OREANDA-NEWS. WANdisco announces it has been granted a US Patent entitled "Distributed File System Using Consensus Nodes". In addition, a related patent application was approved, with assignment of the final patent number pending. 

The patent and the approved application, covers the use of WANdisco's core replication technology, used across its entire range of Cloud, Big Data and ALM products, with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and similarly architected Big Data file systems in the future. 

Hadoop is a proven open source Big Data technology, having the ability to store virtually any type of data, including images, video and audio.  It forms the backbone of many of the world's largest and most important databases utilized by companies such as Facebook, Yahoo, Netflix, Amazon and eBay.   A number of the world's largest corporations across all industries are rapidly adopting Hadoop to replace costly and less flexible legacy enterprise data warehouse solutions, and they require the highest levels of resilience that only WANdisco's technology can bring.   In addition, major cloud vendors such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and IBM have Hadoop-as-a-service (HaaS) offerings that will also benefit from this technology.

With the approval of this most recent application, the Company has been granted a total of seven US patents.  WANdisco currently has a further twenty-five patent applications pending both in the US and internationally.

David Richards, CEO of WANdisco, said:
"Continual innovation remains a key objective at WANdisco, protecting our competitive position and adding value to our business. Our growing patent portfolio reflects that ambition. On the specific patent, replication using our core technology integrated with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), or a future big data file system with a similar architecture to HDFS is covered.  The Company believes that any future big data scale-out file systems will have many similar architectural elements to HDFS, meaning this grants provides broad future-proof protection."