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/

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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WANdisco Releases New Version of SVN MultiSite Plus



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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David Richards ‏@davidrichards 35m
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/

DC,

You say: "Noticed the two 142,500 buys today. :-))"

These Type 'O' trades were for transactions of 142.5 times the market size for this share (ms for Wandisco is 1,000 shares). As such the reporting of them to the market has undoubtedly been delayed by quite a time.

Since the sp has dropped considerably these last few days, undoubtedly someone was off-loading them. Indeed, it could have been these trades that accounted for the drop, IMHO.

If you disagree with my take on this or feel you are better informed, then I will bow to your better judgement on it. :-)

Thanks ExecLine, agree.

The Open Source Wave in SCM

Published by Randy DeFauw on December 20, 2013 in Git and Subversion. 0 Comments
A recent Forrester survey has confirmed what those of us working in the ALM space have seen coming for several years: the open source wave has hit SCM. The wave isn’t on the horizon, it’s not something you need to prepare for someday – it has well and truly arrived.

The numbers tell the tale. As you can see in the infographic below, Subversion and Git lead the enterprise SCM market with a share of 28.8%.




http://blogs.wandisco.com/2013/12/20/open-source-wave-scm/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=WANdisco+Blogs&utm_term=WANdisco%2C+Blog

Cloudera - One of WANDS partners -



December 19, 2013, 2:18 pm Comment

Cloudera Moves Deeper Into Public Cloud Computing

By QUENTIN HARDY



Mike Olson, chief strategy officer of Cloudera, which offers a popular version of the open source database called Hadoop.



If there were a prize for not blinking at the facts, it would go to Cloudera.

The company, a maker of data management software, said on Wednesday that it would offer its business-class software on the public computing cloud. Until now, Cloudera had sold its software into private systems, either on its own or through resellers.

The move is another acknowledgment of the growing power of public clouds, which are ways that companies and individuals can rent vast amounts of computing power, data storage and software over the Internet. In addition, it’s an admission by Cloudera that the company needs to take its products to a place where they could conceivably help a competitor.

Cloudera makes for big data analysis based on an open source project called Hadoop. Cloudera contributes to Hadoop but charges for the products it builds for itself. Amazon Web Services has released some of its own big data products this year, making it something of a Cloudera competitor.

“People need to deploy their big data analysis systems where they have their data,” said Mike Olson, Cloudera’s chief strategy officer. “Increasingly, that is the public cloud.” He added: “We could go to others, like Microsoft or Google, but if you want market share, you’re going to Amazon.”

Cloudera charges customers based on the number of servers using its software, a pricing model that should work tolerably well on Amazon Web Services, or A.W.S. Mr. Olson is hoping that the ease with which people can rent more servers on A.W.S. means he’ll make even more, at least at first. “More engines on the same data load is going to win,” he said.

He praised A.W.S. for the way it had “democratized” some of the more expensive parts of big data analysis, but also said that A.W.S. can add features and services that will enter Cloudera’s turf.

“Do we end up overlapping? That may happen,” he said. “But it would be crazy not to be a part of this – those guys are a force of nature. We want to work with the best companies that have the best infrastructure.”

In a statement accompanying a Cloudera news release about the collaboration between the two companies, Terry Wise, a director of partnerships at Amazon Web Services, said the deal offered customers more choice of products. “Customers will have access to a leading Hadoop implementation,” he said.

Amazon declined to provide any further comment on the move. That kind of restraint all but signals a

Good to see Cloudera looking to move fast and efficient like WAND.


The elephant in the cloud: Cloudera adds support for Hadoop on Amazon







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Cloudera is providing commercial support for its take on Hadoop -- whose mascot is an elephant -- on more and more public clouds. This time, it's the top one, Amazon Web Services.


December 19, 2013 4:00 AM





In case you get the urge to store, query, and analyze your data on the biggest public cloud out there, Amazon Web Services, Cloudera has you covered.

As of today, Cloudera, which provides software for implementing and working with the Hadoop big-data storage and processing system, offers commercial support for companies running the enterprise tier of its software on Amazon’s cloud.

The company has announced similar arrangements in recent months in collaboration with public clouds from IBM, CenturyLink, and Verizon, in a quest to help customers run its take on Hadoop on any infrastructure of their choosing. But working with Amazon is a whole other level, because Amazon represents such a major center of gravity in the cloud.

Amazon and Cloudera are working together to release new features and capabilities for Cloudera customers aboard Amazon, and the vendors have drawn up a model to ensure that joint customers receive first-class treatment whenever they need support.

“If a customer running Cloudera on Amazon infrastructure runs into a snag, they call up the Cloudera support hotline, and we validate and verify the entitlement of that customer,” Tim Stevens, vice president of business and corporate development at Cloudera, said in an interview with VentureBeat. “We do the diagnostics. If we determine it’s a hardware issue, not a software issue, then we have a protocol that we’ve worked out with Amazon to be able to transfer that issue to the expert at Amazon who will be able to address that issue, and vice-versa.”

Cloudera’s win amounts to a loss for competitors in the Hadoop distribution business, including Hortonworks and Intel. Those companies have been gaining awareness through their own partnerships with public clouds. Hortonworks, for example, has been bringing its Hadoop distribution to Rackspace, Microsoft’s Windows Azure, and Joyent.

Hadoop distribution vendor MapR has already gotten its software running on Amazon’s cloud (and Google’s, too, by the way). But the pay structure is different. Pricing for MapR depends on how much companies use on Amazon’s cloud, while Cloudera charges subscription fees and provides its premium support 24 hours per day, seven days a week, or eight hours per day, five days a week.

And Cloudera is thought to be a bigger vendor than MapR. At least one can get that idea from a recent report from Wikibon big data analyst Jeff Kelly and his colleagues on big data revenue. The report shows Cloudera’s 2012 revenue coming in at $56 million, more than double the size of MapR’s for the same period ($23 million). So Cloudera’s new way to make money off Hadoop deployments on Amazon could trigger a bigger revenue gain.

Not that every single company wants to copy all of its data and paste it into a Hadoop cluster on a public cloud. Such a day might not ever come, Stevens said. But around a decade from now, Stevens said, “every enterprise out there will have some portion of their information-management architecture interacting, touching, or running in the cloud.”

Still, Cloudera has ideas about which companies to reach out to now.

“There are hundreds and hundreds of implementations of Cloudera open-source core on Amazon,” Stevens said. “We have low dozens of customers and prospects that are in the process of running Cloudera or evaluating Cloudera in production on the AWS cloud, and it’s those folks that we’re now super excited to [tell] you can do this, and you can do it confidently knowing that Cloudera and Amazon will provide you with a first-rate experience.”

Cloudera customers with on-premise and cloud installations might be left wondering how they can manage all of them from one single site or application.

“You can expect to see that kind of capability moving into … the Cloudera offering over time, as the market developer and as customer demand matures,” Stevens said.

For now, Cloudera just wants more people using Hadoop on Amazon’s cloud — and shelling out to get some help.

A Look Back at 2013: The Year Big Data Work Began


By Virginia Backaitis | Dec 19, 2013


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If 2012 was the year your grandmother instigated big data conversations at the dinner table (yes, the “buzz” around it actually was that big), then 2013 will go down in history as the year the enterprise began to make serious plans around it.

CIOs are no longer talking about big data in terms of “it’s something we’ve got to do,” instead they’re making plans, putting big data projects into their budgets and writing checks.

Building on Hadoop Momentum

The companies that provide software, services and support around Hadoop and ancillary technologies, have worked nose to the grindstone to make Hadoop enterprise ready, and they’ve made great progress. Our post, “How Is Hadoop Like Teenage Sex” and the not-so-graphic accompanying infographic reveals some keen insights on adoption rates.

The biggest accomplishment of the Apache Hadoop Community, as a whole, is the delivery and acceptance of Hadoop 2.0. It takes Hadoop beyond a single-use data platform for batch processing to a multi-use platform that enables batch, interactive, online and stream processing.








Hortonworks was first out of the gate with its HDP 2 Platform that leverages Hadoop 2, and there’s no doubt that the company’s growing list of partners and their respective customers benefited from that in short order.

Just a few days later, at Strata Conference and Hadoop World in New York City, Cloudera announced Cloudera Enterprise 5, which is fundamental to its newly announced “Data Hub” strategy. The market had strong reactions to that.

Microsoft also made a huge Hadoop-related proclamation. At Strata and Hadoop World, Microsoft Corporate Vice President Quentin Clark not only announced that the company now had its own Hadoop distribution, but also his plan to deliver Big Data to 1 billion users.

And MapR kept marching on its mission to make its Hadoop distro faster, safer and more secure for its customers.

New and Improved

2013 will also go down as the year that tried and true enterprise players brought new — or new and improved — Hadoop appliances to market. They include Teradata, Oracle and many others including HP, which claims that its HP Converged System products take the prize when it comes to speed and price. On a slightly unrelated note, did you know that Facebook uses HP Vertica for big data?

And we can’t let 2013 end without mentioning Pivotal, which has planted its stake in computing’s next generation, specifically built for a world of big data, social, mobile and cloud. By all accounts, Pivotal is changing the game, not the rules.

Hadoop in the Cloud

2013 will also go down as the year that the enterprise began to accept that their big data is safe in the cloud and that there are advantages in storing it there, including economic agility. Earlier today Cloudera announced its collaboration with Amazon to bring the Enterprise Data Hub to the Cloud, and IBM acquired Aspera to help it customers move large files to the Cloud.

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From the Mouths of Industry Leaders

But enough about what we have to say, check out the reflections of industry thought leaders when we asked them to respond to the question: What were the biggest changes or accomplishments in the Big Data/Hadoop marketplace (and overall) in 2013?

Todd Paoletti, vice president of product marketing, Pivotal


In 2013, we saw a shift in the Hadoop market from the customer side — an evolution in testing out Hadoop for archival purposes, to more of an exploration of Hadoop for operational and analytical purposes. More people want to use Hadoop to do something with the data now.








Another element is an evolution in the functionality that runs on top of Hadoop (e.g., SQL-query distributions) and a need has been established for high performance across Hadoop. Real time capabilities are now required of Hadoop to deliver more real time applications. Lastly, a deeper appreciation for broader data management versus Hadoop distribution. Big data is more than just Hadoop and more people recognized analytical tools / information management are also critical components to data management."

Jim Walker, director product marketing, Hortonworks


2013 was a momentous year for Hadoop. Through the first half of the year, we saw hockey stick increases in interest in the Fortune 500 and beyond. It may be argued that the market has at least doubled in size in 2013 as new entrants, both pure play and embedded, met existing demand and increased overall interest in the technology.

Ultimately, the most important accomplishment for Hadoop in 2013 was the release of Hadoop 2.0 from the Apache Community in October. This release marks the point in time where Hadoop transformed from a largely batch-oriented system into a true multi-use data platform, allowing organizations to store all data and then interact with it in multiple ways simultaneously. YARN extends Hadoop to new workloads such as interactive, real-time and streaming. It is the core technology fueling the adoption of a modern data architecture in the enterprise. It is the new platform for enterprise data applications."

John Schroeder, CEO and Cofounder, MapR Technologies


Accomplishments within Hadoop and the broader ecosystem included a far reaching impact by making the Hadoop Database, HBase, enterprise grade by eliminating some of the downtime and latency issues through high availability and disaster recovery capabilities and eliminating compactions. Other accomplishments include integrating SOLR search with Hadoop distributions to provide an intuitive powerful method to locate and index unstructured data.

Perhaps the greatest accomplishment of big data in 2013 was the ability of Hadoop to displace other IT spending. Hadoop proved to be a disruptive force in IT spending, particularly with enterprise data warehouse, traditional database and enterprise storage."

Quentin Clark, corporate vice president, Microsoft


The biggest change we’ve seen around big data in 2013 is a shift in the conversation. We have gone from debating the technologies to real world deployments. The conversations I am now having with customers are about the value they are starting to get from big data — and how they can accelerate that. It’s energizing because we are starting to see business change, and we know that this is just the tip of the iceberg."