How Far Can We Push the Boundaries?

NonStop: How Far Can We Push the Boundaries?

A Strategic Dialogue for Business Leaders and System Managers

Is your NonStop infrastructure ready for the future?

For Business Leaders: Is your core infrastructure holding back your digital transformation efforts? Are you truly leveraging your NonStop platform to drive revenue and gain a competitive edge?

For System Managers: Are you still using outdated practices to manage a next-generation platform? Are manual, time-consuming tasks preventing you from focusing on higher-value projects?

Remember what NonStop looked like ten years ago? The platform, once defined by its hardware and Itanium architecture, has undergone a dramatic transformation. This pivotal shift to x86 has enabled virtualization, new development paradigms, and a heightened focus on digital resilience.

This evolution presents more than just technical challenges—it offers strategic opportunities. It forces us to reconsider what we’ve always done and to ask a critical question: How can we leverage this change to drive competitive advantage, mitigate risk, and optimize costs?

That’s the conversation we want to have with you. This isn’t a traditional presentation with slides and a script. The TCM team invites you to an open forum at the TBC conference, designed for executives, business leaders, and technical teams who need to understand how core infrastructure impacts the bottom line. We’ll be on stage, ready to explore the new era of NonStop and its strategic implications.

Join us to discuss the key business imperatives shaped by this new era:

• Data Replication: In a world where minutes of downtime can cost millions, data replication is more than a technical task—it’s a business imperative. We’ll discuss the latest strategies for continuous data availability, including bi-directional replication and real-time data movement, to ensure your business remains operational, compliant, and secure.
• Application Modernization: Accelerating Innovation and Market Agility: The migration to the x86 architecture, combined with HPE’s development for KVM, has fundamentally changed the NonStop landscape. The platform is no longer a static legacy system but a dynamic engine for innovation. We’ll explore questions like: What does a containerized NonStop application look like? How can leveraging open-source tools accelerate your time-to-market? What does a modern, agile NonStop platform mean for your ability to outmanoeuvre competitors and drive revenue growth?
• Virtualized NonStop (vNS): The shift to virtualization has fundamentally changed how we manage IT. We’ll explore the evolution of vNS, from its origins to the growing adoption of KVM. Where will vNS go next, and how can your organization leverage this to increase agility, reduce costs, and still maintain “five nines” availability?
• Systems Management & Automation: Driving Operational Efficiency and Cost Control: The role of the NonStop systems manager has evolved. Modern best practices are now about leveraging tools to automate routine tasks, implement proactive monitoring, and integrate the platform into a broader enterprise management strategy. We’ll explore new automation techniques and how they are making system managers’ lives more efficient and more aligned with a DevOps philosophy. The business benefit is clear: reducing manual labor, reallocating skilled talent to higher-value projects, and ensuring a more reliable, cost-effective operation.

This is your chance to directly engage with the TCM team and the wider NonStop community. We’ll share our insights from real-world projects and encourage you to share yours. We believe the future of NonStop is not something that will be presented to us—it’s something we build together, through open conversation and shared expertise.

With all these monumental changes in the last ten years, the real question is: Where will we be ten years from now?

Nonstop Technology & Business Conference 2025

 Wednesday 17^th September

1pm – 1:45