Did You Miss Our Webinar About Using RESTful Web Services on your NonStop?

Did you miss our recent webinar and LightWave product demo? Well, you can now view the recorded presentation!

In this webinar, we will show you how to integrate your NonStop applications with REST Web services in no time, bringing the full benefit of public and private services into your NonStop applications. 

HPE Shadowbase Software Improves Support for DB2 as a Source

Gravic recently dramatically improved the support of HPE Shadowbase for DB2 as a source in data replication environments. With this new release, HPE Shadowbase software makes it easy and cost effective to integrate your DB2 databases into the rest of your data processing environments.

HPE Shadowbase data replication can now replicate from DB2 on any IBM platform/environment to any of the supported HPE Shadowbase targets, including HPE NonStop, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, and Sybase. This release also includes replicating DB2 data into non-traditional non-database targets, such as replicating DB2 change data into MQ series, JMS, fraud detection systems, flat-files, real-time business intelligence solutions, and other messaging targets. This latest build includes DB2 databases resident on z/OS IBM mainframe environments, as well as DB2 on AIX, Linux, Windows, etc. Read the new HPE Shadowbase solution brief, or contact your local HPE account team or SBsales@gravic.com for more information.

Visit HPE Shadowbase Booth at Connect NonStop Technical Boot Camp

Please stop by Gravic Booth #10 at the Connect HPE NonStop Technical Boot Camp on November 13-15 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport Hotel. On November 12, we are co-sponsoring a Partner Technical Update (PTU) for HPE Sales, Technical Services, and Solution Architects. HPE attendees should contact us for additional information if they plan to attend and have not already registered. We look forward to meeting you at the show and sharing ideas regarding how the HPE Shadowbase product suite can provide solutions to your most pressing business issues for business continuity, data integration and synchronization, and application integration purposes.

Presentations of Interest:

• HPE Business Continuity Product Portfolio Update, Mark Pollans, Paul J. Holenstein, Keith B. Evans (Regency Ballroom, Tuesday, 9:30-10:20am)
   

·        Prescription Drug Fraud Prevention – An HPE Shadowbase Data Integration Case Study, William Holenstein (Harbour Room B, Tuesday, 2-2:50pm)

 

• Delivering Business Continuity for Vital Applications – Best Practices, Mark Pollans (Harbour Room B, Tuesday, 3:30-4:20pm)
  
   
• HPE Shadowbase ZDL Synchronous Bi-directional Replication and DB2 Source, Paul J. Holenstein, Keith B. Evans (Regency Ballroom, Wednesday, 10:30-11:20am)
  
   
• RAS – The Pillars of Mission-Critical Systems, Dr. Bill Highleyman, Dr. Bruce Holenstein, Paul J. Holenstein (Cypress Rooms A/B, Wednesday, 1-1:50pm)

Gravic Presents at CTUG and MATUG

 We recently attended and presented on HPE Shadowbase synchronous replication at CTUG (Toronto) and MATUG (Baltimore). We reminded the audience that since HPE NonStop RDF is now approaching mature status, HPE Shadowbase software is HPE's go-forward data replication solution. We are grateful to each of the teams that managed these shows, and thank all of the show participants including customers, vendors, and HPE executives and technical staff for supporting these wonderful events. Congratulations to Vladislav Sokol from Ministry of Health and Vimal Brahmbhatt from JP Morgan Chase for winning our Google Home prizes at CTUG and MATUG respectively.

 To speak with us about your data replication and data integration needs, please call us at +1.610.647.6250, or email us at SBProductManagement@gravic.com. Hewlett Packard Enterprise directly sells and supports Shadowbase solutions under the name HPE Shadowbase. For more information, please contact your local HPE Shadowbase representative or visit our website.

OMNIPAYMENTS GIVES YOU ONE… NO! THREE… NO! FIVE REASONS TO ATTEND THIS YEAR’S BOOT CAMP

OmniPayments’ presence will be apparent throughout Boot Camp this year. We are Diamond Sponsors; we are the exclusive sponsor of the Boot Camp’s closing reception; and our staff, customer representatives, and HPE will helm presentations that highlight the OmniPayments Financial Transaction Switch as well as other OmniPayments solutions. If you plan to attend, visit us at Booth #11.  Not one, not three, but five outstanding sessions are listed below.  

BREAKOUT SESSIONS YOU WON’T WANT TO MISS

Managing a NonStop Cloud Application Using Modern Tools - Banco Agrario de Colombia S.A.’s recent decision to move its entire payments system to the cloud was based on its interest in having a secure, highly scalable IT architecture, one where continuous availability could be ensured with redundant virtual systems. The bank selected HPE NonStop X as its cloud platform because of the fault-tolerance and extreme reliability for which NonStop is known. The presentation will highlight the bank’s move to a cloud-based payments solution. Also discussed will be the ease by which a SOA design and NonStop’s modern tools reduced the challenges of system management.

Speaker: Andrés Roberto Jiménez Cardona, CIO, Banco Agrario de Colombia  

Time:  Monday, 13 November, 10:30 am to 11:20 am

Use Contingency CPUs For Load Distribution to Increase Your ROI - Banco de Crédito e Inversiones (BCI), a leading bank in Chile, operates its business with an active/passive NonStop architecture. As such, the backup server is an idle resource, used only at times when the primary server is down. This presentation will focus on the bank’s success in increasing the ROI of its contingency CPUs via HPE’s OmniDirector, a high-availability Enterprise Server Bus for real-time business functions.  Normally, all transactions are routed to the primary server for database update.  But OmniDirector uses intelligent routing to distribute query-only transactions directly to the backup system, thereby reducing the load on the primary server. As a result, availability and capacity for BCI’s entire active/passive configuration is increased. 

Speaker: Alfredo Villarroel, Servers & NED Business Manager – HPE

Time: Tuesday, 14 November, 3:30 pm to 4:20 pm

Migrate to NonStop X – No Fuss, No Muss, No Sweat! – As CEO of OmniPayments and Opsol Integrators, Yash Kapadia and his team have mastered the skills to manage painless migrations for a host of relieved customers. Yash’s presentation is directed at those attendees who covet NonStop X’s blazing speed and open development environment yet who admittedly are petrified by the prospect of a migration nightmare. Whether saying farewell to an Integrity NonStop BladeSystem or to a generations-older K-Series server, the benefits of moving to NonStop X far outweigh the few issues that have been reported by users to-date. Learn from Yash’s perspective on why migrating to NonStop X will be a pain-free experience for you.

Speaker:  Yash Kapadia, CEO, OmniPayments LLC

Time: Wednesday, 15 November, 1:00 pm to 1:50 pm

Implementing a Modern Payments Solutions - CCA, a leading ACH (automated clearing house) processor in Chile, is an HPE NonStop customer. It currently is used by 16 participating institutions representing 99.6% of the current accounts of the Chilean Financial System. CCA is an independent sales organization (ISO) that several years ago created a customized, end-to-end payments processing solution to address its clients’ demands for real-time, 24x7 funds transfers. Since then, the dramatic increase in web, mobile, ATM, and Point-of-Sale transactions has prompted CCA to adopt a modern, open payments architecture that can provide subsecond latency and scalable transaction volume. Attendees will be introduced to how CCA is adapting to a 21^st century Instant Payments mindset by leveraging the value of the NonStop platform. 

Speaker: Alfredo Villarroel, Servers & NED Business Manager – HPE

Time: Wednesday, 15 November, 2:00 pm to 2:50 pm

OMNIPAYMENTS VENDOR TRACK PRESENTATION

The OmniPayments Financial Transaction Switch – Standalone or in the Cloud as OmniCloudX on NonStop X - The OmniPayments Financial Transaction Switch has moved to the cloud. Not to brag, but OmniCloudX is the world’s first cloud built on NonStop X. As a standalone solution or in OmniCloudX, our Switch is a secure, comprehensive, and immensely affordable payments solution for the financial and retail industries. It is built on NonStop for the highest possible availability and readily scales to provide whatever level of functionality your business requires. Our product suite also includes OmniWallet for real-time, anywhere banking; the feature-rich OmniATM; the popular Fraud Blocker preauthorization system; and our Loyalty Card Management Program.  We explain it all in this partner presentation.

Speaker: Jessica Nieves, Vice President – Client Services, OmniPayments LLC

Time: Monday, 13 November, 1:00 pm to 1:50 pm

WINE WITH OMNIPAYMENTS AT THE NONSTOP TECHNICAL BOOT CAMP

OmniPayments is a Diamond Sponsor of the upcoming NonStop Technical Boot Camp (12-15  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.

HPE recently announced the availability of BackBox for Virtualized NonStop systems.

BlackWood Systems celebrates 20 years!

Friends for almost 40 years now, Steve Black and Dale Wood formed BlackWood Systems in December 1997.  How Time Flies!  Please join us at the NonStop Technical Boot Camp as we celebrate our corporate Anniversary!

MOMI is the superior real-time tool for monitoring, troubleshooting and diagnosing your HPE NonStop™ System operations:

User Friendly

Budget Friendly

Resource Friendly

Reliable, Technical Excellence and Strong Customer Support

MOMI runs on all NonStop platforms!

Kathy Wood

BlackWood Systems, Inc.

www.momi.com

kwood@blackwood-systems.com

602-569-8766

Visit Canam Software Labs, Inc. at this year’s NonStop Technical Boot Camp on November 13th to experience the power of Thunder for generating all the COBOL and C code needed to read and write JSON and XML messages.  This year we are sharing a booth with our NonStop partner, TIC (http://www.ticsoftware.com/).  Join us at our session discussing NonStop and Real World API Use Cases.

JSON Thunder for COBOL and C code creation

XML Thunder for COBOL and C code creation

Thunder Suite, which packages both XML Thunder and JSON Thunder plus version control for a truly comprehensive code generation solution.

Schedule a one-on-one demo of Thunder at Boot Camp today! Email info@canamsoftware.com or call (289) 719-0800.

Look for CSP at Technical Boot Camp 2017

Computer Security Products, Inc. is proud to be a Diamond sponsor of HPE's NonStop Technical Boot Camp 2017. Drop by our new booth and say hello, and be sure to join us at the following venues:

CSP’s Welcome Reception

Join us on Sunday, November 12th to kick off TBC 2017 in style!

Pick up your badge at TBC registration in the Hyatt Regency Atrium during CSP’s Welcome Reception, between 4PM and 6PM, and enjoy premium beverages and hors d’oeuvres courtesy of CSP.

Everyone is invited to our free “Taste of San Francisco” themed reception. For a sneak peak at the menu, click here.

CSP’s Interactive Workshop - Make Your Security Dreams Come True

Be sure to attend CSP's interactive workshop "Make your NonStop Security Dreams Come True" on Sunday November 12th from 8AM to 12PM at the Pre-Conference Seminar.

Featuring presentations and demonstrations by Callum Barclay, CTO and Seva Zagainov, Chief Software Architect, this interactive workshop discusses the latest technologies and techniques leveraged to create Protect-X®, CSP's next-generation security management and compliance solution. Together, in this informal and interactive workshop, we can plan the future of NonStop Security management. Full details of this workshop can be viewed here.

CSP's Vendor Theatre - The Future of NonStop Security¹

Don't miss CSP's exciting presentation "The Future of NonStop Security" on Tuesday November 14th at 1PM. This presentation will showcase Protect-X® 3.0, our next-generation security management and compliance solution for hardening Safeguard, OSS, Virtual NonStop and Linux based systems. CSP will also proudly introduce Verify Elite™, our latest and much-anticipated security compliance monitoring solution, which puts "Compliance at Your Fingertips™".

 ¹ All vendor theatre attendees will receive a special gift.

 We look forward to seeing you at Boot Camp!

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

Regards,

The CSP Team

+1(905)568-8900

We don’t see how you can be a dummy if you’re interested in hyperconverged infrastructure. If you are curious about the topic and want a clear, concise explanation, the recently released “Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Dummies” may be a smart addition to your IT library.

Written by Scott D. Lowe, the book introduces the reader to SimpliVity, the hyperconverged infrastructure company purchased earlier this year by HPE. Beyond SimpiVity, the book explores hyperconverged technology in terms that don’t overwhelm a reader new to the technology and don’t underwhelm a reader with a broader understanding of the concept. Chapters include “Hyperconverged Basics,” “Virtualization Challenges,” “How the Cloud is Changing IT,” and “Nine Things a Hyperconverged Infrastructure Can Do for You.”

Download the free publication here: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/resources/integrated-systems/hyperconverged-infrastructure-dummies.html

In addition to “Hyperconverged Infrastructure,” read the following articles in the Availability Digest’s October 2017 issue:

Eliminate Those Single Points of Failure – In order for a system to be continuously available, every component must be redundant. There can be no single point of failure, and the breakdown of any element must be transparent to its users. Typically, we talk about the need for redundant servers and databases. Let’s think atypically. Dual power supplies. Independent network paths. Whatever can take down a system needs to be considered for redundancy.

Magnetic Tape Makes a Comeback – Magnetic tape storage is not dead. Introduced in 1951 in Univac computers, magnetic tape lost its luster with the advent of high-capacity hard disks and cloud storage. However, in 2012, the extraordinary volume of data created by a variety of mobile devices and sensors increased the demand for an economic, efficient way to archive everything. Magnetic tape filled that need. Today, a single cartridge can hold 185 terabytes of data.

Network Crashes – Unlike the early years of the Internet (think ARPANET), network crashes today are very rare. As a result, many companies have grown complacent. Yet with the openness of the Internet, its importance to billions of people, and its exposure to hackers, we are faced with the possibility of a major network failure. Before you say that networks never fail, imagine the consequences if you are wrong.

@availabilitydig – The Twitter Feed of Outages - Our article highlights some of our numerous tweets that were favorited and retweeted in recent days.

Digest Managing Editor Dr. Bill Highleyman will speak at two breakout sessions during the NonStop Technical Boot Camp, 12-15 November, Burlingame, California USA. Please make the time to attend the following: Fat Fingers Ahead! The Real Hazards to IT of Human Error (Monday, 13 November, 9:30 am to 10:20 am); RAS – The Pillars of Mission Critical Systems (Wednesday, 15 November, 1:00 pm to 1:50 pm).

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. Follow us as well on Twitter @availabilitydig.

 

“While it isn’t really a case of defining a year as ending and beginning with the NonStop Technical Boot Camp, it’s not unreasonable for the NonStop community to look at any given year this way as Boot Camp more often than not proves to be the catalyst for further product development, and so it is here at Data Express. We are looking forward to the messages that will likely come from this upcoming event just as much as our customers – when you look back through the years, it is at Boot Camp where we have seen first introduction to NonStop of the support for the Intel x86 architecture as well as where the veil was lifted off NonStop running on virtual machines.

“…this is why Boot Camp always attracts a crowd and why Data Express always participates in such events. There isn’t really any substitute to hearing about the roadmaps for NonStop, deployments in a traditional manner on NonStop X systems or as guests of virtual machines with vNS.”

To read more of what we are looking forward to hearing at this year’s NonStop Technical Boot Camp, just follow this link to the post, 2017 has proved to be a year of new partnerships and new business for DataExpress on NonStop!

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