CSP's Evening at aqua shard

eBITUG 2017 is Europe's largest NonStop conference featuring speakers from all over the EMEA region, a large HPE presence and many participating partners and vendors. eBITUG 2017 runs from May 8th to May 10th in London, UK.

CSP is proud to be the sole sponsor of the Evening at aqua shard located in The Shard, London. This event is being hosted on May 9th from 6:45 PM until 11 PM.

CSP’s Evening at aqua shard will feature Champagne, wine, beer and cocktails as well as elegant contemporary British canapés and bowl food from the Executive Chef. In addition, a very special guest singer will provide some unique entertainment in the 200-capacity Gin Wing space of aqua shard.

You can register for eBITUG here. Find out more about registering for CSP's Evening at aqua shard event here. Attendance at this event is free to eBITUG attendees, but space is limited, so separate registration via the CSP website is required. This will surely be a memorable experience for eBITUG attendees.

We hope to see you there!

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Will virtualization and cloud computing have as big an impact on financial institutions, just as it is clearly having on telecommunications providers? Will clouds being deployed today inside enterprises as private clouds eventually turn into public clouds as more and more access is given to an enterprises’ business partners as well as customers? Has the cloud technology matured to where even the most conservative of companies are finding the pricing model competitive to the point where it’s hard to argue against migrating to a popular cloud offering?

This month we have held discussions with a number of NonStop vendors as well as being briefed on recent industry events and the story is beginning to follow a familiar plot. There are so many new things being developed that it is hard for many CIOs to stay current – new things, new ideas and new ways to do things. It was Albert Einstein who once said, “When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.” Acknowledged as a classic example of thinking outside the box, amidst all these changes, the NonStop community faces many familiar challenges and perhaps the biggest challenge of all is simply staying abreast of what is happening to NonStop.

In the February 2016 issue of NonStop Insider we wrote that foremost in our minds is the likelihood that by the end of this calendar year we will be dealing with both physical NonStop systems – Itanium and x86 – and Virtualized NonStop (the official product name for what had been referenced to as vNonStop, according to Andy Bergholz, Senior Director of Development, HPE NonStop), running as a guest operating system on a variety of commercial, off-the-shelf x86 servers. Like many Vendors, we have worked diligently to ensure DataExpress works on NonStop X systems (and yes, it has been validated) and so it’s now going to be the case of watching where our customers head – will they continue deploying physical NonStop systems or will they move to Virtualized NonStop and begin fashioning private clouds? Will they even look to DataExpress to support them via a DataExpress maintained public cloud with DataExpress accessed as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)?

We have written about this in a number of publications of late and by now, the answers to these questions should be more widely known – DataExpress is ready to head in whatever direction our customers elect to take us. As we noted in our article to NonStop Insider, it is these cloud scenarios together with the potential to offer DataExpress on the basis of IaaS that has us very much intrigued, and where we will be totally driven by whatever the NonStop user community elects to pursue. However, we are already aware of some very early investigations of Virtualized NonStop taking place within our installed base and HPE NonStop confirmed that they “have started customer betas at the ATC and will have launched our first on-site beta at a major Telco in Europe,” according to the editorial in the Jan – Feb, 2017, issue of The Connection.
Much of the interest in virtualization is being driven by the desire to reduce costs – not just capital expenditures but further investments in skilled human resources as well. With private cloud deployments, awareness of the presence of NonStop diminishes significantly even as you can run your Java and possibly your Server Side JavaScript in a 24 x 7 environment that happens to be a NonStop guest system provisioned for this purpose. Just as we have seen DataExpress move away from many of the former proprietary (indeed, older) networking protocols, including SNA and even BiSynch, where DataExpress worked to reduce file transfer times, networks today rely on industry standard TCP/IP and this has helped reduce the costs of moving files.

However, standards and openness do give our customers opportunities to think outside the box. HPE NonStop for its part is opening the door to different ways to think about NonStop and from our perspective this is just the beginning of a raft of new ideas on how to deploy NonStop applications. There will always be the need to move files; to agencies, customers, vendors and any legitimate entity with a real requirement for information. 

However, we are among the first vendors within the NonStop vendor community that acknowledges that this may change our business model in many ways. And that too will be way outside the box, so whether the files you need to move are just a couple of files a month or tens of thousands of files a day, DataExpress will be available for in-house deployment on your physical NonStop system or on Virtualized NonStop, any way you want to set it up. Change is giving NonStop customers a whole new way to think about what runs on NonStop and on what hardware NonStop runs so, as Einstein so eloquently said, knock your socks off! Have a go – rethink your deployments and yes – give us a call! 

 

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comForte -  Coming soon – eBook on modernization of proven applications

Nowadays, new and rapidly evolving enterprise IT platforms, delivery models, and capabilities provide an opportunity to increase users, innovate delivery, and extend the business value of technology across the enterprise. But to do so, IT departments must adapt, which often entails transforming proven applications to take advantage of emerging technologies.

The key to effective, efficient operations for IT – and the business – is not to change core offerings or functionality of legacy applications, but rather to modernize them. This is increasingly imperative for legacy applications to work within new contexts and technological formats.

The trend toward rationalizing and modernizing applications affects the entire enterprise IT portfolio, including applications running on Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) NonStop systems. Fortunately, with the right tools and expertise, it’s possible to cost effectively modernize applications running on the NonStop platform, which itself was recently modernized by HPE.

What do you need to know about modernizing applications on the HPE NonStop platform?

In this eBook, you’ll learn the following:

Why modernizing legacy applications on the NonStop platform is good IT strategy, given the evolution of both enterprise computing and the HPE NonStop platform

The business case for modernizing applications

Three potential approaches to modernization, and why one has such a high success rate

Strategies for modernizing, including seven domains on which to focus for customer success

Two case studies that illustrate real life challenges and solutions

Click here to stay tuned: The release of the eBook is planned for second half of March 2017!!

Join NuWave for their next webinar, "Open Up Your NonStop Using REST Services", March 7, 2017.

This webinar will provide a technical overview and some exciting demos to show how easy NuWave's LightWave products make it for NonStop applications to provide and consume REST Web services.

There are two times offered for your convenience. Register now!

March 7, 9am-10am EST

March 7, 3pm-4pm EST

 Congratulations to Mark Purdy on his appointment to lead NTI’s global evolution sales team. Mark joined NTI in 2011 as part of NTI’s North America sales team. Over many years of hard work he has earned this next challenging opportunity.

Mark and his team can provide product briefs, arrange webcasts, arrange trials, and work with you to understand how you can evolve from Oracle GoldenGate to DRNet^®. He can be reached at Evolution@Network-Tech.com, or contact him directly at Mark.Purdy@Network-Tech.com (+1 970 481 9512).

XYPRO kick-off is an important event in our company culture and in this annual blog, I like to include anecdotes about what was covered in this yearly “all-hands in California” gathering and share the excellent news about XYPRO’s growth.   This year due to a busy calendar, XYPRO’s annual corporate kick-off, which usually takes place in January, was delayed until February. 

This year we took great pleasure presenting to the XYPRO family on a great many things, not the least of which is being able to enjoy yet another year of record growth for XYPRO. 

 2015 was huge for us and we knew it was going to be hard to match let alone beat in 2016.  We did it though, thanks to the hard work of the entire company and some strategic partnerships.  In the specific category of revenue, I am happy to thank our sales, marketing & professional services teams!  By integrating their activities more closely than ever before, we excelled across all regions to communicate our message, work with customers and meet very challenging sales targets.  The success of sales, marketing & professional services allows us to facilitate necessary growth in other areas like infrastructure and personnel.

We are excited to begin visiting with friends, customers and our extended NonStop family at the TUGs and events this spring!

You can find us at the following upcoming events:

• DUST (March 1)
• SUNTUG (March 17)
• eBITUG (May 9-10)

To set up a meeting around one of these events, email Dave Ross if you will be attending events in Europe, and Gabrielle if you will be attending any others. We would love to see you!

Our calendar is always changing, and we will keep you updated on dates and new shows on our News & Events page.

With new worldwide and regional regulations (e.g., EU GDPR - General Data Protection Regulation), there is a need for a new cyber security and data privacy architecture.

The current hardware, user interfaces, applications, etc., were often designed without privacy in mind. Developers don’t have the time or resources to redevelop existing tools; however, poor security and privacy propagates into new applications. This white paper describes how to cope with these challenges, how to design a future-oriented cyber security and data privacy architecture on HPE NonStop and integrate it into a corporate IT infrastructure.

Be prepared for GDPR: 

Download comForte's NonStop Cyber Security and Privacy Protection Guide!

A redundant system is not very reliable if both systems fail simultaneously. That well may be the case if both systems have the same failure probability distribution. In other words, they have the same start times and thus are exposed to the likelihood of failing at the same time.

“Improving Availability Via Staggered Systems” offers a solution to the above predicament. By staggering system start times so that their failure probability distributions are not aligned, the time for the systems to fail will be staggered as well. This will improve redundant system reliability and applies to minimizing both hardware and software failures.

In addition to “Improving Availability via Staggered Systems,” read the following articles in the Availability Digest’s February 2017 issue:

The Zero Outage Industry Standard Organization – The Zero Outage Industry Standard Organization (ZOISA) launched in November 2016 by companies that include HPE, IBM, Hitachi Data Systems, and Dell EMC. Its goal is to minimize the risk of outages by creating standards for processes, platforms, people and security throughout the IT lifecycle. www.zero-outage.com.

Dr. Timothy Chou Was 2016 NSTBC Keynote Speaker – Tim Chou began his career as a Tandem programmer and “retired” as President of Oracle on Demand. “Retired” is in Italics because this Stanford University professor, small start-ups investor, book author, and popular speaker is busier than ever. According to Tim’s first boss, Jimmy Treybig, Tim has “always been at the cutting edge of technology.” 2016 NonStop Boot Camp attendees were treated to Dr. Chou’s presentation on “Precision Planet.”

The High-Availability Design Spectrum – Part 3 – In recent Digest issues, we focused on the first thirteen of 23 areas that Dr. Terry Critchley lists as having an impact on the availability of IT business services. In Part 3, Dr. Critchley discusses the next six areas. All can be found in his book, High Availability IT Services, now available for rent or purchase on Amazon’s Kindle.

@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. We also offer technical and marketing writing services for a variety of industries as well as consulting services on risk assessment and system architecture. We ghostwrite for others and have years of experience in writing patent disclosures.

Published monthly, the Digest is free and lives at www.availabilitydigest.com. Please visit our Continuous Availability Forum on LinkedIn. We’re at 788 members and counting. Follow us as well on Twitter @availabilitydig.

 

In last month’s Tandemworld eNewsletter NTI gave away a handful of Amazon Echo Dots to readers who responded to the article with the phrase “Beam me Up”. For us it was a fun way of connecting with other members of the community while telling everyone about a fun new product we discovered.

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Musings on NonStop! -February, 2017

The opinions expressed here are solely 
those of the now self-employed author

The past couple of weeks have simply gotten away from me as the workload ramped back up after the holiday season, a little more quickly than I had expected. On the other hand, it’s good to have clients and meeting their deadlines is always a priority for Margo and me. As far ahead as we can see, including summer when I expect 2017 HPE Discover will dominate the headlines, there will be more than enough work for Pyalla Technologies, LLC, to keep us on our toes.

The event season is now well and truly on us with RUG and Industry events already under way. Having returned from the ATMIA US Conference in Orlando I was pleased to see many NonStop vendors well represented. OmniPayments, FSS, and ESQ all making their presence felt even as a number of big NonStop users were exhibiting – FIS, Pulse, and Visa among them. And here’s the thing I found interesting; cash is still king, the ATM continues to have a presence (even as new ATMs don’t look like ATMs of the past) and yes, virtualization and clouds were the hot topics. I think HPE with NonStop X and vNonStop, is timing the market very well …

The digital magazine NonStop Insider is a complementary digital media channel to many current media channels including Tandemworld and it’s pleasing to all involved to see I gaining traction with the NonStop community. We are often asked – why another digital publication? Why focus on the NonStop marketplace? The answers are obvious as the more publications there are supporting NonStop the better chance of a CIO or Business Manager seeing something positive about NonStop that otherwise they may have missed.

By the time you read this month’s Tandemworld you will have seen the Jan – Feb 2017 issue of The Connection. As busy as the event season is turning out to be, I found time to write an article that captured my own thoughts about Virtualized NonStop – turn to page 26 to read the full story, Virtual world beckons – vNonStop is the only ticket we need! This is a really big deal for the NonStop community and I fully expect vNonStop to find a home in places physical NonStop hasn’t gone before – and that may lead to a sizeable expansion of the NonStop community. Watch for further updates on Virtualized NonStop as more information is forthcoming from those users and vendors now in Beta programs with this product.

If you did miss the posts and commentaries for January (and into February – as I am rescheduling the appearance of this update to later in the month) check out the following posts:
 

Real Time View:
Lights are shining and NonStop takes center stage!
http://itug-connection.blogspot.com/2017/01/lights-are-shining-and-nonstop-takes.html

An end to a boisterous year … ready for the fun times ahead?

http://itug-connection.blogspot.com/2017/01/an-end-to-boisterous-year-ready-for-fun.html

Transformation – let’s look at how far NonStop has come!

http://itug-connection.blogspot.com/2017/01/transformation-lets-look-at-how-far.html

NonStop doesn’t age; NonStop simply keeps on processing …

http://itug-connection.blogspot.com/2017/02/nonstop-doesnt-age-nonstop-simply-keeps.html

LinkedIn blog / Pulse:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/now-established-number-subscribers-passes-1000-richard-buckle

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/does-nonstop-have-role-hyperconverged-computing-just-wait-buckle

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/build-your-own-nonstop-close-you-only-ever-nearly-good-richard-buckle

NonStop Insider – issue #4 and #5 now published:
Issue #5 – February, 2017

http://www.nonstopinsider.com/editorials/February-editorial/

And if you missed it, Issue #4 – January, 2017
http://www.nonstopinsider.com/editorials/january-editorial/

ATMmarketplace:
Comfort in cash?
https://www.atmmarketplace.com/blogs/theres-comfort-in-cash/

BankingTech:
And late breaking news, for all of 2016, a post ranked 9th overall in this organizations Top 10 List:

http://www.bankingtech.com/679281/top-ten-fintech-opinion-pieces-in-2016/

Striim:
The Long Term Future of NonStop That Strikes a Chord With Striim!

http://www.striim.com/blog/2017/02/the-long-term-future-of-nonstop-that-strikes-a-chord-with-striim/

DataExpress:
And a post that proved interesting for many NonStop users -
WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE DATAEXPRESS PROVIDED AS AN INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE (IAAS)?

https://dataexpress.com/2017/01/27/like-see-dataexpress-provided-infrastructure-service-iaas/

TCM Solutions:

An end to a boisterous year … ready for the fun times ahead?

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8546566/8546566-6226438898789216257

It's Business Solutions driving NonStop sales - not simply because it's the best platform

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8546566/8546566-6235384260400947201

Buckle-Up-Travel:

And, of course, there are many of you who continue to follow the “interests” of Pyalla Technology as they are reported to Buckle-Up -
http://buckle-up-travel.blogspot.com/2017/01/retreat-repair-rebuild-restore.html

http://buckle-up-travel.blogspot.com/2017/02/winter-sunshine-we-almost-forgot-where.html

Cheers,

Richard Buckle
Founder and CEO
Pyalla Technologies, LLC

 

Email:             richard@pyalla-technologies.com
Mobile:           +1.720.289.5372

 XYPRO looks forward to seeing you at the upcoming shows!

Dust – March 2017  March 1, 2017

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SunTUG – 2017 March 17, 2017 Tampa, FL 33607

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HPE Partner Conference March 21, 2017 - March 23, 2017

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NENUG – 2017 April, 2017

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NYTUG – 2017 April, 2017

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GTUG – 2017 April 26, 2017 April 27, 2017

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N2TUG – 2017 May, 2017

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SCTUG – 2017 May, 2017

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 EBITUG – 2017 May 9, 2017 May 10, 2017, London

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ACI User Group Exchange – 2017 June 26, 2017 June 29, 2017, Phoenix, Arizona, U.S

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NonStop Technical Boot Camp – 2017 November 13, 2017 November 15, 2017, San Jose, Ca.

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