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/

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


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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 -):

Lol.

Lol. You know a lot more about football then me. :-))

Maybe, but not more then William Hill unfortunately -):

Meet Paco, VP of Sales.

Thats their Centre Forward D/C... Every time he gets near their opponents goal he cocks his leg up against the post... Oh yeah and he's over weight as you can see the useless mutt -):

Bit of an ugly brute really. :-))

Shares - Wandisco keeps rising.

It seems entirely sensible to ponder the next phase for WANdisco shares as they blast past the lofty £11.49 target price slapped on the stock by house broker Panmure Gordon. George O'Connor (respected technology analyst ) is preaching the need for calm as the shares hit record £11.75 in the run up to what should be landmark interim figures 26 Sept. He has just cut the 15 month buy recommendation on the Sheffield firm back to hold.
The results next week will give the £240 million cap the chance to show off its new heavyweight financial officer, former Sage man Paul Harrison. Chief executive officer and founder David Richards will also unveil other A grade senior management , fresh Hadoop based tools, new customers and channel partners and additional patent applications, as well as the numbers themselves. Bookings were up 66% in the second quarter.
Richards has repeated many times his ambition to turn the server replication technology specialist into a billion -a-year business or MORE. Profits are not likely until 2015 at the earliest but the ingredients for exponential growth are all there.
Wandisco looks set fair to generate the sort of revenues and profits growth that will please momentum players and those investors willing to take a longer-term view.

OEM Agreement in China

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OEM Agreement in China



- Leading China Advertising Company, Miaozhen, Standardises on WANdisco Hadoop Big Data Products -



- WANdisco to Provide 100 per-cent Hadoop Uptime for China's Leading Online Advertising Platform -





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 announces the signing of an OEM agreement with China-based advertising technology leader Miaozhen Systems.



Under the terms of the agreement, Miaozhen will include WANdisco's patented Non-Stop NameNode technology as part of its core Hadoop infrastructure and offering. Miaozhen will deploy WANdisco's patented technology in its customers' data centers to provide 100 per-cent uptime for their Hadoop clusters, ensuring continuous data availability for accurate advertising analytics.



With customers such as P&G, Microsoft, Volkswagen, L'Oreal, Coca-Cola, and YUM!, Miaozhen Systems is the leading third-party advertising technology company in China. The company processes more than two TeraBytes of data each day, with a data processing capability of 100 billion advert requests every day and a cumulative data storage capacity of over two PetaBytes.



WANdisco Non-Stop NameNode delivers 100 per-cent uptime for Hadoop by eliminating the single point of failure - the NameNode - providing the first and only continuous availability solution. Miaozhen Systems will use Non-Stop NameNode to support its online advertising platform, providing clients with continuous availability of advertising campaign performance data in order to enhance returns.



Zhu Wei, CEO of Miaozhen Systems said:



"Downtime is unacceptable for us. We thoroughly investigated the market and WANdisco is the only option for Hadoop continuous availability. Our business relies on Big Data and its underlying technology, Hadoop, so we're addressing all of the data availability challenges associated with it for our customers, which is where WANdisco completely eliminates outages, which would be extremely costly."



David Richards, Chairman and CEO of WANdisco said:



"For companies like Miaozhen, downtime is extremely risky and very expensive. Our unique technology is perfectly suited to support the continuous data availability needs of any run-time Hadoop big data deployment."