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- Cirata plc Cirata plc, formerly WANdisco plc WANdisco plc, develops and provides data integration and migration software solutions that enable the automated, real-time transfer of large-scale datasets, including Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) data, Hive metadata, IoT/edge data, and unstructured files from on-premises environments to cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Oracle, Databricks, and Snowflake, with zero downtime, zero data loss, and continuous consistency; it offers core products including Data Migrator for automated HDFS and cloud data migration, Data Migrator for Hadoop, hybrid cloud and disaster recovery solutions, and Data Migration as a Service, serving industries such as automotive, telecommunications, financial services, and retail with customers including General Motors, NatWest, Experian, IBM, and Tesco. The company operates globally in North America, Europe, and other regions, with dual headquarters in Sheffield, England, and San Ramon, California, and was founded in 2005. In recent developments, Cirata rebranded from WANdisco plc in October 2023 following a fraud scandal and leadership changes, secured multi-year contracts such as a $6.7 million three-year deal with IBM for a financial services customer and a three-year agreement with a leading UK retailer, renewed its software support contract with Tesco Stores Ltd valued at £200,000 through 2025, and on July 15, 2025, signed an agreement to divest its DevOps solutions business—including Subversion MultiSite Plus, Git MultiSite, and Gerrit MultiSite—to BlueOptima to sharpen focus on core data orchestration for AI and analytics.