Landscaping Painting

It is a cliché expression that the landscape is changing in IT. We hear it all the time, and we say it all the time. “The landscape is changing.” These days, though, it is almost a literal truth that the IT world is now a full landscape picture of IT services.

The landscape contains services like: business applications, operational services like compute, storage, and networking, and execute platform services like virtualization and containers.  The landscape includes legacy data lakes, and new tributary springs and rivers of data. It has old established buildings (NonStop, Linux, Windows) and new, temporary housing structures (container-ed services), and some buildings in between (VMs).  Trees and forests of information, etc.

The metaphor can be stretched until it breaks.

But the reality is that more than ever before the enterprise IT manager needs to look at the entire landscape in order to drive competitive advantage.  It is no longer viable to look at the proverbial single tree while ignoring the forest. The enterprise IT environment requires a broad view of the entire landscape as it evolves.

NonStop servers continue to be hidden little gems in this landscape.

NonStop systems have become an ignored, pretty little detail, inside the overall landscape.  Like a quiet deer standing in dichotomy next to huge noisy factory, you don’t notice it in the landscape.

There is an opportunity to make NonStop noticeable without impacting its quiet existence in the landscape. Simply, expose NonStop so that it is seen in that landscape.   Expose the current business applications using tools like HPE NonStop API Gateway and NuWave, Striim, ShadowBase, Kafka, DRNet/Kafka, powered by Infrasoft uLinga, etc.

Expose the operational availability metrics to the world using open observability tools. Let the world know that there is a system in the landscape picture that is quiet, but beautiful, and provides valuable function and data to the enterprise.   It does not take much to do this, it cost little and take very little technical work to expose the system and its functionality.

Use open source on and off NonStop to expose and show how powerful and useful NonStop is in the enterprise. There is little/no need to change the NonStop business software in order to do this. Most of this can be accomplished by saying yes to integration into the enterprise.

Say yes to exposing existing functionality and data into the enterprise.   Highlight the gem that is NonStop in the IT landscape. There will be more on this topic at NonStop Bootcamp in the fall.