Nonstop Trends and Wins Justin SimondsJanuary 17, 2024081 views Today SQL/MX has been expanded to support Oracle database compatibility to make it easier to migrate databases onto NonStop. Should you consider such a migration? Read more
Fighting Human Trafficking using AML and KYC Justin SimondsOctober 16, 20220277 views In the last Connection, my ‘Trends and Wins’ column discussed this topic, but very quickly. I wanted to expand on this subject due to its importance. If you’re like me, you’ve heard something about human trafficking. It seemed like a distant problem, not something I’d run up against. I was very surprised to find how prevalent it was even in developed countries.… Read more
An Overview of Artificial Intelligence and NonStop Justin SimondsDecember 8, 20200303 views Alan Turing OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society) born 23 June 1912 and died 7 June 1954 was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist, or what we would call today an under-achiever. Mr. Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer. Read more
NonStop Trends & Wins Justin SimondsNovember 30, 20190198 views At this year’s NonStop TBC we had the first ever NonStop Hackathon. Hackathons have become commonplace but not on NonStop. To me this shows a new commitment to keep NonStop current and viable. 3 teams competed to connect to the vNonStop system in Alpharetta and demonstrate connectivity. There were cash prizes. The competitors all received the inaugural T-shirt and to keep them going, a snack table, and, of course, beer. Read more
NonStop SQL/MX: High Transaction AND Online Analytical Processing Justin SimondsNovember 30, 20190329 views Many years ago now, a company known as Tandem was struggling to stay viable in the new world of client-server. This was in the mid-1990s, and the CEO of Tandem, Roel Pieper, was looking at partnering with Microsoft, the main company driving client-server architecture. Microsoft was struggling to move up within the enterprise space, needing a more robust solution and decided to provide a clustering option, code-named Wolfpack, to Windows. Several vendors contributed to Wolfpack, including Tandem which became Windows clustering software... Read more
NonStop Trends & Wins Justin SimondsSeptember 30, 20190142 views There has been a lot more interest in virtual NonStop since the support of the VMware Hypervisor. I am aware of many proof of concepts testing virtual NonStop. There still seems to be some confusion around what virtual NonStop means exactly. Many jump to the conclusion that NonStop can now be run in a public cloud such as AWS or Azure. This is not currently possible since, to make virtual NonStop, actually ‘NonStop’ requires some fairly stringent configurations. These things are not readily available to configure in a public cloud. That depends on your definition of cloud; but in general, yes, if you mean a private cloud... Read more
NonStop Trends & Wins Justin SimondsJuly 30, 20190168 views Everyone and every company seem to be designing for the cloud. Of course “the Cloud” means different things to different people but in general I think we can agree that when the term comes up it means something like Amazon or Azure. One has the capability of quickly bringing up compute resources including servers, storage and networking. One will only be charged for what one uses and for how long it is used. One can stop anytime. The presumption is that this is much better than owning resources and having them sit idle, or at least not fully utilized. As usual, people want something that is available whenever they want it for as inexpensively as possible. For that they are willing to accept some risks including availability, security and an eventual, not immediate, database consistency. It is good, perhaps not great, but solidly good. NonStop is looking for customers and businesses that require great. NonStop has a long history of interfacing to “the Cloud”. In the early days Keith Moore and I were discussing the ‘Silver-Lining Architecture’ to protect resources that were on the cloud. This developed later into GuardianAngel where NonStop’s Pathway monitors were running serverclasses off platform and in the public cloud while still being controlled by NonStop with the inherent advantages of Pathmon – scale up (more instances) if response time started to slack off. Recovery in some instances failed. Automatic shutdown of instances as load decreased. Now with virtual NonStop we have real integration with a cloud, not ‘The Cloud’ (public), but a cloud (private) by allowing NonStop instances to be spun up, with several configuration requirements, but spun up nonetheless. Read more
NonStop Trends & Wins Justin SimondsMay 30, 20190158 views [vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] NonStop at the edge! The greater HPE strategy evolves around the idea that corporations will use a mix of hybrid architecture and hybrid cloud to achieve optimal results for a reasonable investment. Another tenet to the strategy is that everything will be understood through artificial intelligence and its components of machine and dep learning. Finally that a large portion of computing will be done at the edge.… Read more
NonStop Trends & Wins Justin SimondsMarch 28, 20190125 views [vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] NonStop in the Agile world A development on development has been around for a while now but is gaining traction. In the old days most companies used something called waterfall design. This was a very structured method. Requirements are gathered and then a design is completed based on those requirements. Once the design is finished and approved development starts.… Read more
NonStop Trends & Wins Justin SimondsFebruary 1, 20190113 views [vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]In my first column on trends and wins in NonStop it is only fair to point out that I am not in product management. I am not in sales management. I am not in development. I have held various positions over my 30+ years working for NonStop. I have assisted in many sales over the years and have a continuous interest in where and how NonStop might be used.… Read more