Welcome to the TandemWorld Newsletter for September 2004.
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Contents
Tributary Systems, Inc. and Tape Laboratories, Inc. collaborate in the HP NonStop market.

QSA, Inc. to receive the 2004 ITUG Product Development Excellence Award 

Prove your foundation is strong with VersaTEST 4.0

Virtual TapeServer enables HP NonStop Server to Backup and Restore under Veritas NetBackupÔ

Twinsoft named as Virtual TapeServer Agent for German speaking regions

CAIL Connectivity Suite Release 7 now available to improve information access with NonStop Systems

Release 9.3 of MultiBatch - new functionality available in October, 2004

Integrated Research German Office Fact Sheet

GreenHouse Software & Consulting PayWare

It’s Not Too Late to Register for ITUG Summit 2004! 

Employment 
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Tributary Systems, Inc. and Tape Laboratories, Inc. collaborate in the HP NonStop market.
Tributary Systems, Inc. (TSI) and Tape Laboratories, Inc. (TapeLabs) are pleased to announce a joint marketing agreement. Effective immediately and in continued cooperation with HP NonStop Enterprise Division (HP NED), TapeLabs will market TSI’s broad range of direct-attached tape drives and automation solutions, and TSI will market TapeLabs’ Virtual TapeServer in the HP NonStop™ marketplace.
By leveraging each organization’s respective strengths in Tape Virtualization and Direct-Attached Data Storage Products, each company will be able to effectively promote a complete "Best of Breed" line of Backup/Restore/Archive solutions to HP NonStop customers. The purpose of this strategic move is to streamline, simplify and compress the sales process for NonStop storage products in the marketplace.
For more information concerning this announcement, contact:
Shawn Sabanayagam
Tributary Systems, Inc.
3717 Commerce Place #C
Bedford, TX 76021
Phone: (817) 354-8009 
Fax: (817) 283-2385 
ss@tributary.com
www.tributary.com	Brian Ignatin
Tape Laboratories, Inc.
5301 Beethoven Street # 200
Los Angeles, CA 90066
Phone: (310) 577-1700 
Fax: (310) 574-1141
brian@tapelabs.com
www.tapelabs.com	

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QSA, Inc. to receive the 2004 ITUG Product Development Excellence Award
Quality Systems Associates, Inc. (QSA) are the recipient of the 2004 ITUG Product Development Excellence Award. The award will be presented to QSA by Pauline Nist and Richard Buckle at the General Session of the NonStop Partner Summit in San Jose, CA on October 2, 2004. QTOS (Quality Tape Operations Simplified), QSA’s media management software application, was entered and evaluated by a panel of non-vendor judges. Product Quality, Development Practices, and Customer Support were scrutinized.
QSA is a provider of Media Management Software exclusive to the HP NonStop platform. QTOS is an industry standard tracking & cataloging facility that automates the backup and restore processes. QTOS maintains and protects the Media Catalog while providing operations staff a simplified environment for implementing Media Operations. QTOS also provides File Location, Automated Volume Recognition, Parallel Backup, and Compression using PAK. 
For further details please contact Robert Mahoney (RMahoney@qsa.com) at QSA, Inc.on +1 610.847.5149 or EMEA customers may contact Sionet International (info@sionet-intl.com) on +44 141 204 4046
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Prove your foundation is strong with VersaTEST 4.0
VersaTEST 4.0 is the comprehensive testing, simulation and support environment developed by Ascert and distributed by Insession Technologies throughout the world.
The recent enhancements in VersaTEST 4.0 facilitate development and operational ease of use and seamless interoperability between NonStop Servers and alternative Java enabled platforms. This allows customers to easily deploy VersaTEST throughout their organisations and concentrate fully on testing issues, without worrying about platform support. By including new actions and operators in VTALK, the core scripting language of VersaTEST, the user is given greater flexibility in how tests are created, deployed and controlled.
Numerous Fortune 500 companies, as well as ACI Worldwide depend on VersaTEST to prove their business critical applications. As the market leader of electronic payment solutions, ACI Worldwide has relied on VersaTEST to conduct application testing on their BASE24 solution.
If you would like to find out how VersaTEST can help your company with its testing requirements, please visit www.insession.com/versatest or email jamesk@insession.com.
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Virtual TapeServer enables HP NonStop Server to Backup and Restore under Veritas NetBackup 
This 100-year old company is one of North America's largest third party logistics companies, and a long-standing HP NonStop customer.
The company had previously standardized on Veritas NetBackup at an Enterprise Level, and had a strong desire to integrate its quad processor 7600 backup and restore operations under it, but this capability is not native to NonStop servers or Veritas. 
HP arranged for a two-week evaluation of a Virtual TapeServer with 730GB of internal storage capacity. Virtual TapeServer was configured for Enterprise Integration with Veritas NetBackup, and testing commenced. The test results were so compelling, the company made the decision to purchase Virtual TapeServer after just 3 days of evaluation. The company also deployed Virtual TapeServer’s data compression feature, after testing demonstrated a 4:1 compression ratio on TMF audit trails, and as much as 7:1 compression on other data file types.
Read the full success story at:Tapelabs. EMEA customers may contact Sionet International (info@sionet-intl.com) on +44 141 204 4046
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Twinsoft named as Virtual TapeServer Agent for German speaking regions
Tape Laboratories is pleased to announce the appointment of Twinsoft GmbH and Co. KG as its Authorized Agent and Representative for Germany, Austria, and Lichtenstein.
Twinsoft will serve as local sales representation for TapeLabs, supporting HP NonStop Enterprise Division’s sales efforts of Virtual TapeServer. Virtual TapeServer, available from HP, is in heterogeneous production use by multiple referenceable NonStop users. 
For more information, contact TapeLabs at +1 (310) 577-1700, or http://www.tapelabs.com Twinsoft can be contacted at: +49 (02102) 3004-28, or http://www.twinsoft.de
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CAIL Connectivity Suite Release 7 now available to improve information access with NonStop Systems 
The new CAIL Connectivity Suite adds important capabilities for security, web access/services, configuration and deployment options plus communications extensions including IPV6 support. Further, to continue providing the greatest flexibility for information access while making systems easier to manage and improving the user experience, CAIL continues to include the Plus (ActiveX), Windows and Java Versions in this new release. 
Also bundled with Release 7 is CAIL Studio and CAIL Adapter to enhance the presentation of information services as well as to better integrate and aggregate information for the user from a Browser. And because these new products are included in the CAIL Connectivity Suite, Customers have more options to move systems forward and receive industry-leading value.
In a separate but related aspect to these developments, is the ability to integrate NonStop systems into IT infrastructure with a single connectivity solution across the enterprise. This strategy has appeal to those that want an easy, quick and economical solution to leverage the investment in NonStop and other Host based applications into enterprise initiatives. As a result of a number of organizations moving to an "Enterprise Connectivity Strategy", the new release of integrated CAIL / Attachmate Software enables Customers to further improve information services, simplify systems, reduce support demands, enhance systems consistently across platforms, and realize a fast ROI.
For more information, contact CAIL at + 905.940.9000 x2222 or visit http://www.cail.com/adapt
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Release 9.3 of MultiBatch - new functionality available in October, 2004
Insider Technologies will be launching version 9.3 of their NSK batch scheduler, MultiBatch in October 2004. 
This release improves upon existing product functionality and adds new enhancements to the configuration GUI. In addition, it will also create an NT hosted repository of the MultiBatch log data, so that both real-time and historical reporting of Batch progress can be performed. 
As an add-on to MultiBatch 9.3, a new feature called the MultiBatch Control Point (MCP) will provide the following items:
Batch tracking database
General query launcher
Link into an SQL report writing tool 
Graphical Command and Control functionality based on the existing command line utility BCOM
Batch progress Dashboard which can be viewed through either a Win32 or Browser based client
Essentially, the MCP provides a full graphical interface into MultiBatch and also consolidates a number of existing facilities into a single view of your networked Batch environment.
MCP will also supply an NSK based process that will relay MultiBatch EMS log information to an NT hosted SQL Server repository for longer-term storage. 
Users can access a query mechanism that will allow general queries to be built and executed against this historical database, enabling you to drill into the results and obtain detailed information about a Batch Jobs object code, process name, CPU and User ID. 
Standard Management Information reports are available, plus the underlying SQL database can be accessed by any standard SQL reporting tool. The final element of the MCP is a top-level dashboard showing the current status of the schedule; from this display, users will be able to track existing running and failed jobs across their network of batch schedules. 
For more information on MultiBatch, visit the ITL web site at www.insidertech.co.uk.
If you are attending this year’s ITUG conference, then we will be sharing a booth with our USA MultiBatch distributor: Insession Technologies. Please feel free to drop by their stand (236) and ask for a demonstration of the latest 9.3 release.
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Integrated Research German Office Fact Sheet
Integrated Research is please to announce the establishment of a office in Germany to better serve its current and future customers. 
Due to the expanding business in German speaking countries, Integrated Research has decided to grow its European organization by establishing a new presence in Germany. The office is based just outside Frankfurt and will be manned from 1st October 2004..
As part of this office, a new support organization is being established in Germany. Initially, this will be headed up by Manfred Fidelak. 
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Garry Ovenell at IR Europe on +44 (0)1344 386666 or garry.ovenell@ir.com.
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GreenHouse Software & Consulting - PayWare
GreenHouse are proud to announce new types of products, available. 
PayWare 
What is PayWare, and why do we offer this type of software? Let me start some 10+ years back… 
FreeWare When GreenHouse started in 1994, we also started to develop, maintain and ship GUARDIAN based FreeWare. This is our way in doing advertisement. From our competitors you get coffee mugs, T-shirts, mouse pads, pens and other hardware, while we as a software house offer helpful and maintained free software, that makes life on a Tandem system - nowadays: NonStop Server – much more easy. What is FreeWare? Our definition is: 
The software is distributed to any interested party. 
It is available from a public place in the Internet: www.GreenHouse.de. 
The software is free: You don’t have to give us any money to - get it - use it 
The software is maintained by GreenHouse, because we use it ourselves! The maintenance includes - bug fixing - enhancements (when you have a good idea: let us know!) 
The software is free of intentional bugs, Trojan Horses, viruses or any other decease. 
Why does GreenHouse give valuable software for free? 
Because we believe, that we should not take money for every bit and piece of code. 
Because we believe, that helping the Tandem community is good for all of us! 
Because this is our way of doing advertisement! 
ShareWare 
But this seemed to be a problem for some of you, when you are not allowed to use FreeWare on your NSK system, but are requested to run ‘real’ products, where you have paid for. 
Based on this request GreenHouse invented ShareWare for NSK in 2002. ShareWare is very similar to FreeWare, but with these differences: 
ShareWare can be used for free for 62 days. 
When using the product for more then 62 days on a regular basis you are requested to pay a license fee. 
The software does NOT quit from running when the LicenseFee is NOT paid, but a banner is displayed every time the product is used to let you know, that you have to pay a fee. 
The fee is a one time fee. 
There is no maintenance fee: All ShareWare products are maintained for free. 
ShareWare also is much more powerful than FreeWare, and each product represents an investment of more than 3 months of development. 
PayWare 
But this still does not satisfy the requirements of ALL Tandem users … At least this was told to me in September 2004: There are still NSK users out there, willing to use my Free- and ShareWare tools, but only in case they have contracts in place, where they have paid for, and where they have paid for the maintenance. So we invented this third product type and named it: PayWare. Our definition of PayWare is: 
It is exactly the same product as the corresponding Free- or ShareWare product, but shows a different banner and version procedure. 
PayWare, based on Free- or ShwarWare, is compiled from exactly the same source, where compile toggles decide about product banners and version procedures. 
PayWare runs for 62 days without a license. 
After 62 days, the software stops running and a license has to be purchased from GreenHouse which includes the - one year product license (current year + 4 month) as well as the - yearly maintenance fee. 
An expired or non existing PayWare license causes the PayWare to refuse from running. 
PayWare has to be re-licensed every year. 
With this invention we hope, that it solves ALL your problems and that ALL of you can make use of the big GreenHouse tool box! 
Please do not hesitate to contact us in case you like a tool, but are requested to pay for it: We migrate every GreenHouse Free- or ShareWare tool to PayWare at no extra cost. 
Now the question is: How much is a PayWare product? Here are our ideas about the pricing: 
FreeWare migrated to PayWare 
This type of product has a fixed price of 250 per system and year. 
e.g. The tool SECURE, originally a FreeWare product, will be: 250 € per year and system. 
ShareWare migrated to PayWare 
Migrated ShareWare is priced as follows: ShareWare price/3 + 100 € 
e.g. 
The LAUNCHER ShareWare product is 1.000,00. The PayWare equivalent is calculated as: 1.000/3 + 100 = 333 + 100 = 433 per system and year. 
All prices are: 
Independent of the system type (K, S) 
Independent of the system size (number of CPUs) 
Independent of the number of concurrent users 
Cover the current year plus 4 months of the next year 
Include the maintenance fee 
The currency is € (Euro) for European customers, and US$ for all non European customers. 
Beside the Free- Share- and PayWare, GreenHouse develops and maintains products, e.g. the command level security product SECOM, or the authentication product MPWD, or a secure FTP server etc. These products do NOT have any Free- or ShareWare equivalent, and thus will not be available as PayWare. Product descriptions can be found at www.GreenHouse.de. 

Greenhouse will give two presentations at ITUG:
1. An update on Free- and ShwareWare tools
(05Oct2004, 8:00 - 8:45 AM, P-1-U, Marriott Salon 3)
2. The GUARDIAN part of a marathon presentation titled:
How to harden your NonStop Server - a Show and Tell
This presentation covers the aspects of securing:
- GUARDIAN (Carl Weber, GreenHouse)
- OSS (Roland Lemoine, HP)
- LAN (Thomas Burg, comForte and Arrigo Triulzi, K2Defender)
(06Oct2004, 2:00 - 5:15 PM, P-24-U, Marriott Salon 5)
We will present AND demonstrate 'hot spots', and solutions! Be prepared to
have some interesting hours!

It would be great to see you there!

In case you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at: Info@GreenHouse.de
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It’s Not Too Late to Register for ITUG Summit 2004!
ITUG Summit 2004 offers a one-day conference registration rate for NonStop users who have limited time and budgets. The one-day conference registration fee is $430 for Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday and $250 for Thursday. This registration fee includes one-day access to technical sessions, general sessions, exhibitions, lunch, and beverage breaks for the specified day only. It also includes any ITUG evening event on the specified day only. For NonStop users who have more time to experience Summit 2004, full conference registration is still available.
Register now for ITUG Summit 2004 www.itug.org/events/summit/2004/ , 3-7 October in San Jose, California at the San Jose Convention Center.
New for 2004! Come and see the latest on the 2004 exhibit floor. ITUG understands that NonStop users work on cross platform or hybrid solutions and can mix and match the right system for the right task in heterogeneous applications. Exhibitors at ITUG Summit 2004 will be working with HP to showcase their hybrid solutions and provide booth demonstrations tying into the hybrid hardware set up in HP’s Booth. Explore new business solutions, utilizing NonStop servers, for your heterogeneous applications!
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Employment

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