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/

believe it when those target levels are hit and held .... confess i got burnt on this one in earlyish 2014, but got out

2014 has seen the share head south. 2013 was fantastic, perhaps the share of the year . Big data is just taking longer than expected to develop.

Up 30p to 505p 'Mid' this morning, as I type. I'm now looking for just a bit more confirmation to show this is going to go on to around the £6 mark - which would be a very useful gain of 20%......



More News like today's RNS on a Big Data management contract with British Gas will obviously help things along. Looks like things are finally taking off now:

Big Data contract win

RNS

RNS Number : 5944B
WANdisco Plc
08 January 2015

Big Data contract win

British Gas scales up its WANdisco Big Data solution

British Gas, the UK's largest utilities and home services provider, has significantly scaled up its WANdisco (LSE: WAND) Big Data solution for live customer-facing operations. The resulting new three-year subscription is WANdisco's largest Big Data deal to date, with a value of $750,000.

An initial trial deployment of WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop (announced on 20 March 2014) enabled British Gas to capture real-time data from over a million household Smart Meters, to demonstrate cost savings in data storage and processing, and to minimise data loss and downtime in compliance with regulations. WANdisco was able to demonstrate performance and scale that otherwise could not have been achieved.

Non-Stop Hadoop is now going into live production, with the amount of data under management scaled up to more than twice its original level. Real-time analytics from the 'Connected Homes' programme will bring benefits such as dynamic matching of energy supply with demand patterns.

Across the whole British Gas data infrastructure, Non-Stop Hadoop accelerates the transformation to a consolidated and available body of management information, for which data centre storage and processing will be handled more efficiently and less expensively.

David Richards, WANdisco Chief Executive, comments:

"Customers see our Hadoop technology as critical for enterprise big data deployments. Enlarging our footprint with existing customers like British Gas, in addition to gathering new customers, is a very important part of our strategy. This deal clearly demonstrates our ability to expand a small initial big data deployment into a much larger deal."

A full update on fourth quarter sales bookings will be released on 19 January.

For further information please contact:

WANdisco plc
via FTI Consulting
David Richards, Chief Executive Officer
Paul Harrison, Chief Financial Officer
Phil Branston, VP Corporate Development & Investor Relations

FTI Consulting
+44 (0)20 3727 1000
Matt Dixon / Rob Mindell / Roger Newby

Investec (Joint Broker and NOMAD)
+44 (0)20 7597 4000
Chris Baird / Dominic Emery

UBS Investment Bank (Joint Broker)
+44 (0)20 7567 8000
Rahul Luthra / Sandip Dhillon

About WANdisco
(LSE: WAND) is a provider of enterprise-ready, non-stop software solutions that enable globally distributed organizations to meet today's data challenges of secure storage, scalability and continuous availability. WANdisco's products are differentiated by the company's patented, active-active data replication technology, serving crucial continuous availability requirements, including Hadoop Big Data and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), including Apache Subversion and Git. Fortune Global 1000 companies, including Juniper Networks, Motorola, Intel and Halliburton, rely on WANdisco for performance, reliability, security and availability. For additional information, please visit www.wandisco.com.

Disclaimer
This announcement contains forward-looking statements that are based on current expectations or beliefs, as well as assumptions about future events. Undue reliance should not be placed on any such statements because they are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties and can be affected by other factors that could cause actual results, and WANdisco's plans and objectives, to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. WANdisco undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statement contained within this announcement, regardless of whether those statements are affected as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, save as required by law and regulations.

This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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Every day its a buy.

8 Jan Investec 1,275.00 Buy
8 Jan finnCap 700.00 Corporate

Companies are just beginning to understand the need for big data.

UKHotViews©


Thursday 08 January 2015

British Gas goes live with WANdisco Big Data

Organisations are not prepared to take big data promises on trust and want proof of value before committing heavily to this area of technology, which is why 2013/14 was a period for proof of concept activity. The hope is that 2015 will see many of those PoC projects convert to enterprise implementations. On that basis, the year got off to a good start for big data infrastructure provider WANdisco because British Gas has converted its March 2014 trial deployment of Non-Stop Hadoop, which captured real time data from over 1m Smart Meters and delivered savings in data storage and processing, and is going into live production with a scaled up solution.

British Gas has taken out a three year subscription, worth $750,000. That makes it WANdisco’s largest big data deal to date, although big data revenue is a tiny proportion of overall revenue which was $5m in H1. The company has been adding to its big data customer list over the past six months or so however (see the HotViews coverage here), providing welcome signs of momentum on this side of the business but it is coming at a cost. As of its H1 update, losses were mounting and cash burn was increasing and we can see costs and losses rising further as WANdisco invests in technology and customer acquisition. PoC conversion will also come at a cost but will also generate revenue and move the big data business into its next phase of development.

should hit 700 to 800 before y/e

WANdisco co-founder believes company will be as big as the likes of Oracle and Microsoft

WANdisco’s market capitalisation now almost £300 million



http://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/wandisco-co-founder-believes-company-will-be-as-big-as-the-likes-of-oracle-and-microsoft-1.2030330

Where should government start with Big Data?



The following article is based on a presentation given by Eddie Copeland at London City Hall for WANdisco’s Big Data Breakfast on 13 January 2015.


http://policybytes.org.uk/government-start-big-data/

siliconANGLE » Deutsche Bank study finds Hadoop rapidly gaining enterprise traction


Deutsche Bank study finds Hadoop rapidly gaining enterprise traction
Maria Deutscher | January 14th



Happy elephantNew data from Deutsche Bank Group AG suggests that the explosive adoption of Hadoop will have a tangible impact on enterprise technology spending in 2015. The research counters some recent dour assessments of Hadoop’s enterprise-readiness and should put a smile on the faces of vendors pushing the bandwagon.

Standing to gain the most from increased investments in Hadoop are the distributors commercializing the project. Hortonworks Inc., which is one of the top players in that space and the first to hit the stock exchange, saw its revenue more than quadruple in 2014 from the previous year – momentum that Deutsche Bank’s report suggests is only set to increase over the next 12 months.

Nearly half of the technology leaders that the German investment powerhouse surveyed indicated that Hadoop plays a role in their analytics plans, with implementations varying from prototype deployments to full-blown production clusters powering business processes. The differences are even more pronounced among sectors.

The chief executive officer of a major retailer told Deutsche Bank that he is experimenting with the framework to analyze supply chain and security operations, while another participant from a global telco was working on a full-blown business intelligence solution. And the financial services giant is itself in the advance stages of implementing Hadoop, an initiative that has admittedly had its fair share of legacy impediments, which is hardly uncommon.

The issues involved in deploying the platform on an organizational scale are gradually fading as practitioners become more familiar with the framework and vendors like Hortonworks continue to improve their solutions. That should not only help drive adoption among the more than half of large enterprises that the survey indicates have not yet jumped on the bandwagon but also move more existing deployments from pilot to production.

Once an organization makes the leap, the revenue potential for vendors begins to grow exponentially. The additional software licenses and professional services that the CIO needs to buy from their distributor in order to scale their environment represent only the tip of the iceberg. There is an equally substantial, if not bigger, opportunity for the partners providing the value-added offerings needed to implement advanced production applications on top of Hadoop.

Overall, Deutsche Bank sees organizations spending considerably more on the framework in 2015 than before. The question is which players will take greatest advantage of the opportunity.

WANdisco Announces Significant New Contribution to Apache Hadoop Open Source Project




New HDFS TRUNCATE Feature Sponsored by WANdisco Delivers Major Enhancement to Hadoop Big Data Transaction Handling



SAN RAMON, CA – January 15, 2015 - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a leading provider of continuous-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data, announced today that it had contributed code to the Apache Hadoop open source project that enables changes to the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) to be undone automatically when a transaction is aborted. This new feature, referred to as TRUNCATE, is a standard capability of transactional systems. Previously, if a user mistakenly appended data to an existing file stored in HDFS, their only recourse was to recreate the file by rewriting the contents. In addition, software engineers developing Hadoop Big Data applications were forced to write code to work around this limitation.

WANdisco’s team, led by Dr. Konstantin Shvachko, the company’s Chief Architect for Big Data, who is also a senior committer on the Hadoop Project Management Committee and one of the original developers of HDFS, led the TRUNCATE effort. Other members of the team included Dr. Konstantin Boudnik, Plamen Jeliazkov, and Byron Wong. All Hadoop distributions will be able to leverage this major enhancement and users as well as application developers will benefit greatly.

“TRUNCATE represents a significant step forward that all Hadoop users and application developers will benefit from," said David Richards, CEO and Co-Founder of WANdisco. “WANdisco has been a sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation for many years, with senior committers on staff who have made significant contributions to Apache open source projects. Our work on TRUNCATE further demonstrates WANdisco’s deep and continued commitment to the Apache open source community.”

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19 Jan 2015 07:00:32



WANdisco Plc



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19 January 2015

WANdisco plc



2014 Q4 Bookings update



Strong increase in momentum of Big Data business



WANdisco (LSE: WAND), the leading provider of non-stop Big Data, reports fourth quarter sales bookings increasing by 8% compared with the prior year to $4.7m. Bookings for the year were $17.4m, up 18% on the prior year.



Highlights



· Record Big Data bookings



· Five new Big Data customers



· British Gas expands its WANdisco Big Data solution in the largest Big Data deal to date



· Significant growth in sales pipeline



Big Data



$2.1m of bookings in the quarter came from our Big Data products (Q4 2013: nil).



Amongst existing Big Data customers, British Gas, after a period of extensive testing, is, as announced on 8 January 2015, scaling up into live production, entering into a new subscription that is our largest-ever Big Data contract, valued at $750,000.



Five new customers selected our Non-Stop Hadoop product for deployment alongside our distributor partners Cloudera and Hortonworks. Amongst these customers, in the consumer sector, dunnhumby and Epsilon are transforming the capture, interrogation, availability and responsiveness of their customer data. In financial services, two global banks have adopted our technology for analysing buying behaviour, verifying financial transactions and managing risk, including fraud.



These highlighted contracts from new and existing customers have initial values of between $160,000 and $750,000, with customers indicating plans to scale up these contracts as they further develop Hadoop operations.



Responding to customer requirements, we have added to the continuous availability features of Non-Stop Hadoop. New features enable data capture from multiple data centres; allocation of data processing to the most cost-effective hardware; and selective replication of data to comply with national regulations. These features, controlled through a new administrative user interface, were released during the period as Non-Stop Hadoop 1.9.10.



During the fourth quarter our pipeline of sales opportunities grew significantly and currently includes a broad industry spread, with opportunities in the EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions building up to complement our well-established opportunities in the Americas. A number of successful fourth-quarter production trials are expected to lead to new subscription contracts during the coming months. In addition, for the first quarter of 2015 we have scheduled a number of significant new production trials with potential new customers.



Application Lifecycle Management ("ALM")



$2.6m of bookings in the quarter came from our ALM products, (Q4 2013: $4.3m). ALM sales were impacted by the decision to focus certain sales resources on closing those Big Data opportunities that accelerated late in the quarter. The high proportion of bookings from new subscriptions, and high renewal rates, continue to demonstrate the potential of the ALM market.



New customers this quarter included Zurich Insurance and Elektrobit Automotive. More customers are adopting our products to manage the popular Git open source code management environment. We enhanced our Git products during the period with variants for the GitLab and Gerrit collaboration tools.



Based on its operating scale and revenue potential, we intend to advance the ALM business towards profitability in 2015.



David Richards, WANdisco Chief Executive Officer, comments:



"Our fourth quarter sales mark an increase in momentum in our Big Data business, as successful production trials have led into some significant contract wins in a short period of time. Alongside our new customer wins, our first contract expansion by an existing customer was particularly encouraging.



Our technology is demonstrably becoming part of standard Hadoop enterprise architecture as our partnerships with Cloudera, Hortonworks and Oracle increasingly provide a compelling combination of technologies for live data operations.



WANdisco is enabling customers in various industries to realise performance, insight, reliability and savings that they otherwise could not achieve. We believe that many of our new Big Data customers will go on to expand significantly their WANdisco solutions as they take more and more data into their mission-critical applications."
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19 Jan finnCap 700.00 Corporate

WANdisco claims big data sales breakthrough

But shares slide on missed expectations in older technology



By Christopher Williams, Technology, Media and Telecoms Editor

8:44PM GMT 19 Jan 2015



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/11355967/WANdisco-claims-big-data-sales-breakthrough.html

WANdisco bids to raise US$25mln to further 'Big Data' aims

By Giles Gwinnett

January 23 2015, 9:01am
The group is to conditionally place around 4.8mln shares with new and existing investors at 375 pence each to raise approximately US$24.8 million after expenses
The group is to conditionally place around 4.8mln shares with new and existing investors at 375 pence each to raise approximately US$24.8 million after expenses


Software specialist WANdisco (LON:WAND) saw shares nudge up as it unveiled plans to raise almost US$25mln in a placing to further its growth ambitions.

The company's sofware includes a product, which can be used to analyse and manage so called "Big Data"- the vast quantities of which is produced by firms' IT systems, and the pipeline for this has continues to extend since year end.

"The challenge for the group, on which the directors are confident of delivering, is to convert this record and growing pipeline into recurring revenue generation," the firm said.

The group is to conditionally place around 4.8mln shares with new and existing investors at 375 pence each to raise approximately US$24.8 million after expenses.

That price represents a discount of around 3.8%to the closing mid-market price of 390 pence yesterday (Jan 22).

Funds raised will be used to maintain levels of investment in its product development and expanding global sales infrastructure.

In the fourth quarter US$2.1mln of bookings came from Big Data products (Q4 2013: nil) and this month British Gas signed up for a new subscription worth US$750,000 - the biggest contract to date.

Chief executive David Richards said: "The sales success we have recently seen, particularly in the most recent quarter, has emboldened our view of the Big Data opportunity open to us and of our ability to win in that marketplace."

New Big Data customer win
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11 February 2015

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New Big Data customer win



Global bank selects WANdisco Big Data solution



One of the world's leading banks has selected WANdisco's (LSE: WAND) Big Data solution.



Following rigorous trials, the bank has included WANdisco in its 'reference architecture' for Big Data that will be rolled out as a standard across the bank. From an initial one-year subscription, valued at $150,000, the bank intends to scale up its usage significantly over time. With the bank's data infrastructure covering tens of thousands of data nodes, the potential for its subscription to expand in value is considerable, making it, at full utilisation, WANdisco's largest Big Data customer to date.



The bank has been using Hadoop to capture and store the unprecedented amount of both structured and unstructured data that it is generating. In a production trial on the Hortonworks partner platform, WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop eliminated data outages that had previously occurred in Hadoop, improved data processing speeds and saved costs, all at levels that were otherwise not achievable.



The bank will initially deploy not only Non-Stop Hadoop's core feature, 'continuous availability', but also 'selective replication' to comply with regulatory requirements. Transactional risk management, trade finance and regulatory reporting are just some of the departments planning to deploy this technology.





David Richards, WANdisco Chief Executive Officer, comments:



"This new customer has Hadoop data operations across the whole bank, which WANdisco will support in live production. The bank intends to scale up its Non-Stop Hadoop solution very significantly. With this latest new customer, we have signed three of the world's top ten banks in the last three months."

11 Feb finnCap 700.00 Corporate

Sharecast -


WANdisco signed up by third top-ten bank for big data contract

Wed, 11 February 2015



WANdisco signed up by third top-ten bank for big data contract



WANdisco has won a bid data contract with another of the world's 10 largest banks, representing its third such deal in as many months and potentially its largest to date.
The AIM-listed company said the $150,000 contract was for the bank to roll out WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop database-linking technology in its 'reference architecture' as standard across the bank, and that there was "considerable" potential for the size of the subscription to expand in value over time.

This would make the contract, at full utilisation, WANdisco's largest Big Data customer to date.

The Sheffield-based company licenses out its technology which can synchronise large amounts of data across remote data centres, enabling companies to search though increasingly huge amounts of data quickly and easily.

The bank has been using Hadoop to capture and store an "unprecedented amount of both structured and unstructured data" that it was generating and was using WANdisco's software to eliminate previous data outages, improve data processing speeds and save costs.

WANdisco chief executive David Richards said: "This new customer has Hadoop data operations across the whole bank, which WANdisco will support in live production.

"The bank intends to scale up its Non-Stop Hadoop solution very significantly. With this latest new customer, we have signed three of the world's top ten banks in the last three months."

will the markets be convinced that this new contract will produce REAL money, unlike those of say BLNX?

The company is a huge cash burner . Perhaps it is turning a corner now, with 3 of the worlds top banks taking up the services of WAND in as many months. I know they are 2 completely different businesses but WAND reminds me of RM2, in the fact it could become huge or indeed fail.