WAND.L Regulatory News (WAND)

18 April 2013

WANdisco plc

Q1 2013 Bookings Update

Q1 subscription bookings increase by 96 per cent year-on-year

Renewal rate 134 per cent

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 provide the following update for the three months ended 31 March 2013.

In the first quarter of the new financial year, subscription bookings reached a record level of $3.035 million, representing a 96 per cent increase year-on-year (2012: $1.545 million).

Notable new customers signed in the first quarter included General Atomics, FutureWei (a division of Huawei), Société Générale and Maxim. In addition, the Company saw significant growth in existing customer accounts including Home Depot, Nokia, John Deere and McAfee all of whom expanded their use of WANdisco products within their organisations.

The annualised renewal rate by booking value was 134 per cent. Renewals included Sony, McGraw Hill, Raytheon, Vanguard, Borg Gais and Blue Shield. When one particularly large increased renewal is excluded the underlying rate of renewal is 117 per cent.

During the period the Company announced the release of its new products for the fast growing Hadoop Big Data market. Hadoop is a proven, open source Big Data technology which serves as the backbone for many of the world's largest and most important databases utilised by companies such as Yahoo, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon and eBay. According to the analyst firm Wikibon, the market for solutions able to solve Big Data issues is forecast to grow at a compound annual rate of 58% between 2012 and 2017 from $5 billion to over $50 billion.

WANdisco's flagship Big Data product, the Non-Stop NameNode, is the only 100 per cent uptime solution for Hadoop. Built on the company's Non-Stop patented replication technology, Non-Stop NameNode completely eliminates the single point of failure that risks data availability - the NameNode - which tracks the location of data within a Hadoop cluster and coordinates client access to it.

The Company also filed three new additional patents related to distributed computing with applications in the Big Data market to complement the patent awarded by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for its core replication technology in November last year.

WANdisco will report results for the financial year ended 31 December 2012 on Thursday, 25 April 2013.

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About WANdisco plc

WANdisco (LSE: WAND) is a provider of enterprise-ready, high-availability software solutions that enable globally distributed organizations to meet today's data challenges of secure storage, scalability and availability. WANdisco's products are differentiated by the company's patented, active/active data replication technology, serving crucial high availability (HA) requirements, including Hadoop Big Data and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Fortune Global 1000 companies including AT&T, Motorola, Intel and Halliburton rely on WANdisco for performance, reliability, security and availability. For additional information, please visit www.wandisco.com.

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