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Contents
Meet comForte at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit
Identify and Protect Your Sensitive Data with TANDsoft’s Sensitive Data
Intercept (SDI)
The Next
Generation picks up the Baton
DataExpress
continues to make news …
HPE
Shadowbase Product Suite Supports HPE Virtualized NonStop
Register for the
MATUG Fall Users Meeting!
The General Data Protection Regulation Coming Fast :
OmniPayments’ Twins - Two NonStop X Servers ASK TW Availability Digest’s Dr. Bill Explains Why His Doctoral Thesis Was a Major Fail NonStop Technical Boot Camp 2017 Musings on NonStop! - August, 2017 Current Subscribers 15236 Meet comForte at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit
Identify and
Protect Your Sensitive Data with TANDsoft’s Sensitive Data Intercept
(SDI)
The Next Generation picks up the Baton
A little over 30 years ago Michael Nee had an idea which led to the creation of the concept of data replication. DR was new. Not only for the Tandem, but for many other hardware lines as well. This idea was born in the early days of online transaction processing (OLTP). The concept for DRNet came at a time when businesses began to realize the true cost of even a second of downtime, and began to plan for “mirror” datacenters, separated by great distances. NTI has been around for over 30 years. Yes, there continue to be small unique innovations, but the basic invention is still the key to OLTP reliability today. Over the past 3 decades there have been so many amazing technical breakthroughs that we take them as commonplace. Sometimes you have to take a step back to see a new trend emerging. What I see is a new crop of brilliant folks who are entering this space and taking over from the “old guys”. Consider Gabrielle from NuWave who can show you how to link your old Tandem application seamlessly into your new enterprise systems, or Michelle and her team at NTI who run our support organization and do amazing things under extreme pressure. Talented women taking over from the old guys. About a year ago Kate Nee, Mike’s daughter, joined the NTI team and started working with me in Business Development. She recently wrote the following reflection.
I have been working at NTI for almost a year now. However, the world of Tandem isn’t anything new to me. My father has been in the industry for decades. Growing up my siblings and I used to sneak into the server room and play (yep, my homes have always had computer rooms). Well that was until we got caught and never tried that again.
When joining the professional world, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Sure, I had internships in high school and college but full-time employment was new to me. I spent years of my life in “school mode” and knowing what to do and how to do it. This was a big change for me.
I grew up in a mostly female household. In college, I was in a sorority with 75 other women. So, it was an odd feeling to walk into a meeting or even a big event like BootCamp with hundreds of people, being one of the few women in the room. Some people were very nice and welcoming, while others treated me like a complete outsider. It’s hard being the new kid on the block when everyone has known each other for longer than you’ve been alive.
I have learned a lot from some really amazing people. I’m surrounded everyday by people who are extremely talented in what they do. In the coming years, I’ll continue to learn from people who probably have forgotten more than I could ever learn. Kate (Kate.Nee@Network-Tech.com) And, because I like to tie these stories back to our technology, NTI recently announced our EVOLUTION program. EVOLUTION enables the seamless transition from Oracle GoldenGate to DRNet with zero transaction loss and zero downtime. The transition from the old to the new. Give Kate a shout and she can send you some materials on this next generation technology. DRNet® is world class NonStop Data Replication technology. · Real-time Active/Active Data Replication · Real-time Tandem to OPEN Data Replication · Real-time File Synchronization · Refreshingly Real-Time Support from Real Engineers
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Register for the MATUG Fall Users Meeting!

Please register via EventBrite
for the Mid-Atlantic Tandem User Group (MATUG) meeting scheduled for 8am-5pm on Friday, October 13, 2017 at the Marriott Courtyard BWI Airport Hotel near Baltimore, MD, USA. (Click https://eventbrite.com/event/16902004350/ for more information.) Expect HPE presentations on the NonStop HW/SW product roadmap and the new partnership with Blockchain, as well as several informative vendor presentations.
The MATUG meeting is open to all HPE NonStop customers, partners, users, consultants, or interested parties. Members are usually from the following states: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia, although anyone can attend. MATUG provides members with the opportunity to participate in quality informational sessions, learn about new HPE products and services, and interact with fellow HPE NonStop users. Please forward this announcement to others in your organization who may be interested in attending.

CSP has helped many NonStop users meet ever changing organisational and regulatory compliance over many years and now “the times they are a changing”, and CSP is once again here to help.
As of 25th May 2018 – the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be enforced.
This new Regulation is being introduced to address the modern digital world. It is more extensive in scope than previous regulations and supersedes national data laws such as the UK’s Data Protection ACT of 1998.
The Regulation will require organisations to implement clear and strict policies and procedures to protect personal data. The GDPR will have a stronger privacy/security standardisation effect than any technological effort has to date. Ultimately, the GDPR aims to give individuals back control of their personal data, whilst imposing strict rules on those hosting and processing personal data
Just for the EU? No – The GDPR will be essential for all global organisations, wherever they are located. The Regulation introduces rules relating to the free movement of personal data within and outside the EU. Any company located anywhere that processes/manages data on EU residents will need to comply with the new Regulation.
Examples of GDPR mandates include:
- In the event of security breaches reports must be produced within 72 hours
- Regular supply chain reviews and audits will be required to ensure they are fit for purpose
- Data protection impact assessments
- And many more
And there’s another reason to really get GDPR ready……. Huge fines for non-compliance
The new regulation mandates considerably tougher penalties than the DPA. Those found in breach of the regulation can expect administrative fines of up to 4% of annual global turnover or €20 million – whichever is greater. The legal community is readying now for non-compliance battles. Non-compliance sounds like an expensive option; both in terms of tangible £’s, $’s €’s but the damage to brand and company reputation as a result of non-compliance, is not so easy to quantify.
CSP has been in the NonStop security business for almost 30 years and what-ever the impact of GPDR to your organisation, CSP has the decades of experience, expertise, industry knowledge and the compliance and security data management software products to once again help NonStop users meet the challenges of complying to the new General Data Protection Regulation.
GDPR Compliance - Time to get ready - Time to call CSP!
Contact David Ross now at CSP UK on +44 (0) 7799-673582
Email: DavidR@cspsecurity.com
Or Peter Mehta at CSP Canada on +1 (905) 568-8900 x 224,
Email: PeterM@CSPsecurity.com
OmniPayments’ Twins - Two NonStop X Servers - Make the Cloud We Call OmniCloudX
The twins are doing fine, and thanks for asking. As is always the case with a fault-tolerant NonStop system, our NonStop X servers work round-the-clock as part of the solution we call OmniCloudX. It hosts numerous instances of the OmniPayments Financial Transaction Switch at pay-for-use prices so affordable that mid-size banks and retailers now can enjoy the benefits of having their own high-capacity payments switches. Starts at only USD $5000 per month.
In addition, OmniPayments supplies the IT staff need to manage the payments switches running in OmniCloudX. Participating merchants and banks therefore can focus on their core businesses.
WORLD’S FIRST CLOUD BUILT ON NONSTOP X
· Highly scalable
· Continuously available with automatic failover to another NonStop X system
· Supports ATMs, POS systems, and both Web and mobile apps
· Supplies complete security functions for every financial transaction handled, including at-rest and in-flight
· Supports a range of disaster-recovery solutions
· Affordable. Each OmniCloudX customer pays only for the CPU resources, storage, and networking that it uses
· Able to survive any single fault
· Easily expandable to provide additional functionality when needed
· Requires no downtime for maintenance or upgrades
· Built for Instant Payments / GDPR-compliant / Ready for PDS2

The OmniPayments standalone Financial Transaction Switch is deployed on NonStop for the highest availability and offers all the requisite functionality to manage credit/debit-card transactions. It manages multiple devices, hosts application interfaces, and interoperates with third-party products or other systems if required. OmniPayments easily expands to provide additional functionality when needed and supplies complete security functions for every financial transaction handled, including encryption-at-rest and encryption-in-flight.
Available 24x7, OmniPayments can be installed either as a complete, off-the-shelf solution or can be enhanced with customer-requested modifications and features to improve cost-effectiveness, efficiency, and risk mitigation. It will survive any single fault, requires no downtime for maintenance or upgrades, and supports a range of disaster-recovery solutions. We also offer separately sold microservices that connect seamlessly to your other systems and solutions.
OmniPayments’ open architecture and modular design permits gradual implementation for smooth migration from existing payments infrastructures. The OmniPayments implementation team has a long history of successful migrations. In each case, the migration effort was pain-free, avoided all disruptions to customer services, and was completed on schedule and within a highly attractive timeframe.
OMNIPAYMENTS IS A 24x7 MANAGED SERVICES PROVIDER
Companies new to HPE NonStop often contract with OmniPayments to be their 24x7 Managed Services Provider. OmniPayments staff perform the administration, the maintenance, the security – everything that is involved in working with the NonStop. The customers enjoy all the benefits of NonStop’s famous mission-critical fault tolerance yet avoid the challenges of having to learn an unfamiliar system. Customers also save costs and time because we at OmniPayments have years of experience on the platform.
ONE BILLION TRANSACTIONS PER MONTH
OmniPayments systems in production today process 1 billion transactions per month via ATMs, point-of-sale terminals, and Web and mobile applications. A single OmniPayments system can support up to 10,000 transactions per second. Multiple OmniPayments systems can cooperate to provide any capacity required by an application. We have seven locations worldwide.
WE’RE A BOOT CAMP (NONSTOP TBC) DIAMOND SPONSOR
OmniPayments is a Diamond Sponsor of the upcoming NonStop Technical Boot Camp (13-15 November, Burlingame, California USA).
OmniPayments also is proud to be the exclusive sponsor of the Boot Camp’s closing reception on Tuesday, 14 November. At a wine party like no other, competing attendee teams will mix high-end wines to concoct the perfect blend. Blind tasting will determine a winner, which will be bottled for pick-up at the Registration Desk on Wednesday along with a complimentary wine sleeve for safe travels.
To learn more about OmniPayments, contact Yash Kapadia at yash@omnipayments.com or Jessica Nieves at jessica@omnipayments.com. We invite you to join the OmniPayments Users Group on LinkedIn http://bit.ly/2sMxYz5. Check us out on Facebook at OmniPayments LLC or at www.omnipayments.com
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Availability Digest’s Dr. Bill Explains Why His Doctoral Thesis Was a Major Fail
During his tenure at Bell Laboratories in the early 1960s, Digest
Managing Editor Dr. Bill Highleyman was assigned the task of building a
system that could read handwritten numbers. At the time, long distance
calls were recorded by an operator on a handwritten ticket and then
transcribed manually onto punch cards for later processing by a billing
program. It was a labor-intensive process, and Bill was asked to build a
system that could undertake all of the above automatically.
Bill thought this was a great idea for a doctoral thesis, and it led to
his 211-page dissertation on “Linear Decision Functions, With
Application to Pattern Recognition.” Bill did earn his doctorate, but
read his article in this month’s Availability Digest to learn why he
thinks his efforts were a major fail.
In addition to “Dr. Bill’s Doctoral Thesis,” read the following articles
in the Availability Digest’s August 2017 issue:
Dark DR – Avoid Its Costs With Active/Active – Traditional disaster
recover (DR) methods utilize an active/passive architecture, one in
which there are two redundant servers. One server actively processes the
application, and the other server is a backup system. From an operations
viewpoint, the server remains “dark” until it is needed. Hopefully, it
will work. In contrast, the servers in an active/active system both
process transactions. Neither is “dark.” No crossed fingers and prayer
during an unplanned outage. Should one server fail, all transactions are
routed to the surviving server.
Should Cyber Victims Be Fined? – The United Kingdom has taken what some
consider to be drastic steps to fine “essential infrastructure
operators” that suffer a cyberattack. Essential providers include those
in the utilities, health, transport and communications sectors. The
U.K.’s decision to fine these cyber victims stems in part to the £60
million cyberattack on TalkTalk in 2015. The threat of fines is the
U.K.’s way to encourage companies to improve their cybercrime
deterrents.
Marketo Goes Down, Revived by Customer – Marketo Inc. is a marketing
tech giant that makes automation software, sold to companies that plan
to promote themselves via multiple digital channels (email, social
media, websites, etc.). On July 25, 2017, Marketo’s website suddenly
went down. Its applications crashed. Marketo’s customers lost access to
their content on the Marketo platform, scheduled promotional emails were
sent with broken links, and customers had no way to interrupt their
compromised online campaigns. What happened? It turned out that Marketo
had forgotten to renew its domain name.
@availabilitydig – The Twitter Feed of Outages - Our article highlights
some of our numerous tweets that were favorited and retweeted in recent
days.
The Availability Digest offers one-day and multi-day seminars on High
Availability: Concepts and Practices. Seminars are given both onsite and
online and are tailored to an organization’s specific needs. Popular
seminars are devoted to achieving fast failover, the impact of
redundancy on availability, basic availability concepts, and eliminating
planned downtime.
In addition, the Digest provides a variety of technical writing,
consulting, marketing, and seminar services. For instance, many articles
that you see in publications like The Connection were ghostwritten by us
for individuals too busy to write themselves. We also create white
papers, case studies, technical manuals and specifications, RFPs,
presentation slides, web content, press releases, advertisements, and so
on.
Consider us as well for the following:
• Patent Disclosures – Dr. Bill Highleyman is the holder of a dozen-plus
patents and will be happy to help you with your applications.
• Book Writing – As the author of “Performance Analysis of Transaction
Processing Systems” and a co-author of the three-part series “Breaking
the Availability Barrier,” Dr. Bill understands the effort it takes to
produce a manuscript. Buy the books on Amazon.
• Consulting – We specialize in system architectures and risk analyses
that help our customers provide the appropriate uptime, performance, and
data protection for individual applications.
Published monthly, the Digest is free and lives at
www.availabilitydigest.com. Please visit our Continuous Availability
Forum on LinkedIn. We’re at 801 members and counting. Follow us as well
on Twitter @availabilitydig.
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Keynotes Added Learn more about HPE Executive Keynotes from Randy Meyer and Andy Bergholz, as well as "The Secrets of Managing IT Teams" from Marty Edelman, the former Director of IT at Home Depot. Check them out here. Stay tuned for more breakout sessions as they are approved. The final list of sessions will be updated by October 1st. |
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Connect, HPE and the NonStop Partner SIG
Musings on NonStop!
August, 2017
The
opinions expressed here are solely
those of the now self-employed author
G’day,
August is anniversary time. When it comes to the NonStop community blog,
I have been writing posts for the blog for ten years now and with this
week, start my eleventh year of blogging. Who would have guessed? And it
all can be traced back to a simple request coming from the ITUG board
during a Chicago board meeting I happened to drop in on as a past
Chairman. The origins of the blog can be traced back to a regular column
I wrote for The Connection by the same name, Real Time View. These days,
of course, I have returned to writing another column for The Connection
where you can find it on the back page under the heading of Back for
more …
For more on what has transpired this month and that has appeared in posts to business and social blogs check out the links that follow here:
Real Time View:
Moving forward - transformation and virtualization makes testing of the
business logic even more critical
Our colorful lives!
https://itug-connection.blogspot.com/2017/08/our-colorful-lives.html
New home, new office; time to take stock …
https://itug-connection.blogspot.com/2017/08/new-home-new-office-time-to-take-stock.html
Celebrating a full ten years of posts …
https://itug-connection.blogspot.com/2017/08/celebrating-full-ten-years-of-posts.html
DataExpress:
The changing partnership landscape – DataExpress expands its reach!
https://dataexpress.com/2017/08/03/changing-partnership-landscape-dataexpress-expands-reach/
NonStop Insider:
Issue #11 – August, 2017
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For
even more information about the posts as yes, there are many more posts,
follow this link:
ichard Buckle
Founder and CEO
Pyalla Technologies, LLC
Email:
richard@pyalla-technologies.com
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