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/

up 7.69%

Todays Share mag has Wandisco as a buy. Still do not think they have got hold of the prospects of this company. MVO. It notes - the potential of new Hadoop-based tools could spark a significant acceleration in anticipated revenues and handful of large contract wins could propel the £116m cap into the black faster than anticipated around 2015.

Closed up 9.40% . Todays Shares mag - The shares could top £6.50 by the end of March.
They are not far short of £6.50 today. :-))


The early launch of Hadoop 2.0 tools should push the sp North.

Wll done dreamcatcher was there a mntion of Nano in Shares ?

I will charge to look that up. lol

lol.

WANdisco Rises on Success in Cracking ‘Big Data’: London Mover

By Peter Woodifield - Jan 31, 2013 4:49 PM GMT.

WANdisco Plc (WAND), a U.K. software provider to companies including Apple Inc. and Intel Corp., rose to a record as it won a U.S. patent award and joined a platform for storing and processing large volumes of data.

The stock advanced 9.4 percent to 640 pence, extending its gain this year to 45 percent. The stock has more than tripled since its initial public offering on June 1, giving the company a market value of 136.5 million pounds ($216.4 million). The volume of shares traded was almost 30 times the three-month daily average.

The products of Sheffield, England-based WANdisco allow software developers working anywhere in the world to have local access to the same data at all times. In November, the company moved into the so-called Big Data market used by social networking sites with the $5.1 million acquisition of AltoStor.

The stock is now above the 12-month price predictions of the two analysts tracked by Bloomberg. Panmure Gordon’s George O’Connor has a 565 pence target, while Emanuil Manos Halicioglu at Growth Equities & Co. has a 593 pence target.

In the last 10 days the company established a wholly-owned foreign enterprise in the Chinese city of Chengdu, was issued a patent for wide-area network technology it can use with Big Data, and joined the Hortonworks Technology Partner Program.

The Big Data market is forecast to increase at least 10- fold by 2017 to more than $50 billion, the company said in a statement about the patent award. Hortonworks, based in California, delivers services for Apache Hadoop, an open-source framework for running applications.

WANdisco had subscription bookings of $2.5 million during the three months through December, bringing its full-year total to $7.9 million, up 71 percent from the previous year, it said in a statement Jan. 15.

WANdisco was named Jan. 3 as one of Panmure Gordon’s top 2013 picks for small and mid-cap companies. O’Connor cut his recommendation to hold on Jan. 15, citing the fact that the share price was above his 12-month target.

Jan. 31 (Bloomberg) -- David Richards, CEO of Wandisco, discusses the differences in equity investing in the U.S. and U.K. and what lies ahead for his company. He speaks on Bloomberg Television's "The Pulse."

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/richards-equity-investors-need-u-k-tech-focus-enFgw~0AT1G5jiaWWL5v4w.html

Strong buying again today.

OUR MAN IN THE VALLEY


http://www.wandisco.com/get?f=documentation%2Fpress%2F020413-Talk%20Business.pdf

8 pages of tech titans in this weeks shares mag. Wandisco is now the UKs best performing IPO by miles. Wanddisco shares are up over 250% in seven months since its flotation at 180p in June.

I notice the buying has stepped up big this lunch. More news due perhaps ?

closed up 7.17%

WANdisco launches Big Data product platform
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8 February 2013



WANdisco plc



("WANdisco" or the "Company")



WANdisco launches Big Data product platform



- WANdisco unveils WANdisco Distro: its first Big Data product and the foundation for WANdisco's range of enterprise Big Data solutions -



- WANdisco Distro represents the world's first production ready Apache Hadoop 2 Distribution platform for Big Data -





Sheffield, UK - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a provider of high-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data and distributed software development, is pleased to announce the launch of WANdisco Distro ("WDD"): the foundation for the Company's enterprise-level Big Data products.



WDD's development was made possible through WANdisco's acquisition of AltoStor and has been led by Dr. Konstantin Boudnik, WANdisco's Director of Big Data Distribution who joined the Company in January from Karmasphere. Made available today for free download, WDD is the first fully tested and production-ready Big Data product from WANdisco and is based upon the most recent release of Apache Hadoop. WDD will underpin WANdisco's full range of enterprise Big Data solutions, set to be released during the coming weeks.



The core advantage of WANdisco's Big Data products over existing solutions will be their ability to not only manage but also protect and defend mission critical data centre installations. By applying WANdisco's patented replication technology to Hadoop, the company is able to guarantee 100% uptime for enterprises deploying Hadoop. In the event of a network or server outage, WANdisco's products would enable such installations to continue operating, with immediate failover, automatic recovery and zero downtime: even in the case of planned maintenance. These capabilities can be delivered across data centres over a Wide Area Network ("WAN") as well as a Local Area Network ("LAN"), providing users around the world with non-stop global business continuity.



WANdisco is also announcing the immediate availability of enterprise-class professional support for organisations deploying Hadoop clusters utilising WDD. These services are priced as an annual subscription based on the number of Hadoop nodes.





Commenting on the launch, WANdisco CEO, David Richards, said:



"This announcement and the launch of WANdisco Distro marks our first, formal product step in to the exciting world of Big Data. This fully tested, production ready platform will underpin all of our Big Data products going forward, based on the patented active-active technology that already gives us such a unique edge in the market place. We look forward to announcing further Big Data product news in the coming weeks."



Commenting on the news, Tony Baer, Principle Big Data Analyst for Ovum, said:



"WANdisco's active-active replication technology not only aims to eliminate single points of failure in Hadoop, but it could also be used to extend Hadoop deployment over wide areas. Users could start to utilize Hadoop as a globally distributed resource. "

unbelievable the speed this company moves.

WELL DONE dc a great find and obviously a good investment.

up just under 10.5% :-))

Thanks 3m. We will have to search out another, if there is such a one. Could be a one off this one.

WANdisco shares leap on product launch
Fri 08 Feb 2013

WAND - Wandisco

Latest Prices
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Wandisco 742.50p +10.41%

FTSE AIM All-Share 744 +0.33%

LONDON (SHARECAST) - Shares in WANdisco lifted sharply as the group launched its big data platform WANdisco Distro on Friday.

The product is described by the company as "a production ready Apache Hadoop 2 Distribution platform for Big Data".

Development was led by Dr Konstantin Boudnik, WANdisco's Director of Big Data Distribution, who joined the company in January from Karmasphere.

According to the company, the product's competitive advantage is in its ability to manage, protect and defend mission critical data centre installations.

Commenting on the launch, WANdisco Chief Executive Officer, David Richards, said: "This announcement and the launch of WANdisco Distro marks our first, formal product step in to the exciting world of Big Data.

"This fully tested, production ready platform will underpin all of our Big Data products going forward, based on the patented active-active technology that already gives us such a unique edge in the market place. We look forward to announcing further Big Data product news in the coming weeks."

WANdisco's share price rose 10.04% to 740p at 10:52 on Friday.

WANdisco: Panmure Gordon ups target price from 565p to 763p and upgrades from hold to buy.