Andy Vasey
Editorial August 2026
I think that this issue is centered around Nonstop TBC 2026 and impact of AI on pretty much everything we do. It will be a great issue to read and interesting TBC 2026. You have a choice: read the editorial or not! It is a summary and if you want to skip some articles in favor of others, that is your prerogative. Enjoy!
From TCM Team:
TCM: Is there a better way?
TCM’s article starts with explaining how our children or grandchildren operate: “Quick to ask question and perhaps, interestingly enough, they can form answers that have little to do with their immediate surroundings. ‘Can I go downstairs?’ and before you answer they respond ‘I always have done it this way,’ as they then proceed to slide down these steps; ‘it’s fun!’” The article then goes to the business scenarios:
Continuing with the focus of ‘is there another way’ Andy Vasey, Services Business Consultant, TCM, ‘Descending stairs to the basement may not be these Nonstop customers goal for their IT organization, and letting it slide away, even less of an option and yet, for Nonstop Customers the question remains. Is there a better way? Diving deeper into the article, Andy says: “we are finding Optimiser+ proving successful with identifying a better way.”
“TCM is a Platinum Sponsor of Nonstop TBC 26 where you will hear from Daniel Craig, Managing Director at TCM, giving a Lightning session on Wednesday at 1:05pm. You will find us as exhibitors where there will be plenty of opportunity to discuss how TCM can help you pursue this topic of: Is there a better way?”
“Watch, too, as Daniel delivers his N2NS Rotary Session, part of TCM’s support of New2NonStop…. His conversation with the Nonstop community happens to fall on Thursday, August 20 and if this comes after this magazine’s publication date, the session will be recorded and can be viewed on the New2Nonstop YouTube channel. Check it out – it may be a good thing to do prior to Nonstop TBC 26 as it will give you time to plan your questions for Daniel that you might arise after having heard from him.”
From Real Time View:
The Nonstop Partner Ecosystem – is it truly meeting
the needs of the Nonstop community?
Richard Buckle starts the article with: “Perhaps it’s time to have a discussion about the Nonstop Partner Ecosystem. Dig a little deeper and the question arises what does the Nonstop team mean when it talks about partnerships and what does it mean to shape and support an ecosystem?”
He then says: “Increasingly, there is a recognizable trend developing within the Nonstop team. The word vendor is frequently referenced when speaking about an infrastructure, middleware or tools vendor. Alternatively, the word partner is being used to describe a solutions provider or a vendor with products that are included in the HPE Price Book and thus, contributing directly to the HPE bottom line.”
I will not quote the whole article, but here is a clue: “What is already transpiring is the smart vendors, with just one product, will introduce other products into ‘their channel’ likely setting off a chain reaction as these smart vendors are building their own Partner Ecosystem and for the Nonstop community, that’s a blessing that may have been a longtime coming.”
From NTI:
NTI at Nonstop TBC 2026 — We Move the Data that Moves Your Business
In NTI own words: “NTI returns to the Nonstop Technology & Business Conference as one of six Diamond Sponsors — a continuation of our long‑standing support for the NonStop community and our commitment to where NonStop is heading next.”
“Enterprises increasingly can’t afford AI that works from stale data, and the pressure to open NonStop to modern AI clients is mounting. The community’s instinct — to move deliberately and protect the platform’s integrity — is the right one. The task is to enable AI access without compromising the reliability and security that put your business on NonStop in the first place.”
“That’s what NTI delivers. Building on our partnership with Infrasoft and our Kafka data‑streaming work, uLinga Nexus provides an AI‑ready enablement layer over DRNet®. Using standard REST APIs and Model Context Protocol (MCP), your preferred AI client — ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, or your own — can work with live NonStop data, running natively on NonStop and with no changes to your applications.
At TBC we’ll demonstrate real, working connectivity between Nexus and DRNet®, and show how you open that access on your own terms. NTI has infrastructure in place for enhanced testing.”
“See us at TBC 2026:
● NTI: We Move the Data that Moves Your Business — Tuesday 15 September, 4:45–5:30 pm (right before the beer bust). Add it to your schedule in Whova.
● Lightning session (10 minutes) — Wednesday 16 September, 9:10 am. Add it to your schedule in Whova.”
From Infrasoft:
AI and HPE Nonstop: What Controlled Access Has to Look Like
Andrew Price, Infrasoft’s Director of Business Operations, starts with: “For the past few months, we have been working through a single question in these pages and in The Connection: how do you let AI work with the systems running on HPE Nonstop, safely, and without pretending those systems are something they are not? We took it one layer at a time. With TBC 26 coming up, it is worth stepping back and putting the whole picture together.”
Andrew then concludes: “If there is one line to take away, it is that. You are not handing an AI client the keys to a Nonstop. You are exposing a defined, scoped, observable set of things it is permitted to do, through a layer that enforces the rules and keeps a record of what happened. That is the whole distance between a proof of concept that gets a round of applause and something you would run in production against a live payments switch. Whether AI can connect to a Nonstop is not really the interesting question. The interesting one is whether the connection can be trusted, and trust is an architecture problem, not a demo.”
From the New 2 Nonstop Committee:
What’s New in HPE Nonstop Education?
“Over the past year, HPE Education Services has invested heavily in modernizing its Nonstop training portfolio, making it easier than ever for new and experienced professionals to develop practical, job-ready skills.”
“To learn more about HPE Nonstop Education Services, explore available courses, or access free practice labs, visit: https://education.hpe.com/uk/en/training/portfolio/Nonstop.html
From Keith Moore, Distinguished Technologist at HPE, Op Ed:
This Revolution is not Televised
Please read the article as Keith in opening of his Op-Ed says: “As we head to the Nonstop Technology & Business Conference 2026, in just a few weeks, it is shocking to consider that we demonstrated at last year’s event a simple, but powerful, means to deliver telemetry data into enterprise observability stacks like Grafana, OpsRamp, and Dynatrace. We knew it would of interest, but even we were surprised to see how much interests there is in this capability.”
Keith then writes: “I hope to see some of you again at the event so that we can share the latest updates to this powerful approach to expanding visibility of the business value Nonstop provides to the entire enterprise. Once the enterprise sees that the up-time and the scalability of Nonstop are real, it will give us all something to brag about even outside of our Nonstop community.”
Keith explains the title of his Op ED: “To paraphrase the great Gil Scott-Heron, “This revolution will not be televised.” You will not be able to stay home.” Adding “All of us; we all need to be part of the revolution.”
Justin Simonds, HPE Master Technologist, Op Ed:
AI’s Power Problem — and Why Boring Infrastructure Still Wins
Justin starts with talking about the increasing concerns related to data centers: “A few weeks ago, my own town got a preview of a fight that’s playing out across the country. Greenwood County Council (South Carolina) spent much of the summer wrestling with whether to allow data centers here at all — ultimately passing a one-year moratorium after residents and several of my neighbors (I missed this meeting unfortunately) attended a public hearing (organizers had to move it to the Performing Arts Center to fit everyone – LOL) to raise concerns about water use, power demand, noise, and what a facility like that would do to a rural county that has always been a little bit ‘under the radar’.”
Justin then presents data on what is happening in the data centers world: “The information is becoming alarming. U.S. data center grid-power demand is expected to climb from roughly 62 gigawatts in 2025 to over 75 gigawatts in 2026, and past 130 gigawatts by 2030 — and the Electric Power Research Institute now estimates data centers could account for 9% to 17% of all U.S. electricity generation by 2030, a range far above what analysts assumed just two years ago. Gartner separately projects global data center electricity demand could top 1,000 terawatt-hours in 2026 alone — more than the entire country of Japan consumes. Yikes.”
You need to read the article as it does provide one answer to how to make it not so costly. Justin writes: “As AI inference – not just training – starts getting embedded into transactional, mission-critical workloads (the theme I touched on in my agentic AI Connection article Trends & Wins July-August 2026), the question shifts from ‘how much AI can we build’ to “how do we run the AI we actually need, reliably, without every inference call carrying the power footprint of a small city.” Fascinating. Read the article!
From Richard Buckle, CoFounder and Chief Storyteller, Pyalla Technologies, LLC, OpEd:
Can HPE Nonstop Development keep up with the Nonstop Vendor Community?
Richard starts with: “It was only a short time ago when I began considering whether or not the Nonstop development team could keep up with the Nonstop vendors when it came to implementing new technologies. This question came into clearer focus as the topic of AI dominated when the Nonstop community met in Munich for the E-GTUG event.”
As Richard writes about his personal experience in the Tandem/Nonstop world, the increasing complexity of the AI participating in the customers land he ends his OpEd with a challenge and an invitation to discuss the issue deeper: “With Nonstop Technology & Business Conference 2026 (Nonstop TBC 2026) coming soon, take the moment to give serious consideration to the opening question – can Nonstop development keep up given their track-record of miss-hits and questionable decision making? As for me, and yes, privately given my history with Tandem and then Nonstop, I don’t think they can.” And “Do you? Let’s talk at Nonstop TBC 2026.”
From the Gravic Team:
How Shadowbase DDL Command Replication Keeps Schema Changes and Data Replication in Sync
The article starts with introducing “Shadowbase DDL Command Replication (SB DCR) for HPE Nonstop Software.”
The article describes the technology and its benefits: “Shadowbase DDL Command Replication captures schema-related changes and propagates them to the target environment. Supported operations include file/table creation, file/table alteration, file/table purge/drop operations, other object definition changes, Enscribe file system DDL commands executed through FUP, and SQL/MP SQLCI DDL commands. Mapping capabilities ensure the commands are directed to the correct target objects.
By integrating DDL replication with DML replication, Shadowbase applies schema changes at the correct point in the replication stream. This keeps source and target structures aligned and helps reduce the risk of replication interruptions that can occur when data changes arrive before the corresponding schema update.”
Read the article – it provides practical example, talks about Best Practices and Supporting Broader Schema Management.
From comforte:
Why Crypto Agility and Resilience Should Be the Next Stop for HPE Nonstop
The article describes many complicated issues that are happening very fast in the crypto world. It then says: “This is the world that TAMUNIO Assure was built for. Not only does it introduce quantum-ready encryption, crypto agility and certificate lifecycle automation to Nonstop environments. It addresses a much broader operating model for cryptographic trust, encompassing certificates, private keys, passwords, secrets, SSH, TLS configuration, sensitive files, auditability, governance, HSM-backed controls, and resilience.
Integration is an important piece of the puzzle. TAMUNIO Assure has been designed to maintain resilience if external services become unavailable, but also to support connectivity where customers want it. That could include enterprise certificate-management processes, security monitoring, governance workflows, HSMs, and models such as ACME-based certificate automation. Resilience and connectivity should not be mutually exclusive.”
The article ends with “To learn more about TAMUNIO Assure and how it can help secure and modernize your HPE Nonstop environment, visit the comforte team at Nonstop TBC 2026. We look forward to meeting customers, partners, and members of the Nonstop community, discussing today’s security challenges, and exploring how we can help protect your mission-critical systems.”
Read the article to fully appreciate the problem and the solution on offer from comforte.
From Lusis Payments:
From Mission-Critical to Mission-Ready: Enabling Agentic Commerce on HPE Nonstop and Lusis TANGO
The article starts with: “Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the way consumers and businesses interact with digital services. One of the most exciting developments is Agentic Commerce, where AI agents can research products, make purchasing decisions, and initiate transactions on behalf of users. While the concept is gaining momentum, financial institutions are asking an important question:
Can existing payment infrastructure support this new generation of intelligent commerce?”
Read the article, but I’d like to cite here a paragraph at the end of it: “If you’re attending TBC, join Lusis Payments and HPE to learn how mission-critical payment platforms can become the foundation for the next generation of intelligent commerce.”
From TIC:
Why Autonomous AI Coding Needs Verification Guardrails in NonStop Environments
I am just showing here is what the article is addressing, but you surely want to read it. It says at the beginning: “When code changes are generated and applied without a verification guardrail, subtle issues can slip through—logic drift, incorrect file, field, call handling, or misinterpreted Pathway and Enscribe behavior.”
Then near the end it states: “With Atlas providing the NonStop context, autonomous coding becomes safer and more predictable. Atlas integrates through MCP to supply verified facts before any modification step, ensuring changes are grounded in how the code works. In effect, Atlas becomes the ‘context engine’ that provides guardrail structure to guide the LLM to work within a deterministic boundary, improving accuracy and reducing errors.
We look forward to showcasing Atlas at TBC—along with its companion solution, AI Navigator, TIC’s code analysis, and documentation tool designed to accelerate modernization and shorten the learning curve for developers working with legacy NonStop applications.”
From NuWave Technologies:
What’s Next for Nonstop? NuWave Looks Ahead to TBC 2026
Please read the article – it contains quite interesting discussions! The article ends with: “There’s a lot happening at NuWave right now. We’re growing, and expanding our vision around integration, automation, security, and AI – but our commitment to HPE Nonstop remains at the heart of what we do. That’s what makes us especially excited about TBC this year.
We’re not just coming to Orlando to talk about what we’ve built; we want to hear what the Nonstop community is working on, what challenges you’re facing, and where you see the platform going next. From modernization and APIs to security, shorter certificate lifecycles, and AI, these conversations help shape where we go next. If you’ll be in Orlando September 15–17, we’d love to connect, exchange ideas, and talk about what’s next for Nonstop.”
From CSP:
CSP – Diamond Sponsor of Nonstop TBC 2026
Here is the start of the CSP ‘s article: “CSP is proud to be a Diamond Sponsor of Nonstop TBC 2026, which will take place at the Rosen Plaza Hotel & Convention Centre in sunny Orlando, Florida.” Then: “Visit us at Diamond Booth No. 5 to discuss the latest on Nonstop security and to learn more about our comprehensive suite of security solutions for Safeguard and OSS.”
The you will read: “We have an important announcement regarding recent enhancements to Verify Elite. The complete details will be unveiled during our presentation at TBC 2026. However, we have a sneak peek at the upgraded interface, which provides enhanced functionality and an improved user experience.” Well, to see the sneak peek you must read the article!
While reading articles in this issue of NonStop Insider if you would like to see a question included in the next issue of the publication or have any comments you would like to see published, don’t hesitate to send an email to me, at: Editor@nonstopinsider.com
Thank you, Margo Holen
Managing Editor
