Real Time View Nonstop Story Telling

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Nonstop Story Telling

What does it take to see the blatantly obvious? How often do we make assumptions that are poorly thought out? Like many of my fellow Americans, I have returned from time spent in Europe to find myself visiting and revisiting the local Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), here in Colorado. It is fair to say that E-BITUG 2025 held in Dublin, Ireland, was a huge success – best attendance for a Nonstop Compute event that I can recall in many a year – so the disappointment that my fellow Coloradans provided trying as best as they could to register our latest vehicle purchase reawakened my appreciation for all things Nonstop.

Yes, it continues to surprise me just how oblivious the overall IT industry is about the strengths of Nonstop Compute converged systems. I posted this within my recent article appearing in The Connection. HPE may not lead with Nonstop, yet if the prospective client asks about Nonstop, then HPE is only too willing to step in and support any subsequent prospective client proposals featuring Nonstop. And why? It’s simply hard to argue with a product that doesn’t fail. Then I continued with, rest easy, CIOs and there will be no midnight calls informing you that yes, the system is down. It has crashed! Availability remains a powerful story favoring Nonstop.

In the case of the DMV, it would have been a simple edit check within the software at the vehicle dealership to cross reference the address entered with the name of the county using the ZIP code but no, off went the paperwork to the wrong county and given vehicle registration is by county, my local county never saw it. Perhaps not a problem with availability with the servers as such, yet lack of a centralized, at least at the state level, data base for vehicle registration resulted in Margo and me not having the paperwork. It was a failure in availability. With the vehicle owners suffering the financial loss associated with having to obtain further temporary registration tags, and serious loss of time as in having to schedule yet another appointment with the DMV.

Would Nonstop Compute have fixed the problem? Perhaps, as it can be used as a trustworthy and always-on for these type of database use-cases! The failed transactions and the work it has now created to rectify the situation is showing that availability takes many forms. For Margo and me, the system failed us. Looking at the latest Nonstop Compute product offerings – the HPE Nonstop Compute NS5 X5 and NS9 X5 – is a reminder that across a number of industry verticals, the attributes of Nonstop remain important. Perhaps there is less sympathy for the CIO not being able to sleep at night as there is for the rest of us whenever we get caught up in transactions that just don’t work.

The investment HPE continues to make in Nonstop Compute isn’t happening by chance. There is a client base out there that HPE knows all too well values the Nonstop servers above alternate offerings. When it comes to the blatantly obvious and not assuming anything, the choice of the latest Nonstop Compute offerings simply does what other server offerings cannot do – never fail. Strong language, of course, and something our colleagues argue can be achieved with multi-node architecture. Such architectures, they argue offer no single point of failure, considerable elasticity in scalability, disaster recovery built in and enterprise-grade security.

Well, guess what! Nonstop Compute delivers all of the above, out of the box. A situation too where price points are converging (along with the Nonstop Compute converged system) given the overall complexity of multi-node architectures – there are skilled technicians knowledgeable in setting up such a solution but all too often, they move on to the next project leaving an enterprise exposed while they look for staff qualified to maintain the architecture. The idea of the CIO being able to sleep at night given the presence of Nonstop maybe does deserve our sympathy after all as the CIO with reliance on multi-node architectures will more often than not be left wondering if the architecture is going to fail.

The story doesn’t end there. The saga with the local DMV is ongoing and collectively, Margo and I are not sleeping well at night as a result. A planned visit today with all the necessary corrected paperwork stalled as the local county DMV was closed for Friday. Who knew? Then again, there is still the upcoming HPE Nonstop Technology & Business Conference 2025 to look forward to. Just as a reminder, with these newly announced Nonstop Compute converged systems becoming available, together with greater engagement with the Nonstop community (through an expanded global sales team) and clearly a greater commitment to Nonstop by HPE, it should prove to be an exciting time.

Consider this a teaser: NTI is the sole sponsor of the TBC 25 opening Beer Bust with a distinctive Gulf Shores “Margaritaville flavor.” Looking further ahead, there will be coverage on everything Nonstop related following the event with greater reporting on what is likely to prove interesting to the Nonstop community, particularly where the pleasantries of sleepful nights for our CIOs will be a topic of interest to all attendees.

For now, let us encourage you to start by checking out these channels:

For the Nonstop community there is Real Time View blog –
https://itug-connection.blogspot.com/

For our social connections there is Buckle-Up-Travel blog –
https://buckle-up-travel.blogspot.com/

For the Connect Community publication, there is Real Time View column –
https://connect2nonstop.com/

For updates on Facebook, there is now a Real Time View group –
https://www.facebook.com/groups/145269955527534

For commentaries on LinkedIn, there is the Real Time View group –
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1878133/