estimate WANdisco will not make a profit until after 2014. However, the client list and addition of an experienced CFO to the board make this an interesting proposition. The results announcement on September 26 will provide a better picture of how things are developing, and whether cash collection is matching the winning of new business. So with shares at record highs it’s a hold until then.




http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/markets/questor/10282021/Questor-share-tip-Aim-listed-WANdisco-is-well-worth-watching-as-the-shares-rocket.html

Another New Patent Application with USPTO

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WANdisco Files Another New Patent Application with USPTO

WANdisco Utilises Unique Replication Technique to Eliminate another Hadoop Single Point of Failure - HDFS



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 a new patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) related to distributed computing with Hadoop for its Big Data solutions. WANdisco's patent application represents a significant addition to the company's portfolio of distributed computing technology.



The patent application involves WANdisco's active-active replication applied to the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) over a Wide Area Network ("WAN"). Developed by a team led by Dr. Konstantin V. Shvachko, the creator of HDFS and current member of the Apache Hadoop Project Management Committee (PMC), the new innovations are expected to have significant benefits for users of WANdisco's Big Data products.



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. This new patent application reflects the innovations the company has developed to apply this core patented technology to Hadoop.



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



"WANdisco's engineers are continually breaking new ground in distributed computing technology. We look forward to the approval of this patent application. Ours are the only solutions available that deliver 100% uptime for Hadoop on a global scale."

Go Wan. jigsaw starting to come together for Wandisco.


WANdisco PLC (WAND:LSE) set a new 52-week high during Tuesday's trading session when it reached 1,125. Over this period, the share price is up 341.18%.

Upcoming events on WANDISCO PLC


09/26/13 Interim 2013 Earnings Release

WANdisco Announces Official Sponsorship of UC Berkeley AMPLab













San Ramon, CA – September 5, 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 it is an official sponsor of the UC Berkeley AMPLab, a five-year collaborative effort at UC Berkeley where Spark, Shark and Mesos have been developed.

WANdisco previously announced the integration of Spark and Shark into its certified Apache Hadoop binaries, delivering data processing speeds up to 100 times faster than MapReduce or Hive to any Hadoop-supported filesystem. WANdisco will continue to work closely with AMPLab on continued research into in-memory data storage for Hadoop.

"We are pleased with WANdisco’s strong support of AMPLab as well as Spark and Shark," said Ion Stoica, co-director of AMPLab of UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. "Their participation helps with market validation, and our continued work will enable businesses to quickly deploy interactive data analytics on Hadoop."

"Berkeley AMPLab is at the forefront of Hadoop innovation and we're proud to be an official sponsor," said David Richards, CEO of WANdisco. "Spark and Shark allow users to improve the efficiency of their Hadoop deployments without the need for additional configuration or infrastructure. We look forward to further developments from AMPLab."

march of data science

Big data is revolutionising the way companies do business and looks set to open up further opportunities for growth, as Joshi Herrmann reports

http://raconteur.net/technology/unstoppable-march-of-data-science

WANdisco PLC (WAND:LSE) set a new 52-week high during today's trading session when it reached 1,139.5. Over this period, the share price is up 306.96%.

Big Data Spending to Reach $114 Billion in 2018; Look for Machine Learning to Drive Analytics, Says ABI Research
Business WirePress Release: ABI Research – 6 hours ago


Global spending on big data by organizations will exceed $31 billion in 2013, finds a new market forecast by ABI Research. The spending will grow at a CAGR of 29.6% over the next five years, reaching $114 billion in 2018. The forecast includes the money spent on internal salaries, professional services, technology services, internal hardware, and internal software.

Senior analyst Aapo Markkanen comments, “We estimate that in big data initiatives salaries account for about half of the current spending, with the other half allocated to vendors’ products and services. What we’re now seeing is quite significant overspending on salaries, as organizations turn to data scientists and other specialists in order to leverage big data in the first place. Similarly, a good share of the money is spent on the associated professional services, which have sprung up to assist firms that are data-rich but skills-poor.”

Narrowing the said skills gap, as well as improving the productivity of dedicated data scientists, represents a lucrative revenue opportunity for the sector’s vendors. Cloudera’s Impala project, the hitherto readiest attempt to enable SQL on Hadoop clusters, is an example of this demand being addressed on the database front. Going forward, ABI Research expects significant innovation, especially from the field of analytics.

Practice director Dan Shey highlights, “Machine learning and its application in advanced analytics is one area that will make both the public and private sectors data-savvier than anything we’ve seen so far. Big players such as IBM and HP are understandably moving to this direction, but at the same time we can also see analytics startups, like Ayasdi and Skytree, that have machine learning in their very DNA. Eventually, such innovations will put analytics within any domain expert’s reach. At that point, data will stop being ‘big’ again.”

These findings are from ABI Research’s “Unlocking the Value of Big Data in Enterprises” study, which is part of the firm’s M2M Service Delivery Platforms (https://www.abiresearch.com/research/service/m2m-service-delivery-platforms/) and Cloud Content and Services (https://www.abiresearch.com/research/service/cloud-content-and-services/) Research Services.

WANdisco announces new release of SVN MultiSite Plus



By SD Times Newswire

September 10, 2013 — WANdisco, a provider of high-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data and distributed software development, announced the next release of SVN MultiSite Plus, the company's performance, scalability and continuous availability solution for large enterprises using Subversion.

SVN MultiSite Plus, announced earlier this year, incorporates the latest enhancements to WANdisco's patented replication technology and delivers major availability, performance, flexibility and scalability improvements over standard SVN MultiSite. SVN MultiSite Plus also allows administrators to manage the entire implementation from one location and add and remove Subversion repositories and servers on the fly without any downtime.

One of the key new features included with SVN MultiSite Plus 1.1 is enhanced notification. With enhanced notification, when a server or network outage occurs, or a server's disk or memory usage approaches capacity, automatic administrator alerts are generated. This simplifies management during the failover and recovery process and enables administrators to address server capacity issues before bottlenecks occur.

Other key features of SVN MultiSite Plus 1.1 include:
• Enhancements to Dynamic Group Evolution - administrators can now adjust as well as add and remove repositories and servers on the fly without any downtime, eliminating the need for scheduled maintenance and lost development time.
• An enhanced transaction dashboard dramatically simplifies oversight and management of the entire global deployment from a single location.
• Support for the long-awaited Subversion 1.8 release, which provides automatic merges and rejects attempts to merge between unrelated branches.
• Support for additional platforms including:
◦ SUSE 11
◦ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
◦ CentOS 5, CentOS 6
◦ Debian 6, Debian 7

"Capabilities like those provided by SVN MultiSite Plus are crucial to global organizations that value their source code, require 100% uptime and are striving to be more agile," said David Richards, WANdisco CEO. "With this new release, we're adding significant manageability and performance improvements to further simplify the complexity faced by these development organizations."

Availability

SVN MultiSite Plus 1.1 is available now.


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TMFPP $WAND @WANdisco hit new high of 1170p. New (ex FTSE100) FD in place, Interims in 2 weeks, market anticipating bullish update from CEO


https://twitter.com/equity_research/statuses/377693295515693057

From Sheffield to Silicon Valley – and back again

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WANDISCO shortlisted for AIM award -

Best Technology Award

Sponsored by Sanlam Securities
•Nanoco Group plc
•Oxford Catalysts Group plc
•Tracsis plc
•WANdisco plc


http://www.aim-awards.co.uk/nominations_and_shortlist/

Panmure predicts lull in WANdisco party
By Jamie Nimmo September 12 2013, 10:58am WANdisco's stock has soared almost 500% since it listed on AIM last yearWANdisco's stock has soared almost 500% since it listed on AIM last year

WANdisco’s (LON:WAND) share price might have peaked, Panmure Gordon, one of the stock’s main cheerleaders, suggested on Thursday.

The AIM-quoted software company’s share price has zoomed up to the broker’s £11.75 target price, but for once Panmure Gordon has not responded by increasing its target.

Instead, it has downgraded the shares to ‘hold’ ahead of interim results on September 26, having been a long-term buyer of the Sheffield-based firm.

Since listing on AIM last summer, the stock has soared almost 500%, valuing it at £242 million.

Panmure’s George O’Connor said of the upcoming results: “CEO David Richards should be in enthusiastic form, particularly as he has put WANdisco ahead of the curve in the ‘enterprisification’ of Hadoop, scored a global mindshare win for this Sheffield business and achieved that very neat operational pivot of migrating from being a single product company to broader horizontal business.

“It is only correct that the company has become the poster boy for ‘what great looks like’ and the resurgence of AIM.”

The analyst added: “Suspecting, as we do, a strong set of results in the offing shares have already whizzed past our target price. Hence we move to Hold.”

The company became the shirt sponsors this season of Sheffield Wednesday FC, which is chief executive David Richards’s home club.

The downgrade dragged the shares down 3.8% to £11.30 today.

"The company became the shirt sponsors this season of Sheffield Wednesday FC, which is chief executive David Richards’s home club.

The downgrade dragged the shares down 3.8% to £11.30 today."

Evening DC, you don't think that maybe the two things are connected by any chance do you? -):

What sponsoring a carp team. lol

WANdisco: Panmure Gordon downgrades from buy to hold with an unchanged target price of 1149p.

He (David Richards ) is not pulling the kind of staff (Top man in Sage) in for fun. Just a temporary blip. imho

Yep could be.

Whats your thoughts on this football team then. lol

Well, they haven't had the best of starts but there again it's only early season but I personally don't rate Dave Jones very highly and Sheff Wed although a very well supported club are in a lot of debt I think I'm right in saying, that is unless someone has baled them out that I have missed.

Excuse me there is a thread for football. :-))

This is true -):