Published by: Pyalla Technologies, LLC
NonStop systems have been associated with payments solutions and ATM networks almost from the day the first system was delivered. This is the first in a two part series on value of infrastructure and future usage of ATMs. ATMs, for the most part, depend upon the networks that connect them to payments processing solutions. These networks ... read more
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Published by: Tributary Systems
“One Size Fits All” is an advertising slogan that’s been used (and many times abused) as long as I can remember, and I’ve been around a while! Many products touted as one size fits all would be better described as “one size fits some”. So are there any products that actually fit this advertising cliché? Well, we here at Tributary Systems ... read more
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Published by: TANDsoft
A recent VIRTU-NUG meeting highlighted FS Compare and Repair and FS Backup and Restore, two new products from TANDsoft Inc. If you missed TANDsoft’s presentation, it is available at http://www.connect-community.org/virtu-nug-2020-session-3 at the 1 hour, 34 minutes mark. VIRTU-NUG is a series of virtual user group meetings sponsored by ... read more
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Published by: Paragon Application Systems
With only days to go before HPE Discover 2020 it was announced that HPE CEO Antonio Neri had tested positive for COVID-19. This annual big-tent event, the highlight of the year for HPE, had already seen its format dramatically changed. It was going to be a virtual event and was to be renamed HPE Discover Virtual Experience. CEO Neri took ... read more
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Published by: Striim
Hot on the heels of the recent HPE Discover Virtual Experience has come the renewed attention to data. “We are awash in data; we are entering the age of insight,” HPE CEO Antonio Neri told those participating in his keynote address. “Even in this time of a global pandemic, opportunities continue to grow to where we need to move from just ... read more
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Published by: NonStop Insider
Keith Townsend develops podcasts and posts and is a member of the HPE Influencer and Blogger groups. Keith is also a frequent contributor to LinkedIn and his articles are widely read (and commented on) by his CTO following. His insights can also be found on twitter. Keith and I often chat about technology even though our backgrounds are ... read more
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Published by: NonStop Insider
The future of RUG events in 2020 is unclear as one by one, events are either being postponed or cancelled. National and state and even city borders have been closed and there continue to be lockdowns around the world. The city of Melbourne, Australia – the country’s second largest city – has just resumed its lockdown of the city and ... read more
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Published by: HPE
At times it’s easy to miss the steps that companies are taking to revise and refocus their way of conducting business. Developing or transforming a culture isn’t a simple endeavor as it does require commitment and communication. It also requires time and a shared understanding of the impact culture has on business. Most of all, culture ... read more
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Published by: NonStop Insider
There are never truly days when HPE isn’t making news. Just a few weeks ago it was all about the publication of the Q2, 2020, financial results. If you check the HPE web site for the May 21, 2020 Press Release, you cannot miss the picture at the top of the page. Very similar to the one above, it featured Moab, Utah’s famous arches with ... read more
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Published by: ETI-NET
Are clouds in your future? As IT professional do you see clouds floating just above your technology horizon? Do you believe they continue to be just out of reach? According to the results of a Gartner survey published November, 2019 and referenced in multiple media channels, “The worldwide public cloud services market is forecast ... read more
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Published by: Gravic
Gravic published the article, Data Replication and Integration – Applications in Financial Services in the May/June edition of The Connection. This article/case study explains how a merchant provider gradually expanded its data replication and integration software to add new capabilities and features to its financial switch. The company ... read more
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Published by: DataExpress
Let’s stop and take a look at what DataExpress has been doing for the past six months. Now that the acquisition by DATA443 is in the books and everyone is happily working from home – yes, we had welcomed the opportunity to work remotely long before this global pandemic took hold – it’s a good time to talk secure managed file transfer ... read more
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Published by: Tributary Systems
Nimble Storage was founded in January 2008 by Varun Mehta and Umesh Maheshwari, and announced its first product, the CS200 series hybrid arrays, in July 2010. Nimble Storage leveraged flash storage and predictive analytics to eliminate the app-data gap as applications slow down. This technology allowed Nimble to guarantee 99.9999% ... read more
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Published by: Striim
In today’s world where uncertainty is common place and predictability no longer being assumed, it’s even more important to be able to integrate data no matter where from it comes. For the NonStop community, NonStop systems are renowned for being right there where data is created. Today’s mission critical systems are nearly always ... read more
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Published by: Paragon Application Systems
It’s hard to miss the primary messages being conveyed to society as a whole as the global pandemic continues to influence much of what we do. One catchy phrase that came up recently simply said, don’t touch MEN – Mouth, Eyes and Nose. And for good reason, naturally but the issue of touching has been expanded to include almost everything ... read more
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Published by: Ascert
Not every software development group tests its products. Wait … did you read that correctly? You did! It is amazing but not every company tests its software or systems. Eighty-three percent of developers don’t like to test their code. They act like they are at the roulette table in Las Vegas and let it fly without testing. One of the ... read more
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Published by: NTI
This past month it seems as if IT has come under considerable pressure as many installations have been subject to unexpectedly high transaction volumes. References to IT “brownouts” as distinct from outages have begun to appear in numerous publications. This is a kind way of saying that the systems deployed couldn’t handle dynamic ... read more
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Published by: NonStop Insider
While it is very much the case that conversations continue around the topic of availability, more recently scalability has taken center stage. Actually, the ability to scale-out without the end user being aware that anything has changed! During this global pandemic there are numerous instances where applications are called upon to handle ... read more
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Published by: IR
Staying in touch with IR’s ongoing investments in support of payments solutions? Keeping abreast of what is new with Prognosis support of NonStop? There are many stories on the web describing the impact the global pandemic has had on industry, social distancing and working remotely are among the most widely covered topics. For IR, our ... read more
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Published by: Richard Buckle
For as long as I have been following financial institutions, payments processors and those deploying ATMs I have considered myself someone who leaves the comfort of the box to explore what lies outside. Free-thinkers begin exploring opportunities not previously considered. New ideas are floated and products begin appearing simply ... read more
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