Published by: CSP
BITUG will be hosting this year’s European NonStop Conference at the Sheraton Grand Hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland from May 13 to 15, 2019. The conference will feature two full days of NonStop education and networking for end-users, vendors, and HPE members. CSP is proud to be a Gold sponsor of the 2019 European Technical Boot Camp, where ... read more
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Published by: DataExpress
There is a lot of travel looming for many members of the NonStop community. If you are part of this user community, perhaps there is no bigger event in spring than the annual European Technical Boot Camp (ETBC), hosted by BITUG, and this year’s ETBC, in Edinburgh, Scotland, is one event that is being highly anticipated. Perhaps it was ... read more
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Published by: N2TUG
N2TUG Community, We are very excited to welcome our NonStop community to the 2019 N2TUG Event, which we are holding at the Gaylord Texan Resort on Thursday, June 27th. As is our custom, we will host a full day of presentations, networking and refreshment opportunities. Please make plans to attend and learn what is going on with this ... read more
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Published by: Gravic
In 2019, our 40th year of business, we reflect on the past and look forward to the future. Swings in the economy, the stock market, inflation, regulation changes, IT analyst fads, and even the price of oil were met as opportunities and not problems. How do we measure our success? It is in making progress toward our core purpose of ... read more
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Published by: Tributary Systemss
BITUG, the British Isles Tandem Users Group, is hosting the NonStop European Technical Bootcamp May 13th through the 15th, so it’s now right around the corner. This year, the group has chosen Edinburgh rather than London for the venue. According to what I’ve read, the Sheraton Grand Hotel is only a 15 minute walk from the historic ... read more
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Published by: Ron LaPedis
As far as we know, a NonStop server has never successfully been hacked. But as much as we wish that they would, NSK do not sit in a vacuum. Surrounding them are Linux, Unix, Windows and other lesser computer systems. Not to mention networking gear and the leakiest component of all, humans. Cyber Response? No – Be proactive, not ... read more
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Published by: ETI-NET
It’s been a busy time for our ETI-NET management team as we have taken the message of BackBox and virtualized BackBox to the four corners of the world. While it’s still early in the 2019 calendar year, we have already been busy in North America and Asia, and in a matter of a couple of days’ time, we will be returning to Europe. Early ... read more
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Published by: NonStop Insider
Last year it was Leipzig and it seems only a short time ago, but the pages of the calendar have continued to be torn away and it’s May, 2019! Edinburgh has been the site of other NonStop events – it was spring of 1999 when I attended a European ITUG Summit event in Edinburgh that was held in the same hotel – and the choice today ... read more
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Published by: NonStop Insider
In case you missed all the celebrations as covered in multiple tweets, HPE celebrated the opening of its “New Digs” … yes the new HQ building is in San Jose and very soon I am sure we will all know the way (to HPE)! It may not mean such a big a deal for many of us in the NonStop community, but this was one of the most anticipated ... read more
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Published by: NonStop Insider
To continue with last month’s sailing theme and how technology has helped modern sailors to take on the roughest of storms there is still a very good reason for you to want to think twice before heading into the Artic in winter to see the northern lights. As we have all watched spellbound a Viking ocean cruise ship battled the elements ... read more
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Published by: HPE
It would be so simple to reference the above tweet of March 26, 2019, in our regular column, Social Media Wrap Up, but it touches on a very important message HPE CEO Antonio has been communicating for some time. Teaming with partners is an integral part of HPE’s go-to market strategy. However, when the above first appeared, it triggered ... read more
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Published by: DataExpress
When you head out onto Americas highways, and I suspect it is the same across Europe and places like Australia and Africa, you quickly become aware of the vastness of the country. Driving for hours between cities either exhilarates you or brings you to boredom, but either way, that popular refrain “are we there yet” inevitably can be ... read more
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Published by: Insider Technologies
Lots! But nothing about NonStop batch schedulers, especially MultiBatch, the mainframe-class NonStop Batch Scheduler. Therefore, let me resolve this shortcoming (depending on your view of Wikipedia)… For a start, some examples of the benefits that our UK Central Bank and OFI customers have when using MultiBatch: Help run RTGS ... read more
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Published by: OmniPayments
It would be hard to ignore the news coming from Apple – their much rumoured Apple Card has now been announced and, according to Apple’s own press release, delivers “An innovative, new kind of credit card created (that) is built into the Apple Wallet app on iPhone, offering customers a familiar experience with Apple Pay and the ability ... read more
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Published by: Tributary Systems
It seems spring has finally arrived here in Northern California, after what turned out to be a “drought busting” winter, with record rainfall and some very intense “atmospheric rivers”. In fact, the long lasting drought we’ve had here is now officially over, about time. However, even the gloomy weather for the last three months couldn’t ... read more
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Published by: Pyalla Technologies
While it might not surprise everyone it is still a circumstance that is a little out of the ordinary. Yes, the management team here at Pyalla Technologies, LLC, spent a week in Germany. Air travel isn’t the norm at Pyalla and yet already this year there has been a return trip from Sydney, Australia, together with this latest return trip ... read more
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Published by: BITUG
Early Bird Registrations Close on April 13th! Following on from the roaring success which was the eBITUG event in London in 2017, BITUG is now arranging its second European event, this time it’s the re-branded ETBC (European Technical Boot Camp) in Edinburgh, Scotland. Just like 2017, we wish to welcome the European and ... read more
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Published by: NTI
It is almost as if IT professionals went back to school only to come away speaking an entirely new language. The words peppering their conversations include everything from Hadoop to Splunk to Cloudera to Azure Cosmos and even Snowflakes! For those who are feeling comfortable openly discussing the ins and outs of SQL it is as if a ... read more
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Published by: Gravic
Gravic recently published an article in the Spring issue of Connect Converge: Using Data Replication to Offload Online Host Processing and Enable New Business Applications. The current data in online transaction processing systems is some of the most valuable. If this data is trapped in that system, and not available to enable other ... read more
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Published by: CSP
File Integrity Monitoring is an important requirement of the PCI data security standard for securing confidential (e.g., cardholder) information, and is considered a crucial part of protecting business assets. NonStop systems are now being used in far more dynamic situations and have more external connections than ever before. The ... read more
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