WANdisco‘s been busy.  Disrupting an industry undergoing massive change in the data center, and trademarking patents to boot.  The Big Data company disclosed that it has recently filed three patents with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The patent applications cover three innovations that “involve methods, devices and systems that enhance security, reliability, flexibility and efficiency in the field of distributed computing.”

The three technologies were developed by a team of five PhDs led by Dr. Yeturu Aahlad, WANdisco’s co-founder and chief scientist. Aahlad, who previously served as the distributed systems architect for iPlanet, already has 3 patents to his name.

“Our team continues to break new ground in the field of distributed computing technology,” said David Richards, CEO for WANdisco. We are proud to have some of the world’s most talented engineers in this field working for us and look forward to the eventual approval of these most recent patent applications. We are particularly excited about their application in our new Big Data product line.”

We’ve hosted Richards in theCube at Strata 2013. The CEO told us that his company’s strategy is “selling products that customers are willing to buy,” and had his VP of engineering go into detail about what that means.  See the full segment here.

WANdisco, an enterprise replication specialist, has been busy with acquisitions too, taking in a Big Data startup called AltoStor in November last year.  A few months later the firm came out with its own Hadoop distribution, a fork that infuses its homegrown active-active replication technology with the latest stable Apache version of the big data analytics engine.  This integration eliminates the single point of failure that is inherent in Hadoop, increasing the reliability of the platform and making it more viable for enterprise deployment.

The WANdisco Distro is an open-source solution that is available for free. The firm makes money off WDD by selling professional support to organizations that want to leverage the platform but can’t deploy it on their own.