Cirata
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| Formerly | WANdisco, plc. |
|---|---|
| Company type | Public limited company |
| AIM: CRTA | |
| Industry | Data Orchestration Data Modernisation Disaster Recovery AI Enablement |
| Founded | San Ramon, California, U.S. (2005) |
| Founder | David Richards, Dr. Yeturu Aahlad[1] |
| Headquarters | |
Key people | Kenneth Lever (Chairman) Stephen Kelly (CEO) Ricardo Moura (CFO) Yeturu Aahlad (Inventor) |
| Products | Live Data Migrator , Cirata Symphony |
Number of employees | circa 50[2] |
| Website | www |
Cirata plc. is a technology company specializing in data management.
The company is dual-headquartered in London, England and San Ramon, California[3], with a development hub in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
History
WANdisco was co-founded in 2005 by David Richards and Dr. Yeturu Aahlad.[4]The company's original name was WANdisco, an acronym for wide-area network distributed computing. The company went public via IPO on the London Stock Exchange on June 1, 2012.[5][6]The same year, WANdisco acquired AltoStor.[7]
On July 25, 2023, the company announced that Stephen Kelly had become chief executive officer , having served as interim chief executive since 10 May 2023.[8]
At the company's Annual General Meeting on 30 August 2023, shareholders voted in favor of the name change to Cirata PLC. This transition was completed by early October 2023, and now trades on AIM under the ticker CRTA.[9]
In July 2025, Cirata agreed to divest its DevOps assets to BlueOptima. This deal was concluded in December 2025 for a total sum of US$3.4 million.[10][11][12]
References
- ^ "WANdisco About Us". WANdisco, Inc. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
- ^ "Cirata LinkedIn".
- ^ Thomas, Helen (9 March 2023). "No dancing around it: WANdisco kicks London when it's down". Financial Times. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- ^ Pagnamenta, Robin (13 August 2019). "Wandisco boss David Richards on bringing one of Britain's biggest tech companies back from the brink". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- ^ "Sheffield's WANdisco picks up national AIM award". Bdaily Business News. 10 October 2013. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- ^ Mellor, Chris (3 April 2023). "WANdisco CEO and CFO step down as chairman becomes CEO". Blocks and Files. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- ^ "Big Data Consolidation: WANdisco Buys AltoStor For $5.1M To Beef Up Its Apache Hadoop Cred". TechCrunch. 19 November 2012. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
- ^ "WANdisco announces board changes following readmission". Insider Media. 26 July 2023. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
- ^ "Interim unaudited results for the six months ended 30 June 2023". London Stock Exchange. 11 September 2023. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
- ^ "Q2 and H1FY25 Trading Update". Investegate. RNS. 15 July 2025. Retrieved 11 August 2025.
- ^ "Completion of DevOps Divestment". Investegate. RNS. 11 August 2025. Retrieved 11 August 2025.
- ^ Investegate. "DevOps Final Consideration Received | Company Announcement | Investegate". www.investegate.co.uk. Retrieved 14 January 2026.