Published by: Tributary Systems
Like so many other “Baby Boomers”, born in the mid 1950’s, I’ve always been fascinated by the automobile, particularly Detroit Iron of the mid 50’s through the early 70’s, the fin and muscle car eras. Thanks to generous parents and grandparents, I got my start with a nice collection of Matchbox die cast car and truck models that got a ... read more
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Published by: HPE
Recently I needed to take a closer look at the time when HPE CEO, Antonio Neri, came to head HPE. In so doing, I came across a report featuring some of the last remarks made by former HPE CEO, Meg Whitman. These comments can be found in the government pages of the publication, diginomica – “a new type of media property designed to serve ... read more
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Published by: Insider Technologies
We live in a truly 24 x 7 world today where enterprises keep their doors open 24 x 7 just to remain competitive. Not literally, of course, although many grocery store chains have opted for round the clock operation, but via online portals accessible from the Internet. And yet, there are so many instances where enterprises are still ... read more
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Published by: OmniPayments
Every vendor likes to talk about their brand and the work they are putting into promoting their brand so that everyone coming into contact with that vendor knows who they are. This year, OmniPayments has quite literally taken its branding efforts on the road – if you have been to any event held for the NonStop community you will have ... read more
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Published by: CSP
What is Multi-Factor Authentication? Multi-factor authentication(MFA) is a security measure that requires two or more methods of authentication, from independent categories of credentials, to verify a user’s identity for a login or other transaction. In other words, multi-factor authentication verifies that the person attempting to ... read more
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Published by: Pyalla Technologies
Last month it was about change, yet again, and the accidental entry into hybrid IT that apparently happened for many enterprises. However, this month, it’s been less about accidents and more about the clarity with which plans are being discussed. And yes, yet again, it’s about change as well! It would seem that everyone has a good sense ... read more
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Published by: striim
One of the most significant words that have fallen very quickly out-of-favor with the NonStop community has been “modernization.” It’s as if someone, somewhere, woke up to the fact that references to modernizing a system or application implied that it was old, even possibly legacy –words nobody wants to see associated with NonStop. After ... read more
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Published by: TCM
The European NonStop events schedule is about to really kick off for the year, starting with a double-header of BITUG’s Big Sig, followed quickly by GTUG’s hosting of the European NonStop Symposium in Leipzig. Truely a bumper fornight of NonStop! TCM will be in attendance, as always, accompanied by our bottles of fine single ... read more
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Published by: NTI
“Where does the true value lie in the data captured by NonStop applications?” asked Tim Dunne, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales, NTI in a recent exchange with NonStop Insider. “NonStop systems are known for their fault tolerance and their suitability for processing the most mission-critical transactions of all, but increasingly ... read more
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Published by: DataExpress
The relationship that now exists between DataExpress and the comforte sales team in the U.S. is working to better educate the NonStop community about the merits of deploying a managed file transfer product like DataExpress. While it may escape many members of the NonStop community that they even need a solution – surely, FTP / SFTP is ... read more
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Published by: Gravic
Gravic recently published the article, Scale-up is Dead, Long Live Scale-out!in the March/April issue of The Connection. Keeping up with user demand is a significant challenge for IT departments. The traditional scale-up approach suffers from significant limitations and cost issues that prevent it from satisfying the ever-increasing ... read more
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Published by: ETI-NET
ETI team will be spending much of the spring on the road meeting with NonStop users on both sides of the Atlantic. It is very important for the company to maintain strong connections with the NonStop user community as ETI has always been very focused on the needs of these users, particularly as they move from one generation of NonStop ... read more
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Published by: NonStop Insider
If ever there were any concerns over the health of RUG events no one needs to look much further than the recent SCTUG event held near Los Angeles, CA. The NonStop community in Southern California turned up in numbers as did senior managers from HPE and a quick glance at the photo below reveals how interactive the sessions were, as ... read more
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Published by: N2TUG
The North Texas and Oklahoma NonStop Users group (N2TUG for short) is pleased to confirm that Jimmy Treybig will be the guest of honor for our 2018 N2TUG Event. Please consider joining us at the Plano Hilton Granite Park on Thursday, June 7th. As is our custom, we will host a full day of presentations, networking and refreshment ... read more
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Published by: NonStop Insider
This past month has seen activity continuing to flourish on two major social media channels – Twitter and Facebook. While we don’t often associate either one with business, they do provide interesting aspects of what is taking place at HPE as tweeted and indeed, what members of the NonStop community are talking about on Facebook. Point ... read more
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Published by: NonStop Insider
For anyone facing a big move situation, there are far more questions than ever are answers. Having moved home and office in 2017, it’s not an action I am contemplating repeating any time soon. Apart from the knocks and scratches and missing files – where are those business receipts we need for taxes? – unpacking boxes is always a chore ... read more
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Published by: HPE
Last Discover HPE made the announcement for mission-critical Blockchain. This was an implementation of the R3 Corda product running on the HPE NonStop platform. This was an exciting announcement given the significance and potential of Distributed Ledgers and many in the NonStop community are quite excited by the initial and ongoing ... read more
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Published by: DataExpress
In an excellent article HPE NonStop takes new strides in its journey through the cloud, by Prashanth Kamath U, Sr. Product Manager – NonStop Enterprise Division, published in the March – April 2018 issue of The Connection magazine, one explanation about the benefits of virtualization stands out. “Setting up a cloud environment only for ... read more
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Published by: CSP
Companies moving to a hybrid infrastructure for data centers face complex challenges, so collaboration and preparation are key elements in ensuring a smooth transition. Hybrid architectures can be supported by integrated solutions that create a seamless environment between existing infrastructure resources and newer cloud deployments. ... read more
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Published by: Striim
Two newsworthy commentaries that should be of interest to the NonStop community were posted recently to the Striim blog and both featured Striim’s CTO Steve Wilkes. In the first post referenced here, SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE Interviews Striim CTO on Company’s End-to-End Streaming Integration Platform published March 16, 2018, we read of ... read more
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