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/

Yes, me to, But big spreads put me off as well... Anyway, what did you bring me back then from your travels, And don't give me that old pony about (left my duty frees at the Airport) stuff -):

lol

cynic, Stan

We need people like you to find and use the 'positive aspects' of big spreads for utterly fantastic stock such as this.

:-)

IMHO, big spreads usually exist when a market for the stock is not very actively traded and it has a low volume of contracts traded. Thus it doesn't take much action to get the sp moving. As the fundies and prospects are quite good for WAND, this is what has whanged the sp skywards.

I suppose the secret with a stock like this, is not to get too greedy and to try to selectively take targeted profits.

I would regard this as being the type of stock you can buy and sit on and don't have to get too bothered about watching it all the time.

the reasons i stated are why i did not dabble previously .... it was just the write-up 7/10 days ago by QL that brought it back

Stan - a suitcase full of new abuse especially tailor-made for you :-))

Agree ExecLine but this must deliver large Big data customers in 2014.

i rarely trade very short term, but to repeat yet again, i also don't like stocks that are so totally illiquid and whose price can easily be manipulated by MMs

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in fact, while we were discussing, spread came down to a sensible 10p, so on the back of QL (he picked up on BLNX too ages ago) i have bought

we shall see

Again anything Big data imho will soar.

you must have bought when the company launched then

:-))

David Richards is out to make this a $1 billion company.

who or what are Arria?

The number one riser today. View my thread not to far from this one.

i have read the long article on WAND in QL ..... if the chap writing it wasn't a pretty smart cookie, i'ld say that it sounds very much emperor's new clothes and/or "dotcom doesn't work on normal logic for investment"

They are actually called Arria NLG and the epic is NLG.

Here is some facts The total Big Data market reached $11.59 billion in 2012, The Big Data market is projected to reach $18.1 billion in 2013, an annual growth of 61%. This puts it on pace to exceed $47 billion by 2017. That translates to a 31% compound annual growth rate over the five year period 2012-2017. This is what wandisco would like a share of.

i read and indeed i have bought a few, but i really have no clue as to what they actually do, let alone how it all works etc etc ...... but i could say the same about BLNX from which i have done very well

I suppose having been burnt In my early investing days I tend to stay well away of the smaller stocks these days.

For investment purposes, Big Data is all very 'exciting, novel, fashionable, etc, and is also used by massive companies, such as Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter and the like.

90% of all the data in the world was created in only the last 2 years.

The other 10% of all the data in the world took from the beginning of time to the period which ended just two years ago to be produced.

Daft or wot?

Anyhow, all this data is processed by the Big Data boys.

Big or wot?

Wandisco is being driven by - they paid $5m for a company called AltoStor, whose founders were part of the team that invented something called Hadoop while they were at Yahoo. Hadoop is the open source platform for big data – it is the underlying data base for things like Pinterest, Facebook, LinkedIn and so on.

‘There are only four or five companies out there who can develop Hadoop and Wandisco is now one of them.

Essentially, WANDisco aims to be the company all Hadoop users go to for ‘continuous availability.’ It’s a pretty big call – more than half of the Fortune 500 use Hadoop – and as big data gets well, bigger, that is surely set to rise. Whether you’re interested in big data or not, Richards’ plans for WANDisco and its technology are impressive.








100% Global Uptime for Hadoop

Non-Stop Hadoop applies WANdisco’s patented replication technology to deliver 100% uptime by eliminating Hadoop’s most problematic single point of failure — the NameNode — providing the first and only continuous availability solution for globally distributed deployments. All NameNode servers in a Hadoop cluster deployed over a WAN actively support clients at each location and along with the data nodes, are continuously synchronized. The result is LAN-speed performance and access to the same data at every location. Failover and recovery are automatic both within and across data centers. Whether a single server or an entire site goes down, Hadoop is always available.

Big data 'vital' to UK economy - but more experts needed, says SAS Institut


By Danny Palmer

08 Nov 2013



UK companies are struggling to find employees with the big data and analytics skills that they need.

That's according to a new report released by SAS Institute, called "Big Data Analytics: Adoption and employment trends". It suggests that 69,000 big data specialists will be needed in the public and private sectors by 2017 for organisations to be able to properly make evidence-based business decisions.



It's estimated that one-third of large organisations will adopt a big data analytics programme over the next five years, pushing up demand for those with the required skills by 243 per cent, compared with the number currently available.

"Business sectors across the economy are being transformed by data, analytics, and modelling. The UK now has the opportunity to take a lead in the global efforts to deal with the volume, velocity and variety of data created each day," said Lord Green, Minister of State for Trade and Investment.

"To do this we need to ensure the government, academia and businesses work together to further develop the skills available to us today and actively support programmes that nurture development in the next generation."

Professor Philip Treleaven, Director of UK Financial Computing Centre at University College London added that there needs to be a particular focus on development of analytical skills required in finanicial services, with the sector one of the largest adopters of big data.

"There is a real need to focus on business analytics and in particular ask our colleagues working in social science to look at the development of courses that will tap into the richness of information that is available from consumers through initiatives such as customer loyalty," he said

"We also need to bring students to our industry organisations that are already working with big data. If we find the right student and place them with the organisation, it provides the businesses with resources to explore just how they can turn insight from their data into business innovation.

It also means that the data retains its integrity in the environment designed for it and a stronger chance of employment for the student," Professor Treleaven added.

Karen Price, CEO at e-skills UK argued that the UK has the potential to be a global leader in the teaching and application of big data and analytics skills.

"We recognise that big data analytics skills are a strategic priority for UK businesses, alongside areas like cyber security, e-commerce and mobile computing," she said.

"These are skills upon which companies of all sizes will be reliant in future, and in which the UK has global leadership potential.

"In recognition of this, we are bringing employers and educators together, to develop industry-led apprenticeships, degree courses and professional development opportunities, which will raise the skill levels of existing workers and increase the supply of new entrants with specialist expertise," Price concluded.

The SAS report is based on what the firm calls the largest study on the uptake of big data and analytics ever undertaken in the UK, with information collected from over 1,000 organisations.