WANdisco was co-founded in 2005 by David Richards and Dr. Yeturu Aahlad. 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 1 June 2012. The same year, WANdisco acquired AltoStor. On 25 July 2023, the company announced that
Stephen Kelly had become chief executive officer, having served as interim chief executive since 10 May 2023. 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. 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. == Controversies ==