WANdisco, plc., dually headquartered in
Sheffield
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, England and
San Ramon, California in the US, is a public
software company
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Types
There are a number of different types of soft ...
specialized in the area of
distributed computing
A distributed system is a system whose components are located on different networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages to one another from any system. Distributed computing is a field of computer sci ...
. It has development offices in
San Ramon, California;
Sheffield
Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it. The city serves as the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire a ...
, England; and
Belfast
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, Northern Ireland. WANdisco is a corporate contributor to
Hadoop
Apache Hadoop () is a collection of open-source software utilities that facilitates using a network of many computers to solve problems involving massive amounts of data and computation. It provides a software framework for distributed storage an ...
,
Subversion and other
open source projects.
History
The name WANdisco is an acronym for
wide area network
A wide area network (WAN) is a telecommunications network that extends over a large geographic area. Wide area networks are often established with leased telecommunication circuits.
Businesses, as well as schools and government entities, u ...
distributed computing
A distributed system is a system whose components are located on different networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages to one another from any system. Distributed computing is a field of computer sci ...
. Initially offering a
replication solution for distributed teams using the
Concurrent Versions System (CVS), this was expanded to include
Apache Subversion
Apache Subversion (often abbreviated SVN, after its command name ''svn'') is a software versioning and revision control system distributed as open source under the Apache License. Software developers use Subversion to maintain current and histo ...
with SVN MultiSite Plus in 2006,
Git
Git () is a distributed version control system: tracking changes in any set of files, usually used for coordinating work among programmers collaboratively developing source code during software development. Its goals include speed, data in ...
with Git MultiSite in 2013 and
Gerrit with Gerrit MultiSite in 2014.
In 2012, WANdisco acquired AltoStor, and entered the Big Data market with its Non-Stop Hadoop product. AltoStor's founders, Dr. Konstantin Shvachko and Jagane Sundar, joined WANdisco as part of the acquisition, and helped develop the company's next generation Hadoop product released in 2015, WANdisco Fusion.
Technology
WANdisco's Distributed Coordination Engine (DConE) is the shared component for WANdisco
clustering products. The DConE system allows multiple instances of the same application to operate on independent hardware without sharing any resources. All of the application servers are kept in synchronisation by DConE regardless of whether the servers are on the same LAN or globally separated and accessible only over a
wide area network
A wide area network (WAN) is a telecommunications network that extends over a large geographic area. Wide area networks are often established with leased telecommunication circuits.
Businesses, as well as schools and government entities, u ...
(WAN).
WANdisco's replication technology was the work of Yeturu Aahlad, who had previously worked for Sun, Netscape and IBM, and was involved in developing the
CORBA Framework. Aahlad theorized a model for effective
Active replication over a WAN. In the development of DConE, WANdisco has taken the
Paxos
Paxos ( gr, Παξός) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, lying just south of Corfu. As a group with the nearby island of Antipaxos and adjoining islets, it is also called by the plural form Paxi or Paxoi ( gr, Παξοί, pronounced in Engl ...
algorithm as a baseline and added innovations relevant to mission-critical, high transaction volume distributed environments.
WANdisco provides replication products for
CVS,
Apache Subversion
Apache Subversion (often abbreviated SVN, after its command name ''svn'') is a software versioning and revision control system distributed as open source under the Apache License. Software developers use Subversion to maintain current and histo ...
,
Git
Git () is a distributed version control system: tracking changes in any set of files, usually used for coordinating work among programmers collaboratively developing source code during software development. Its goals include speed, data in ...
,
Gerrit,
Apache Hadoop,
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis. These cloud computing web services provide d ...
,
Microsoft Azure,
Google Cloud Platform. In addition, the company offers support, consultancy and training services.
The company's website lists companies such as
ARM
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,
Avaya
Avaya Holdings Corp., often shortened to Avaya (), is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, that provides cloud communications and workstream collaboration services. The company's platform inclu ...
,
Bally Technologies
Bally Technologies, Inc. is an American manufacturer of slot machines and other gambling technology based in Enterprise, Nevada. It is owned by Light & Wonder.
The company was founded in 1968 as Advanced Patent Technology. It eventually changed ...
,
Barclays,
BlackRock
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,
Bosch,
Cisco
Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, ...
,
Dell EMC
Dell EMC (EMC Corporation until 2016) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts and Round Rock, Texas, United States. Dell EMC sells data storage, information security, virtualization, analytics, cloud c ...
,
Disney
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,
Fujitsu,
General Electric
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,
Honda
is a Japanese public multinational conglomerate manufacturer of automobiles, motorcycles, and power equipment, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, reaching a producti ...
,
Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks, Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. The company develops and markets networking products, including routers, switches, network management software, network security product ...
and
Pitney Bowes
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.
IBM OEM
In April 2016, WANdisco announced that
IBM had signed a deal to
OEM
An original equipment manufacturer (OEM) is generally perceived as a company that produces non-aftermarket parts and equipment that may be marketed by another manufacturer. It is a common industry term recognized and used by many professional or ...
WANdisco Fusion. The deal allows IBM to rebrand Fusion as "IBM Big Replicate" and plays an important role in the IBM Big Data and Cloud Computing strategy, including movement of data between
on-premises software and Cloud.
Blockchain
In July 2018, WANdisco announced that it had filed a new
patent
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in
Blockchain. The company claims that the patent "enables effective permissioned blockchain transactions with an underlying algorithmic mechanism. This mechanism enables throughput to be achieved that is orders of magnitude higher than public blockchains."
Defunct products
In 2011 WANdisco announced uberSVN, a deployment of Apache Subversion which included a web based management console and the ability to add additional
application lifecycle management
Application lifecycle management (ALM) is the product lifecycle management (governance, development, and maintenance) of computer programs. It encompasses requirements management, software architecture, computer programming, software testing, ...
features. The uberSVN download was available through mid-2013.
Open source contributions
In September 2013 WANdisco announced it is an official sponsor of the UC Berkeley
AMPLab, a five-year collaborative effort at the
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
.
Hadoop
WANdisco has one
Apache Hadoop committer on staff: Jagane Sundar.
In February 2013 WANdisco released a free distribution of Hadoop containing additional components developed by WANdisco.
Subversion
WANdisco was involved in the
Apache Subversion
Apache Subversion (often abbreviated SVN, after its command name ''svn'') is a software versioning and revision control system distributed as open source under the Apache License. Software developers use Subversion to maintain current and histo ...
open source project from 2008
through 2015. They employed several contributors to work on the Subversion project during that time.
Server and client binaries
WANdisco provides Subversion binary downloads for
Windows
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,
CentOS,
Debian,
Oracle Linux
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,
RHEL
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,
SUSE Linux,
Ubuntu
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,
Mac OS X
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and
Solaris via its website. These binaries use the default package management system for each Linux distribution.
Project announcements
In December 2010, WANdisco announced its intention to develop some features for the Subversion project, specifically aimed at improving branching and merging functionality.
The
Apache Foundation and some Subversion developers said the announcement contained unfounded claims and insinuations about community involvement and the lack of development on these features. According to Apache, these features were already being worked on at the time.
David Richards from WANdisco clarified this position to the Subversion community and followed up by announcing WANdisco's sponsorship and ongoing support for the work of the Apache Software Foundation.
References
External links
WANdisco web site
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