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Contents
Join CSP's Virtual Presentation:
Passport to Compliance
Premier & Tailored for a New Environment
New Video Tutorial on Message Logging (8 Minutes)
Integrate Your HPE NonStop Servers with
SailPoint Identity Governance
—Webinar Replay—
TBC NonStop Technical Boot Camp 2020 -
European Track presented by GTUG, Nov. 16-18th, 2020
Gravic Presents at Virtual Connect HPE NonStop TBC 2020
Join us at TBC 2020!
TIC Software and NuWave User Forum Modernization via Web Services
6 Cybersecurity Tips for Working with Software Vendors
TRIBUTARY SYSTEMS WILL BE ATTENDING THE 2020 NONSTOP
BOOTCAMP, VISIT OUR VIRTUAL BOOTH.................
Pay by Palm
TANDsoft’s FS Compare and Repair Compares ...........
The Rise of Shelfware Software and How to Make It Stop
Join CSP’s Virtual Presentation:
Passport to Compliance
CSP's General Manager, Henry Fonseca, will be showing you how to secure your NonStop systems with three of our most comprehensive tools, Passport, Verify Elite, and Authenticator+, during his presentation Passport to Compliance. The presentation takes place at 12:30 pm on Monday, November 16, 2020. Make sure to add it to your calendar. You won’t want to miss it! is a comprehensive security solution for controlling and auditing user access to HPE NonStop servers. It offers superior user authentication, session control, command control, password quality enforcement, and auditing capabilities. is a complete NonStop compliance and file integrity monitoring solution that ensures that your NonStop System's security (Guardian & OSS) meets industry standards and regulations, like PCI DSS, SOX, and GDPR. is built for universal Application and System (TACL and OSS) access so that security administrators can easily implement one or several authentication methods, including token-based systems such as RSA or similar providers.
For more information visit: Connect TBC 2020
For complimentary access to CSP-Wiki®, an extensive repository of NonStop security knowledge and best practices, please visit wiki.cspsecurity.com
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New Video Tutorial on Message Logging (8 Minutes)
NuWave has released a new YouTube video on the message logging feature available in LightWave ServerTM and LightWave ClientTM.
In this short video, Dave Belliveau, the chief architect of the LightWave products, describes what message logging is, which releases the feature is available in, and how to use it.
For LightWave users or anyone interested in using REST on NonStop, please check out this LightWave message logging feature tutorial on YouTube.
Integrate Your HPE NonStop Servers with SailPoint Identity Governance Webinar Replay
Whether you need to provision users on one or multiple
HPE NonStop servers, XYGATE Identity Connector (XIC) elegantly integrates your NonStop servers with your SailPoint enterprise solution.
Achieve user governance, provisioning and reconciliation of HPE NonStop user accounts directly from SailPoint.
Ensuring employees have the correct access to the right business applications and IT resources is a critical requirement with which many companies struggle. Current solutions for requesting and managing user access are inefficient, manual, complex, and outdated. Governance is often an afterthought, leaving enterprises vulnerable to security risks and exposed to compliance issues.
Many organizations are adopting solutions like SailPoint to manage their
technology assets. SailPoint, the market leader in Identity Governance
and Administration, allows businesses to automate an ever-growing
technology landscape while addressing security and compliance risk.
XYPRO and SailPoint have partnered to provide
the first and only SailPoint certified integration for HPE NonStop servers. XIC for SailPoint provides complete control over who has access to your NonStop servers from your enterprise SailPoint instance.Click here to continue reading…
Integrate Your HPE NonStop Servers with SailPoint Identity Governance
TBC NonStop Technical Boot Camp 2020 - European Track presented by GTUG, Nov. 16-18th, 2020
Dear NonStop
Community,
because of the Covid 19 Pandamic we unfortunately had to cancel this
years European GTUG Conference in Berlin.
We are now very pleased to announce, that GTUG will be part of this
years TBC NonStop Technical Boot Camp.
This digital conference will taking place Nov. 16th - 18th, 2020.
The
European Track will be presented by GTUG!
Please find more information in the attached Flyer.
The NonStop Technical Boot Camp will be all digital and the event is
free to attend!
Registration is
open:
https://www.nonstoptbc.com/
The detailed Agenda will be published soon - we will keep you
informed.
We hope you will be able to attend and enjoy this new virtual
format!
Pamela Bogner
More information/education on NonStop?
Webinar: "eddy+ - The first web-based IDE for HPE NonStop"
Date: Nov 26th, 2020, 6:00 pm German Time
Presented by: abat+ (GTUG Member)
More information and registration form will be published soon at: https://www.abat.de/en/eddyplus
GTUG Office:
Mobile +49 175/526 82 94
pamela.bogner@gtug.de
https://www.gtug.de/HotSpot2020/welcome.html
German NonStop User Group e.V.
Member of Connect Deutschland
Gravic Presents at Virtual Connect HPE NonStop TBC 2020
Ø Japanese Session: HPE Shadowbase Mission-Critical Use Case Solutions and Product News
When: November 17 at
14:30-15:30 JPN (November 16 at 9:30pm PST)Speaker: Paden R. Holenstein, Marketing Specialist
Abstract: Learn how HPE Shadowbase solves various enterprise use case problems.
Ø Breakout Talk: Business Continuity Portfolio – 2020
When: November 17 at 9am PST – US TRACK 2
Speaker: Mark Pollans, HPE Sr. WW Product Manager
Ø Vendor Theater Talk: HPE Shadowbase Mission-Critical Use Case Solutions and Product News
When:
November 17 at 12:15pm PST – US TRACK 2
Abstract: Learn how HPE Shadowbase solves various enterprise use case problems:
· Business Continuity
· Data Integration and Synchronization
· Application Integration
· Zero Downtime Migration
· Compare and Repair
· Plus, learn about exciting new and future features
Ø Breakout Talk: Is Your Data Sharing Solution Going E-O-S-L? Avoid Vendor Lock-in and Expose Your Valuable Enscribe Data
When: November 18 at 8am PST – US
TRACK 1
Abstract: Is your vendor solution for sharing data across platforms or applications going end-of-service-life (EOSL)? Learn how to expose your valuable Enscribe siloed data using a data replication solution that provides significant advantages and migrate to a new, reliable data replication solution.
Ø Developers Chat: HPE NonStop Shadowbase Solutions
When: November 18 at 10:45am PST
Speakers: Jonathan Ziegler, Senior Manager of Product Development; Drew Bauernschmidt, Training Specialist of Product Delivery
Ø
NonStop Academy Seminar: HPE Shadowbase Deep DiveWhen: November 19, for exact time, visit:
https://www.nonstoptbc.com/agendaSpeaker: Drew Bauernschmidt, Delivery Specialist
Peter Schvarcz Joins
Shadowbase Product Deployment and ITL Group
Gravic is proud to announce that Peter Schvarcz has joined our Shadowbase team! He is now managing existing and upcoming Integration Team Lead (ITL) projects, working to enhance and improve customers’ impressions, and successfully oversee Shadowbase project deployments. He also is assisting with architecture, design, and performance analysis of Shadowbase software.
For over three decades, Peter has worked in IT, including as a NonStop Solution Architect at HPE supporting a payments company, a large U.S. bank, and other financial accounts. At HPE, his role included pre-sales account support for product updates and roadmap presentations, consulting advice, and managing customer issues. This work also entailed performance analysis, application design consulting, NonStop attached SAN storage architectures, and project management. While at HPE, Peter received several awards, including the Glenn Woodard NonStop Teamwork Award. In 2018, he assumed the role of Chapter Leader for the NYTUG and NENUG regional chapters.
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: https://vimeo.com/shadowbasesoftware.
Specifications subject to change without notice. Trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Copyright 2020.
Join us at TBC 2020!
Whilst we will miss the opportunity of meeting up with partners, peers and clients in Burlingame this year, we’re very excited about the virtual nature of this year’s event, through which we hope will bring together many new people who may not have had the privilege of attending the annual conference. If you haven’t been to TBC, it’s absolutely our most anticipated event in the NonStop calendar.
As a Platinum sponsor, we will be running multiple demonstrations across our NonStop product portfolio.
In a world that transitions from static timetables on single platforms. to flexible scheduling of complex business processes across multiple applications and platforms, Insider Technologies provides the following presentations to demonstrate how you can manage workflows, perform monitoring of your business critical services, and ensure your payments systems are meeting customer demands:
·
Dave Hall will present a look at the modernised MultiBatch - mission critical workload automation for NonStop.·
Karl Todd will take a deep dive into one of the more overlooked facilities within Reflex, it’s end to end service monitoring functionality that gives busy IT Managers the rarest of mental states: peace of mind.·
Mark Thomasson looks at the unprecedented rise in payments and shows how RTLX is helping payment processors to increase customer satisfaction at the same time as providing compliance to local regulatory bodies.Here’s a brief overview of our presentations, presenters and where to catch them. We can’t wait to see you there!
Insider Technologies uses LegaSuite from Rocket to leverage existing MultiBatch screens to deliver a modern HTML5 browser interface.
In a fraction of the time it takes build a new interface from scratch, we can provide a vastly improved user experience with the ability of using external APIs and JavaScript libraries.
We show you how we modernised and enhanced the MultiBatch 6530 SCOBOL interface using LegaSuite Workbench, providing an overview of the process and concepts and demonstrating the new interface.
Reflex
End to End Service Monitoring – Karl Todd, Product Owner @ Virtual Booth
Reflex can monitor a bespoke service view of your business consisting of disparate components which, when used in tandem, form your critical functionality. This provides a complete picture of your service monitoring components such as your applications, queues, transactions, databases, including the associated NonStop infrastructure.
Other benefits include:
● Utilise service monitor to highlight threats to your critical services, e.g. SLA warnings and outages
● Use Reflex automation to resolve problems
● View the current state of all components that constitute your service
RTLX is the real-time monitoring, query and dashboard solution for your payments estate, including BASE24 ATM/POS and NCR Authentic applications.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there is now an increasing demand for card transactions. We will show you how this led to the importance of storing transactions in real-time and being able to query any issues for transactions that have just taken place, or for transactions that have taken place over the last 15 years. This real-time and legacy transactional information is always accessible via RTLX and can be made available to other areas of your organisation.
TIC Software and NuWave User Forum Modernization via Web Services
Join us this Oct. 27th and Oct. 28 from 2:00pm to 3:00pm EDT to learn about Modernization via Web Services
Learn about the practical use cases of LightWave ServerTM and LightWave ClientTM Web Services Products.
We will have a panel discussion with NonStop Users to share tips and innovative ideas on the benefits of using REST on NonStop.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Tuesday October 27th, 2020
2:00PM - 3:30PM EDT
Using REST to Modernize NonStop
An overview of REST and how using it to modernize NonStop opens up new potential solutions and opportunities.
LightWave's REST product Suite
Meet LightWave's Chief Architect to learn about the latest LightWave REST product advance features.
Learn about REST Use Case and Best practice
Discuss practical use cases with REST and Technical Team in Panel Discussion
Wednesday October 28th, 2020
2:00PM - 3:30PM EDT
Hear from REST Users how they leverage LightWave
Presented and participated by LightWave Users
Learn more about REST Modernization and other Technical Topics
Explore more technical tips about REST and Web Services
For more information about the webinar, please visit our detail
Agenda or Register !
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LinkedIn | Twitter | TIC Blogs
6 Cybersecurity Tips for Working with Software Vendors
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month! As Manager of XYPRO Customer Support, I’ve put together these six tips for businesses working with an external software vendor. Be conscious of protecting your corporate data and network and work with your vendors to ensure your confidential data and network are protected against external threats.
- Never use personal email to report an issue. Using a personal email address to report a technical problem can put your organization at risk and cause data privacy concerns. If your personal email has ever been compromised and a malicious user has access to your email, they will be able to read all the communications between you and your vendor. Also, be aware of the vendor support staff sending emails from their personal email accounts. A legitimate vendor should never use their personal email accounts to handle customer data.
2.
Submit troubleshooting data in a password protected file. When
submitting data and logs to your vendor for troubleshooting, be sure to
use a compressed file that is password protected. As your vendor, XYPRO
supplies an Enterprise Support Tool that collects information and
packages it into a single, password protected file for you to send to
us. Remember, send passwords in a separate email or via another secure
channel of communication.
3.
Don’t copy and paste vital information into the email body.
In my 14 years managing
customer support, I’ve received support emails that contained all sorts
of confidential corporate information and PII (personal identifying
information). When reporting an issue, treat all information as
confidential. To protect our clients, XYPRO registered customers upload
files directly to the XYPRO website via an encrypted channel.
Click here to continue reading… 6 Cybersecurity Tips for Working with Software Vendors
#BeCyberSmart #CyberSecurityMonth
Robert
Massa,
CISSP certified Manager of Customer Support with 30+ years of experience
on the NonStop platform, joined XYPRO in 2006 as a QA analyst. Since
taking over as manager of customer support in 2008, Robert has grown the
support organization into an elite global support team, focusing on the
total customer experience. Robert’s background as a Security
Administrator and Support Analyst for mission-critical applications brings
real-world experience to the customer support organization.
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TRIBUTARY SYSTEMS WILL BE ATTENDING THE 2020 NONSTOP BOOTCAMP, VISIT OUR VIRTUAL BOOTH………….
We’re about a month away from the very first NonStop Virtual Bootcamp. Of course Tributary Systems will be participating in the Bootcamp, as we do every year. NonStop is an important market segment for us, we’ve been supporting NonStop as an OEM supplier and Backup/Restore hardware and software vendor for the last quarter of a century. So what can virtual visitors expect in our virtual booth?
They’ll be all kinds of specific information on Tributary Systems’ Storage Director, the lowest cost NonStop backup solution on the market with on-premise and Cloud Tiering capabilities.
Materials in the booth will include NonStop focused PowerPoint presentations, Storage Director product datasheets, a CIO Review article featuring TSI’s CEO, Shawn Sabanayagam.
And just announced, Tributary can now provide NonStop Backup Storage as a Service!
In addition, we’ve scheduled a 30 minute live talk on November 17th, at 11:45 AM PST on US Track2 where we’ll discuss the extraordinary feature set and multiple advantages Storage Director brings to the NonStop Backup environment. Plus Tributary Systems’ staff will man the virtual booth, ready to answer any questions attendees may have about TSI or our products.
So as you prepare for the Virtual Bootcamp, ask yourself this question:
Wouldn’t any NonStop customer appreciate saving 40% or more in data backup and archive costs while simultaneously increasing data security, availability and backup/restore performance? Well visit our booth and attend our live presentation to find out how this is possible.
In the meantime, review this list of key features TSI’s Storage Director brings to the NonStop Storage Environment:
•
Provides fully automated backup, restore and DR operations•
Replaces Dell EMC Data Domain, IBM ProtecTier and all other dedup backup appliances•
Intelligently scales storage locally and into the cloud (AWS, Google, Azure) or any object storage cloud•
Provides a customized high performance front-end to IBM Cloud Object Storage (Cleversafe) and Hitachi HCP object storage•
Incorporates AES 256 bit encryption and enhanced security•
Incorporates built-in data reduction, WAN optimization and latency reduction•
Meets or exceeds data backup requirements for speed, capacity, compatibility and reliability•
Scales seamlessly by adding nodes to meet performance requirements and add cache for multiple petabytes of storage•
Enables alternate site disaster recovery schemes•
User-defined policies allow flexible tape, disk, flash, cloud and data migration strategies•
Supports heterogeneous, multi-platform server environments on a single Storage Director backup appliance•
Customized configurations for higher availability and specific customer needs•
Supports tape library consolidation, modernization and replacement
Recall that Tributary Systems has been a HPE NonStop OEM solutions supplier and partner for over two decades; we know NonStop and understand NonStop customer requirements.
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
Storage Director allows NonStop professionals to “augment what they have and use it in creative new ways!”
Pay by Palm
A certain company by the name of Amazon are aiming to simplify in-store payments yet further. Their recent announcement of "Pay by Palm" is not a reference to any HPE hand-held device but a recognition that payments are about to become even simpler with a mere gesture of the hand over an innovative contactless device.
The other benefit for amazon is the ability to combine payment and loyalty in their own back-end systems, again relieving the consumer from having to present a second card as part of the transaction.
Amazon of course is one of world’s leading suppliers of cloud-based services infrastructure, but not the only one of importance - there are others.
OmniPayments own private cloud payment service “OmniCloudX” is also growing in popularity. We are seeing an increasing number of users decide to deploy on our OmniCloudX service. The question filtering through your head may be WHY? We see a number of drivers for this. Some institutions have existing hardware infrastructure reaching end of life, and are facing substantial reinvestment costs to replace that hardware - Cloud relieves them of that headache, moving Capex to Opex. Other users want to focus on their core business of payments processing; they do not want to be distracted from the low-value matter of managing their
own hardware or datacenter. Others are choosing by virtue of their company policy to outsource anything that does not differentiate their business from another.
So take a closer look at OmniCloudX
• OmniCloudX for Issuing and Acquiring
• Streamlined Issuing for real and virtual cards with OmniCloudX
• OmniCloudX for all international card schemes
• Accelerate deployment with OmniCloudX
• Cost effective licensing and deployment with OmniCloudX
You can learn more about OmniPayments by following us on all good social media platforms including LinkedIn and Twitter, and of course visit us at omnipayments.com. Or Email us 24x7 at sales@omnipayments.com.
Don’t miss our latest tasty videos at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHBqxHl7qZHr4JtEbJwzxaA
TANDsoft’s FS Compare and Repair Compares a 1 TB File in Just 10 Minutes
Talk about a blazing fast solution. TANDsoft’s new FS Compare and Repair is the most rapid compare/repair product for use in the HPE NonStop environment. Based on block-compare technology, it
identifies, reports, and resolves inconsistencies in live and offline databases. FS Compare and Repair reads blocks instead of records, compares block hashes instead of records, and works on partitions in parallel. The result? A 1 terabyte multi-partitioned file will take just 10 minutes to compare with FS Compare and Repair. It works with all NonStop data replication products.
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.
Learn more about FS Compare and Repair, FS Backup and Restore, and other TANDsoft solutions at the upcoming NonStop Technical Boot Camp, a virtual experience taking place from November 16th thru 18th. TANDsoft is a silver sponsor of this global event, which offers free registration to attendees. Sign up at https://www.nonstoptbc.com.
In the meantime, explore all TANDsoft solutions at www.tandsoft.com. Contact Jack Di Giacomo (+1 514-695-2234 / jack.digiacomo@tandsoft.com) or Dieter Orlowski (+1 303-263-4381 / dieter.orlowski@tandsoft.com).
The Rise of Shelfware Software and How to Make It Stop
Businesses are managing more data than ever—and spending more money, year after year, to protect that data. Yet spending more money on
security doesn’t equate to actually being secure. A significant amount of software is purchased and never property implemented - leading to a problem called “shelfware”.To put into context how prevalent the “shelfware” problem has become, Gartner predicts by 2022, the global information security spending will exceed USD 170 billion. Additional research shows that nearly 30% of all security investments are underutilized or never implemented. That's over $51 billion. Most of that spend is driven by financial institutions and Fortune 500 companies.
In contrast, cybersecurity damage is
expected to exceed $6 trillion by 2022. The COVID pandemic is also
putting a strain on everyone's budgets. CEOs, CIOs, and CISOs are
looking at cutting costs where possible, so we're forced to do more
with less.
We don’t have the luxury to let cybersecurity software sit around. Evaluating software usage and maximizing its effectiveness can be a strategic method of cost-cutting. A properly implemented solution will address your business requirements and free up your resources to focus on higher priority tasks
Click here to continue reading… The Rise of Shelfware Software and How to Make It Stop
Steve Tcherchian, CISSP, PCI-ISA, PCIP is the Chief Product Officer and Chief Information Security Officer for XYPRO Technology. Steve is on Forbes Technology Council, the NonStop Under 40 executive board, and part of the ANSI X9 Security Standards Committee.
With over 20 years in the cybersecurity field, Steve is responsible for strategy and innovation of XYPRO’s security product line as well as overseeing XYPRO’s risk, compliance, and security to ensure the best experience for customers in the Mission-Critical computing marketplace.
Steve is an engaging and dynamic speaker who regularly presents on cybersecurity topics at conferences around the world.
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