WANdisco files US patent as it continues technology development

DATA software group WANdisco today said it has filed another new patent application with US authorities that will add to its technology portfolio.

The company, which has its head office in Sheffield and a major base in Silicon Valley, California, specialises in high-availability software for Big Data and distributed software development which allow its clients to store and share huge amounts of data.

AIM-listed WANdisco has filed the new patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office related to distributed computing with Hadoop for its Big Data solutions.

The patent application involves WANdisco’s active-active replication applied to the Hadoop Distributed File System  over a Wide Area Network. Developed by a team led by Dr. Konstantin V. Shvachko, the creator of HDFS and current member of the Apache Hadoop Project Management Committee (PMC), the new innovations are expected to have significant benefits for users of WANdisco’s Big Data products.

The latest patent application follows one issued to it in January and reflects the innovations it has develop to apply its core patented technology to the Hadoop platform.

Commenting on the new patent application, WANdisco chairman and CEO, David Richards, said: “WANdisco’s engineers are continually breaking new ground in distributed computing technology. We look forward to the approval of this patent application.  Ours are the only solutions available that deliver 100% uptime for Hadoop on a global scale.”