Published by: ETI-NET
Last month we wrote of how we would be spending a lot of time with the NonStop community on both sides of the Atlantic. That is now behind us and we are undertaking internal analysis of all that we saw and heard – it was quite a show, particularly given how Randy Meyer, HPE VP & GM, Mission Critical Systems, dropped in to meet with ... read more
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Published by: Lusis Payments
Lusis Payments, a global innovator of mission-critical payments software, announced today that CIBC, a leading Canadian-based global financial institution, has migrated its POS, ATM, and Payments Hub to the Lusis TANGO platform. CIBC has been modernizing its payments infrastructure to improve their ability to meet the demands of today’s ... read more
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Published by: Ron LaPedis
I did many one-off projects in my twenty-five years at Tandem / Compaq / HP. While I was a sales support engineer in the San Francisco office in the early 1980’s, I helped get one of the earliest ATM networks running. During those days, ATMs were shut off in the middle of the night so that settlement to the mainframe systems could take ... read more
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Published by: Striim
There was a good turnout for our most recent Webinar – Embracing Real-Time Hybrid IT and Advanced Analytics in HPE NonStop Environments. Striim co-founder and CTO, Steve Wilkes, together with Pyalla Technologies co-founder and CEO, Richard Buckle, discussed the means by which the deployment of Striim can help in dismantling ... read more
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Published by: Pyalla Technologies
Two months ago I wrote about change and then just last month I wrote about clarity. Very clearly, change is happening fast for NonStop and even more importantly, it is becoming a whole lot clearer what is fueling the changes happening with NonStop. It’s all about supporting an entirely new way to consume NonStop. Without dwelling on the ... read more
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Published by: Insider Technologies
PayPal’s recent acquisition of iZettle once again shows that the payment processing sector remains hugely dynamic. At $2.2billion, it’s PayPal’s biggest ever transaction, and double the valuation that iZettle was reported to be seeking from a listing on Nasdaq Stockholm. Whilst the deal is expected to close in Q3, there will be many long ... read more
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Published by: Nexbridge
Microsoft (MSFT) has just purchased GitHub Inc. for $7.5B US. When I heard the news, I was in a Venture Capital meeting of my own, so had my heavy financial hat on. On the outside, I showed as little emotion as I could – and some of you know how hard that is for me. On the inside, I went from OMG to a bit giddy. Honestly, I have to admit ... read more
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Published by: NonStop Insider
GTUG, or as it was more formally branded, the European NonStop HotSpot / IT-Symposium 2018, is now well and truly over and even as we left with a lot of impressions concerning what was covered, where HPE takes this NonStop journey over the next couple of months should prove very interesting. The city of Leipzig was an ideal location and, ... read more
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Published by: NTI
“It was certainly an enjoyable occasion being at GTUG just a week or so ago,” said Tim Dunne, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales, NTI, in his latest email exchange with NonStop Insider. “There is always some sacrifices to be made in supporting our European customers at events like GTUG but being able to combine time at GTUG with time ... read more
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Published by: Ron LaPedis
HP Technology Forum In 2009, several years after my “retirement” from HP, I attended the HP Technology Forum in Las Vegas as an HP Partner. At that time, I wrote a blogon HP’s data-center-in-a-box(HP POD) along with Active Power’s power-supply-in-a-box (PowerHouse). The idea was that a data center could be built in an empty warehouse ... read more
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Published by: OmniPayments
Blockchain, the technology underlying Bitcoin and other crypto currencies has been the talk of the town for some years now. It seems a dull day that goes past without some mention of how Blockchain is going to change the world in one way or another. Organisations spend a lot of time and money resolving conflicting data records on their ... read more
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Published by: NonStop Insider
After all that I have written of late concerning blockchain, supply chain management and in particular, container shipping and bills of lading, it would be remiss of me to not mention the publicity surrounding an incident at sea off he coast of Australia. Coverage in Australia, the UK and the US media caught it all – 83 containers ... read more
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Published by: NonStop Insider
To any outsider looking at HPE for the first time in many years it can come as quite a surprise to find out that HPE is now much smaller than it was three or four years ago. Even to those who follow the financial health of HPE the change was dramatic – first splitting from the consumer division, HP Inc. (HPQ), and then going through a ... read more
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Published by: NonStop Insider
What is the business of ETI and how do you work with the HPE NonStop team today? HPE is a partner? Or planned to be? Do you have other partnerships – how would you rate HPE today? ETI-NET is the worldwide leader in backup of critical data for industries that never stop. We develop software which allows NonStop servers to access modern ... read more
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Published by: comforte
Many people who are Star Wars fans took advantage of the calendar date to wish people a happy day. “May the Force be with you!” became “May the forth be with you, man!” With May 25th less than 3 weeks away, Star Wars fans again will be enlightened to another movie in the franchise coming out “SOLO: a Star Wars Story”. The hopes are ... read more
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Published by: GTUG
Take the opportunity: The premier European NonStop Event in 2018 is coming up soon! Meet the international NonStop Community at the: “European GTUG NonStop HotSpot / IT-Symposium 2018 – Conference & Exhibition”. taking place May 14 – 16 (17), 2018 at the Westin Hotel in Leipzig, ... read more
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Published by: Tributary Systems
Like so many other “Baby Boomers”, born in the mid 1950’s, I’ve always been fascinated by the automobile, particularly Detroit Iron of the mid 50’s through the early 70’s, the fin and muscle car eras. Thanks to generous parents and grandparents, I got my start with a nice collection of Matchbox die cast car and truck models that got a ... read more
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Published by: HPE
Recently I needed to take a closer look at the time when HPE CEO, Antonio Neri, came to head HPE. In so doing, I came across a report featuring some of the last remarks made by former HPE CEO, Meg Whitman. These comments can be found in the government pages of the publication, diginomica – “a new type of media property designed to serve ... read more
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Published by: Insider Technologies
We live in a truly 24 x 7 world today where enterprises keep their doors open 24 x 7 just to remain competitive. Not literally, of course, although many grocery store chains have opted for round the clock operation, but via online portals accessible from the Internet. And yet, there are so many instances where enterprises are still ... read more
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Published by: OmniPayments
Every vendor likes to talk about their brand and the work they are putting into promoting their brand so that everyone coming into contact with that vendor knows who they are. This year, OmniPayments has quite literally taken its branding efforts on the road – if you have been to any event held for the NonStop community you will have ... read more
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