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/

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.

Is the "big data" concept similar to that used by Autonomy for some years but taken some steps further?

Looks so Halifax. HP may do business with Cloudera . Non stop Hadoop is lets say the Rolls Royce of Big data. Its being shown now that it is a must have in businesses, hence why one of the top Big data companies Cloudera has partnered WANdisco.
The non stop Hadoop is patented by Wandisco. Otherwise no doubt HP will have to approach WAND.

dc thanks most helpful.

Hp are partners of Cloudera . So Cloudera is a very important partner to Wand. Also noticed another huge partner of Cloudea which is Teradata, net income in 2012 0f $419 million.

Mail today - Panmure Gordon's guru George O'connor who has been a mega fan and buyer of WANdisco since its flotation at 180p was advising clients to load up again yesterday as he raised his target price to 1496p from 1447p. Many did and the stck closed 15p better at 1406p. The company has struck a deal with data management company Cloudera.
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Extension of post 449 -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.
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WANdisco passes Hadoop milestone with CDH certification
Maria Deutscher | December 12th

Well worth watching this video.

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2013/12/12/wandisco-passes-hadoop-milestone-with-chd-certification/

Mike Olson Cloudera's chief strategy officer.


Mike Olson ‏@mikeolson 16h
Very glad to be working with @davidrichards and @WANdisco: Non-Stop #Hadoop is now certified to run on @Cloudera!

Release of New Version of SVN MultiSite Plus

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SVN MultiSite Plus 1.2 Boosts Performance, Security and Manageability for Global Enterprises Using Subversion





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 the next release of SVN MultiSite Plus: the Company's performance, scalability and continuous availability solution for global enterprises using Subversion. The new features of this release further simplify the product's configuration and administration and enhance its performance and security.



The key new features of SVN MultiSite Plus 1.2 include centralized management and replicated configuration settings for simplified administration, and enhanced security across multiple development sites. These features alleviate administrative burdens for enterprises looking to streamline their global software development efforts.



The new release also enables easy integration with WANdisco's leading SVN Access Control product for further security and simplicity. SVN Access Control provides full authorization, authentication, access control and audit capabilities that go well beyond what Apache Subversion provides on its own. With an easy-to-use point-and-click interface, SVN Access Control makes it easy to implement and maintain complex security policies to protect valuable intellectual property and ensure a complete audit trail for compliance purposes.



Finally, SVN MultiSite Plus 1.2 includes an optimized distributed configuration which eliminates Wide Area Network ("WAN") traffic between the highest traffic site in a global enterprise and the remaining sites, significantly enhancing overall performance. This helps enterprises to speed up development cycles and deliver high quality products to market on schedule.



"Global enterprises require flexibility and the ability to tailor global deployments for performance, continuous availability and security," said Jay Lyman, senior analyst for enterprise software at 451 Research. "WANdisco is addressing these needs with SVN MultiSite Plus and this release specifically."




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

"SVN MultiSite Plus is essential to any global development organization that needs to ensure continuous availability to their source code. As with all of our product releases, SVN MultiSite Plus 1.2 enhances performance, manageability and security, which are the top areas of concern for our customers."





Jay Lyman, Senior Analyst for enterprise software at 451 Research added:

"Global enterprises require flexibility and the ability to tailor global deployments for performance, continuous availability and security. WANdisco is addressing these needs with SVN MultiSite Plus and this release specifically."





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Apache Hadoop and Subversion are trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their registered owners.

December 16, 2013

WANdisco Plots Growth Solving Hadoop’s NameNode



As 2013 comes to a close, the database wonder kid Hadoop is strong as ever. However, the strength of Hadoop isn’t going to mean everyone selling it survives. The year 2014 looks be very rocky road for a lot of the pushers in the over-crowded Hadoop marketplace. One lesser-known Hadoop vendor, WANdisco, isn’t too concerned.

Since Cloudera came on the scene with the first commercial release of its supported Hadoop distribution, the market has exploded with Hadoop offerings as vendors ranging from start-ups to industry giants have moved to capitalize on the framework. As some of the larger dogs in the pack race towards IPOs, others are left to find a niche before the air runs out of the room.

WANdisco, a solution provider in the Hadoop arena, seems to have found its safety spot by attacking a specific critical problem area within the Hadoop framework, and endeavoring to master it. While the other vendors in the space rushed to make their distributions feature rich so as to entice enterprises with impressive outlays and capabilities, WANdisco focused its efforts largely on a single problem: the troublesome NameNode -- the Achilles' heel of the elephant. It’s been a problem that has largely prevented the framework from becoming the large scale transactional system that vendors hope it can be.

A centerpiece of the Hadoop HDFS file system, the NameNode serves as the directory for the Hadoop mall, telling the system where the file data is kept across the cluster. If the NameNode goes down, the system is effectively unusable – a critical flaw for systems that require high availability. WANdisco says it's solved this problem, creating what it calls a “Non-Stop Hadoop.” This fall, it's added two of the largest names in the Hadoop sphere, Hortonworks and Cloudera, as partners, effectively validating its solution and signalling that WANdisco will be around for some time to come.

“We don’t actually want our own Hadoop distribution,” David Richards, WANdisco CEO told Datanami in an interview last week. “We think we can leverage vendors like Hortonworks and Cloudera much better.” Tagged on to two of the biggest names in the Hadoop-sphere, WANdisco has gone from an obscure Hadoop vendor to being a key enabler for the future of the commercial framework.

“The bet that we placed was that Hadoop would go from batch processing, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn (and so on), cheap storage, to a transactional system where we would see high volumes of storage and transaction processing come together as a single application,” Richards told us. “In order to see that come to fruition, then Hadoop has to move from a batch processing system to a transaction processing system. I think that’s precisely what we’re seeing in the marketplace begin to happen.”

Doug Cutting, the father of the Hadoop technology, clearly agrees. "The prediction we can make here is it's inevitable that we'll see just about every kind of workload move to this platform, even online transaction processing," he told an audience at this Fall’s Strata + Hadoop World conference, referencing some of the work being done in the space, including a paper Google published showing that OLTP can run on a Hadoop style system.

Richards says it’s just a matter of time. “We’re seeing everything from banks and trading systems look at this,” he told us. “We’re seeing fraud analysis systems, and other applications where large amounts of storage is part of the transaction. If that’s the case, continuous availability isn’t a 'might need' – it’s an absolute 'must have.' Because that’s what’s in place with transaction processing systems today, and our value in this marketplace is that we are the only enabler of continuous availability of Apache Hadoop period.”

Indeed, the two key problems for Hadoop as an enterprise-ready system have been the NameNode problem, as well as a fundamental lack of security that has plagued the framework until just recently. While both problems have been feverishly worked on, WANdisco, and seemingly its two high profile partners, believe that they’ve put the screws to the first one, opening the door wider for greater enterprise adoption.

The year 2014, says Richards, will be a banner year for that march. “I don’t even think that we’ve really gotten going in terms of enterprises deploying Hadoop as a sort of data centric operating system, if you will,” he told us, noting that Hadoop 2.0 and its centerpiece YARN will be a big part of what gets that going. “We are certainly seeing Hadoop move from a batch processing system to a transactional system. YARN is really the enabler for third party vendors to plug their technologies into Apache Hadoop.”

“I expect to see pretty large scale deployment of Hadoop in production environments that replace traditional technologies,” predicts Richards for 2014. “I’m not just talking about the data warehouse – I’m talking about transactional systems. This could be a generation shift in the same way that client server disrupted mainframe. I would expect to see Hadoop disrupt the client server marketplace. This is Haley’s Comet in IT terms – you only see this once in a generation.”

So while the air in the Hadoop room starts to run out in a crowded marketplace, Hadoop appears to have a very bright future for the vendors that are able to muscle out the others. WANdisco appears to have found a lucrative niche that positions it well for the long term.

“I don’t think survival is our objective,” Richards told us. “Our objective is hyper growth.”




http://www.datanami.com/datanami/2013-12-16/wandisco_plots_growth_solving_hadoop%E2%80%99s_namenode.html

Interesting - I would expect to see Hadoop disrupt the client server marketplace. This is Haley’s Comet in IT terms – you only see this once in a generation.”


The year 2014, says Richards, will be a banner year for that march. “I don’t even think that we’ve really gotten going in terms of enterprises deploying Hadoop as a sort of data centric operating system, if you will,” he told us, noting that Hadoop 2.0 and its centerpiece YARN will be a big part of what gets that going. “We are certainly seeing Hadoop move from a batch processing system to a transactional system. YARN is really the enabler for third party vendors to plug their technologies into Apache Hadoop.”

“I expect to see pretty large scale deployment of Hadoop in production environments that replace traditional technologies,” predicts Richards for 2014. “I’m not just talking about the data warehouse – I’m talking about transactional systems. This could be a generation shift in the same way that client server disrupted mainframe. I would expect to see Hadoop disrupt the client server marketplace. This is Haley’s Comet in IT terms – you only see this once in a generation.”

So while the air in the Hadoop room starts to run out in a crowded marketplace, Hadoop appears to have a very bright future for the vendors that are able to muscle out the others. WANdisco appears to have found a lucrative niche that positions it well for the long term.

I am just wondering how long till WANdisco is snapped up by a predator. :-)) WAND has something even the big boys do not. Below does not link to my comment.


Richards says it’s just a matter of time. “We’re seeing everything from banks and trading systems look at this,” he told us. “We’re seeing fraud analysis systems, and other applications where large amounts of storage is part of the transaction. If that’s the case, continuous availability isn’t a 'might need' – it’s an absolute 'must have.' Because that’s what’s in place with transaction processing systems today, and our value in this marketplace is that we are the only enabler of continuous availability of Apache Hadoop period.”
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Noticed the two 142,500 buys today. :-))
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I wonder how much @yahoo's "massive email outage" cost them this week?


http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/12/tech/web/yahoo-email-outage/index.html

David Richards, is the chief executive of WANdisco

Quote:

"....WANDisco’s technology enables the replication of data in real time, according to Richards, this has two implications – it makes collaboration across multiple locations a lot quicker and it also means if a server goes down somewhere, you still have the current data in numerous other places – known as continuous availability.

‘We completely eliminate outages,’ beams Richards. ‘For example I was talking to a bank the other day and if its trading system goes down, there is a cost of $100m per minute – we can stop that.’

There’s certainly no shortage of companies that have been hit with the odd outage – just look as NASDAQ’s unfortunate series of them; which depending on who you talk to, may have lost it Twitter’s IPO.

WANDisco [standing for wide area network distributed computing] applies this technology to two markets, the software development market (HP is its largest client with 50,000 users throughout the company) and big data – something Richards is expecting to take off - thanks in no small part to an acquisition WANDisco made late last year....."

Taken from: http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/news/1222291/