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 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.

MP Fox: UK must lead on big data
Friday, November 29, 2013,


http://www.decisionmarketing.co.uk/news/liam-fox-uk-must-lead-on-big-data

DC - if you're into this sort of stuff, then you should also be into 3D printing

Lol, This will do for now.Just the man, when you said in an earlier post that you had read an article in QL. What is QL?

Quantum Leap

Thanks, I see they have a free trial period.

3D printing companies - they're few on the ground but certainly the way forward ..... SSYS and DDD both in NYSE .... don't think any uk companies, but XAR may the closest

Thanks. So did you purchase WAND or NLG ?

WAND .... IG had screwed up the CFD dealing platform for NLG on friday, but perhaps sorted over w/e

Had a look at some of the IPO's on the NYSE of Big data firms, what a success they have been. There does not at the moment look like any more IPO's for big data firms
in the near future here. Wand may be a long term hold now. Its a company that has kept investors well feed on news and I hope for more in 2014.

NLG - I hope the appetite for this stock carries on into Monday. There was a good article in the Mail today, so may again do well Monday.

it's nice to find an alternative to commodities in one form or another

Steven Frazer‏@SharesMagSteve
Just noticed, #WAND closed +£15 last week. Blimey, I (half-jokingly) said £20 in 2014 other week
7:49 AM - 9 Dec 13 from San Francisco, CA

Partnership with Cloudera

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WANdisco agrees second strategic Big Data channel partnership



Cloudera Certifies WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop Technology to Run on Cloudera's Hadoop Distribution (CDH)





London, UK - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), the provider of continuous availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a new, strategic Big Data channel partnership with Cloudera.



Cloudera is a leader in enterprise analytic data management powered by Apache™ Hadoop®, with over 700 hardware, software and services partners and has certified WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop technology to run on its Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop version 4 (CDH4), providing 100% uptime for global multi-data centre deployments.



Today's partnership is the second strategic Big Data channel partnership WANdisco has agreed since the launch of its first Big Data product in February of this year. This adds a significant route to market for WANdisco's Big Data products, aligned to an established and leading provider of Big Data solutions to the Enterprise.



WANdisco's Big Data products are designed to address the critical enterprise requirements for continuous availability, performance and scalability as large global organizations move from using Hadoop for batch storage and retrieval to mission critical high volume real-time applications, where the cost of even one minute of downtime is unacceptable.




Commenting on the partnership, David Richards, WANdisco Executive Chairman and CEO, said:



"We are delighted to announce our partnership with Cloudera today. Enterprises are adopting Hadoop as a core element of their IT infrastructure and our go-to-market strategy is to build out our channel partnerships with leaders in Hadoop, such as Cloudera. This is another endorsement of our strategy to become the de-facto continuous availability layer in the Hadoop deployment stack. We are the only vendor that can deliver continuous data availability that is a 'must-have' for strategic deployments."



Tim Stevens, vice president, Business and Corporate Development, Cloudera added:



"CDH is the core of Cloudera's enterprise platform. CDH together with WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop technology enables us to deliver our full suite of real-time data analytics and data management applications with continuous availability for those customers who require it."

A Cloudera company link for those interested.

Cloudera is the leader in Apache Hadoop-based software and services and offers a powerful new data platform that enables enterprises and organizations to look at all their data — structured as well as unstructured — and ask bigger questions for unprecedented insight at the speed of thought.


Behind some of the top minds in Big Data, including Doug Cutting, who invented Hadoop, Cloudera enhances the storage and processing technologies originally developed by the world’s biggest Web companies. Today, Cloudera is the market leader in Hadoop with tens of thousands of nodes under management, as well as the top contributor of code to the Hadoop ecosystem. Markets include financial services, government, telecommunications, media, web, advertising, retail, energy, bioinformatics, pharma/healthcare, university research, oil and gas, gaming and more.





http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/home.html

WANdisco: Panmure Gordon raises target price from 1447p to 1496p and stays with its buy recommendation.

Cloudera has had to come to Wandisco for the non stop Hadoop, as it is patented.

All coming together.

Commenting on the partnership, David Richards, WANdisco Executive Chairman and CEO, said:



"We are delighted to announce our partnership with Cloudera today. Enterprises are adopting Hadoop as a core element of their IT infrastructure and our go-to-market strategy is to build out our channel partnerships with leaders in Hadoop, such as Cloudera. This is another endorsement of our strategy to become the de-facto continuous availability layer in the Hadoop deployment stack. We are the only vendor that can deliver continuous data availability that is a 'must-have' for strategic deployments."




Tim Stevens, vice president, Business and Corporate Development, Cloudera added:



"CDH is the core of Cloudera's enterprise platform. CDH together with WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop technology enables us to deliver our full suite of real-time data analytics and data management applications with continuous availability for those customers who require it."

Cloudera has raised a further $65 million Dec 2012 to further Hadoop adoption, now totalling $140 million. The company is now one of the leaders in the big data movement and is valued at $700 million. The big boys are now coming to Wandisco.

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Will be good in the next few days to have Analyst Reviews on what this news will bring WANdisco. This news has certainly put WANdisco on the map.

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http://www.datanami.com/datanami/2013-11-01/idc_report:_cloudera_leading_hadoop_distro_choices.html



In a report released by analyst firm IDC this week surveying attitudes and adoption of Apache Hadoop in the enterprise, Cloudera took top honors in leading the field as the distribution of choice.

The study, commissioned by Red Hat and titled “Trends in Enterprise Hadoop Deployments,” found that of the 32% of respondents who indicated their firms have existing Hadoop deployments, Cloudera is leading the field for adoption with nearly a quarter of all enterprise Hadoop deployments being Cloudera installations.

Per the IDC Report:

”The three leading suppliers – Cloudera, MapR, and Hortonworks – dominate the enterprise Hadoop scene. When asked about the reasons for selecting the said distributions, the vast majority of respondents cited support, management and storage costs. In other words, the “DIY” model for Hadoop appeals to only a few businesses; the rest mostly go for commercial variants, much like the route they opted for with Linux.”

Edison - WANdisco’s partnership with Cloudera means that it is now the high-resilience partner for the two largest Hadoop distribution vendors, accounting for the significant majority of commercial deployments globally. This is another significant endorsement of the technology, reduces customer risk and opens up the possibility of achieving strong margins in the longer term.

Note: *PBT and EPS are normalised, excluding intangible amortisation, exceptional items and share-based payments.
Partnership with another Hadoop market leader
WANdisco has entered into a strategic channel partnership with Cloudera, whereby Cloudera has certified WANdisco’s Non-Stop Hadoop technology to run on Cloudera’s Hadoop Distribution CDH4 to provide 100% uptime for global multi-data centre deployments. Cloudera was the first commercial Hadoop software supplier and its CDH distribution (the underlying platform on which a Hadoop implementation runs) is the most widely deployed globally.
Prospects significantly strengthened
Together with Hortonworks, (with which WANdisco announced a partnership in October), WANdisco now has partnerships with the number one and two Hadoop distribution suppliers globally. Reliable market share statistics are hard to come by, but a recent article in ZDNet suggested that these two vendors between them hold c 85% of the commercial Hadoop distribution market. Thus this partnership significantly enhances the probability of WANDisco becoming the dominant supplier of high availability Hadoop solutions. Other key vendors include Pivotal, Microsoft (which has a partnership with Hortonworks), MapR and (arguably) Intel.
Valuation: Rare strategic asset
This is an important step forward for the investment case, because businesses with IP-based, indirect business models that establish a dominant position in large markets are able to enjoy very rapid growth and strong margins. ARM is the most successful case in point. (21% 10-year sales CAGR and 46% EBITDA margins forecast for 2013). On a DCF basis, we believe the market is pricing in sustained growth of c 80%, with EBITDA margins expanding to just over 35% by 2017, or 70% growth with EBITDA margins of 45%. Gauging the company’s ability to achieve these kinds of figures is difficult until big data customer deal flow starts to come in. Nevertheless, the company continues to cement its position at the heart of this major structural trend in technology and there should be clear strategic value associated with this.