Cirata plc. provides a data mobility platform for unstructured and semi structured data formats that enables continuous, zero-downtime replication and migration of data and metadata across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments. It allows organisations to move, protect, and modernize large-scale data platforms without disrupting existing workloads or applications. It has recently announced the Cirata Symphony data orchestration platform to provide continuing data modernisation , Operational risk management and AI acceleration.
The company's original name was WANdisco, The name WANdisco is an acronym for wide-area networkdistributed computing. WANdisco was co-founded in 2005 by David Richards and Dr. Yeturu Aahlad.[4] They grew the company without raising any private equity, venture capital, or angel funding and led it to a successful IPO on the London Stock Exchange on June 1, 2012.[5][6]
In 2012, WANdisco acquired AltoStor and entered the big data market with its non-stop Hadoop product.[7]
On March 9, 2023, the company's shares were suspended from trading in London, citing “significant, sophisticated and potentially fraudulent irregularities with regard to received purchase orders and related revenue and bookings, as represented by one senior sales employee”.[8]
On July 25, 2023, the company's shares were readmitted to The London Stock Exchange. The company also announced that Stephen Kelly had become chief executive, having served as interim chief executive since 10 May 2023.[9]
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, with the Company's shares to trade under the ticker "CRTA".[10]
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. .[11][12][13]
Cirata's focus going forward is to develop their Symphony Data orchestration platform
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