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/

Q2 2014 Bookings Update

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17 July 2014

Q2 2014 Bookings Update



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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17 Jul Investec 1,275.00 Buy

WANdisco secures credit facility with HSBC

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WANdisco secures credit facility with HSBC

$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."

"Bookings up 11% on the previous year" is not really good news.

In fact it is mediocre news. This company just don't seem to be growing as fast as I would like to see and the sales force are not performing well at all.

And now with this better 'overdraft' (revolving credit) facility they have just increased debt.

Anyone have a different view?

Soon be able to get into "The Disco" for £2

What you doin' on your back aah
What you doin' on your back aah
You should be dancing, yeah
Dancing, yeah

WANdisco Releases Non-Stop Hadoop 1.9.6 & Reduces Deployment Costs by 35%




New Features Include Cluster Zoning for Increased Efficiency Running on Cloudera & Hortonworks Hadoop Distributions



SAN RAMON, CA – September 4, 2014 - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a leading provider of continuous-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data and distributed software development, today announced the release of Non-Stop Hadoop version 1.9.6, which introduces zoning and support for rolling upgrades to complement the 100% uptime, performance and scalability offered by prior releases of Non-Stop Hadoop.

Zoning enables virtual clusters or sub-clusters to be defined within a single Hadoop deployment. Leveraging WANdisco’s active-active patented technology, this new version of Non-Stop Hadoop enables a mix of servers of different specifications to be deployed in single environment. At runtime, high volume real-time analytics applications are automatically routed to the virtual cluster with servers having the highest memory and CPU specifications, while batch applications that are less demanding can run on lower spec, less costly servers.

This ensures optimal performance and significantly reduces hardware costs by eliminating the need for high-cost, high-memory, high-CPU hardware across the entire deployment.

"Hadoop, from a software perspective, is rapidly developing into a true multi-purpose Big Data platform capable of supporting both batch processing and real-time analytics workloads on a single cluster. While this means enterprise practitioners can consolidate multiple clusters, it also makes maximizing hardware efficiency more challenging as different workloads require different hardware configurations. WANdisco Non-Stop Hadoop version 1.9.6 provides a software-based solution to this challenge, allowing practitioners to deploy and efficiently support multiple applications on a single Hadoop cluster without the need to procure expensive, specialized hardware." - Jeff Kelly, Senior Analyst, Wikibon.

Non-Stop Hadoop’s 1.9.6 release combines zoning with existing features such as selective replication that automatically moves data only where it’s required, and an active-active architecture that eliminates idle standby hardware both within and across data centers to enable 100% use of all compute resources. This enables Non-Stop Hadoop to deliver far superior performance, scalability and availability at much lower cost than any other solution. Customers have estimated as much as a 35% reduction in TCO with this set of capabilities.

“We have to respond to our customers’ needs,” said David Richards, WANdisco CEO and Co-Founder. “This new release of our Non-Stop Hadoop product suite significantly reduces deployment costs for an enterprise rollout of Hadoop. This is a big win for anyone deploying Hadoop for a variety of applications.”

Apparently, the handling of Big Data had a hand in the research and conclusions to do with the following:

Interim Results

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Interim Results for the six months ended 30 June 2014



Big Data customer wins and advanced production trials with customer prospects

ALM sales bookings up 19% as customers continued to adopt new tools





Financial Highlights



· Sales bookings up 21% to $7.4m

· Deferred revenue from booked sales up 73% to $15.5m

· Net cash $15.0m at 30 June 2014 (30 June 2013: $5.5m)

· Adjusted EBITDA1 loss $9.5m (H1 2013: $3.3m loss)

· $10m credit facility secured with HSBC - a strong endorsement of the business



Operational and Strategic Highlights



Big Data



· Strategic customer wins including British Gas and UCI Health, with extension potential

· Advanced formal production trials with a number of global corporations

· Major new release of Non-Stop NameNode, with new functionality to significantly reduce the cost of deploying Hadoop in an enterprise data centre

· OhmData acquired, accelerating go-to-market for our 'HBase' database product

· Oracle partnership opens up wide distribution opportunities



Application Lifecycle Management ("ALM")



· Sales bookings continue to rise, up 19%

· 26 new ALM subscriptions, including ARM, Panasonic, Polycom and PetSmart

· 28 upgraded or expanded ALM subscriptions, including Cisco, Pitney Bowes, Fannie Mae and Pixelworks

· High subscription renewal rates maintained, demonstrating the reliability of our business model

· New ALM products released: Git Multisite 1.2, SmartSVN 8.5, Access Control Plus



David Richards, Chief Executive Officer, comments:



"2014's first half saw further traction with our Big Data strategy, while our established ALM business continued to deliver strong sales. Our ALM customers continued to renew their subscriptions and many expanded their solutions to exert more control over their software development operations. In Big Data, in addition to securing new customers, we reached advanced stages in production trials with a number of large global corporations. Whilst the timing of the conclusion of these trials is hard to predict, we expect a number of them will lead to initial software subscriptions over the coming months.



We have deepened our partnerships with the Hadoop market's two principal distributors, Cloudera and Hortonworks, and benefitted from the significant corporate investments that they have attracted. We launched a partnership with Oracle, opening up access to their global hardware sales channel. Our product strategy was accelerated by our acquisition of OhmData, augmenting our HBase database expertise. A new credit facility from HSBC gives us funding options for future investments, and is an expression of confidence in the business.



Our first half progress has moved us forward significantly along our path to becoming the leading provider of non-stop infrastructure for Big Data."





1 Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, amortisation, exceptional items and share-based payments



Notes



An audio webcast recording of the analyst presentation will be available on the company website after the event.



All Group announcements and news can be found at http://www.wandisco.com

18 Sep Investec 1,275.00 Buy

worth a detour might be a better recommendation, as with BLUR

2014 Q3 Bookings Update

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2014 Q3 Bookings update



Record quarterly sales bookings and Big Data win



· Bookings increase by 56% on the preceding quarter and by 21% on prior year



· Fortune 100 technology company selects WANdisco's Big Data technology



· New Big Data partnerships with Oracle and IBM



· New product releases enhance Non-Stop Hadoop and Git Multisite



London, UK - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), the leading provider of non-stop Big Data, reports its highest-ever quarterly sales, with subscription bookings increasing by 21% compared with the prior year to $5.3m.



$4.9m of bookings in the quarter came from the Application Lifecycle Management ("ALM") products, representing 15% growth compared with $4.3m in last year's third quarter. Notable new customers this quarter included Seagate, Tesco, Cablevision, ADP, Nippon Steel and Bank of Nova Scotia. The high proportion of bookings from new subscriptions continues to demonstrate the growth potential that remains in the ALM market.



In addition, many customers extended the usage of our product across their organisations, including McGraw Hill, SanDisk and Western Digital.



Multi-year contracts continue to be prevalent, particularly amongst the larger deals, and consequently the visibility of our future revenues is progressively increasing. The quarter's bookings had a high upfront cash content, benefitting our working capital position.



$0.4m of bookings in the quarter came from our Big Data products (Q3 2013: $0.1m), comprising a new subscription from a Fortune 100 technology vendor in the early stages of a Hadoop deployment.



In addition, a number of the Big Data product trial evaluations referred to in our interim results statement (18 September 2014) progressed further during the quarter - including production trial successes. We therefore continue to expect a significant proportion of these evaluations, mostly with large global corporations, to convert to subscription contracts over the coming months.



Responding to customer requirements, we released Non-Stop Hadoop 1.9.6, including hardware optimisation features to save significant costs and add scale for customers deploying Hadoop. In ALM we released significant enhancements to our Git products.



During the quarter we became certified partners of the Big Data hardware appliances businesses of both Oracle and IBM, representing a significant widening of the distribution channel for our products.



David Richards, WANdisco Chief Executive Officer, comments:

"Our record third quarter sales bookings demonstrate increased momentum in both of our businesses - Big Data and Application Lifecycle Management. 21% growth in sales bookings resulted from each business delivering its highest-ever quarterly sales.



The Big Data business added a significant new customer in global technology, whilst our production trials with prospective customers progressed successfully towards potential subscription contract signings. The Application Lifecycle Management business continues to attract a number of large and high-quality new customers.



Through our deepening distribution partnerships with Cloudera and Hortonworks, alongside new partnerships with Oracle and IBM, we are addressing wider opportunities in our market. As this year progresses we are positioned increasingly favourably in a Big Data marketplace that is attracting unprecedented levels of interest from global corporations."

15 Oct Investec 1,275.00 Buy
15 Oct finnCap 700.00 Corporate

Published on 20 Oct 2014


Dave Richards, WANdisco, at BigDataNYC 2014 with Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly



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

Signal Update

Our system’s recommendation today is to STAY LONG. The previous BUY signal was issued on 14/10/2014, 17 days ago, when the stock price was 293.0000. Since then WAND.L has risen by +36.52%.

Market Outlook

The market is not a friend of the bulls anymore. The bearish signs are increasing and the odds for a downside breakout is non-negligible.




http://www.britishbulls.com/SignalPage.aspx?lang=en&Ticker=WAND.L

Holding(s) in Company

http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4915488

12 Nov Investec 1,275.00 Buy

Shares -

Silicon valleys Apple faced bankruptcy just 15 odd years ago, yet analysts widely believe the iconic gadget maker is expected to make $47 billion of earnings in 2014, a prospect that has ignited its share price to record heights of $111.25 on 13 Nov.Coping with the significant increase in data requires huge investment in IT and telecommunication infrastructure, not to mention increasingly clever software applications to break it all down and make it useful. This is an area where
Wandisco could emerge as a potential giant of tomorrow. The company cut its teeth in innovation, supplying a collaboration software platform called Subversion that effectively allows engineering teams of big companies access to the same open source development systems and projects from anywhere in the world. Based on open source technology, it uses a 'freemium' model, providing free access to clients and up-sells a variety of in-house built enterprise extras, including tools for the Hadoop 2.0 Big data platform.
Having joined AIM on 1 June 2012 at 180p, the stock soared to a peak of £14.80 roughly a year ago, but the market since lost its appetite. Today the shares are trading at 397.5p. Chewing through cash as it builds scale, this is a high risk investment, but WANdisco's server replication technology is built on patented algorithms designed by management, while new business is all subscription based and recurring, and the bid data opportunity is still firmly in its infancy.

WANdisco plc Big Data Customer Win

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Big Data Customer Win



Global Credit Card company adopts WANdisco Big Data solution



WANdisco (LSE: WAND) is pleased to announce a new Big Data customer. A global US-based credit card and financial services company has signed a subscription contract to use WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop in mission-critical customer transaction analysis.



The subscription value is, for the initial deployment, approximately $250,000 per year. The customer intends to expand its mission-critical Hadoop operations significantly after the initial deployment, by more than doubling the amount of data managed under Non-Stop Hadoop over a two- to three-year period. Significant increases to the subscription value have been agreed, contingent on this planned increase in scale.



One of the top 10 US banks, this new customer has, for over a year, been operating Hadoop for analysis of billions of transactions across its 30 million customers, supported by WANdisco's distribution partner Cloudera. Live production applications are being used to correct transaction errors, integrate with external data to discover transaction trends, gather intelligence from ATMs and mobile phones, and create data visualizations for customers.



As the processing workload has evolved, WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop has proved to be the only solution to some mission-critical operating requirements: data loss from outages has to be eliminated; processing at scale has to meet high performance standards and, to spread increasing workload efficiently over computing resources, periodic batch analytics queries have to be separated from more demanding real-time queries. Therefore, WANdisco's technology has been deemed essential to continuing in live production.



Matt Aslett, Research Director, Data Platforms and Analytics, 451 Research, comments:



"We anticipate increased demand for technologies that enable Hadoop to support mission-critical operational workloads. This deployment is indicative of the role that WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop can play in enabling greater adoption of Hadoop in live analytic environments."



David Richards, WANdisco Chief Executive Officer, comments:



"The year so far has been marked by widespread production trial activity in the Hadoop market. We are now moving into a phase of production go-lives. Our Non-Stop Hadoop solution is essential for corporations to go live with Hadoop in mission-critical Big Data operations. We foresee a number of additional live implementations in the coming months."

26 Nov Investec 1,275.00 Buy
26 Nov finnCap 700.00 Corporate

i wonder how investec and finncap rated QPP?
just an idle question :-)

The Wandisco client is believed to be Capital One