Published by: Margo Holen
Looking through all of the submissions this month there were a couple of common threads influenced by the major event of the year, the 2016 NonStop Technical Boot Camp. This month’s articles include observations from each vendor’s perspective on the event – and no, there wasn’t anything at all that could be interpreted as being negative. ... read more
Dan
Published by: comForte
comForte has been a longtime supporter of user events no matter where in the world they may be held. For this reason, when the time comes to participate in the biggest NonStop event for the year, the 2016 NonStop Technical Boot Camp (TBC), comForte ensures that it has the full support of the company. The 2016 event proved to be no ... read more
Dan
Published by: TCM
Last year when TCM came to NonStop Technical Boot Camp we were met by warm people but cold weather. This year the famously warm embrace of the NonStop masses was matched rather perfectly by the similarly cosy Californian sunshine. After a very enjoyable sponsorship debut at 2015’s event, TCM was enthused to be back, once again packing ... read more
Dan
Published by: IR
IR has enjoyed a long relationship with NonStop, dating back to the days when monitoring a Tandem Computer represented little more than checking resource usage and making sure processes hadn’t been stopped. Today monitoring addresses every aspect of an applications’ performance where visualization of every component is important for our ... read more
Dan
Published by: Gravic
This year’s Connect HPE NonStop Technical Boot Camp (TBC) was both well attended and content rich. Presentations concerning migrations to NonStop systems – whether as a complete replacement for an installed system or just the migration of an application – were popular with all attendees. Increasing the population of NonStop systems ... read more
Dan
Published by: Pyalla Technologies
“HPE Discover is HPE’s largest annual trade show where we get to hear about all the latest and greatest new products.” This came across my desk in my Twitter feed and was accompanies by a video – on the writer’s new YouTube channel. Admittedly, the writer is part of 3Par and even though 3PAR is an integral part of the HPE Storage group ... read more
Dan
Published by: NonStop Insider
Last month we predicted that there would be a crowd attending the NonStop Technical Boot Camp in San Jose and as it turned out, we were not disappointed. The list of attendees passed the 400 mark and with a number of promotional (i.e. free) registrations plus additional volunteers helping out the final numbers, when tallied up, looked ... read more
Dan
Published by: ETINET
This year’s NonStop Technical Boot Camp (TBC) wasn’t something we were going to miss as it represents a great opportunity to meet with HPE folks together with their customers – HPE product managers and developers as well as HPE sales and solutions architects. And once again, the event didn’t disappoint as the number of attendees looked ... read more
Dan
Published by: DataExpress
Time is passing quickly with some of the buzz surrounding the 2016 NonStop Technical Boot Camp subsiding, but the memories remain intact. According to those from DataExpress present at the event, when it comes to a general impression, this year’s TBC was great and perhaps the best TBC ever. While not having attended all previous TBCs, it ... read more
Dan
Published by: Striim
If last month we expressed optimism ahead of the 2016 NonStop Technical Boot Camp, then having seen what transpired has validated such optimism. The attendance was up compared to previous years and while we are still reviewing the actual numbers, it looks as though the number inched up very close to 500. Of course, it doesn’t take a ... read more
Dan
Published by: Infrasoft
In last month’s update the focus was very much on uLinga and on the expansion into support of more modern protocols. This was a reference to uLinga support of the IBM protocols and services in support of IPIC – or, as IBM notes, “You can define TCP/IP connections so that you can communicate with a remote CICS® region by using IP ... read more
Dan
Published by: Tributary Systems, Inc
Like many of our fellow vendors regularly supporting NonStop events as they happen worldwide, Tributary Systems, Inc. (TSI) has watched with growing interest the steady upward climb in attendee participation at each NonStop Technical Boot Camp (TBC) where we have participated. This year, TBC 2016 proved to be a particularly good year for ... read more
Dan
Published by: OmniPayments
Perhaps the most important aspect of attending events like Boot Camp is an opportunity to hear about how NonStop users are deploying new solutions on NonStop. In the lead up to Boot Camp presentations given by OmniPayments at Regional User Group (RUG) events had included references to recent wins but hearing about what was OmniPayments ... read more
Dan
Published by: NonStop Insider
Looking at the popularity of specific LinkedIn Groups, there are a couple of surprises. When it comes to the most popular LinkedIn Group focused solely on all things NonStop then it is the Tandem User Group that has proved most popular with some 3,384 members. Compare this to the membership of Connect HP User Group Community that has ... read more
Dan