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


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Appoints Regional Sales Leaders in EMEA and Asia

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WANdisco Appoints Regional Sales Leaders in EMEA and Asia


Experienced sales executives Marcus Chambers and Keith Graham hired to advance growth in the Big Data market

London, UK- WANdisco (LSE: WAND), the leading provider of continuous availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data, has appointed two key executives to further scale up its sales activities in response to increasing demand from enterprise-scale customers for Big Data solutions. The new regional sales leaders for EMEA and Asia Pacific, each with over 25 years of international experience in enterprise software, will report directly to CEO David Richards.

Marcus Chambers joins as VP Sales for the EMEA Region. His most recent position was at Good Technology, a mobile data management business, as VP & GM EMEA. Before that he was at Tintri Inc., a virtual storage business, as VP & GM EMEA/Asia. Marcus has deep experience in the wide area network distributed computing marketplace in which WANdisco operates, having previously established Riverbed, a WAN optimisation business, in EMEA as VP & GM, achieving substantial growth over a five-year period, and before that been operations director for Cisco Systems EMEA's Storage, Optical and Wide Area File Services Group. Prior to joining Cisco, Marcus was European Northern regional director for Brocade, a network provider for data centres. He also developed 3COM's network infrastructure business in Switzerland as general manager. He began his career with Digital Equipment Corporation.

Keith Graham joins as VP Sales for the Asia Pacific region. Keith has been with TIBCO Software in Asia Pacific since 2005, for the past five years as Regional Vice President & Managing Director for Australia & New Zealand. Here he was responsible for all aspects of the business including sales, pre-sales, and services. Before joining TIBCO, Keith was Vice President EMEA at Librados, a distributed storage and computing business, from start-up until its acquisition by NetManage. Prior to that, Keith was a Regional Director at Reuters Plc where he was responsible for its $100m+ software solutions business covering over 20 countries.

Welcoming the appointments, David Richards, WANdisco Chief Executive Officer, commented:



"I am delighted that we have attracted these senior sales leaders to WANdisco. They evidently bring extensive execution experience, domain knowledge and track records of success in delivering growth. As our business scales up to match the pipeline of demand from large corporations adopting Big Data solutions, I look forward to working with Marcus and Keith to realise these opportunities and seek out new ones as the Big Data market goes mainstream."

anyone brave enough to have shorted this, even over the last couple of weeks will have done handsomely

I wish cynic. :-))



Questor share tip: WANdisco shares slump

The sharp reversal of the shares in this Aim-listed technology company has accelerated from early March, says Questor.


Full-year results for 2013 reported underlying losses (adjusted Ebitda) had widened to $7.8m, from $3m in the previous year


By John Ficenec, Questor editor

10:30AM BST 05 Jun 2014



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Questor says HOLD


WANDISCO has been one of the major victims of the sell-off in technology companies that has accelerated since the beginning of March.


Shares in the Aim-listed company have tumbled more than 70pc in the past six months from more than £14 to just £4.30 at midday yesterday. It has been a dramatic fall from grace for a company once tipped as the next Facebook or even Google. For investors it provides an excellent example of why they should never stray from the fundamentals.


Arguably, nothing has changed for the Sheffield-based company, which writes computer software that helps companies search though vast amounts of data quickly and easily. With more data about our daily lives being collected all the time, WANdisco’s services are increasingly in demand.


The software company said it continued to win customers for its big data product, with British Gas and University of California Health signing contracts during the three months ended March. WANdisco also renewed existing contracts with HP and Walmart for its ALM product. The company reported bookings up 40pc to $4.2m (£2.5m) in the first quarter ended March, with $200,000 from big data and the $4m balance from ALM bookings. The company has blue-chip clients, such as Nokia, Cisco and Apple.



Although David Richards, chief executive, says the company has a “strong pipeline of potential customers” in big data with good growth from the core ALM business, Questor remains wary.

When others lose their heads it is necessary to stick to the numbers. The software company is still in its infancy and in full-year results for 2013 reported underlying losses had widened to $7.8m, from $3m in the previous year, despite revenue increasing by a third to $8m, from $6m. The cash outflow from operating activities had also increased, to $11.6m from $4.1m. The only thing keeping the company going was the issue of new shares.

The company changed advisers from broker Panmure Gordon to Investec on May 19. This is a worrying sign as Panmure Gordon have been vocal supporters of the stock since its flotation in 2012, so the sudden change is a red flag for investors.

Questor is always wary of technology stories; 2001 lives long in the memory. The last time we looked at the shares we said they were high-risk and we couldn’t recommend them until the company generated more cash. Investor sentiment has now turned savagely against growth tech stocks; until that changes they are no better than a hold.

WANdisco: UBS cuts target price from 1535p to 1500p, while leaving its buy recommendation remains unchanged.

Three cheers for UBS

Lol Claret Dragon.


Broker UBS says BUY WANdisco (WAND). Says sentiment to WANdisco and US high-growth peer group companies has soured of late, but the fundamental opportunity remains undiminshed. Concerns over cash position unfounded, as CFO Paul Harrison expects the business to end 2014 in a net cash position, plus specialist bank lending on its subscription revenues could be an option. Price target 1,500p.

Joking aside, bound to be a short squeeze on this one soon.

WANdisco - Our Story - published 12 June 2014


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPeS8Klxp-I#t=13

WANdisco launches Big Data Apprenticeships

June 18, 2014

http://www.wearesevenhills.com/news/2014/06/18/wandisco-launches-big-data-apprenticeships/

David Richards @davidrichards · 8h

"@Amirmizroch: Status update: Facebook is back up after worldwide 30 minute outage http://on.wsj.com/1l59K7T via @WSJD" they need @WANdisco !!

sp seems have risen over the last few days, with a good rise today.

OhmData Acquisition

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WANdisco acquires OhmData



Leading edge HBase skills advance WANdisco's Big Data strategy



London, UK - WANdisco plc (LSE: WAND), the leading provider of continuous availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data, has acquired San Francisco based OhmData Inc. ("OhmData") for an enterprise value of approximately $2.1m, to be satisfied by the issuance of 274,477 new shares in WANdisco (equivalent to 1.1% of current shares in issue).



OhmData develops database solutions based on the Apache HBase ("HBase") database. HBase is a core component of the Hadoop stack for processing large-scale data sets in real-time, and is used in mission-critical operations such as Facebook and Bloomberg messaging. OhmData has filed a patent covering requirements such as efficient database power utilisation. WANdisco has recently applied its continuous availability technology to HBase, and the OhmData team will make a major contribution to further developing the WANdisco Non-Stop HBase product.



OhmData, which has 3 employees, was co-founded by Alex Newman and Ryan Rawson, who will now join WANdisco. Alex Newman is a committer of open source code to the Hadoop ecosystem, whose code has been used in production for over 10 years. He has worked in big data, network protocol design, software security and application development, including working on HBase for Cloudera. Ryan Rawson is a Core Committer of HBase open source code and a member of the HBase Project Management Committee. Before co-founding OhmData, Ryan was a software engineer at Google, where he worked on Google's 'Big Table' forerunner to HBase, and Amazon, where he developed synchronous cross-data centre distributed business logic. He specializes in large systems, (hundreds of nodes or servers), extensive code bases and multiple language environments.



OhmData's unique expertise in design and development of databases is an important element of WANdisco's product development strategy. Working alongside WANdisco's existing Big Data and distributed computing experts such as Dr. Yeturu Aahlad, Dr. Konstantin Shvachko, Dr. Konstantin Boudnik and Jagane Sundar, they will enhance WANdisco's ability to develop further ground-breaking technology, not least because of their ability to commit new Hadoop code to improve integration between WANdisco's products and the Hadoop Open Source platform.



WANdisco has already demonstrated that, by applying its patented active-active replication technology to Hadoop, it can make Hadoop resilient for enterprise deployments. OhmData will continue this work with HBase to significantly add to WANdisco's ability to execute in the Big Data market.



Gartner analysts Merv Adrian and Nick Heudecker see HBase and other additional components as key to the relevance of Hadoop and comment: "As Hadoop core and related projects have progressed, its viability as a platform has been enhanced and substantial numbers of vendors in multiple categories, such as business analytics, data integration and workload management, have introduced products that assume its presence. Version 2.x of Apache Hadoop enables greater scalability and availability and expands beyond its batch processing roots to encompass new workloads and processing styles."*



David Richards, Chief Executive Officer of WANdisco comments: "We have again demonstrated that WANdisco can attract the top talent in the industry. Alex and Ryan come to us having worked as core technologists at some of the biggest names in the industry such as Google, Cloudera and Amazon. HBase is a critical component of the Hadoop stack and customers have told us that they need it to be continuously available. We are delighted to have added the OhmData team to our renowned Hadoop organization

WANdisco plunges into the Hadoop foam party, shakes its replication booty

'This 6ft-4 Indian guy in hotpants is a friggin GENIUS'

By Chris Mellor, 1 Jul 2014




WANdisco is bringing continuous wide-area availability to Hadoop big data users.

The joint UK and US-based WANdisco (Wide Area Network DIStributed COmputing) sells software producing active-active data centres at WAN distances, which it says is suited to the Hadoop Big Data world. Its technology uses patented algorithms invented by co-founder Dr Yeturu Aahlad, an ex-Sun distributed systems architect and IBM researcher.






Richards described meeting Aahlad in an Elite Business interview:

"I was introduced to Dr Yeturu Aahlad at this cocktail party. He’s this 6ft 4 Indian guy, with inordinately long legs, who was wearing what I rudely described as hot pants and a t-shirt from a trade show. Nobody else was dressed like that in the room ... of course, he’s a genius.”

Aahlad's patented software replicates data between data centres in real time, active-active replication. This provides good server failover between different data centres, as the servers involved are mirrors of each other, providing continuous availability - as WANdisco describes it. It also makes multi-location collaboration better.

When a new server/server set joins in the replication scheme there is initial load of the new system, with metadata first and then data - unless you Fedex disks across to/from the new centre. Once the metadata has been loaded then the actual data follows. When a data request for unloaded data occurs, that will bring that data to the head of the transmit queue.

This software can use WAN optimisers like Riverbed's Steelhead to drive the links it uses even faster.

The server mirroring provides continuous backup across sites for non-stop data recovery. HP's purchase of this product to help in then-CIO Randy Mott's data centre consolidation exercise, with 83 data centres becoming six, gave WANdisco some credibility and confidence in its tech.

The customer list includes Apple, Barclays, Cisco, Disney, and Intel alongside HP, which is WANdisco's largest client with 50,000 users throughout the company.

Richards took WANdisco public in 2012, doing so on AIM at the London Stock Exchange, eschewing US alternatives. The float raised £15 million with the company valued at £37 million; seemingly small potatoes in these days of multi-billion dollar valuations. WANdisco is not a typical Silicon Valley, venture-funded startup.

Questor share tip: WANdisco shares bounce back

Questor thinks shares in this Aim-listed technology company are worth a second look after halving in value since the start of the year.





Full-year results for 2013 reported underlying losses (adjusted Ebitda) had widened to $7.8m, from $3m in the previous year.

Full-year results for 2013 reported underlying losses (adjusted Ebitda) had widened to $7.8m, from $3m in the previous year. Photo: REUTERS








By John Ficenec, Questor editor

6:00AM BST 02 Jul 2014



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Questor says BUY


WANDISCO yesterday announced a small deal to expand its team. So, with the shares leading a fightback during the past two weeks, we think now is the time to take a closer look.


Shares in the Aim-listed company jumped more than 6pc when it announced a $2.1m (£1.2m) deal to acquire the three-man, San Francisco-based team, of OhmData. OhmData specialises in writing computer programmes that allow companies such as Facebook to search their vast database of personal information.


The deal could be the start of a recovery in the WANdisco share price as it has been one of the major victims of the sell-off in technology companies since the beginning of March. Shares in WANdisco have fallen by more than half since the start of the year having peaked at £14 in late February before slumping to just £5.81 yesterday. It has been a dramatic fall from grace for this rapidly growing UK tech success story.


The Sheffield-based company writes computer software that helps companies search though vast amounts of data quickly and easily. With everything from a Tesco store card to social networking websites collecting information about our daily lives, WANdisco’s services are increasingly in demand.

WANdisco Share price fall
Sentiment shift strengthens case for upside

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Published on 7 Jul 2014


On June 18th, 2014, WANdisco hosted the Big Data Breakfast in London to share success stories and unveil its new Big Data apprenticeship program.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt1QRXhqap8&feature=youtu.be

Oracle Certifies WANdisco for Big Data

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Oracle Certifies WANdisco for Big Data



WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop for Cloudera Achieves Oracle Big Data Appliance 'Ready' Certification



London, UK - After extensive testing in Oracle's Silicon Valley labs, WANdisco's product, Non-Stop Hadoop for Cloudera, has been certified for distribution on Oracle Big Data Appliance - pre-configured Oracle servers for Hadoop installation and deployment.



By achieving this certification, WANdisco also becomes a Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork. This represents a major move forward in WANdisco's channel distribution strategy, opening up access to Oracle's global enterprise sales force and vast customer base of large corporations.



This new partnership has been given additional momentum by existing Oracle customers in the financial services and automotive manufacturing seeking to use Oracle appliances in conjunction with WANdisco's continuous Hadoop availability software. Customers such as these have concluded that for Big Data to be used for mission-critical applications, it not only has to be easy to deploy, it must also deliver high levels of performance and scalability, as well as continuous availability over a wide area network. Oracle and WANdisco will jointly showcase the combined solution to prospective customers over the coming months.



David Richards, WANdisco Co-Founder and CEO, comments: "We are delighted to have achieved Oracle's Big Data Appliance Ready status. It is a reflection of the accelerating pace at which large enterprises are moving into production with Hadoop. WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop continuous availability layer can be designed into customers' Big Data infrastructure from the outset, helping the world's most demanding customers meet their requirements for their Big Data operations."



David Hicks, Vice President, Worldwide ISV and OEM Business Development, Oracle, adds: "When partners such as WANdisco leverage Oracle Big Data Appliance as the foundation for their applications, they benefit from a complete, integrated and cloud-ready infrastructure that will help them utilize new features and functionality in a highly innovative fashion. By achieving Oracle Big Data Appliance Ready and Oracle Linux Ready status, WANdisco has demonstrated its Non-Stop Hadoop for Oracle Big Data Appliance is supported and ready to work with Oracle Big Data Appliance to help deliver optimum performance, scalability, and reliability to their customers."

Q2 2014 Bookings Update

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Q2 2014 Bookings increase 11% to $3.4m



Big Data progress with a new customer win and a new Oracle partnership



Highlights



· Bookings up 11% on prior year



· Another new Big Data customer and prospective customers advancing their evaluations



· OhmData acquisition brings in HBase development expertise



· Oracle Big Data Appliance partnership opens major new distribution channel



London, UK - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), the leading provider of continuous availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data, reports a strong second quarter of the financial year with subscription bookings increasing by 11% compared with the prior year.



As is usual in our subscription model, these bookings had a high upfront cash content, supporting the company's net cash position. Full financial results for the first half of 2014 will be released on 18 September.



$3.3m of bookings in the quarter came from our well-established Application Lifecycle Management products, representing 9% growth compared with $3.1m in last year's second quarter. Bookings were impacted by delayed purchase decisions on the part of some of our larger global customers. Notable new customers this quarter included Polycom and PetSmart. In addition, there were some significantly sized renewals from existing customers such as Fannie Mae and Pixelworks. Many customers extended the usage of our product across their organisations, including Pitney Bowes and Huawei. Multi-year contracts continue to be prevalent, particularly amongst the larger deals.



$0.1m of bookings in the quarter came from our Big Data products (Q2 2013: $0.2m), comprising a new subscription from a wholesale logistics technology provider to the pharmaceuticals industry. For prospective Big Data customers, we progressed a number of pre-contract evaluations, in which we are running our Non-Stop Hadoop software on the data centre infrastructures of global corporations. We expect a significant proportion of these evaluations to convert to subscription contracts by the end of the year.



Our partnerships with Cloudera and Hortonworks continued to develop this quarter as we have worked jointly to advance and expand key Big Data opportunities. After the end of the quarter we became a certified partner of Oracle in its Oracle Big Data Appliance programme of applications for its Big Data hardware. The partnership has been given additional impetus by the request of one of WANdisco's prospective customers in automotive manufacturing to run Oracle appliances in conjunction with WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop continuous availability layer. More information is contained in a separate announcement released today.



During the quarter we acquired San Francisco-based OhmData Inc. ("OhmData"), a developer of database solutions based on HBase, a core component of the Hadoop stack for processing large-scale data sets in real-time, for an enterprise value of approximately $2.1m, paid in WANdisco stock. Working alongside WANdisco's existing Big Data and distributed computing experts, OhmData will enhance WANdisco's ability to develop further ground-breaking replication technology, not least because of the ability to commit new Hadoop code to improve integration between WANdisco's products and the Hadoop Open Source platform.









David Richards, WANdisco Chief Executive Officer, comments:



"During this quarter we progressed well on a number of fronts. Our Application Lifecycle Management business continued to deliver solid bookings flows through new wins, high renewal rates and expanded usage. In Big Data, we added a new customer developing industry-leading commercial analytics, and our evaluations with prospective customers moved forward, expanding in scale. A new partnership with Oracle, deepening partnerships with Cloudera and Hortonworks, and acquiring the HBase skills of OhmData, all moved our strategy forward."

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WANdisco secures credit facility with HSBC

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$10m committed debt funding to finance company expansion



London, UK - WANdisco plc (LSE: WAND, "WANdisco"), has agreed a $10m revolving credit facility with HSBC Bank plc ("HSBC"), available until 31 March 2017.



The funds available through the facility will be used to finance WANdisco's continued expansion in the Big Data market, including product development and go-to-market activities.

The interest rate on funds drawn down under the facility will be 1.2% above the prevailing LIBOR interest rate.

Paul Harrison, WANdisco Chief Financial Officer, commented: "I am pleased that HSBC has committed this credit facility to WANdisco. The reliability, predictability and high growth potential of our subscription-based business model enabled us to secure this credit facility on attractive terms. HSBC's involvement, alongside our equity investors, diversifies our financing options as we expand in the Big Data marketplace, a marketplace that is attracting corporate investments on a significant scale."

HSBC's evaluation concluded that WANdisco represents an attractive lending proposition, linked to a significant market opportunity in the rapidly evolving Big Data market.

HSBC Head of Corporate Banking in the UK, Dan Howlett, added: "I am delighted that we have taken this opportunity to support WANdisco. We were sufficiently impressed with the company's growth prospects to make a commitment at investment-grade interest rates. This transaction shows our support for emerging technology - a market we consider to have high potential."