Published by: DataExpress
As you cross continental USA you will run into numerous towns called Fort this and Fort that. Fort Worth, Fort Collins, Fort Laramie – for the early settlers it was important to know where forts were located for their own personal safety. The interstate highway system often crisscrosses between forts as they dotted the paths. Covered ... read more
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Published by: OmniPayments
It has been a very active period for OmniPayments when it comes to presentations at user events. Following a strong presence in London for the pan-European NonStop user event hosted by BITUG where OmniPayments Marketing VP, Jessica Nieves, and Business Development VP, Craig Lawrance, waived the flag for OmniPayments, CEO Yash Kapadia has ... read more
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Published by: Striim
There is considerable discussion under way about where HPE is headed and the possible outcomes for the NonStop program out of what HPE CEO Meg Whitman calls the NEXT initiative. Already we have seen the heads of sales for the three regions retire and now there is news that going forward there will not be three regions, but eleven. ... read more
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Published by: HPE
Let me start with congratulating NonStop Insider with their first anniversary. I think this format is great to provide information at a regular –i.e. monthly- basis. This year was also a very good year for NonStop SQL/MX. Release 3.5 came out in the beginning of the year with L17.02 and was followed with an update, release 3.5.1, in ... read more
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Published by: ETI-NET
HPE recently announced the availability of BackBox for Virtualized NonStop systems. For the ETI-NET team, supporting NonStop on both physical and virtual machines is an opportunity to expand the product set by promoting virtual solutions. Especially when it comes to BackBox Virtual Tape Controllers (VTC), a backup and restore solution ... read more
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Published by: Pyalla Technologies
If in last month’s update from Pyalla Technologies there was a lot of space devoted to anniversaries, well this is it. The true anniversary issue; Volume 2, Issue #1! But this month, the majority of emails Pyalla received had to do with HPE and with what exactly is going on as part of NEXT. You may recall that HPE CEO Meg Whitman spoke ... read more
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Published by: MicroFocus
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… Before I get too far into my article, I wanted to share a strange and wonderful case of déjà vu. Some of you may know that I worked in the networking department for a while and was there when we purchased an encryption company called Atalla in 1987. I had the job of installing a Tandem NonStop ... read more
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Published by: Insider Technologies
Insider Technologies is pleased to announce the latest release of MultiBatch – a mainframe class batch scheduler product for the HPE NonStop server arena. MultiBatch allows users to configure and automatically sequence any number of batch jobs to create an applications off-line processing flow. This batch program execution can be ... read more
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Published by: Gravic
Prescription Drug Fraud Prevention – an HPE Shadowbase data integration case study From the time of the earliest system implementations to oversee the dispensing of prescription drugs, there have been opportunities to exploit gaps. These gaps or loopholes opened doors for corrupt groups seeking new ways to defraud financial institutions. ... read more
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Published by: GTUG
On Oct. 18th and 19th, the Crowne Plaza Heidelberg City Centre hotel will host the 87th national meeting of GTUG, the German NonStop User Group. A very long history indeed … NonStop systems have been associated with financial institutions and telcos for almost as long as they have been sold to enterprises worldwide. Europe, on the other ... read more
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Published by: Nexbridge
I seriously doubt there is a self-aware business leader who does not know about Ransomware, but do we really know what it is and how it came about? Simply put, Ransomware takes your assets and encrypts them with keys that you don’t know. Over time, it gradually, and without you knowing, turns all of your information into unusable ... read more
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Published by: Infrasoft
It has been a couple of months since we last provided an update on Infrasoft, but our work rate picked up considerably over the northern hemisphere summer. Although, here in our Sydney offices, it’s been anything but winter-like with temperatures well above average and with a lot less rainfall than normal and now they are telling ... read more
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Published by: FSS
Collectively, an interplay of factors – the commoditization of the acquiring business, competition from non-traditional players, constant margin pressure and the ongoing shift to digital consumerism and omni-channel commerce — is having a significant impact on the merchant acquiring business. Merchants increasingly want to bank ... read more
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Published by: Paragon
Let’s be completely honest here. In the previous article published here in NonStop Insider we wrote of how Paragon has served more than 600 clients in 90 countries, with many of our customers being the leaders in their part of the payments’ ecosystem. How many were really surprised to read this? And how many readers were aware of just ... read more
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Published by: OmniPayments
In today’s rapidly evolving financial world, organisations the world over are being challenged to become more agile in the face of growing competition and regulation. Add to this all the pressures of Instant Payments, PSD2, GDPR and other RegTech, you’ll appreciate we have just about reached peak compliance, and there’s little resource ... read more
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Published by: Caleb Enterprise Ltd.
When discussing the performance of NonStop, there are often comparisons to UNIX. With the introduction of the NonStop X comparisons have lessened somewhat with no customers who have stated they are unhappy with the performance of their NonStop X system. But, for some of us who are pursuing perfection, it is undeniable that UNIX is just ... read more
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Published by: NonStop Insider
In some respects it has been a quiet period for the past couple of weeks but the regional user groups were hosting numerous events around the world. And there are still a few more events on the calendar before everyone heads to the NonStop Technical Boot Camp (TBC) in November. What an event that will most likely be as the NonStop ... read more
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Published by: NonStop Insider
Once again, we find HPE CEO Meg Whitman in the center of attention as HPE delivered its Q3 2017 earnings result and Whitman then participated in a number of calls with industry and financial analysts. The release of the financial results for the quarter followed the completion of the spin-merge of HPE’s non-core software components to ... read more
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Published by: NonStop Insider
What is the business of DataExpress and how do you work with the HPE NonStop team today? HPE is a partner but you have many others (in this case, of course, comForte) – how would you rate HPE today? DataExpress is a secure, managed file transfer solution that moves data, getting it to where it needs to be, when it needs to be there, and ... read more
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Published by: Connect
Hard to imagine, but one more year is about to pass us by and with its passing we are coming up onto the NonStop Technical Bootcamp 2017 (TBC 2017). As much as we may yearn for the days of ITUG Summits of former times, no matter what this event calls itself, for the majority of the NonStop community it is all about NonStop and that is ... read more
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