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/

Chairman Appointment

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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 non-executive director Paul Walker will become non-executive Chairman with immediate effect.



David Richards has held the positions of Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since WANdisco's IPO in June 2012. Since then, the company has grown substantially and made progress on the strategic goals set at IPO beyond the Board's original expectations. With this success and rapid development in mind and in-line with corporate governance best practice, the two roles will be split. This is part of the Board's ongoing plans to ensure that WANdisco has the best team in place to take the business to the next level.



David Richards, WANdisco Chief Executive Officer, said:



"I am delighted that Paul Walker has agreed to become WANdisco's non-executive Chairman. The considerable experience he brings as the former CEO of the UK's largest software company, Sage, a FTSE 100-listed company and the breadth of knowledge he has gained from holding several other board level positions, is invaluable. Paul and I will work together over the coming years to develop WANdisco into a major, global player in the technology sector. WANdisco is a fast growing company and we are at a hugely exciting time in our development. The Board and I believe this structure will best support our current and future growth plans as we scale the business."



Paul Walker served as Chief Executive Officer of The Sage Group Plc from 1994 to 2010. Paul joined Sage as Company Accountant in 1984 and served as its Finance Director from 1987 until 1994. Paul has been a non-executive director of Experian plc since June 2010. He has also served as non-executive Chairman of Perform plc since 2011 and as non-executive director and Chairman of Halma plc since April 2013. Paul is Chair of the Newcastle Science City Partnership and a director of the Entrepreneurs' Forum. He previously served as a non-executive director of Diageo plc and MyTravel plc.

Preliminary Results

http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4776068

WANdisco: Panmure Gordon ups target price from 1504p to 1539p keeping a buy recommendation.

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March 20 (Bloomberg) -- David Richards, president/CEO at Wandisco Inc., discusses the state of the U.K. technology industry and his company’s efforts to expand the use of big data across various industries on Bloomberg Television’s “Countdown.”



http://www.bloomberg.com/video/big-data-drives-competitive-advantages-richards-jGE3inXrR3iqEIByYsxb5w.html

Read in Shares ,Wandisco are spending £2 for every £1 of revenue, seems to be knocking this share hard.

Questor share tip: WANdisco losses widen
Telegraph
By John Ficenec | Telegraph – 53 minutes ago

Shares in this technology company have increased by seven times since the 2012 float but losses are widening, says Questor.

WANdisco (LSE: WAND.L - news) £12.66 Questor says HOLD

WANDISCO (Other OTC: WANSF - news) , the Aim-listed technology company, is being tipped as the next Facebook (NasdaqGS: FB - news) or even Google (NasdaqGS: GOOG - news) .

The Sheffield-based company writes computer software that helps companies search though vast amounts of data quickly and easily. With more data than ever before being collected on everyone in the population, WANdisco’s services are increasingly in demand.

The software company said last week that it had signed a major new contract with British Gas to replace its old database system. WANdisco will use its technology to more efficiently store and analyse British Gas customer data.

The company has signed blue-chip clients such as Nokia (Stockholm: NOKI-SEK.ST - news) , Cisco and Apple (NasdaqGS: AAPL - news) . They also announced last year that they had poached Paul Harrison from FTSE 100-listed Sage to take over as chief financial officer. It seems unlikely that such a well-respected name in technology would jump ship without good reason.

The software company is still in its infancy and in full-year results for 2013 reported underlying losses (adjusted Ebitda) had widened to $7.8m, from $3m in the previous year, despite revenue increasing by a third to $8m, from $6m.

Investors who backed the initial public offering have seen their money increase more than seven times in just under two years. The shares came to market in June 2012 at 180p and have risen to almost £13 today.

Questor is always wary of technology stories; 2001 lives long in the memory. WANdisco is certainly growing revenue rapidly but losses are widening. This is a high-risk investment and only for the brave, and until we see stronger cash generation it remains a hold.

Top News

Intel invested $740 million to buy 18 percent of Cloudera

Mon, Mar 31 07:02 AM EDT

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By Noel Randewich

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp's investment in Cloudera announced last week amounts to $740 million and gives the chipmaker an 18 percent stake in the distributor of software for crunching Big Data, Cloudera said in a press release on Monday.

The chipmaker's investment values the startup, expected to go public later this year, at about $4.1 billion.

In the release, Cloudera announced the completion of a $900 million round of funding, which it said includes Intel's previously undisclosed stake and another $160 million that was announced earlier in March from T Rowe Price, Google Ventures and others.

Intel said last Thursday it had made a "significant" investment in Cloudera and that it would make the fast-growing startup its preferred distributor of "Hadoop" data management software.

Like rivals HortonWorks and Pivotal, Cloudera focuses on helping corporate customers manage data through Hadoop, an open-source software system that can sort and analyze massive amounts of information, increasingly called Big Data, generated through the Internet and mobile devices.

As part of the deal, Intel will transition away from its own customized version of Hadoop that it had been promoting as optimal for Intel server chips.

The size of Intel's investment in Cloudera and the end of its own Hadoop customization underscores a willingness by CEO Brian Krzanich to move decisively since taking over a year ago with the personal computer industry in a tailspin.

Cloudera is only one of several Silicon Valley startups to receive multibillion-dollar valuations from investors recently, a trend that has some on Wall Street concerned about lofty prices.

Last week, Facebook Inc raised eyebrows when it said it would pay $2 billion for Oculus VR, a two-year-old virtual reality startup that has yet to put a product on the market.

Intel hopes that encouraging more companies to leap into Big Data analysis will lead to higher sales of its high-end Xeon server processors. The chipmaker believes that hitching its wagon to Cloudera's version of Hadoop, instead of pushing its own version, will make that happen faster.

With Intel's core PC market shrinking, the chipmaker's server business is becoming a larger component of the company's profits. But its growth has recently fallen short of expectations.

Big Data is a key part of the Internet of Things, a term referring to the increasing connectivity of everyday devices from cars to smoke alarms.

Finding ways to analyze and make use of vast amounts of data collected by those smart devices is becoming a major opportunity for IT companies including Intel.

The global market for Big Data technology and services is expected to expand at a 27 percent annual rate to $32 billion through 2017, according to market research firm IDC.

After falling behind in making chips for smartphones and tablets, Intel aims to make sure it is a major player in the Internet of Things by supplying processors used in new devices as well as the server hardware and software used to analyze the data those devices create.

Intel's bet on the success of Cloudera dwarfs its previous investments focused on data center technology. In 2007, Intel invested $218 million in VMWare, giving it a 2.5 percent stake in that data center software maker.

(Reporting by Noel Randewich; Editing by Sandra Maler)

Non Stop Hadoop Certified on Cloudera

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WANdisco 's Non-Stop Hadoop Certified on Cloudera's New Enterprise Hadoop Product Suite

Leading provider of enterprise-ready non-stop software solutions makes Cloudera Continuously Available



London, UK - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), the leading provider of continuous availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data, is pleased to announce WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop technology is now certified to run on Cloudera 5, a suite of enterprise Hadoop applications, providing continuous availability for global multi-data center deployments.

Cloudera 5 takes Cloudera's Hadoop suite forward from its previous release, CDH4, which WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop product is also certified to run on. The new release includes open source CDH5 (Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop), the Cloudera Enterprise offering, including a full range of batch and real-time data analytics applications, and Cloudera Manager 5, the latest version of Cloudera's management console.

With Cloudera 5, Cloudera's customers can choose which components they wish to license and WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop technology will work with any combination they select.



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

"Cloudera 5 together with WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop technology enables us to deliver our full suite of real-time data analytics and data management applications for global multi-data center deployments."

David Richards, WANdisco Chief Executive Officer, said:

"Cloudera 5 is Cloudera's platform for the next generation of enterprise Hadoop applications. Continuous data availability is a 'must-have' for large organizations looking to leverage Hadoop for strategic systems and WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop technology is the only solution that delivers it for Cloudera 5. We have a number of deployments already underway on the Cloudera big data platform and with certification now granted for Cloudera 5, the market opportunity for our Non-Stop Hadoop product can be extended further within the enterprise."



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Edison- 11 April 2014



Cloudera investment by Intel puts a spotlight on the potential
While valuations of some listed big data companies have recently shown signs of fatigue, it is becoming increasingly apparent that Hadoop is set to be at the centre of a generational shift in database technology. Intel’s $740m investment for an 18% stake in Cloudera announced on 31 March highlights the strategic value that industry majors are prepared to pay to secure a position in this transition. This investment followed a $160m financing, announced on 18 March led by T. Rowe Price, which included investment from Google Ventures and Michael Dell’s investment firm, MSD Capital. Also in March, Hortonworks announced a $100m funding round lead by BlackRock and Passport capital.
In conjunction with the investment, Intel is also ceasing the promotion of its own distribution to adopt Cloudera’s. While we had never considered Intel’s home-grown distribution to be a serious contender, the move consolidates the dominance of Cloudera and Hortonworks, which already hold an estimated 85% of the commercial Hadoop distribution market, thus highlighting the strength of WANdisco’s partnerships in the arena.
IDC estimates that the global market for big data technology and services is expected to expand at a 27% annual rate to $32bn through 2017.


http://www.edisoninvestmentresearch.com/serve_pdf.php?d=researchreports&f=WANdisco_Update_100414.pdf

Q1 2014 Bookings Update

http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4794559

WANdisco says Q1 2014 bookings up 40% to $4.2m

Revenues not coming in fast enough, I can see this company returning to the market with the begging bowl in the next few months. I perhaps wrongly thought new customers would of been gained at a faster pace. Again will keep the thread going out of interest.

MARKET REPORT: Shares in Blur Group tumble as full-year results are delayed but WANdisco delights investors


Published: 22:40, 17 April 2014 | Updated: 11:29, 18 April 2014

WANdisco, which provides software to help global enterprises meet the challenges of Big Data, again delighted its growing list of followers by confirming a good start to the year.


Subscription bookings jumped 40 per cent year-on-year to £2.5million in the first quarter. Shares advanced 18.5p to 942.5p.


Panmure Gordon’s George O’Connor is WANdisco’s number one fan and has a 1,539p target price on the stock. ‘The tech sector has been wobbling recently, but these numbers show that it remains on firm ground,’ he said.







http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/article-2607225/MARKET-REPORT-Philip-Letts-faces-bleak-Easter-shares-Blur-Group-tumble-delayed-release-revenue.html

hardly "delights" when sp has tumbled to < £10 from recent levels >£14

Could perhaps fall further, if WAND have to come to the market for cash injection.

Abandon ship.

glad i bailed out a few pounds back

ouch !!!!!!!!!

May well bounce strong with some upbeat news, mind you news seems to have dried up in the last month.

I also applies here what I said earlier at MONI thread


So guys be carefull now

WELL there is a new strategy across the pond, and that is ..... they are no longer chasing high-growth stocks and instead they want solid large-cap dividend-paying companies.

good luck

Cheers panto, Jumped in the teens. :-))