NonStop ™ Newsletter for July 2020

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 Gravic Publishes New Article on How to Easily Modernize and...

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Gravic Publishes New Article on How to Easily Modernize and
Expose Valuable Enscribe Data by Eliminating Data Silos

Gravic published the article, Easily Modernize and Expose Valuable Enscribe Data – Eliminate Data Silos in the July/August edition of The Connection. This article/case study explains how a large European manufacturer runs its online shop floor operations on an HPE NonStop Server and uses HPE Shadowbase data replication to exploit the currency and value of this online, trapped, and siloed data. Data replication is not only used for providing backups for business continuity, but also for moving isolated data in real-time in order to leverage its value for competitive advantage and building new business solutions. Data replication’s potential includes: integrating disparate applications, eliminating data silos, and distributing data quickly where it is needed and can easily be consumed by other applications.

A second case study reviews how a customer utilized “off-platform” data integration, where Shadowbase software transformed and replicated the trapped and siloed source data (HPE NonStop Enscribe) into the desired target data structure (SQL), and applied it into a remote (off-platform) target platform and database (Linux/Oracle) for analytical processing and reporting. In both cases, Shadowbase software successfully replaced a popular remote-access Enscribe product that was at end-of-service-life (EOSL) with minimal disruption to the customers’ overall design, while adding considerable new capabilities to the overall implementations.

Gravic Publishes New HPE Shadowbase White Paper on
The Benefits of Switching from Scale-up to Scale-out Architectures

Gravic just published the white paper, The Benefits of Switching from Scale-up to Scale-out Architectures. Keeping up with user demand and managing a service outage or brownout is a significant challenge for IT departments. The traditional scale-up approach suffers from significant limitations and cost issues that prevent it from satisfying the ever-increasing workloads of a 24×7 online society. The use of massively parallel processing and scale-out architectures is the solution, since they can readily and non-disruptively apply additional compute resources to meet any demand, at a much lower cost, and with improved service availability. The use of the HPE Shadowbase data replication engine to share and maintain consistent data between multiple systems enables scale-out application and workload distributions across multiple compute nodes, which provides the necessary scalability and availability to meet the highest levels of user demand now and into the future.

Gravic Presents at Upcoming APAC MCS HPE NonStop Update Series

Gravic will virtually present Surviving Uncertain Times with HPE Shadowbase Solutions at the Asia-Pacific Mission-Critical Systems HPE NonStop Update Series on July 23. We will discuss recent macroenvironmental shifts due to COVID-19, how companies are reacting, our latest HPE Shadowbase software releases, and recent enhancements to solve customer use case challenges such as:

·        Protecting and preserving your data

·        Ensuring your applications remain online

·        Recent trends, popular solutions, and utilities

If you would like us to give this presentation or other HPE Shadowbase topics to you or your staff, please contact us.

Gravic and Shadowbase Support are Available During the Pandemic

We are concerned for all of our friends in the HPE and Connect communities and pray that they remain safe through this unprecedented and dangerous situation! For the duration of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Gravic and its Shadowbase Products Group are open and operating with remote support and access. To reach Shadowbase Support, please use your normal Support contact information or use Support. Please use contact us for all other inquiries.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise globally sells and supports Shadowbase solutions under the name HPE Shadowbase. For more information, please contact your local HPE Shadowbase representative or visit our website. For additional information, please view our Shadowbase solution videos at https://vimeo.com/shadowbasesoftware.

Specifications subject to change without notice. Trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Copyright 2020.

TRIBUTARY SYSTEMS’ STORAGE DIRECTOR® BACKUPAPPLIANCE WEBINAR

Take a few minutes to view this informative Webinar discussing the only high performance, hybrid multi cloud solution on NonStop, TSI’s Purpose Built Backup Appliance, Storage Director:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB1yC6_1m_c&feature=youtu.be

This Webinar focuses on the use of Storage Director as a gateway to IBM Storage, particularly Flash. But remember, that’s on the backend of Storage Director, all NonStop servers are supported on SD’s front end. What this means of course, is that IBM Storage is fully functional with HPE NonStop. In fact,  Storage Director is the industry leading software defined, policy-based and tiered enterprise backup virtualization solution that enables data from any host, OS or backup application, to be backed up to any storage device, medium or technology. For Hybrid Multi-Cloud-based backup, Storage Director interfaces with IBM’s Cloud Object Storage, Hitachi’s HCP, or any S3 compatible cloud. 

So check out the Webinar, there’s lots more worthwhile information included that we’re sure will be of interest.

Also, visit www.tributary.com for complete details on Storage Director, Back-ups to Public Clouds, Cloud Object Storage, and data security, and feel free to contact sales@tributary.com or our Director of Sales, Matt Allan at 713-492-7434

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MultiBatch: Tradition meets Modernisation

We know that for almost four decades, the HPE NonStop architecture has been the ideal choice when high level availability and reliability are paramount.

MultiBatch, conceived in 1985, has gone hand in hand with HPE NonStop providing workload automation on NonStop for over 30 years.  It is in many ways a mature product that is used by a loyal customer base.  Our customers have relied on the code stability and a measured and controlled approach to change.

But how can we bring MultiBatch to prominence in the new NonStop X world where the unique design that still provides the very highest availability levels is being introduced to a new generation of users?

I started work for Insider Technologies in October 2019 and was soon posing this question to myself.  Many discussions and brainstorming sessions later the future direction became clear.

Firstly, I needed to make sure I added value quickly.  As the dedicated Product Owner for MultiBatch these were my initial goals:

1)          Become an expert in the product, understand the architecture so I was confident in making change.

2)          Ensure we have quality processes for turning around fixes quickly and effectively.

3)          Introduce modern development practices, especially automated regression testing

4)          Make sure MultiBatch evolves to meet new customer needs.

The first three are just a matter of time, after all Insider Technologies are a quality oriented company and I have over 25 years’ experience as an HPE NonStop Architect and Designer.  We are already able to react more quickly to customer need and make the enhancements they require more efficiently.

For the fourth I needed a little more thought.  I understood Insider Technologies are a small agile company that is only able to be a significant player in relatively small markets where it may not be cost effective for larger companies to operate.  Knowing this made me sure the investment of time and effort to evolve MultiBatch would be worthwhile, it will always be a niche product and it is my job to make it the most significant player in its market.   

What underpins this evolution is creating an exciting vision to which our customers can contribute and buy into.  This is our roadmap, we now look a year ahead and a have wish list that can be prioritised and planned.  We have gone from ‘release when ready’ to ‘plan, estimate and release to agreed schedule’. 

Critically, we have introduced metrics and estimation, this is itself an evolving process where we become ever more accurate, using constant feedback to refine the metrics.

The road map is updated on a three monthly basis, it is all too easy to get lost in the detail of delivery and not take account of the bigger picture.  By reviewing regularly, we are able to refine our direction and ensure efforts are best utilised.  We may have limited resources but being focused allows us to deliver on our priorities.

Of course our customers are the most important stakeholders.  They should know for their own planning purposes when changes are to be delivered.  We need to get to a point where are customers are active contributors and challenge what we do.

 We know what is ahead even when there is a turn in the road! 

Photo by Matt Duncan on Unsplash

So what’s currently in our road map?

We have two threads, improving the base functionality and modernisation.

For the base functionality there a number of customer specific requests that have been estimated and scheduled for delivery.  Additionally, I realised that our OSS offering required some improvement.  We have completely reviewed MultiBatch OSS functionality and have detailed plans for many improvements.

The NonStop OSS software stack now provides a modern open environment with security, system management, middleware, Java/Java-frameworks, an open development environment and, of course, a scalable fault-tolerant database.

MultiBatch will become the obvious and maybe the only choice when a customer is looking for workload automation seamlessly across both Guardian and OSS. 

As a younger generation comes to NonStop they will expect to find the familiar, HPE themselves recognise this and are updating OSS to make sure it remains at the forefront of open standards.  As older applications running on Guardian are updated they can make use of OSS as their gateway to open modern architectures.

 MultiBatch where the latest works in unison with the tried and trusted!

 Photo by Todd MacDonald on Unsplash

MultiBatch has a decoupled architecture where discrete functionality has been separately added to complement what is already there, the new is added without comprising the integrity of earlier development.  This approach can be contrasted with the monolithic systems some have developed, where a change can have unforeseen effects in some distant part of the system.  MultiBatch has the advantage of being easy to understand from a development viewpoint, the learning curve is reduced because each part is not too large and can be learnt independently.

My approach to modernisation will be consistent with what has gone before.  We will look at discrete functionality that complements what we already have.  There are many ideas on our wish list, but first we are looking to provide a new browser based HTML5 interface to be offered in addition to the current SCOBOL interface.

Already we have undergone a Proof of Concept.  There were many products to evaluate and we have now chosen one, a technical design has been written and we have an estimate for delivery based on the PoC output.  The product and how we use it will be the subject of another article, you may be surprised by what you read.

Using HTML5 in a browser will allow us to provide a more dynamic interface.  We will start by providing the existing SCOBOL functionality and will then add automatic API driven screens to show for, for example, your running processes and their statuses.

Of course the interface will be improved using the richness of HTML5, for example we will make use of grids, tree lists and best practice navigation.

For the future we will be looking at open products to unlock the historical data we are starting to record, this will take the form of graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards and visualisations.

The photographs in this article were taken from https://unsplash.com/.  The internet’s source of freely-usable images.

Dave Hall | Product Owner - MultiBatch

+44 (0)161 876 6606

www.insidertech.co.uk

Organizations that collect and process credit card transactions and payments data must comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) requirements 10.5.5 and 11.5 that state organizations must make efforts to monitor file modifications and ensure the integrity of critical logs from within their Cardholder Data Environment (CDE).

On HPE NonStop servers, XYGATE SecurityOne (XS1) monitors and alerts when key files, objects, or system configurations are viewed, deleted, modified or ownership has changed. XS1 identifies who made the change and if the change put the system at risk or violated policy.

This intelligent form of real-time integrity monitoring simplifies monitoring activity and helps meet the strictest of compliance requirements while reducing noise generated by unnecessary alerts. Your resources are focused on the most critical security events.

Join XYPRO Technology’s Chief Product Officer & CISO, Steve Tcherchian, and Solutions Delivery Specialist, William Ferrara, as we demonstrate the Top 5HPE NonStop File Integrity Monitoring use Cases.

European NonStop HotSpot

Dear NonStop Community,

after the long Corona Covid-19 break we are very pleased to invite you to attend

the "European NonStop HotSpot / IT-Symposium 2020 - Conference & Exhibition"
currently still planned Sept. 7 -9, 2020
at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Berlin, Germany

It is one of the first conferences with physical attendance of attendees after the Covid-19 break.
As there are still travelling restrictions in some countries and in some companies, we have no idea how many persons will attend.

So please, if you are planning to attend, please register via our registration form at https://www.gtug.de/hotspot2020/registration/.
The conference fee will be invoiced after the conference, so there is no risk for you.

During the whole event we will take care to ensure the health prevention regulatories given by government.
In case the conference has to be cancelled because of restrictions given by government, luck of attendees or other matters we will inform you immediately.

A strong agenda with sessions and workshops combined with social events will allow you to meet customers, senior HPE management representatives and HPE solution partners (personal and by Video). Furthermore the event could be an interesting platform to discuss new aspects and experiences making during the Pandemie and concerning IT-business.

For a first detailed Agenda and more information on the conference please visit our website at https://www.gtug.de/HotSpot2020/welcome.html

We hope we can meet you personally again on September, 7-9, 2020 in the exciting city of Berlin!

Kind Regards

Dr. Werner Alexi        Roland Martin            Pamela Bogner
CEO GTUG e.V.        CFO GTUG e.V.        Conference Organization

Office:
Mobile +49 175/526 82 94
pamela.bogner@gtug.de
https://www.gtug.de/HotSpot2020/welcome.html
www.connect-community.de

German NonStop User Group e.V.
Member of Connect Deutschland

GTUG e.V., Akeleistraße 8, 83646 Bad Tölz, Germany
Board: Dr. Werner Alexi (CEO), Roland Martin (CFO)
VAT Registration Number: DE229961164

For more information visit: https://www.lusispayments.com/news

Follow OmniPayments on Twitter at @omnipayments, visit our website at www.omnipayments.com, or email us at sales@omnipayments.com

For complimentary access to CSP-Wiki®, an extensive repository of NonStop security knowledge and best practices, please visit wiki.cspsecurity.com

The CSP Team     

CyberArk’s Brian Carpenter, Director of Business Development for CyberArk the global leader in privileged access management, and Steve Tcherchian, Chief Product Officer and Chief Information Security Officer for XYPRO Technology Corporation, a leading cybersecurity solutions company Co-presented on the topic of integrating HPE NonStop servers with CyberArk.

CyberArk Privileged Access Security Solution secures, manages, automates, and logs all activities associated with privileged access. The two cybersecurity professionals detailed current attack vectors and analyzed real use cases on how your HPE NonStop servers can seamlessly integrate with CyberArk processes to help ensure complete visibility, traceability, automation, and security of your HPE NonStop servers.

“The largest security risks to any organization are the misuse or compromise of privileged credentials,” said Tcherchian. “Privileged accounts are a particular risk as they enable elevated access to your organization’s mission-critical data.”

“Because of the fear of ‘breaking something’ that could impact the ATM, POS, Mobile, or Payments infrastructure, many applications and systems were initially deployed, years ago, with passwords for privileged accounts that were and still are rarely rotated, shared, and improperly stored,” said Tcherchian. “This practice should be keeping CIOs and CISOs up at night, especially since there is something they can do about it.”

The compromise of privileged accounts is connected to nearly all targeted attacks. Proper credential storage and management are paramount for responsible risk mitigation. If you are still manually managing privileged access, you’re not doing all you can to protect your systems. It’s not news that anything manual is resource-intensive, error-prone, and leaves gaps in your security.

A Privileged Access Management solution provides the ideal capabilities for automating these activities. In this webinar, XYPRO and CyberArk discuss how the HPE NonStop server integration helps with visibility, traceability, automation, and security.

*Originally broadcast live June 24th, 2020

NuWave's latest wave of short YouTube clips features CTO Dave Belliveau presenting on the latest features of LightWave Client^TM and LightWave Server^TM. In the video pictured here, Dave talks about working with optional elements in both products. In this week's video, Dave will discuss BLOB (binary large object) support, and next week he will get into message logging. Head on over to NuWave's YouTube page to view these and other short videos from NuWave team members!

LightWave Client^TM is a solution designed for HPE NonStop users that allows them to access public and private REST APIs from their NonStop applications. LightWave Server^TM allows NonStop customers to expose their applications as REST services, so they can then be accessed by other parts of the organization, customers, or partners.

If you are interested in any of the features mentioned above or would like to request other features, let us know!

A recent VIRTU-NUG meeting highlighted FS Compare and Repair and FS Backup and Restore, two blazing fast new products from TANDsoft Inc. If you missed TANDsoft’s presentation, it is available at http://www.connect-community.org/virtu-nug-2020-session-3 at the 1 hour, 34 minutes mark. VIRTU-NUG is a series of virtual user group meetings sponsored by Connect Worldwide and the HPE NonStop partner community.

FS Compare and Repair identifies, reports, and resolves inconsistencies in live and offline databases. In one customer trial, FS Compare and Repair reduced data validation from 1 hour, 12 minutes to 4 minutes. In another test, FS Compare was able to validate two 40 gigabyte files in 6 minutes. It is the most rapid compare/repair solution for use in the NonStop environment and works with all NonStop data replication products.




Backup times that formerly take hours can be reduced to minutes with FS Backup and Restore. Rather than archive whole files to disk, tape or virtual tape, FS Backup detects file data-block modifications and archives only the changes. FS Restore then can retrieve the saved file data-block modifications and will apply the changes to rebuild the original file. FS Backup and Restore complements the HPE NonStop Backup and Restore utilities as well as all third-party storage solutions.


Both FS Compare and Repair and FS Backup and Restore require zero application modifications. They are easy to install, easy to use, and are certified on all HPE NonStop servers.

Explore details about all TANDsoft solutions at www.tandsoft.com, then contact the following: Jack Di Giacomo (+1 514-695-2234 / jack.digiacomo@tandsoft.com ); Dieter Orlowski (+1 303-263-4381 / dieter.orlowski@tandsoft.com); and Tim Dunne (+1 402-216-7402 / tim.dunne@network-tech.com).

 

The need for a cutting-edge, real-time fraud solution has never been so critical as it is now. The world has seen an unprecedented switch from CP (cardholder present), CNP (cardholder not present) to online transactions, which has massively changed the patterns of fraudulent activity for OLTP (online transaction processing). Organizations that process online payments need the agility to rapidly counteract this industry swing. Lusis Payments is in the perfect position to help you achieve this.

The Changing Retail Banking Landscape Across the retail banking sector, every acquiring and issuing payments environment must have the dexterity to manage all of these activities while meeting strict compliance guidelines, managing data and IT cybersecurity, and more.
Ultra-intelligent and safe financial fraud and payments systems are a prerequisite for any modern economy. They enable everyday transactions, thus providing the foundation for commerce and trade.

Over time, all payments ecosystems globally have developed inefficiencies and lost some of their ability to innovate and adapt to the changing needs of end-users. The platforms tend to be old, outdated systems that have inefficiently evolved together over time. And fraudsters love this — it's “easy pickings” for them.  

The Solution: Tango AIF™ by Lusis

By deploying Lusis AI Fraud powered by Tango (Tango AIF™) you will get the leading-edge solution for fraud monitoring, detection and action — technology that provides the latest methods for processing secure transactions, irrespective of source, nature or market segment.

Tighter payments regulations; evolving platforms, and new initiatives, such as PSD2, GDPR and 3DS2.0, etc., require advanced fraud technology. That is why implementing a solution like Tango AIF to enrich detection to combat fraud is critical. As service providers, retail banking organizations need to maintain control over these issues while upholding compliance and protecting revenues.

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