Published by: Insider Technologies
With the announcement that the planned NonStop Technical Boot Camp has gone virtual means many of us will be fine-tuning our presentation skills. In front of a camera, no less! And while this may be natural for some, there are few vendors with Hollywood credentials. Fortunately, with the Virtu-NUG events of late, we have at least been ... read more
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Published by: Paragon
In its Q2, 2020 report, The Forrester Wave™: Continuous Functional Test Automation Suites, Q2 2020, Forrester Research Vice President & Principal Analyst Diego Lo Giudice states: “Automation is at the core of being adaptive. While test automation is not new, past automation approaches have not helped app dev teams keep up with ... read more
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Published by: Nexbridge Inc.
It was 11:30pm last week and an email came into the support system: a customer had gone down. They were in a panic because “Nothing was working” – well, not nothing, but just enough to get everyone out of bed. A new RVU had been installed and now applications would not run. This was a first for this customer, who had never seen this kind ... read more
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Published by: IR
Sometimes it’s simply refreshing to step back and take a good long hard look at what’s involved in the Digital Transformation (DX) we are all pursuing. Yes, it’s complicated and yes, there are few easy answers. But DX is all about better supporting our customers. It’s all about being focused on addressing the needs of a changing customer ... read more
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Published by: Craig Lawrance
There is a lot of encouraging news surfacing about what a banks’ modern branch office should look like? How does one bank differentiate itself from another? Does is go down the path of Capital One, for instance, that combines the local coffee shop with a branch office. On a corner in Boulder’s famous Pearl Street Mall, the Capital One ... read more
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Published by: CSP
File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) is an important requirement of the PCI data security standard for maintaining confidential (e.g., cardholder) information. It is considered a vital requirement for security compliance frameworks to help identify unexpected or malicious activity across critical system files and protect business assets. The ... read more
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Published by: Lusis Payments
Over the past several years, Lusis and our TANGO platform have become the industry leader in replacing legacy applications like Base24, Postilion, and in-house developed solutions that are quickly becoming obsolete. Companies continuously choose Lusis Payments Tango for three simple reasons. Technology – Organizations have demanded a ... read more
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Published by: NonStop Insider
To say that the NonStop community is going through a period untested in living memory has to be an understatement. The NonStop community has been an association, a society, yes, a community (but you can call it what you like) that thrived on networking to better understand NonStop product roadmaps as well as the plans of many members of ... read more
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Published by: NonStop Insider
Rise in LinkedIn group membership, continued – In the last issue I opened with observations about LinkedIn groups that had amassed more than 3,000 members. For members of the NonStop community this represents a sizable accomplishment even as it is also a reinforcement of the level of interest the NonStop community maintains when it ... read more
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Published by: Richard Buckle, NonStop Insider
We have always heard the role of NonStop described as being best-suited platform where 100% uptime is mandatory; where the customer’s business cannot tolerate any exceptions; where nothing can be allowed to interrupt the works of the solution and where the application’s failure means the customer’s business fails. There is a cost when a ... read more
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Published by: TANDsoft
TANDsoft’s Jack Di Giacomo met his first Tandem computer as a young college graduate. He worked for others in Tandem development, then took the leap into entrepreneurship by starting TANDSoft Consultants Inc. Fortunately, his wife, Amanda, was supportive. You’ll find “NonStop Collaboration / Networking Is Key to TANDsoft’s Success” at . ... read more
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Published by: Tributary Systems
It occurred to me the other day that as of July 2020 I’ve been involved with NonStop for 25 years. Yes, I started working for Tandem in July of 1995, first as a Manufacturing Program Manager, when Tandem manufactured most everything they sold! After a year in the Manufacturing Organization, I transferred to Development as an Engineering ... read more
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Published by: Striim
For followers of Striim on social media platforms you would have come across recent posts by the Striim team. You may have even been the recipient of an email directly from Striim Founder and CTO, Steve Wilkes. The reason for all of this recent publicity is the availability of Striim 3.10.1 – a major update focused on easing the ... read more
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Published by: Pyalla Technologies
For the past couple of months Margo and I have been developing a white paper on the topic of NonStop Total Cost of Ownership. This latest white paper comes almost a decade after an earlier white paper was written on this topic that was ultimately published on the HPE web site with references to statements provided in that paper ... read more
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Published by: Paragon
On March 11, 2020, “The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, acknowledging what has seemed clear for some time – the virus will likely spread to all countries on the globe. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the situation will worsen.” On July 13, 2020, an ... read more
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Published by: NTI
We have begun a new quarter; who could have imagined what we all would be facing in 2020. When we talk of 2020 in terms of 20/20 vision it means we can see things clearly. Perhaps it’s rather paradoxical that in 2020 almost no business has 20/20 vision and yet, we are all making adjustments to this new world in which we now live. As some ... read more
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Published by: Richard Buckle, Pyalla Technologies, LLC
Bali Nomads and not a manager in sight! It’s all about mindset; this is the second in a two part series on value of infrastructure, possible future usage of ATMs and importantly, the role NonStop will continue to play. In my previous post, the first in this two part series, I wrote of how so much that participates in the completion of ... read more
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Published by: Lusis Payments
The need for a cutting-edge, real-time fraud solution has never been so critical as it is now. The world has seen an unprecedented switch from CP (cardholder present), CNP (cardholder not present) to online transactions, which has massively changed the patterns of fraudulent activity for OLTP (online transaction processing). ... read more
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Published by: Insider Technologies
In the beginning there was only TAL. When the first Tandem was shipped in 1976 it was the only programming language on the NonStop 1. A lot has changed since but TAL is still shipped with every new NonStop server. When I told people last year I was learning TAL they could have thought I was learning some obscure foreign language ... read more
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Published by: IR
We have heard so much already this year about events going virtual. Given the impact being felt everywhere as the result of the global pandemic, it is not surprising then to read that here at IR we elected to hold our annual company-wide kick-off meeting as a virtual event. HPE called their annual marketing event, HPE Discover Virtual ... read more
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