Published by: TCM
Whilst NonStop remains the world’s No.1 choice for Mission-Critical systems, identifying and retaining resource with the appropriate level of skill and experience represents an ever-growing challenge. With the mature nature of this particular workforce, the focus for NonStop users must become identifying methods to remove the risk of ... read more
Dan
Published by: CSP
NonStop systems are now being used in far more dynamic situations and have more external connections than ever before. Any compromise to the security of a system can have sweeping consequences, including financial loss and damage to an organization’s reputation. File Integrity Monitoring should be considered an important security ... read more
Dan
Published by: ETI-NET
As we look ahead to the decade that has just started, it’s all too easy to become blasé about the future of NonStop. Will NonStop product lines continue to be viewed by enterprises as it has been in the previous decade? Will HPE strategy find a willingness to embrace NonStop? Will we see more “new logos” added than in the last couple of ... read more
Dan
Published by: Pyalla Technologies
When it came time to write this article last year, I wrote with some passion about how good it felt to be “still in the game.” This was a reference to a song by Stevie Windwood, a veritable child prodigy when it comes to rock music when at age 15 he was part of the group, Spencer Davis Group, (remember “Gimme Some Lovin’” and “I’m A ... read more
Dan
Published by: Insider Technologies
“The Mainframe-Class NonStop Batch Scheduler” Some of the benefits the UK Central Bank and OFI NonStop customers have realised: Exceed SLAs for site-swaps Fast batch recovery following a site-swap Run RTGS applications Reduce online-dealing batch by 6 hours per day (source available) Manage, process, service securities settlements Manage ... read more
Dan
Published by: NTI
NTI has been very pleased with the response it has received in 2019 at events held around the world. Whether it was in Australia, Scotland, or all points in between, it’s been highly encouraging to our NTI team to see so many NonStop community members approach us for information on DRNet®. It would be no exaggeration to suggest that for ... read more
Dan
Published by: NonStop Insider
HPE Enterprise Account Executive, Steve Kubick, has once again published a video to YouTube. You can visit this latest video using the link below. His choice of title, Nation Critical, is a reference to the US Department of Homeland Security’s mandate, recognizing that “the nation’s critical infrastructure provides the essential services ... read more
Dan
Published by: Striim
2020 will be a year where deployment of Striim within the enterprise will continue to grow – there is tremendous value in having the Striim platform present in any IT establishment. However, when it comes to the enterprise, think of the Striim platform as your universal pipeline to cloud service providers and to other infrastructure and ... read more
Dan
Published by: NonStop Insider
While preparing to write a RUG update I came across the picture of two of the best known individuals in the world – Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. Currently ranked first and third in the richest man in the world stakes, they have been friends for a long time now with both reputed to have taken to eating ice creams at a local Omaha Dairy ... read more
Dan
Published by: NonStop Insider
First we had Xerox making headlines with the bid for HP Inc. (HPQ). Then we had The Register reporting that HPE is going on the warpath (attacking AWS over vendor lock-in) and then there is an update coming from investment advisors that perhaps it’s time to rethink HPE and to begin buying up its stock. Finally, one of the better known ... read more
Dan
Published by: NonStop Insider
It is at this time of year that the IT community gets to hear all about the financial success of the vendor of most interest to the NonStop community – HPE. As November came to a close, HPE released its financial results for Q4, 2019, and provided us with an update for the whole of its financial year 2019 together with early guidance ... read more
Dan
Published by: Tributary Systems
It’s been a month since the 2019 NonStop Bootcamp, but one of the comments Jeff Kyle made during his Keynote Address still sticks in my mind. Mr. Kyle stated that Virtual NonStop X will be placed into production environments in 2020. Ok, but what’s the motivation for customers to move away from converged systems? When I began my ... read more
Dan
Published by: TIC Software
There were many presentations provided by the HPE NonStop team during 2019 that stimulated considerable discussion, but perhaps the most engaging conversation occurred at this year’s Technical Boot Camp (TBC). The presentation was NonStop – The Art of the Possible, given by head of the NonStop Advanced Technology Center (ATC), ... read more
Dan
Published by: Striim
“Impact Sponsor” Striim at Strata NT 2019 Data Conference Striim’s presence at major industry events continues and 2019 has proved to be the best year ever for the company. Best in terms of the type of events and best too in terms of the quality of questions and issues brought to the Striim’s team wherever we had presence around the ... read more
Dan
Published by: Pyalla
The year started with Margo and me still in Sydney, Australia. Following numerous meetings and events that fully occupied our time as 2018 wound down, it’s still somewhat amusing to us that 2019 has passed this quickly. Who knew; it was only a short time ago we were sitting harbor-side in 100+ degrees enjoying seafood and sipping fine ... read more
Dan
Published by: Paragon Application Systems
It was around this time last year when ATMmarketplace editor, Suzanne Clucky posted Windows 10 migration for ATMs: The clock is ticking to the publication’s blog: Thirteen-and-a-half months from now, support for the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system will end. By then, all but a handful of financial institutions around the world will ... read more
Dan
Published by: NTI
End of year celebrations oftentimes means that there is still that last minute dash to catch up with the NonStop community before it is truly time to look back at all that happened in the year. Even as we finish celebrating Thanksgiving here in the US, with turkey and all the trimmings still fresh in our minds, we are packing bags for ... read more
Dan
Published by: Nexbridge
If you have never seen the early evening sky in autumn in Ontario, you are missing quite the experience. The depth of the blue is breathtaking. Just after the sun dips below the horizon, the sky goes green, like a rectangle we now see on PDFs and PowerPoints done by our favourite salespeople. The blue towards the east is deep and ... read more
Dan
Published by: Lusis Payments
Once again it was great to see everyone who attended the HPE NonStop Technical Bootcamp in San Francisco. The buzz from last year about heightened levels of performance being achieved with the new NonStop X servers running the L-series operating systems has certainly carried over into many of this year’s discussions with Lusis. As an ... read more
Dan
Published by: IR
You will probably have read a lot about what transpired at the last NonStop Technical Boot Camp (TBC 2019) and have likely been impressed by the commitment being made by HPE to the NonStop platform. It really is impressive that over a relatively short period of time NonStop has been ported to the Intel x86 architecture and that opened ... read more
Dan