Gravic, Inc.

Gravic, Inc. is a world leader in providing innovative data collection, transformation, and distribution solutions. For over 40 years, our software product groups have produced technologically advanced solutions that improve the businesses and personal lives of our over 100,000 customers and tens of thousands of OEM end-user licensees.

HPE Shadowbase Presents on High Availability and Digital Resilience at OZTUG25

HPE Shadowbase Presents on High Availability and Digital Resilience at OZTUG25

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The OZTUG NonStop Technology Summit 2025 was held on March 4(Sydney) and 6(Melbourne). This year’s theme was NonStop – the Next Gen Reloaded. Paden Holenstein and Ken Scudder presented on HPE Shadowbase, where they laid out an exciting roadmap for HPE Shadowbase innovations including Digital Resilience, Zero Data Loss, and Heterogeneous Compare.

They discussed ransomware attacks and new government initiatives, like the Australian Cyber Security Strategy, which are driving the need for new data protection and recovery architectures (including air-gapped systems, bare-metal recovery, immutable storage, and data vaults) to enable rapid data recovery with transactional consistency to a trusted state.…

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Gravic Announces Version 7.000 for HPE NonStop J and L-series Features

Gravic, Inc. is pleased to announce the General Availability of HPE Shadowbase software version 7.000 for HPE NonStop Servers (SPR ID: T1122L70) with the following updated features:

  • HPE Shadowbase Zero Data Loss (ZDL) capability as a Controlled Availability (CA) feature (Note: replication source-side systems must be on L-series O/S; target side can be J or L-series O/S)
  • Automatic alternate key file filtering option, allowing for automatic exclusion of alternate key files from replication
  • The Shadowbase Blistering Fast Compare (SBBFCOMP) utility as part of the HPE Shadowbase Compare suite, supporting rapid comparison of Enscribe entry-sequenced files
  • Enhanced latency and statistics reporting and alarming
  • Built-in support for the Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) Toolkit, with expanded capabilities including additional target support such as a Kafka adapter, an IBM MQ adapter, and optional JSON output formatting support
  • Enhanced Queue Manager QFILE management, including a new utility, SBQFUTL, for viewing information about existing QFILES
  • Simplified support for fan out of one source event to many target events when needed for data normalization (e.g.,
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Gravic Presenting at BITUG Little SIG on HPE Shadowbase Ransomware Protection and Data Recovery

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Gravic will present  HPE Shadowbase Digital Resilience for Ransomware Protection and Data Recovery at the BITUG Little SIG event on November 6 in London. With malware and ransomware threats growing rapidly, data reliability and recovery are urgent business concerns. Furthermore, governments in all regions are enacting Digital Resilience-related regulations, such as EU DORA, with which companies must comply.

We will discuss the HPE Digital Resilience Framework and the solutions that help protect and recover mission-critical HPE NonStop server data, as well as review new Business Continuity architectures and high availability capabilities specifically designed to address cybersecurity threats.…

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Exciting New Innovations in Protecting and Recovering NonStop Data!

For over 45 years, Gravic has been a leader in developing High Availability solutions for the HPE NonStop platform. At this year’s NonStop TBC 2024 in Monterey, we are excited to showcase new HPE Shadowbase technology advancements with Zero Data Loss synchronous replication and Digital Resilience for Ransomware Data Recovery. These are groundbreaking solutions that will help ensure HPE NonStop systems remain at the forefront of mission-critical computing.…

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Gravic Presented on HPE Shadowbase Digital Resilience at Nine Spring Events

We attended nine incredible tradeshows this spring, where we shared our presentation, HPE Shadowbase Solutions: Maximize NonStop Digital Resilience with Data Replication, Integration, and Validation. Our discussion focused on how HPE Shadowbase solutions can help maximize Digital Resilience and address business needs like Cloud Integration, Streaming Data, Analytics, and Virtualization. We reviewed the HPE Digital Resilience Framework and new product innovation, including Data Recovery for Cybersecurity (e.g.,

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Gravic, Inc. is Celebrating its 45th Anniversary in 2024 — What a Milestone!

45 years of Gravic Inc., Improving Society Through InnovationDr. Bruce Holenstein, President and CEO, and Paul J. Holenstein, EVP and Chief Technologist, formed our first company, Compucon Services Corp., soon after Tandem started, and we are celebrating our 45th year working in the HPE NonStop world. In 2001, we renamed our company “Gravic,” based on the word “gravity.” Gravic means “attraction to the core,” representing our core purpose of Improving Society Through Innovation®.

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Gravic Inc. News for March 2024

Gravic to Present on HPE Shadowbase Digital Resilience at OZTUG, eGTUG, SunTUG, and ATUG

It’s always a pleasure to interact face-to-face at these TUG meetings. We always appreciate your questions and comments regarding our material and what is happening in your corner of the world. We will present variations of these talks:

  1. Advanced Data Resilience and Recovery with HPE NonStop Shadowbase Software
    Learn about DORA and the HPE Digital Resilience Framework and how HPE Shadowbase solutions can help protect and recover your HPE NonStop data from Ransomware and Malware attacks.
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Gravic Publishes New HPE Shadowbase Web Page on Digital Resilience

We recently released Version 6.802 (T1122^ABG), which includes a number of enhancements in key areas, including improved performance, parallelism, and usability. This line of HPE Shadowbase Data Validation products provides confirmation to key stakeholders that your business continuity environment is working, up-to-date, consistent, and making sure the backup/standby database is ready to take over in an instant. It includes support for NonStop Enscribe, SQL/MP, and SQL/MX database comparisons, which can be done even while the application is actively updating either or both databases.…

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The Better Backup Method

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The need to back up data has existed as long as data itself. Sometimes the backup is needed for historical purposes, for example, to preserve a snapshot of the information in time. In other cases, it is used to maintain an accurate and up-to-date copy of the information if the primary copy is lost or corrupted.

Magnetic tape is the oldest backup medium still in use.

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