Published by: Pyalla Technologies
All roads – well, perhaps all flight paths – lead to London. In only a matter of a few days the eBITUG event will kick off around the Tower. This location brings back so many memories for me as it was the early 1970s when I accepted a transfer from Sydney to London when working for the container shipping company, OCL. Upon arrival in ... read more
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Published by: ETI-NET
There are numerous reasons as to why vendors attend local and regional user group meetings. Whether they are with an audience of just a few local NonStop users or cover much larger geographic regions ETI-NET likes to be visible wherever possible. Over the years we have covered the entire globe as we have added our support to that of HPE ... read more
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Published by: Caleb Enterprises Ltd.
If you missed the first part of this series as published in the April 2017 issue of NonStop Insider, go here to read it first. NonStop Architecture BottleNecks Bottlenecks do exist within NonStop and among them, I call out the following: Guardian Inter-process messaging (IPM) is slow. Disk I/O is IPM-bound. Guardian processes will be ... read more
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Published by: Striim
Coming off a hectic April where it seemed as though one event followed another almost every week, we have started May, 2017, with the news that Striim has been named to CRN’s 2017 Big Data 100 list. We cover this in a post to the Striim web site blog, Striim Recognized as an Innovator on CRN’s 2017 Big Data 100 List . Being recognized in ... read more
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Published by: Gravic
As we suspect is the case for all the vendors contributing to this month’s issue of NonStop Insider, work is well under way to ensure positive outcomes from our presence at the upcoming eBITUG user event in London. Whenever a pan-European event is held, it is considered one of the must-go-to-events, where the NonStop vendor community has ... read more
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Published by: NonStop Insider
When we think of social media our thoughts often take us to business networks as well as towards networks made up of family and friends. When it comes to the latter, it’s often a case of Facebook, Twitter and the like. Checking my own Twitter account the majority of the activity of late has been generated by HPE – whether it’s ... read more
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Published by: NonStop Insider
While it may not be everyone’s cup of tea to page through the quarterly financial reports coming from HPE or check out all the commentaries posted by the financial community who closely follow HPE, it is still important for the NonStop community to be aware of how HPE is performing. Quite frankly, on first reading, some of the stories ... read more
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Published by: Pyalla Technologies Ltd.
In recent times I have been asked to explain, in a lot more detail than ever before, the business model for Pyalla Technologies, LLC. What appears to interest those asking the question has more to do with me explaining how I have managed to build a business from the low-key blogging I began doing back when I was part of the GoldenGate ... read more
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Published by: Caleb Enterprises Ltd.
The cornerstone of any application is the architecture of the platform(s) – the foundation – upon which it is predicated. The architect’s job is to understand the foundation and to design a business solution that makes optimal use of that foundation. NonStop is a platform that has a particular architecture that is both its blessing ... read more
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Published by: TCM
With the dawn of the Virtualised NonStop, many more services are now being opened up to the NonStop community and starting to attract advocates of Cloud into the NonStop world. While Public cloud is the long-term goal, a Private cloud appears more achievable in the shorter term. In the meantime, a growing number of NonStop ... read more
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Published by: OmniPayments
Technology moves quickly – it’s a fast changing world. People’s expectations evolve and reflect developing trends, with some at the forefront whereas others may prefer a more leisurely approach. Irrespective of the time taken to embrace new technology, businesses remain sensitive to the correlation that may exist between new technology ... read more
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Published by: Striim
The year has opened with a rash of events focused on Big Data, Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Lakes and Streams. Strata, the name O’Reilly Media gives conferences and events related to Big Data, has just held their major event in San Jose – Strata + Hadoop World and already the landscape is changing. Perhaps more rapidly than ... read more
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Published by: ITUGLIB
Some of you have asked us, how does ITUGLIB run its system with all that Open Source kicking around. With a great deal of testing and controls, actually! There are some moving parts involved in this that might interest NonStop Insider readers. Git, of Course Some of our contributors and sponsors already are involved in the Git ... read more
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Published by: ETI-NET
Information about HPE’s roadmaps and marketing programs is always an important consideration for any vendor in the NonStop community. When it comes directly from the folks closest to these programs it is of particular importance and well worth taking time out to participate in any updates that may be forthcoming. This was how it played ... read more
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Published by: DataExpress
There will likely be commentary provided by other members of the NonStop vendor community on the recent Partner Symposium in Palo Alto hosted by the HPE NonStop team. NonStop product management and development once again pulled out the slides and gave everyone a glimpse into what is yet to come and while each of us is covered by pretty ... read more
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Published by: FSS
FSS Mobile Pay – Leading Mobile Banking & Payments to next level Most of the recent Mobile Banking and Payments solutions were being developed using the native application development approach. The front-end of these mobile applications were developed using the native platform of a specific device and the back-end was ... read more
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Published by: Tributary Systems Inc.
In this first part of a two part series on data backup, TSI will introduce the concepts of tiering and policy and highlight their importance they both have for any enterprise planning to do just a little more than “making copies” as the sole fallback solution whenever disasters occur. Selecting the right solution for an enterprise ... read more
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Published by: Infrasoft
In a previous article to NonStop Insider we opened with the observation about change being the destiny for many particularly when it comes to IT. Rarely a day passes without one vendor or another talking up new products or features with the potential to change the whole course of computing as we currently know it. However, for ... read more
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Published by: Ron LaPedis
With apologies to Lilo and Stich, that was the idea behind RDF/ZLT, or Remote Database Facility/Zero Lost Transactions. Based on a custom version of RDF written for a major UK bank, along with “Nomadic Disk” technology, RDF/ZLT used a remote mirror to ensure that transactions committed to the primary database, but not yet replicated to ... read more
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Published by: NonStop Insider
‘Regional User Groups’ (RUGs) ‘Local Chapters’, or the old standard ‘TUG’ (a diminutive of the old international group ITUG). Whatever you like to call them, there are a lot of them. (You can find a list of them all here: http://www.connect‑community.org/chapters/) One person who supports a RUG stated: “The RUG [events] take on ... read more
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