WANdisco CEO and Co-Founder, David Richards, CTO and Vice President, Jagane Sundar joined Dave Vellante in theCUBE during the Hadoop Summit 2013. The panelists discussed WANdisco’s technology, evolution and what we can expect to hear from the company over the next few months.

Richards shares that in partnership with UC Berkeley’s AmpLab, WANdisco has become the first company to provide commercial support for Spark and Shark. WANdisco offers new Hadoop distribution and in-memory pieces with Spark and Shark.

Sundar explains that WANdisco’s demonstration at their Hadoop Summit booth shows their technological capabilities. In short, the company can provide replication for complete failure of a data center. At a previous Strata conference, they demonstrated that their technology means that a client can lose an entire data center and still be fully functional with another data center. As Vellante puts it, WANdisco, “allows you to take a hit within the data center and then propagate that knowledge so that you can recover from that failure.”

Richards also notes that the core of this technology is not novel, rather Paxos has been implemented for addressing similar issues. Richards explains severe conditions in which, recovery was provided. He notes, “We’ve had instances like earthquakes where the whole data center collapsed. We can actually do this complete WANscope failover with zero data loss.”

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Vellante also notes the importance of zero recovery time, which allows clients to can recover immediately in a completely different region. Sundar follow up noting, “We have an implementation of Paxos that doesn’t worry about time. So, latency is not a problem, if you want instant failover, you can buy more bandwidth.” The WANdisco solution is built on stock Apache Hadoop.

Vellante notes that WANdisco’s current market position is impressive as it is a self-funded startup. Richards says, “I felt that the intellectual property in the company was so strong [I] didn’t want to sell it to venture capitalists. We formed the company organically and we did it without sales guys.”

Like many great companies, he suggests WANdisco was founded out of necessity. According to Richards, the company aimed to solve the problem international developers faced in effectively collaborating across a wide area network. Sundar notes that the company’s Chief Scientist had the savvy to address this having worked distribution coordination for the better part of 2 years. He notes, “We took the long hard route [with] a Paxos that is truly independent of time. Richards notes that with WANdisco, “We solved a problem of outage and efficiency/performance.”

Given that the market is so big and demand is so high, Richards suggests he is interested in collaborating with more businesses in the industry. Going forward, he shares WANdisco will make announcements “that have revenue associated with them” as well as those concerning mission critical Hadoop deployments.