<s>
WANdisco	B-General_Concept
,	O
plc	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
develops	O
technology	O
that	O
moves	O
large	O
Internet	B-Operating_System
of	I-Operating_System
Things	I-Operating_System
(	O
IoT	B-Operating_System
)	O
datasets	O
,	O
edge	O
data	O
,	O
and	O
Hadoop	B-Application
on-premises	B-General_Concept
data	O
lakes	O
at	O
scale	O
to	O
the	O
cloud	O
so	O
organizations	O
can	O
activate	O
their	O
data	O
for	O
machine	O
learning	O
,	O
artificial	B-Application
intelligence	I-Application
,	O
and	O
data	O
analytics	O
on	O
modern	O
cloud	O
platforms	O
,	O
including	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Azure	I-Application
,	O
Amazon	B-Application
Web	I-Application
Services	I-Application
,	O
Google	O
,	O
Oracle	O
,	O
Databricks	O
,	O
and	O
Snowflake	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
WANdisco	B-General_Concept
is	O
dual-headquartered	O
in	O
Sheffield	O
,	O
England	O
and	O
San	O
Ramon	O
,	O
California	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
name	O
WANdisco	B-General_Concept
is	O
an	O
acronym	O
for	O
wide-area	O
network	O
distributed	B-Architecture
computing	I-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
WANdisco	B-General_Concept
was	O
co-founded	O
in	O
2005	O
by	O
David	O
Richards	O
and	O
Dr.	O
Yeturu	O
Aahlad	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
company	O
's	O
initial	O
offering	O
—	O
a	O
replication	B-Architecture
solution	O
for	O
distributed	O
teams	O
using	O
the	O
Concurrent	B-Application
Versions	I-Application
System	I-Application
(	O
CVS	B-Application
)	O
—	O
was	O
expanded	O
in	O
2006	O
to	O
include	O
Apache	B-Application
Subversion	I-Application
with	O
SVN	B-Application
MultiSite	O
Plus	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2013	O
and	O
2014	O
,	O
Git	B-Application
with	O
Git	B-Application
MultiSite	O
and	O
Gerrit	B-Language
with	O
Gerrit	B-Language
MultiSite	O
,	O
respectively	O
,	O
were	O
added	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2012	O
,	O
WANdisco	B-General_Concept
acquired	O
AltoStor	O
and	O
entered	O
the	O
big	B-Application
data	I-Application
market	O
with	O
its	O
non-stop	O
Hadoop	B-Application
product	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
AltoStor	O
's	O
founders	O
,	O
Dr.	O
Konstantin	O
Shvachko	O
and	O
Jagane	O
Sundar	O
,	O
joined	O
WANdisco	B-General_Concept
as	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
acquisition	O
and	O
helped	O
develop	O
WANdisco	B-General_Concept
Fusion	O
,	O
the	O
company	O
's	O
next-generation	O
Hadoop	B-Application
product	O
,	O
which	O
was	O
released	O
in	O
2015	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Today	O
,	O
WANdisco	B-General_Concept
provides	O
data	O
migration	O
products	O
not	O
only	O
for	O
CVS	B-Application
,	O
Apache	B-Application
Subversion	I-Application
,	O
Git	B-Application
,	O
Gerrit	B-Language
,	O
and	O
Apache	B-Application
Hadoop	I-Application
but	O
also	O
Amazon	B-Application
Web	I-Application
Services	I-Application
,	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Azure	I-Application
,	O
Google	B-General_Concept
Cloud	I-General_Concept
Platform	I-General_Concept
,	O
and	O
Oracle	O
Cloud	O
Infrastructure	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
WANdisco	B-General_Concept
is	O
also	O
a	O
corporate	O
contributor	O
to	O
Hadoop	B-Application
,	O
Apache	B-Application
Subversion	I-Application
,	O
and	O
other	O
open	O
source	O
projects	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
WANdisco	B-General_Concept
's	O
Distributed	O
Coordination	O
Engine	O
(	O
DConE	O
)	O
is	O
the	O
shared	O
component	O
for	O
WANdisco	B-General_Concept
clustering	B-Architecture
products	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
WANdisco	B-General_Concept
's	O
replication	B-Architecture
technology	O
was	O
the	O
work	O
of	O
WANdisco	B-General_Concept
co-founder	O
Yeturu	O
Aahlad	O
,	O
who	O
had	O
previously	O
worked	O
for	O
Sun	O
,	O
Netscape	O
and	O
IBM	O
,	O
and	O
was	O
involved	O
in	O
developing	O
the	O
CORBA	B-Architecture
Framework	I-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
Aahlad	O
theorized	O
a	O
model	O
for	O
effective	O
active	B-Architecture
replication	I-Architecture
over	O
a	O
WAN	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
the	O
development	O
of	O
DConE	O
,	O
WANdisco	B-General_Concept
has	O
taken	O
the	O
Paxos	B-Operating_System
algorithm	I-Operating_System
as	O
a	O
baseline	O
and	O
added	O
innovations	O
relevant	O
to	O
mission-critical	O
,	O
high-volume	O
transactions	O
distributed	O
environments	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
WANdisco	B-General_Concept
provides	O
replication	B-Architecture
products	O
for	O
CVS	B-Application
,	O
Apache	B-Application
Subversion	I-Application
,	O
Git	B-Application
,	O
Gerrit	B-Language
,	O
Apache	B-Application
Hadoop	I-Application
,	O
Amazon	B-Application
Web	I-Application
Services	I-Application
,	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Azure	I-Application
,	O
Google	B-General_Concept
Cloud	I-General_Concept
Platform	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
April	O
2016	O
,	O
IBM	O
signed	O
a	O
deal	O
to	O
become	O
an	O
original	O
equipment	O
manufacturer	O
(	O
OEM	O
)	O
for	O
WANdisco	B-General_Concept
Fusion	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
deal	O
allows	O
IBM	O
to	O
rebrand	O
Fusion	O
as	O
"	O
IBM	O
Big	O
Replicate	O
"	O
and	O
plays	O
an	O
important	O
role	O
in	O
the	O
IBM	O
big	B-Application
data	I-Application
and	O
cloud	B-Architecture
computing	I-Architecture
strategy	O
,	O
including	O
the	O
movement	O
of	O
data	O
between	O
on-premises	B-General_Concept
software	I-General_Concept
and	O
the	O
cloud	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
July	O
2018	O
,	O
WANdisco	B-General_Concept
announced	O
that	O
it	O
had	O
filed	O
a	O
new	O
patent	O
in	O
blockchain	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
company	O
claims	O
that	O
the	O
patent	O
"	O
enables	O
...	O
effective	O
permissioned	O
blockchain	B-Application
transactions	O
with	O
an	O
underlying	O
algorithmic	O
mechanism	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
mechanism	O
enables	O
throughput	O
to	O
be	O
achieved	O
that	O
is	O
orders	O
of	O
magnitude	O
higher	O
than	O
public	O
blockchains.	O
"	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2011	O
WANdisco	B-General_Concept
announced	O
uberSVN	B-General_Concept
,	O
a	O
deployment	O
of	O
Apache	B-Application
Subversion	I-Application
,	O
which	O
included	O
a	O
web-based	O
management	O
console	O
and	O
the	O
ability	O
to	O
add	O
additional	O
application	O
lifecycle	O
management	O
features	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
uberSVN	B-General_Concept
download	O
was	O
available	O
through	O
mid-2013	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
September	O
2013	O
,	O
WANdisco	B-General_Concept
announced	O
its	O
official	O
sponsorship	O
of	O
AMPLab	O
,	O
a	O
five-year	O
collaborative	O
effort	O
at	O
the	O
University	O
of	O
California	O
,	O
Berkeley	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
WANdisco	B-General_Concept
has	O
one	O
Apache	B-Application
Hadoop	I-Application
committer	O
on	O
staff	O
:	O
Jagane	O
Sundar	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
February	O
2013	O
,	O
WANdisco	B-General_Concept
released	O
a	O
free	O
distribution	O
of	O
Hadoop	B-Application
containing	O
additional	O
components	O
developed	O
by	O
WANdisco	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
WANdisco	B-General_Concept
was	O
involved	O
in	O
the	O
Apache	B-Application
Subversion	I-Application
open	O
source	O
project	O
from	O
2008	O
to	O
2015	O
,	O
employing	O
several	O
contributors	O
to	O
work	O
on	O
the	O
Subversion	B-Application
project	O
during	O
that	O
time	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
WANdisco	B-General_Concept
provides	O
Subversion	B-Application
binary	O
downloads	O
for	O
Windows	O
,	O
CentOS	O
,	O
Debian	O
,	O
Oracle	O
Linux	O
,	O
RHEL	O
,	O
SUSE	O
Linux	O
,	O
Ubuntu	B-Operating_System
,	O
Mac	B-Operating_System
OSX	I-Operating_System
,	O
and	O
Solaris	B-Application
through	O
its	O
website	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
December	O
2010	O
,	O
WANdisco	B-General_Concept
announced	O
its	O
intention	O
to	O
develop	O
features	O
for	O
the	O
Subversion	B-Application
project	O
,	O
specifically	O
aimed	O
at	O
improving	O
branching	O
and	O
merging	O
functionalities	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Apache	O
Foundation	O
and	O
some	O
Subversion	B-Application
developers	O
said	O
the	O
announcement	O
contained	O
unfounded	O
claims	O
and	O
insinuations	O
about	O
community	O
involvement	O
and	O
the	O
lack	O
of	O
development	O
on	O
these	O
features	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
WANdisco	B-General_Concept
CEO	O
David	O
Richards	O
clarified	O
this	O
position	O
to	O
the	O
Subversion	B-Application
community	O
and	O
followed	O
up	O
by	O
announcing	O
WANdisco	B-General_Concept
's	O
sponsorship	O
and	O
ongoing	O
support	O
for	O
the	O
work	O
of	O
the	O
Apache	O
Software	O
Foundation	O
.	O
</s>
