Published by: Richard Buckle
I was taken by surprise at this week’s SIBOS Sydney 2018 event. This is a major conference for the financial industry, with numerous high-profile banking CEOs participating in the panels and round table sessions. While I had heard about SIBOS this is the first time I have participated and I have to admit, even as jaded as I am at times ... read more
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Published by: Ron LaPedis
Since I am semi-retired and like to think of myself as a story teller (don’t laugh…), I started writing my great American novel, about how I seem to be good at getting jobs by accident. Many of my positions at Tandem, from IT security, to business continuity, to Product Manager and Asia Pacific Marketing Manager all happened because I ... read more
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Published by: CSP
It’s been an exciting show season this fall and CSP has been on hand at many of the North American Chapter TUGs, including ATUG, CTUG and our first ever visit to MexTUG. We’ve had a great time seeing familiar faces and meeting new people at each of these events, and now it’s time for NonStop Technical Boot Camp ... read more
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Published by: Craig Lawrence, OmniPayments
It doesn’t seem that long ago that HSM security was an inbuilt part of most card payment applications. The Atalla HSM (Host Security Module) has been a part on the HPE NonStop world since, well, Tandem’s very early days. Card Payments applications and most systems actually need these HSM units to secure information, encrypt Card PINS, ... read more
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Published by: NonStop Insider
With all of our attention focused on the biggest RUG Meeting of all, NonStop technical Boot Camp (TBC), that will take place in a matter of days, after a hectic September that had a full calendar of RUG meetings it has been industry events that have attracted members of the NonStop community. Particularly those in the finance industry as ... read more
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Published by: NonStop Insider
It should come as no surprise to those following social media that whenever there is a major industry event that I am attending my twitter account becomes a lot more active. Consider me late to the twitter party, but following encouragement from HPE I am posting tweets more often than I am posting anything else to anywhere else. Yes, you ... read more
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Published by: NonStop Insider
There is a growing sense of awareness about the history of HPE. Not in any nostalgia-drive way, but about HPE’s contribution to the future of computing. While the company has gone through considerable change over the past couple of years – being part of a $130 billion multifaceted conglomerate didn’t sit too well with every ... read more
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Published by: HPE
In a rare demonstration of feisty competitiveness HPE CEO, Antonio Neri, pushed back on recent announcements by Dell. In no uncertain terms, Neri told it like it is and in so doing, aggressively promoted the leadership role HPE is enjoying when it comes to composable infrastructure. This was an important step for Neri to take as it would ... read more
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Published by: NTI
NTI has expended considerable energy to better understand the evolving dynamics inside today’s modern enterprise. Central to this pursuit was the recognition that data was no longer being used only to support specific applications and as such benefited from data replication solutions, but was needed elsewhere in the enterprise. Whether ... read more
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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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