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 gets a passing mention on the 'Latest' page on the Hoogi website. Hoogi mostly picks stocks that are already on the up but look like continuing. Though this one appears to be on a watchlist rather than in a portfolio.

Lol, I like Hoogi Juzzle

RNS Number : 4928Q

WANdisco Plc

07 November 2012










7 November 2012

WANdisco plc



("WANdisco" or the "Company")



WANdisco Patent



WANdisco Awarded U.S. Patent for Core Active-Active Data Replication Technology



Sheffield, UK & San Ramon CA - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a leading provider of global collaboration software to the software development industry, announces that, after a thorough examination process, the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) has allowed the Company's U.S. Patent Application, which will protect the Company's core replication technology. The patent application was allowed on November 6, 2012.

The allowed patent application, entitled "Distributed computing systems and system components thereof" covers fundamentals of active-active replication over a Wide Area Network ("WAN"). The patent states that "unlike conventional solutions, the multi-site computing system architecture does not rely on a central transaction coordinator that is known to be a single-point-of-failure." The patented technology is incorporated in WANdisco's product range, including Subversion MultiSite, which is used by leading companies such as HP, Intel, Barclays, McAfee, Honda and Wal-Mart for globally distributed software development.



The directors believe that this technology can be deployed in many other technology verticals including the Big Data market, which according to Wikibon is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 58% between now and 2017 or from $5 billion to over $50 billion.



Commenting on the patent, David Richards, WANdisco Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said:



"I am delighted the USPTO has allowed WANdisco's patent, which we believe to be a breakthrough in the field of data replication. This patent validates our leadership in distributed computing and our belief that no other company can achieve active-active replication over a Wide Area Network. We believe this patent is far reaching and will change storage area networks and their application. Presently, we have integrated this technology into our version control systems for software engineers and have plans, as previously stated, to apply the technology in the Big Data market - today's patent decision re-confirms our belief, as the leader in this field."

WANdisco receives patent approval in US
Wed 07 Nov 2012

WAND - Wandisco

Latest Prices
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Wandisco 442.50p +8.59%

FTSE AIM All-Share 698 -0.28%

LONDON (SHARECAST) - WANdisco, the California-based collaboration software developer, has announced that the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) has allowed the company's US patent application, meaning the company's core replication technology is now protected.

The patent covers distributed computing systems over a Wide Area Network (WAN), and states that "unlike conventional solutions, the multi-site computing system architecture does not rely on a central transaction coordinator that is known to be a single-point-of-failure". The patented technology is incorporated in WANdisco's product range.

The directors believe that this technology can be deployed in many other technology verticals including the Big Data market, which according to Wikibon is forecast to grow at a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 58% between now and 2017 or from $5bn to over $50bn.

David Richards, WANdisco Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said: "I am delighted the USPTO has allowed WANdisco's patent, which we believe to be a breakthrough in the field of data replication. This patent validates our leadership in distributed computing and our belief that no other company can achieve active-active replication over a Wide Area Network.

"We believe this patent is far reaching and will change storage area networks and their application. Presently, we have integrated this technology into our version control systems for software engineers and have plans, as previously stated, to apply the technology in the Big Data market - today's patent decision re-confirms our belief, as the leader in this field."

Flipping heck DC up 35p today, you will be needing the brown trousers sooner than you think on this one alone. Well done.

Not a good day market wise

WANdisco: Panmure Gordon ups target from 459p to 460p, buy rating kept

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/business-news/wandisco-celebrates-patent-ruling-1-5104623

Today’s announcement of a patent award marks the end of a six-year process to assess WANdisco’s technology against all potential competitors’. The US Patent Office has now confirmed that WANdisco’s approach to replicating data servers across long-distances is unique. The business disruption caused by Hurricane Sandy last week serves as a timely reminder of why WANdisco’s technology could prove extremely valuable to ‘Big Data’ operators.

WANdisco intends to give Big Data operators the ability to transfer users seamlessly from a data centre in New York, to a data centre in, say, Singapore. The industry cost of data outages during Hurricane Sandy could prove to be many multiples of WANdisco’s market cap, so the newly-patented technology has the potential to become an extremely valuable component in Big Data systems.

http://www.wandisco.com/get?f=documentation%2Fanalyst-reviews%2Fbpr-wandisco-nov2012.pdf

1 night, 2 awards ceremonies, 2 awards

Published by David Richards on November 16, 2012

http://blogs.wandisco.com/

In a strange twist of fate we were nominated for two separate awards and two separate awards ceremonies and won them both!

The first award was at the techMark 2012 awards dinner in London in the Emerging Star category. Panmure Gordon’s tech analyst George O’Conner picked up the award on behalf of us. Thank you George, Panmure, LSE and event sponsors PWC.

The second award was at the Shares Awards 2012 also in London in the Best IPO category. Thanks to Steve Frazer and the Shares Magazine team.

Awards are always nice for the ego, but as a company we are more focused on execution. We didn’t attend these awards, not because we didn’t want to, we are simply too busy at the moment.

WANdisco snaps up AltoStor
StockMarketWire.com
WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a leading provider of global collaboration software to the software development industry, has completed the acquisition of Silicon Valley based software company, AltoStor.

It believes this acquisition will enhance and accelerate its ability to develop new products for the Big Data market, which the Directors believe represents a significant, long-term growth opportunity for the company.

Under the terms of the acquisition, WANdisco has purchased 100% of the equity of AltoStor for a total consideration of $5.1m, of which $3.6m will be satisfied via the issue of 525,911 new WANdisco ordinary shares (equating to 2.47% of the enlarged issued share capital).

Commenting on the acquisition, David Richards, WANdisco Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said: "The AltoStor acquisition will enable WANdisco to launch products quickly into the highly lucrative Big Data market.

"Combining our technology with the founders of the Hadoop project is a significant coup and an important aspect of this deal is that the founders of AltoStor believe in the WANdisco story - that's why they are committing to this direction for the long term."





At 8:00am: (LON:WAND) share price was +7.5p at 445p

WANdisco: Panmure Gordon cuts target price from 460p to 537p, buy recommendation reiterated.

(November 19, 2012) – WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a leading provider of global collaboration software to the software development industry, announced today it has completed the acquisition of Silicon Valley-based software company AltoStor. This acquisition underscores WANdisco's drive into the Big Data solutions market, forecasted by analyst firm Wikibon to grow 58% between 2012 and 2017 and from $5 billion to over $50 billion in the same timeframeAltoStor is a small, pioneering firm with a deep expertise in the Big Data market. Its founders, Dr. Konstantin Shvachko and Jagane Sundar, are among the core Apache Hadoop creators, developers and on-going contributors. Hadoop is a proven open source Big Data technology that is the backbone of many of the world's largest and most important databases utilized by companies such as Yahoo, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon and eBay.

"The AltoStor acquisition will enable WANdisco to launch products quickly into the highly-lucrative Big Data market," said WANdisco Chairman and CEO David Richards. "Combining our patented technology with AltoStor's Big Data platform will provide us with a significant competitive advantage and provide organizations with a more reliable approach for managing big data. The support AltoStor's founders have for the WANdisco story is an important part of this deal."

By applying WANdisco's patented "active-active replication" technology, currently being deployed to enable faster, more efficient software development, to Big Data, businesses could take steps to minimize data loss and realize zero downtime in operating large, mission-critical databases. WANdisco plans to announce the availability of its first Big Data-targeted solution in Q1 2013.

In addition, the AltoStor founders will join WANdisco and play a leading role in WANdisco's Big Data product development and rollout. Shvachko and Sundar have unparalleled expertise in Big Data, and specifically Hadoop, which they helped create as part of a 12-person team at Yahoo. More recently, Shvachko implemented Hadoop at eBay where he was the Principal Big Data Architect. Sundar will join as chief technology officer & vice president of engineering for Big Data and Shvachko as the chief architect of Big Data.

"Prior to this acquisition, we had a number of options including venture capital and acquisition approaches from several large Silicon Valley software companies desiring to enhance their Big Data products," said Shvachko. "When we first spoke with WANdisco, we recognized immediately that WANdisco's patented replication technology, combined with AltoStor's products and knowledge, could create a compelling product offering that virtually every enterprise looking to deploy Hadoop could utilize."

http://www.edisoninvestmentresearch.co.uk/researchreports/WANdisco191112Update.pdf

WANdisco Expands Management Team

http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4488573

WAND

WANdisco

Panmure Gordon

Buy

Buy

537

537

http://www.wandisco.com/get?f=documentation%2Fanalyst-reviews%2Fbpr-wandisco-nov2012-2.pdf

WANdisco
Strutting its stuff

http://www.wandisco.com/get?f=documentation%2Fanalyst-reviews%2FWANdisco-Flash-28-11-12.pdf

What is the UK's answer to Silicon Valley?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9773000/9773968.stm

Ah yes Old St. Center of the Universe -):