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 a "rare strategic asset"




By Julie Fisher | Tue, 15th October 2013 - 12:15




WANdisco share price

Shares in WANdisco (WAND) rose by 1.4% on Tuesday as the software solutions provider made progress towards becoming the leading solution for high-availability open-source software technology Hadoop.

In the three months to 30 September 2013, WANdisco more than doubled its total bookings compared with the equivalent period of 2012, increasing application lifestyle management bookings 115% to $4.3 million (£2.7 million) and adding $54,000 in Big Data bookings.

This compared with no Big Data bookings in the third quarter of 2012, showing the company has made an effort to establish a presence in the market this year.

It secured its first Chinese client, online advertising agency Miaozhen in the last three months and announced a strategic partnership with database technology distributor Hortonworks on 26 September.

Hortonworks is one of the two top providers of enterprise Hadoop platforms and support.

"WANdisco's decision to sharpen its big data focus on becoming the leading solution for high-availability Hadoop implementations makes clear strategic sense," said Edison Investment Research analyst Dan Ridsdale.

"It leverages the company's core IP and turns established players in the Hadoop ecosystem from being potential competitors into potential partners."

WANdisco executive chairman David Richards said the partnership with Hortonworks was "an important milestone" and he was "confident" in his outlook for the year.

Analyst view

"WANdisco is a rare strategic asset offering investors exposure to an IP-based business, not just using or analysing big data, but shaping the way it is delivered," said Ridsdale.

"With a 2014 enterprise value to sales ratio of 28 times, exceptional growth and margin expansion is clearly being priced in.

"However, prospects for achieving this have taken a significant step forward with the Hortonworks partnership and more similar agreements would further strengthen growth prospects," he added.
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WANdisco has a big role to play
WANdisco looks uniquely positioned to address the resilience bottleneck. Through our research with Hadoop end-users and ecosystem peers, we have yet to come across any other company claiming to offer immediate failover or 100% (effectively 99.999%) uptime, enabled by its proprietary active:active replication technology. Commercial progress year to date solidifies this view. The first end-customer (“a tier one telco”) was signed in April, an OEM partnership with leading wireless infrastructure provider, NSN, was announced in August, while the partnership with Hortonworks represents the biggest breakthrough yet.
Partnerships with other important players in the Hadoop ecosystem are clearly being targeted. Other key Hadoop distribution suppliers include Cloudera, which competes more or less directly with Hortonworks with an open-source offering, plus a number of players with hybrid/open-source/proprietary offerings, including MapR, Intel (which also has a partnership with SAP), EMC, with its Pivotal offering and IBM.



However, with successful execution, the business has the potential to scale many times over. We feel these prospects have taken a step forward with the Hortonworks partnership and agreements would further strengthen growth prospects. One also needs to bear in mind that it is a rare strategic asset, offering investors exposure an IP-based business that is not just using or analysing big data, but shaping the way it is delivered. Its credentials as a takeover target are strong and


Potential to scale very rapidly
Looking longer term, we believe the move toward a more horizontal, partner-based strategy and investment in opening up indirect channels will enable WANdisco to scale very significantly. Market analyst Wikibon estimates that the market for Hadoop/NoSQL software and services was worth $542m in 2012 as measured by vendor revenue. Over the next five years, Wikibon forecasts this market will grow at a 45% compound average growth rate to $3.5bn. CA, the Fortune 500 software company, estimates that US companies lose $26.5bn annually from avoidable IT downtime. It also estimates that the average North American business loses $150,000 per year as a result of downtime, whereas the average European company lost $350,000, primarily because the duration of outages was longer. In a 2012 survey by Oracle of its Independent Oracle Users Group, 52% estimated that downtime had cost their company over $500k over the past three years. This figure rose to 61% for correspondents overseeing “Large-Volume Data’ sites of which 16% reported costs of over $1m.
High-margin potential
While we forecast losses in the near term, strong sales traction should translate into robust margin expansion in the longer term. Infrastructure software companies such as Citrix, VMware and BMC, which share similar business models, but have gained substantially more scale, can generate operating margins in the high 20s, low 30s.




http://www.directorstalk.com/edison/WANDisco151013update.pdf

WANdisco’s bookings doubled last quarter

by Oliver Smith

October 16, 2013, 1:42am.....


“It is a silky performance as WANdisco continues to deliver ahead of expectations and primes the market for a sparkling fourth quarter,” said Panmure Gordon.



http://www.cityam.com/article/1381884169/wandisco-s-bookings-doubled-last-quarter

D/C is there a day you haven't updated this thread, just asking like -):

A good company with a lot of good news stan.:-))

Anyway don't ask. lol 13,14 Oct answers your question.

Is Hadoop Ready for the Enterprise?

Jeffrey Kelly | October 23rd

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2013/10/23/is-hadoop-ready-for-the-enterprise/

On the floor of the @NYSEEuronext






Published on 30 Oct 2013




Brett Rudenstein, WANdisco, at Big Data NYC 2013 with John Furrier and Jeff Kelly


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DMJU80gipU


Published on 30 Oct 2013


David Richards and Jagane Sundar, WANdisco,at Big Data NYC 2013 with Dave Vellante


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1DKhCFPsoU



'WANdisco has lightening in a bottle'. 7 min 32 secs into the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWrnQmV7zKM




David Richards ‏@davidrichards 1h
Is #BigData / #Hadoop hype? Well judging by the 3,500 paying delegates @strataconf NY this week & meeting fortune100 deploying- NO IT'S REAL

theCUBE ‏@theCUBE 29 Oct
"2014 is going to be the year when Big Data moves, hugely, into the enterprise." ~ @davidrichards

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First win for @swfc in their @WANdisco jerseys

WANdisco PLC (WAND:LSE) set a new 52-week high during today's trading session when it reached 1,230. Over this period, the share price is up 177.97%.



WANdisco and Pivotal drive Hadoop adoption in the enterprise | #BigDataNYC

Maria Deutscher | November 4th


Technology alliances are becoming increasingly important for WANdisco as it pursues a distribution-agnostic strategy to carve out a slice of the fiercely competitive Big Data market, CTO Jagane Sundar noted in a recent discussion on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2013/11/04/wandisco-and-pivotal-drive-hadoop-adoption-in-the-enterprise-bigdatanyc/

In Shares today - Technology champions, dramatic change is coming in the way we live our lives.

WANDisco being one of five companies set to benefit from tomorrows key technology themes. The returns for investors could be astronomical.

The clever server computer replication technology of WANdisco is the best way to gain exposure to the growth of big data.

CEO David Richards sees WANdisco developing into a $1 billion revenue business in time. Panmure Gordon analysts bookings hitting over$24 million in 2014. Panmure has a DCF based valuation of £14.47

Its patient -protected IP allows big data generators and analytics companies 'always-on' data feeds across the globe via clever server computer replication technology.
Based on open sourced technology ,it uses a 'freemium' model, the firm provides free
access to clients and up-sells various in-house built enterprise extras, including newly
launched tools for the Hadoop 2.0 platform, the engine that powers facebook, Amazon,Google and almost every major sourceof big data. With more than five million users world wide across 2000 international companies, WANdisco's claim of a internal pay-back inside of a year and return -on-investment of 150% for its users is compelling.

WANdisco Dramatically Boosts Developer Productivity and Eliminates Downtime for Leading Technology Provider to the Financial Services Industry


San Ramon, CA – November 7, 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 that a leading global provider of information management and electronic commerce systems for the financial services industry has deployed SVN MultiSite to address productivity losses across its globally distributed development organization caused by poor network performance and outages for remote developers accessing Subversion. After investigating a number of solutions for improving its software development process, WANdisco SVN MultiSite provided the answer to the company’s developer productivity and Subversion server availability challenges.

With more than 500 software developers across three locations in the United States, India, and Central America logging into the same Subversion server, performance and availability were frequent problems, particularly for developers in India. The company estimated daily productivity losses were often as high as 60 percent.

The organization deployed WANdisco SVN MultiSite at two of its three sites, enabling LAN-speed collaboration and allowing all of its developers to work as if they were at one location. With SVN MultiSite, all repositories are fully readable, writeable and continuously in sync.

WANdisco SVN MultiSite removed the single point of failure inherent in their previous implementation of Subversion, providing continuous availability to the entire development organization worldwide with disaster recovery and automatic failover across the sites. Recovery is automatic and immediate if one of the servers goes down, planned or unplanned. When it comes back online it immediately re-synchronizes with the others without administrator involvement. The entire implementation can be monitored and administered from a single location in the US.

“SVN MultiSite is failsafe,” said the company’s director of IT. “If a site in the US were to go down in the old scenario, we would have had to shut down until we fixed it, but we have failover with WANdisco and immediately could redirect to another site in the case of a server outage. We would not be out of business.”

He continued. “Developers no longer wait over an hour to check in code. I used to get one or two emails a day saying that a developer had lost work, had to redo something entirely, or missed a deadline. Lost productivity and bandwidth problems are no longer an issue.”

A recent Forrester Total Economic Impact (TEI) Report completed in July 2013 revealed that SVN MultiSite delivered a return on investment (ROI) of 357% with a payback period of less than two months. The subject of the study was a Fortune 500 company with annual revenues of over $5 billion that had deployed SVN MultiSite two years earlier. Forrester’s TEI methodology measures costs and cost reduction, and weighs the enabling value of a technology in increasing the effectiveness of overall business processes

WANdisco PLC (WAND:LSE) set a new 52-week high during Thursday's trading session when it reached 1,276.07. Over this period, the share price is up 187.01%.

A View From Strata NY: Big Data is Getting Bigger

Published by David Richards on November 9, 2013 in Big Data.

Companies looking to deploy Hadoop are no longer trying to figure out how it might fit into their data centers. They are trying to figure out how to deploy it. 2014 will indeed be the end of trials and the beginning of full-scale enterprise roll-out.


http://blogs.wandisco.com/2013/11/09/view-strata-ny-big-data-getting-bigger/

Strata conference in London Is Now Underway- Wandisco is a Premier Exhibitor.
The future belongs to those who understand how to collect and use their big data successfully.
And that future happens at Strata.

11 -13 NOV

http://strataconf.com/strataeu2013?intcmp=il-strata-steu13-franchise-page

WANdisco Unveils Non-Stop Hadoop for Hortonworks

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WANdisco Unveils Non-Stop Hadoop for Hortonworks 1.5



- Joint market offering embeds WANdisco technology into Hortonworks' Hadoop distribution -

- New version for Hadoop adds performance and management features -





London, UK - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a provider of continuous availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data and distributed software development, is pleased to announce the launch of Non-Stop Hadoop for Hortonworks version 1.5. The new product, the first major release developed in partnership with Hortonworks, includes significant performance and administration enhancements for large multi-data center Hadoop deployments.



This version of WANdisco Non-Stop Hadoop, designed for Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 2.0, provides the ability to schedule maintenance, imports of large data sets, and other activities by time zone. This allows global enterprises to plan for server downtime and maintain performance across data centers that span multiple geographies.



Non-Stop Hadoop for Hortonworks 1.5 adds support for existing Ambari installations. Apache Ambari is the operational framework for provisioning, managing and monitoring Hadoop clusters. Ambari, which is 100 percent open source, includes an intuitive collection of operator tools and a robust set of APIs that hide the complexity of Hadoop, simplifying the operation of clusters.


Commenting on the product release, David Richards, Executive Chairman and CEO, said:



"Since announcing our partnership in September, we have worked swiftly and successfully with Hortonworks to embed our non-stop Hadoop technology into their latest Hadoop distribution to deliver version 1.5, a joint product release for the Big Data market. Non-Stop Hadoop for Hortonworks gives global enterprises the ability to add or remove servers on-the-fly without interrupting user access. This new release also delivers follow-the-sun capabilities that optimize availability and performance by enabling customers to schedule maintenance and other activities by time zone. WANdisco is continually adding features to ensure 100% uptime with scalability and performance. This release of WANdisco Non-Stop Hadoop for Hortonworks expands on these capabilities by making it easier to manage large global deployments across multiple data centers."



Live Demo at Strata London

WANdisco will be demonstrating Non-Stop Hadoop for Hortonworks at its Strata London booth (305), November 11-13 at the Hilton London Metropole. Stop by for a demonstration.

WANdisco top brass on Big Data disruption | #BigDataNYC

Maria Deutscher | November 12th

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2013/11/12/wandisco-top-brass-on-big-data-disruption-bigdatanyc/


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As of Nov 09, 2013, the consensus forecast amongst 5 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 Sep 27, 2013. The previous consensus forecast advised that Wandisco PLC would outperform the market.


WANdisco PLC (WAND:LSE) set a new 52-week high during today's trading session when it reached 1,349. Over this period, the share price is up 205.00%.

WANdisco analyst and investor event

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London, UK - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a provider of continuous availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data and distributed software development, will host a 'Teach-in' for analysts and institutional investors in London today.



A series of presentations will be given by the Group's senior management team, a partner and a customer, this afternoon at the offices of FTI Consulting. No new material trading or financial information will be disclosed.



For details of today's event please contact FTI Consulting on the numbers below.



For those who cannot make the event, it will be webcast live at 3pm UK (10am EST) at http://www.media-server.com/m/p/rd9ehqoz

Participants can alternatively listen to the presentation via a conference call. Please dial in 5-10 minutes prior to the start time using the telephone numbers and conference ID below.

David Richards ‏@davidrichards 50m
Winners! We won an award at the @CityAM awards last night. Congrats to all @WANdisco pic.twitter.com/DcJ6Ah57sH

Innovative Company of the Year









Mind Candy and WanDisco

Judges awarded a joint prize this year. Mind Candy's Michael Acton Smith was praised for spearheading London's role as a tech hub, while WanDisco – led by David Richards' – push into Big Data was also lauded.

http://www.cityam.com/city-am-awards-2013/winners

Interesting article in Shares this week - 101% is the average indicative gain you would of made had you automatically invested in all technology-based IPOs since 2010.


While the returns have been spectacular , there may still be upside for the taking. Top performer WANdisco, up 556% since June 2012, remains an interesting play on the big data theme.

Is it time to invest in Digital Britain? Five top technology shares to rival Twitter

By Marc Shoffman

PUBLISHED: 15:50, 15 November 2013 | UPDATED: 15:50, 15 November 2013


WANdisco





Price-to-earnings ratio: -27.35


Dividend yield: 0

Share price as of 13 November: 1,302.50p

Most recent profits: £8m loss (31 Dec 2012)


Wandisco provides data storage for the software development industry.


It provides free access to large storage that can be accessed and backed up from anywhere in the world and then charges for extra services.


The company raised $24million in a London Stock Exchange listing in June 2012.

It has a p/e ratio of minus 27.35, because its most recent results showed an £8m loss. However, investors backing the company believe a profitable future looms.


However, this also reflects the young age of the company, it is just over a year old, and could also be a sign that the company is undervalued. Cloud storage and data security is a big issue at the moment so WANdisco, which provides products used by companies such as Intel, Motorola, Facebook and Google could be in a decent position to take advantage.

Mr Mould says: ‘With more than 5million users worldwide across 2,000 international companies, WANdisco's claim of an internal pay-back inside of a year and return-on-investment of 150% for its users is compelling.


‘While the £272million cap company is not currently expected to make a profits breakthrough until 2015 at the earliest, these estimates are based solely on existing products, suggesting the possibility of cashflow neutrality late next year, or early 2015.


‘Chief executive David Richards sees WANdisco developing into a $1billion revenue business, ambitious given last year's $7.9million of bookings. That will double in 2013, according to some analysts, hitting more than $24million in 2014.’



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/investing/article-2505169/Five-UK-technology-stocks-rival-Twitter.html