Published by: Craig Lawrence
Following on from my short article on LinkedIn about the challenging weather and power situation to hit Texas in February 2021, more details have surfaced about the ability of the power companies in the state to deliver power to their customers. Residents of Texas may already have experienced this first hand, and yet there may be ... read more
Dan
Published by: CSP
Chinese hackers have infiltrated hundreds of thousands of on-premise Microsoft Exchange Server instances worldwide. Microsoft, which identified the primary attacker as Hafnium, is urging organizations running the email server to install newly released security patches. Hafnium is a nation-state actor. The group has penetrated more than ... read more
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Published by: IR
Corporate web sites are the source of much of the information we obtain about companies and products. They are subject to considerable investment even at a time when for many in IT, it is social media that provides information that is current and reflective of what’s happening right now. However, if you need to know more of what is ... read more
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Published by: Paragon
In a recent two part posting to the Paragon Edge Blog, the focus returns to cloud computing and its ubiquitous presence in almost all discussions about resourcing, be that for a new application or for data storage. This is of particular interest to those members of the NonStop community who today rely on NonStop for their payments ... read more
Dan
Published by: TICSoftware
Contrary to popular myth, modernization doesn’t have to be revolutionary or super technical. Modernization, instead looks at how to improve things to make them practical for the future. This includes reviewing old programs and solutions that have been running on the NonStop for a long time, and then asking questions like: Does it still ... read more
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Published by: NonStop Insider
If you are a frequent visitor to social media channels every now and then you may run into something that catches your eye. In this case, for me, it was only a short time ago that I saw this promotion of a McKinsey report by T.C. Janes. If you aren’t aware of T.C. Janes he has spent 18 years at HPE, the last six years as Client Chief ... read more
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Published by: TCM
Heterogeneous systems have been with us for a very long time. Ever since third parties began introducing their own lines of storage products or even plug compatible processors, the image of just a single uniform deployment of technology has proved to be a rarity. Adding to this spread of heterogeneity has been the evolution of IT itself, ... read more
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Published by: Pyalla Technologies
Welcome to the new look for the Pyalla Technologies, LLC update. As a one-time competitive sailor I am well aware of the constant technology adjustments that occur as nations compete for that auld mug – the Americas Cup. My daughter, Lisa, was born very soon after the technologically advanced Australian cup challenger, Australia II, back ... read more
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Published by: ETI-NET
HPE continues to pursue its vision of becoming the world’s leading edge to cloud platform as a service company. Having identified this as its preeminent goal it’s become increasingly clear that the cloud, indeed what industry also references as the core, implies that enterprise IT will turn more frequently to the cloud as a resource. For ... read more
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Published by: HPE
In past years, prior to deploying an application, significant time and effort was expended in gathering requirements to produce a design. The design was completed up front, before any code was written or database schema created. Furthermore, the design was comprehensive and static – it was expected to be viable for years without ... read more
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Published by: IR
Last month we referenced IR’s branding of its major product groups, a rebranding of its solution suites with names that reflect company’s primary focus areas; IR Collaborate, IR Transact and IR Infrastructure. We also noted that while the labels may have changed, the core objective remains the same – to simplify the complexity of these ... read more
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Published by: Striim
“Don’t go outside; it’s raining!” And so began a conversation with a NonStop analyst and commentator. The inference being that yes, you could get wet or worse, be struck by lightning. Perhaps it might also be a case of watching for mudslides and washouts. When assessing risks, perhaps it simply isn’t worth venturing beyond the front ... read more
Dan
Published by: comforte
In 2006, the Council of Europe decided to initiate a dedicated calendar date that would celebrate the principle of data privacy every year. As this is such a critical topic, Data Privacy Day (known as Data Protection Day in the UK), naturally grew in popularity and is now celebrated internationally as industries come together to ... read more
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Published by: By Richard Buckle, Cofounder and CEO, Pyalla Technologies, LLC.
When the topic of IT Transformation was first raised by the editors of The Connection it made some of us think about Digital Transformation and whether the two were just different takes on the same topic. However, the more we looked at IT Transformation the more it became clear that the differences centered on technology versus business. ... read more
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Published by: TICSoftware
Welcome to our first User’s Group Zoom Meeting in 2021! In this meeting, we will hear from NonStop Users who have taken different steps in modernizing their applications. In particular, their modernization initiatives involve interfacing with computing elements outside the NonStop. Integrating NonStop with other business applications in ... read more
Dan
Published by: CSP
Last month, we wrote about the sophisticated and long-running cyber-espionage campaign distributed through the widely-used network management software, SolarWinds. New information has recently come to light. We now know that the threat group behind the supply chain attack that targeted SolarWinds leveraged a piece of malware for lateral ... read more
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Published by: DATA443
It was back in early 2020 that our CEO Jason Remillard said, “Help, just help our customers, we will figure it out.” So, we placed all our focus on our customers but not in the cliché way, instead on the “help each person” way. There is no possible way that we could ignore what was then just starting but as the year progressed we stuck ... read more
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Published by: MVI Technologies
At MVI Technologies we know that one of the biggest interests across the NonStop community has to do with hearing of new vendors and new products coming to NonStop. We understand too that from the time of the first shipments of Tandem Computers it has always been about the solutions. Please welcome the news of yet another solution coming ... read more
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Published by: HPE
In the January edition of NonStop Insider, Justin Simmonds explored the idea of “NonStop as a Service”, asking himself “what if a NonStop system could be made available with ‘some’ management?” It made me think of the option that goes one step further: “What if NonStop SQL/MX could be made available as a service?” ... read more
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Published by: Paragon Application Systems
With the Global Pandemic showing no real signs of letting go any time soon, are we at a point where we need to come up with a new definition of “disaster”? As we listen to the daily news, it seems as if every second word is about yet another disaster. Whether it is the winter storms blasting America or the resurgence of fierce forest ... read more
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