Welcome to the TandemWorld Newsletter for August 2004.
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Contents
TapeLabs Brings 64-bit Symmetric Multi-Processing to Virtual TapeServer 
TSI announces two new enterprise-level storage products on the HP NonStop™ platform
Integrated Research chalks up big deals to end financial year 
Gresham Computing is pleased to announce the release of TOP version 4.2
Tapelabs' Virtual Tape Server saves Copperweld over 300 hours per month
Insession Technologies Update 
Browser-based Secure NonStop Server Access for 35000 Users 
‘Go interactive’ with Insider Technologies Limited 
OutsideView 7.2 released with SSL/TLS encryption 
CAIL Integrates NonStop Into IT Infrastructure
User Groups 
Employment 
______________________________________________________________________OutsideView 7.2 Released 
Crystal Point, a leading provider of host-access and legacy renewal software, announces availability of SSL/TLS encryption within OutsideView 7.2, its flagship desktop terminal emulation product. Through an optional Security Add-in, 7.2 OutsideView now supports a broad range of cipher suites with RSA key exchange including 128-bit 3DES and 256-bit AES. To assure compliance with standards-based security policies, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificates are used for server authentication. Verification of the server certificate via Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) is also provided to insure the trustworthiness of the target host. 
Crystal Point also announces availability of the NonStop SSL (NSSL) proxy to provide SSL/TLS encryption services on the NonStop platform. This Guardian-native application provides high-throughput encryption for NonStop systems with no changes to existing applications or infrastructure In addition, because OutsideView includes support for TN3270 and TN5250 emulation types, end-to-end encryption between OutsideView users and IBM hosts with SSL/TLS capabilities is supported. For compatibility with the OutsideView Security Add-in or other, standard SSL/TLS clients, PKI certificates created with the provided tools or from third-party Certificate Authorities are used.
OutsideView is supported and supplied by Sionet International for more information contact :
sales@sionet-intl.com 
www.sionet-intl.com
Tel : - 00 44 (0) 141 204 4046
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TSI announces two new enterprise-level storage products on the HP NonStop™ platform
Tributary Systems, Inc. (TSI) is pleased announce two new enterprise-level storage products on the HP NonStop platform – NEO 8000 and StreamLine™ SL8500.  

The Overland Storage NEO 8000 tape library ideally suited to mid to large-sized storage environments.  This tape library supports up to 12 LTO Gen II or SuperDLT 600 tape drives with a maximum cartridge capacity of 500.  The NEO 8000 supports multi-media applications and both LTO and SDLT tape drives simultaneously.  

The StorageTek StreamLine SL8500 tape library is a state-of-the-art enterprise-level tape automation system and replaces the PowderHorn 4400/9310 tape libraries.  The SL8500 is massively scalable from 2,048 to 300,000 cartridge slots.  It supports 64 to 1,984 LTO Gen II, 9840 A/B/C and 9940 B tape drives in any combination.  The SL8500 is a multi-platform, mixed media tape library designed to accommodate large storage environments.  Customers can start with a cost effective configuration that meets current backup requirements and upgrade with future drive types and more cartridge slots to increase capacity during operation with no system downtime.  

TSI is a storage solutions provider for HP platforms.  For more information on TSI's new enterprise-level storage products, contact TSI European Sales: United Kingdom – Jim Elliott, +44 135 524 3500; Germany – Burkhard Kours, +49 6172 597 6264; or visit the TSI website at http://www.tributary.com
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TapeLabs Brings 64-bit Symmetric Multi-Processing to Virtual TapeServer 

Tape Laboratories announces the adoption of the HP DL585 server into their Virtual TapeServer product family. These new models feature dual 64-bit symmetric multi-processor design, delivering more than twice the computing power of existing models. Capable of supporting any combination of up to 16 SCSI or Fibre Channel connections, the new models offer the same class leading features and functionality as previous Virtual TapeServer models, and also feature embedded dual Gigabit Ethernet channels and RAID processor.

All Virtual TapeServer models are completely compatible; they can be clustered together for scalable solutions available from entry level up
through the most demanding heterogeneous enterprise class configuration.

Available from HP, Virtual TapeServer is in heterogeneous production use by multiple referenceable NonStop users. 
For more information, contact TapeLabs at +1 (310) 577-1700, or visit the TapeLabs website at http://www.tapelabs.com. 
For more information in EMEA contact Sionet International +44 141 204 4046 or mail info@sionet-intl.com.
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Integrated Research chalks up big deals to end financial year 

09 August 2004 - Australian software developer Integrated Research (ASX:IRI) closed several high-profile sales of its PROGNOSIS performance management software in the lead up to the end of its financial year ending June 30. 
The deals comprise both new wins and reinvestment by customers across the globe as far reaching as Spain and Russia, cementing Integrated Research's stability as a global technology leader. The breadth of customer base reflects the success of the company's strategy to focus on penetrating the high availability markets of banking, government and telecommunications. 
"By ensuring our customer base is spread both geographically and across industry verticals, Integrated Research has a broad foundation to remain solid as market dynamics change," said Integrated Research's founder and CEO Steve Killelea. 
Global Reach 
For the 12 months to June 2004 the company earned 95 percent of its revenue offshore and has reported preliminary results showing a 48 percent growth in North America, 251 percent in Europe and 19 percent in Asia Pacific. 
New customers to sign up for PROGNOSIS in the last quarter in the US included Boston Communications - a leader in transaction processing solutions for real-time wireless subscriber management, State of Washington, Everlink (NYCE), and US Bank. Renfe Spanish Railways and Singapore's Ministry of Defence now rely on Integrated Research's PROGNOSIS to monitor, manage and diagnose the critical systems that support their vital infrastructure. 
Confirming the proven reliability of PROGNOSIS, a number of international clients extended their investment including South African electronic transaction switching services provider, BankServ, US based State Street Bank and the Toronto Stock Exchange. 
Diversified Customer Base 
Integrated Research has developed and maintained its diversified customer base by focusing on key markets that demand a high availability. 
"Our PROGNOSIS solutions continue to aim at high-availability, high-impact environments. In the last quarter we have pushed further into these markets with solutions to manage business-critical infrastructure in specific vertical industries such as banking, telecommunications and government. Our most notable successes include ATM and POS networks in the banking sector, supported in part by MasterCard taking up the entire PROGNOSIS performance management suite," explained Killelea. 
Similarly, growth was achieved by targeting emerging technologies where uptime and performance are crucial. One such arena is IP telephony, which is seeing an increased take-up across all sectors. In 2004 Integrated Research experienced 90 percent growth in take up of the company's IP Telephony management products with clients including NCR, Bank One and USAID in Egypt. 
"We see growing confidence in, and rapid uptake of, IP telephony - which opens new opportunities for us with organisations seeking to assess and manage their IP telephony infrastructure," said Killelea. 
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Gresham Computing is pleased to announce the release of TOP version 4.2
Gresham Computing is pleased to announce the release of TOP version 4.2, an upgrade to its graphical interface for NonStop servers. This release adds Safeguard and TMF to the subsystems that can be configured, managed and monitored with TOP as well as many new features such as enhancements to Netbatch displays and further support for OSS.

Any sites who have not tried TOP or who have evaluated it in the past are encouraged to take advantage of Gresham's free evaluation program to find out how TOP can make life easier for operations, development and systems management staff. Existing customers are encouraged to download the upgrade and test out the new functionality.

Visit http://top.gresham-computing.com for more information, downloads and evaluation details.

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Tapelabs' Virtual Tape Server saves Copperweld over 300 hours per month
Copperweld is the largest and most diversified producer of steel tubular products in North America, with 14 plants and 2300 employees. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, the company is the world's leading manufacturer of bimetallic wire and bimetallic strip products.
Full volume backups and online dumps for their HP NonStop server were running almost continuously, and taking up to 48 hours to complete. Restoring a single file was taking upwards of four hours to complete. Copperweld needed a solution with larger capacity, and shorter recovery time. 
"We purchased Virtual TapeServer from HP knowing the solution was developed by TapeLabs," said Gary Watson, Manager of Technical Services and Database Technology. Full volume backups now run in 80 minutes, and online dumps run in under an hour - a 96% reduction. "How could we not be happy about that?" adds Gary. "Plus, the GUI tells me just how well the system is performing at a glance."
Copperweld's investment has paid off - the company is saving 300 man-hours a month just by eliminating manual tape mounts and maintenance. "Virtual TapeServer is outstanding. We couldn't be happier," says Gary. 
Read the full success story at:
www.tandemworld.net/tapelabs.htm/tapelabs_copperweld.pdf
http://www.tapelabs.com/images/Copperweld%20Story%20VTS.pdf
http://www.sionet-intl.com/vts.html
For more information in EMEA contact Sionet International +44 141 204 4046 or mail info@sionet-intl.com.
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Insession Technologies Update
Insession Technologies are constantly developing and adding new solutions to enhance the NonStop Platform. Products that
help you cut costs and provide new services to your end users and increase your profitability.

Below are our latest NonStop solutions;

WebGate: SQL, to find out more go to www.insession.com/webgate
SafeTGate: AF and SafeTGate: SSL, to find out more go to www.insession.com/safetgate

With recent success at Nationwide Building Society who purchased both WebGate and SafeTGate and will use the SOAP/ISO support within WebGate to externalise the rich transaction set of BASE24 to various channels as Web Services and they will protect their entire environment with SafeTGate SSL for encryption and AF for authentication and authorisation in conjunction with Microsoft's Active Directory.

Both WebGate and SafeTGate are built on the same foundation as ICE, a product that HP NonStop users worldwide rely on for network
connectivity, all of these solutions are developed and supported by Insession Technologies.

We take pride in building strategic partnerships with our customers and to see examples of how Bank of America and CIBC use our
web services product suite to maximise their NonStop environment go to www.insession.com/casestudies

If you have any questions or require any further information on any of the Insession products, please contact Karen James on +44 1923 812721 or email jamesk@insession.com 
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Browser-based Secure NonStop Server Access for 35000 Users
Rabobank relies on comForte's SecurTN (displayed as a link) and J6530 (displayed as a link) to provide secure NonStop application access for some 35000 users from 328 bank branches in 1734 locations. When migrating from X.25 to TCP/IP, security, manageability and robustness were paramount when looking for a solution to support the new infrastructure. SecurTN and J6530 proved to be the ideal fit for the bank's requirements
SecurTN, a high volume secure telnet server, is able to provide SSL access for 1000 and more concurrent sessions with a single process. Migrating to SecurTN simplified the environment which beforehand consisted of 16 X.25 processes per system. All up to 5000 concurrent sessions can now be handled by the application host using a single IP address and port number, which significantly eases the application access management. J6530, a 6530 terminal emulator Java applet, which is deployed centrally on the corporate intranet web servers, eliminated the need to install new software on the user workstations and provided instant secure SSL sessions with SecurTN.
comForte and SummaEST, Benelux distribution partner for comForte's products, supported Rabobank throughout the implementation. "Rabobank was very pleased to work with comForte and SummaEST. They proved to be very keen on providing the right solution." said Andre Hoekstra, Rabobank's project leader. "comForte and SummaEST have shared Rabobank's issues and concerns and actively participated in the project. Both companies and the software are very flexible." Jan Looij, clustermanager, states: "I have never seen a project like this going that smoothly. We were impressed with comForte's and SummaEST's competence, support and flexibility all the way through from early analysis and proof of concept to the final rollout." For more information please go to Comforte
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‘Go interactive’ with Insider Technologies Limited
Online demonstrations 
Utilising ‘WebEx’ technology, Insider Technologies is now able to share our applications with prospects, customers and partners. This enables Insider to recreate the experience of a face-to-face meeting by allowing all participants to view the same document, browser or application. It also enables prospects and customers to have a personal demonstration of Insiders’ solutions in which they can actively participate, ask questions through a chat forum and visually highlight areas that need clarification.
Product demonstration downloads 
Download a ‘Flash’ demonstration of some of ITL’s products from our website: 
Reflex 80:20 (A graphical, integrated suite of management and automation applications for HP NonStop platforms)
MultiBatch (Mainframe class batch scheduler for HP NonStop platforms)
Capital Tracks (Financial tracking for FX Trades, Payments, etc.) 
SENTRA (Monitoring, alerting, querying and reporting for HP NonStop, WIN 2000/2003/NT, UNIX and Linux platforms)
Click on the link below to view the range of downloads:
http://www.insidertech.co.uk/product_demonstrations.html
New product - SENTRA ES-M
As part of Insider Technologies continuous improvement and ongoing development, a new product 'SENTRA ES-M', is due to be released. 
Built on the proven SENTRA architecture for integrated cross platform monitoring, SENTRA ES-M will enable users to stay abreast of new transaction processing initiatives without adding to growing maintenance budget headaches.
SENTRA ES-M provides a complete and integrated view of your middleware applications from a single graphical control point, whether the middleware is running on HP NonStop, Windows 2000/2003/NT, UNIX, or Linux. 
SENTRA ES-M deployed extraction layers, reside on monitored platforms and relay data from relevant sources, e.g. WebSphere MQ, XPNET layer, UNIX syslogs, Message Server log files, EMS and OSS.
State, Rate, Queue Monitoring and Interchange Metrics can be relayed to SENTRA ES-M via XPNET extraction layers, deployed on your HP NonStop platforms.
Apart from SENTRA ES-M being an Enterprise Manager in its own right, it can also co-exist with other enterprises such as TIVOLI™ and hp OpenView™, using certified plug-ins. 
Real-time information on your middleware workflow processes via SENTRA ES-M Hypervisor is available, which is provided via a Dashboard to enable users to view WebSphere MQ, XPNET and platform specific metrics.
ITUG Summit 2004
3 – 7th October, San Jose Convention Centre, San Jose, CA, USA.
Come and visit ITL on the Insession Technologies booth, where Insession and Insider will be demonstrating an exciting new release of ITL’s mainframe class batch scheduler: MultiBatch.
For further information, copies of presentations, PDFs, etc., please contact Bernadette Doyle (bernie.doyle@insidertech.co.uk), on +44 (0) 161 876 6606, or visit ITL’s website www.insidertech.co.uk
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OutsideView 7.2 released with SSL/TLS encryption
Crystal Point, a leading provider of host-access and legacy renewal software, announces availability of standards-based SSL/TLS encryption within OutsideView 7.2, its flagship terminal emulation product. Through an optional Security Add-in, 7.2 OutsideView now supports a broad range of cipher suites with RSA key exchange including 128-bit 3DES and 256-bit AES. Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificates are used for server authentication. Verification of the server certificate via Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) is also provided to insure the trustworthiness of the target host. In addition, because OutsideView includes support for TN3270 and TN5250 emulation types, end-to-end encryption between OutsideView users and IBM hosts with SSL/TLS capabilities is supported.
Crystal Point also announces availability of the NonStop SSL (NSSL) proxy to provide SSL/TLS encryption services on the NonStop platform. This Guardian-native application provides high-throughput encryption for NonStop systems with no changes to existing applications or infrastructure. For compatibility with the OutsideView Security Add-in or other, standard SSL/TLS clients, PKI certificates created with the provided tools or from third-party Certificate Authorities are used.
OutsideView is supported and supplied by Sionet International. For more information contact :
sales@sionet-intl.com 
www.sionet-intl.com
+44 (0)141 204 4046
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CAIL Integrates NonStop Into IT Infrastructure

CAIL Connectivity Solutions complement and enhance the HP NonStop platform by providing a better systems experience for users and superior tools to improve information services. In addition, CAIL has partnered with Attachmate, the CAIL equivalent for connectivity in the IBM, UNIX/Linux and Unisys communities.  This partnership provides Customers with a single desktop icon for connectivity to selected or all Host applications in the enterprise.  

Several Customers have now implemented the CAIL/Attachmate Solution. Having an “Enterprise Connectivity Strategy”  enables them to easily, quickly and economically leverage their investment in current systems to address new business needs. As part of this, HP NonStop systems are integrated into IT infrastructure from a user perspective.  In addition, support demands are reduced, systems are easier to manage and technical personnel able to address new initiatives consistently across platforms.  Further, Customers realize major savings with an Enterprise Connectivity Solution. These are significant benefits – especially since you are able to move systems forward with no risk and produce results quickly.

One Customer with the integrated CAIL/Attachmate Solution recently announced, “we have realized a savings of $5M in the first 18 months of this project!”. As a result, the ROI is months for a 10,000-seat installation. How impressive is that?

Further information on CAIL Connectivity Solutions is available at www.cail.com/intro
For a summary of Customer benefits with an “Enterprise Connectivity Strategy”, please visit www.cail.com/cabenefits

If you have any questions or require additional information, please contact CAIL at 905.940.9000 X2222 or info@cail.com.
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User Groups
ITUG Summit 2004 3 - 7 October 2004 For more information Go There
BITUG OSS & JAVA SIG 19th August 2004 For more information Go There
OZTUG 2004 Successfully Provides NonStop Users with Ultimate Education Go There 
InstaPoll Does information on the HP web site (hp.com) satisfy your needs for information on HP products, services, technical questions, and other general issues? Go There 
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