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/

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."

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

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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.

RM2 i genuinely understand and produces visible things
WAND i understand not at all

You understand RM2 perhaps in the concept but the market seems far from convinced. Massive cash burn the same as this company. Both need large amounts of profitable orders to swing into profit and convince the city. Testing times for both.



Businesses are still clearly testing this . I see it as now WAND has captured 3 of the worlds top banks who will be next? The bank today is one of the world’s oldest and largest international banks with over $2.5 trillion in assets . Also Richards has said the bank plans to massively scale up their non-stop Hadoop deployment.

Non stop Hadoop is achieving for this bank -

During its extensive evaluation, the bank found that WANdisco’s patented technology was the only solution that delivered continuous availability across its data centers, to eliminate the downtime and data loss previously experienced with Hadoop. In addition, the bank found that Non-Stop Hadoop was the only solution that delivered:
•Local network speed read/write access to the same data across all locations, with support for selective replication to enable the bank to comply with data locality regulations in the various countries it operates in
•100% use of all compute resources to eliminate spending on idle backup hardware
•The ability to ingest and analyze data immediately across all locations
•Cluster zoning to maintain quality of service for all users at the lowest possible cost by isolating the most resource-intensive applications to zones of high-end servers best suited to support them, without requiring expensive servers throughout the entire deployment

WANdisco joins Open Data Platform with new product
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WANdisco joins Open Data Platform with new product





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WANdisco (LSE: WAND) has joined the Hadoop Open Data Platform ("ODP") as a founding member. The ODP is a shared industry effort to promote Hadoop and other Big Data technologies for the enterprise. Members of the ODP initiative include industry-leading vendors such as Hortonworks, IBM, EMC, Splunk, General Electric, Pivotal, Cap Gemini, Teradata and SAS.

The ODP's mission is to accelerate delivery of Big Data solutions by providing a common core including, but not limited to, Hadoop distributions. This enables Big Data applications to flourish on top of a consistent platform. Because its components interoperate seamlessly and interchangeably, customers will be freed from vendor lock-in.

With these partners, WANdisco will market its next-generation Big Data product, WANdisco Fusion, which unifies data access and availability across Hadoop and Hadoop-compatible storage providers including Hortonworks, EMC, MapR and Amazon. WANdisco Fusion takes our patented replication technology for Hadoop and extends it across a much wider set of underlying data storage environments, including mixed on-premise and cloud deployments. It expands our market of potential addressable customers, to whom the product is already being demonstrated.

WANdisco Fusion replicates between storage environments in a way that is non-invasive to the underlying technologies of our partners, so can be easily deployed with them without heavy integration efforts. WANdisco Fusion will also be able to connect with vendors outside of the ODP, such as Cloudera, without access to their underlying technology.

Jeff Kelly, Principal Analyst at Wikibon, comments:

"WANdisco's Hadoop offerings are crucial elements in speeding up Hadoop enterprise adoption, which is the Open Data Platform's overarching mission."

David Richards, WANdisco Chief Executive, adds:

"Our invitation into the Open Data Platform initiative with some of the largest players in the industry is clear recognition of the value our technology brings to mission-critical Big Data deployments, as well as our commitment to give customers choice and flexibility, instead of locking them into proprietary platforms."

9 Mar finnCap 700.00 Corporate

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WANdisco almost doubles FY pretax loss

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WANdisco has almost doubled its FY pretax loss to $39.4m, from a year-earlier loss of $19.99m. Revenue was $11.2m, from $8.0m.

CEO David Richards commented:

"For large enterprises adopting Hadoop, our technology has quickly become part of the standard Big Data architecture. We are seeing customers increasingly seeking a connected set of vendors to co-ordinate their Big Data infrastructure. Alongside such vendors, we recently deepened our partner relationships by joining the new Hadoop Open Data Platform.

"WANdisco is enabling customers across industries to realise insights, 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.

"As 2014 progressed we achieved a marked increase in momentum in our Big Data business, as successful production trials led into some significant contract wins. Alongside our new customer wins, our first contract expansion by an existing customer was particularly encouraging.

"We began 2015 by winning one of the world's top ten banks as a Big Data customer and are addressing a number of exciting new sales opportunities, made more tangible by powerful references from 2014's new customers. We look forward to reporting more customer successes as the year progresses."

Financial Highlights:

· Sales bookings up 18% to $17.4m (2013: $14.8m)

· Deferred revenue from booked sales up 47% to $19.3m (2013: $13.1m)

· Adjusted EBITDA loss $17.9m (2013: $7.8m loss)

· New funds: $10.0m credit facility; $26.1m net equity fundraise (post year-end)

i'm afraid this is another stock that promised far more than it actually delivers
i'm very glad i'm out of this having taken a pasting i seem to remember some time last year

17 Mar Investec 805.00 Buy
17 Mar finnCap 700.00 Corporate

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Not a nice chart here now ....

Has all the Hallmarks of "Dot Com" Trash circa 1999

Fusion Attracts First Big Data Customers
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23 April 2015

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2015 Q1 sales update



WANdisco Fusion attracts first Big Data customers



WANdisco (LSE: WAND), the leading provider of non-stop Big Data, reports on first quarter sales.



Highlights

· Revenue up 20% to $3.0m (Q1 2014: $2.5m)



· comparethemarket.com selects the WANdisco Fusion Big Data product



· Four Big Data contract wins, including a premier global retail bank (previously announced on 11 February)



· Joining the Open Data Platform partnership brings new Big Data sales opportunities





Revenues were $3.0m (Q1 2014: $2.5m), up 20% on last year's first quarter, benefitting from the roll-out of deferred revenue from prior period sales bookings.



Sales bookings were $2.0m (Q1 2014: $4.0m). Variable timing of customers' purchase completions impeded some substantial sales opportunities. During a period of rapid evolution in our products, partnerships and sales organisation we continue, as recently indicated, to expect volatility in quarterly bookings as we add to and convert our sales pipeline.





Big Data

We have completed the evolution of our Big Data product into the next generation WANdisco Fusion, which provides, for the first time, common and seamless access to data across all Hadoop-compatible data storage providers. This significantly expands our addressable market, beyond Hadoop distributors and into the wider storage market including vendors such as Oracle, EMC, Teradata, IBM and Amazon. WANdisco Fusion is easy to integrate with other vendors because it does not require access to underlying data storage architecture.



We opened up a new sales channel for WANdisco Fusion by joining the Hadoop Open Data Platform to collaborate and integrate with Hortonworks, IBM, Pivotal, EMC and others. This has added to our sales pipeline some early stage but promisingly progressing opportunities, as indicated at the time of our results statement on 17 March 2015.



There were four Big Data contract wins in the quarter, bringing sales bookings of $0.4m (Q1 2014: $0.2m). comparethemarket.com, the UK insurance price comparison website, selected WANdisco Fusion for mixed storage, including cloud-based storage. This selection by a customer of Cloudera's Hadoop distribution demonstrates that our resilient data replication is unachievable through other Hadoop technologies.



Other Big Data customer wins in the period included a premier global retail bank (previously announced on 11 February 2015), and a global operator of undersea cables to connect data centres.





Application Lifecycle Management ("ALM")

$1.6m of bookings in the quarter came from our ALM products, (Q1 2014: $3.8m). ALM sales were impacted, as expected, by the transition during the quarter to a dedicated sales force under new leadership, as indicated at the time of our previous results statement on 17 March 2015. ALM revenue grew 8%, benefitting from deferrals of prior period sales.



Bookings came from a mix of new customers, add-on features and renewals, indicating a well-established business with growth potential. Given its scale and revenue growth, it remains our objective to advance ALM towards profitability for this financial year.





David Richards, WANdisco Chief Executive Officer, comments:

"In ALM, our transition to a dedicated sales model under new leadership has, as expected, impacted sales in the quarter. We continue to move ALM towards profitability.



Our new Big Data customer comparethemarket.com shows that we have capabilities that Hadoop distributors cannot provide.



WANdisco Fusion, with its replication of mixed data storage, is already attracting significant new partnership and sales opportunities, positioning us as an integral part of the rapidly evolving Hadoop-compatible storage market."

23 Apr Investec 805.00 Buy
23 Apr finnCap 700.00 Corporate

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