Published by: Paragon
In the post of March 2018 we began with a movie reference and this update will be no different. Rather than featuring a picture from today as we did back then this time we go back to one of the most popular movies of all time – Mission Impossible with Tom Cruise. Playing off the theme of Mission Impossible, Paragon included a reference ... read more
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Published by: OmniPayments
The highlight for this past month has been the many Regional User Group (RUG) events OmniPayments has supported and where we fully leveraged the opportunity to provide deeper insights into what our company is doing. Whenever the NonStop community gathers for an event OmniPayments does its very best to support it and in so doing, we have ... read more
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Published by: Pyalla
Attendees at recent NonStop community gatherings will have heard many upbeat projections about NonStop. Among the comments that have been made by the HPE NonStop team are the following: The NonStop business continues to grow around the world The X based servers have now reached > 50% of all server shipments Virtual NonStop has ... read more
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Published by: comforte
In the United States, the end of Summer is a good thing if you are a sports fan… Major League Baseball approaches the playoffs and pro-Football, Basketball, and Hockey all start their seasons! College sports begin as well and even the US Open tennis tournament finishes up. It’s a great time to be a sports fan! For fans of NonStop ... read more
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Published by: striim
For the NonStop community that has seen Striim participating in NonStop events, including the NonStop Technical Boot Camp, the question often arises – does Striim run on NonStop? Quickly followed by – does Striim support NonStop SQL/MX (as though this is a litmus test concerning depth of knowledge about NonStop)? Of course, the real ... read more
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Published by: Tributary Systems
NonStop professionals know Tributary Systems. We’re a valued partner of HPE NonStop, and we’ve been providing OEM Tape, Tape Libraries, and Library Management Software to NonStop customers for over 20 years. In fact, the current M8801, M8802, or M8805 Tape devices are all quality products supplied to HPE NonStop by Tributary. NonStop ... read more
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Published by: Insider Technologies
It’s nearly that time of year again, time for the Technical Bootcamp community to share, learn, and announce new developments in the NonStop space. It is widely regarded that this conference is one of the best organized. However, the Bootcamp and NonStop TUGs are tiny in comparison to those of Dreamforce, and South by Southwest. ... read more
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Published by: ETI-NET
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose! The more things change the more they stay the same. It was only a short time ago that the NonStop community was in Leipzig Germany for the GTUG event after which we visited the Porsche factory and test track. Probably no other car in the world is as iconic as the Porsche 911 and should you ... read more
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Published by: Pyalla
By the time you read this issue of NonStop Insider, we will be well on our way to Australia. Faced with the prospect of travelling to Sydney a couple of times this fall, we have elected to make it just one trip. We will be staying in the Sydney area mostly and will have an office to work from so there will be no disruption to the posts ... read more
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Published by: TCM
NonStop means critical. Critical means secure. Secure means security. In an age of increasing pressure on IT security, combined with a global audience for the times things don’t go to plan, it pays to be on top of your NonStop’s security measures. But with a plethora of IT security standards and 3rd party security ... read more
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Published by: DataExpress
After all these years we still find NonStop users debating the relative merits of build versus buy. Even within the biggest financial institutions there is always an argument to be made to continue developing software, but ultimately, the question also arises, “Are we a software house?” Which is almost always followed by, “Is this, or ... read more
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Published by: Lusis Payments
It was great to see so many attend the Atlanta Tandem User Group (ATUG) event last month in Alpharetta Georgia. As a gracious host, HPE let us use their facility for the day and even gave tours of the customer solutions center. It was an opportunity to see a virtual NonStop demo in action. As a vendor at these events it’s a great way to ... read more
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Published by: CTUG
The CTUG fall conference was another great event. It was held at the HP Enterprise head office for Canada in Mississauga, on September 26, 2018. We made a few changes this year, we moved our date up one month to make it a little easier for HPE to attend. We also were able to have a barbecue at lunch with the milder weather in September. ... read more
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Published by: NonStop Insider
From OzTUG (Sydney) I cannot recall a time when there has been more RUG events held in just one month than in September, 2018. As for the events I visited, it all came down to DUST being the only event I could get to without there being a conflict with previously committed activities, but I was sure pleased to have been able to attend as ... read more
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Published by: NonStop Insider
Increasingly we are turning to video for information on everything, from maintaining household appliances or fixing our cars to purchasing televisions. If we don’t know how to do something we “google” it and sure enough, someone has a video explaining everything. This past week I backed the RV into its storage shed only to hit the ... read more
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Published by: NonStop Insider
There has been a lot of coverage of late concerning major initiatives by HPE in areas including Hybrid IT, Synergy, OneSphere, Superdome Flex and yes, The Machine. Hybrid IT received a major boost when it became a business group headed by a newly named President, Phil Davis. Formerly head of sales for the AsiaPac/Japan ... read more
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Published by: HPE
It was good news all around following HPE’s release of its Q3, 2018, Financial Results. Even though one financial research organization, Bernstein, predicted that HPE would miss some of its numbers (this reference to Bernstein is only being made as for years it was Bernstein that looked after the ... read more
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Published by: Pyalla
These past couple of weeks we have been focused on our clients. Each of them is mulling over development plans. Each of them is trying to come to terms with a changing NonStop landscape. Despite the best efforts of HPE to bring NonStop X and virtualized NonStop (vNS) to market, it is clear that the NonStop ... read more
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Published by: comforte
As many readers of NS Insider will surely agree, HPE NonStop systems are the best hardware/operating systems on the planet when it comes to mission critical computing! Does that automatically mean that the applications running on the HPE NonStop systems are also the best performing and full-featured applications as ... read more
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Published by: HPE / Connect
LOCATION HPE Chelsea Office 556 W. 22nd Street New York, NY 10011 Blockchain is moving quickly from just another interesting approach to solving issues of trust between business parties to where it is being implemented on NonStop in pursuit of solving real business problems. One of the first vendors to cross the divide and begin ... read more
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