Data

For Auto Makers, Data is the New Fuel for Analytics and Innovation

Auto manufacturers capture massive volumes of data that, with predictive analytics, can produce valuable insights to monetize, and improve products, operations, and better serve customers with new features. For example, connected cars can now report their health status to get ahead of maintenance and keep customers safer! Sensor data can be packaged and sold to transportation agencies and cities to aid in traffic design, road maintenance, and other initiatives.

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Using Data Replication to Offload Online Host Processing and Enable New Business Applications

Data is valuable. And the more current the data is, the more valuable it is. For this reason, the resident data in online transaction processing systems is some of the most valuable. However, if this data is trapped in that system, and not available to enable other real-time business intelligence processes, then its full value is not being exploited, and competitive opportunities are missed.

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From Big Data to Machine Learning to Deep Learning the progress of AI

[HPC]

High-Performance Computing (HPC) became popular in the ‘60s with governments and academics. They required to solve large computational problems and could afford to take advantage of the advancements in computer technology. Until then most of the complex problems were solved manually by people, a slow process and error-prone. The HPC systems could solve those problems a lot faster and more accurately.

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JCPenney modernizes and saves with OmniPayments and HPE NonStop

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]This article describes how JCPenney migrated from their old ACI Base24 payment system to their new modern OmniPayments payments solution. The migration was completed in record time resulting in a superior solution. The new solution provides a much improved and flexible solution that can process their payments transactions much faster, with higher volume at a much lower cost. The new solution provides monitoring capabilities, both from a business and from an infrastructure perspective that was not available to JCPenney with the previous solution.…

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Raymond James selects ETI-NET for virtual tape support for a second time!

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=”2077″ img_size=”medium” css_animation=”bounceInRight”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]Raymond James can best be described as a diversified financial services holding company with subsidiaries engaged in investment and financial planning, investment banking and asset management. The company has seen the usage of NonStop systems change and grow through the years up to the point where today NonStop became the main system to record all holders’ accounts, trades and exchanges run on their behalf, as well as the repository for equities, mutual funds, bonds, annuities.…

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Openness Was Not Always Ensured

[vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]An open system is able to interoperate easily with other open systems at both the application and the data level. The attribute of openness in systems was not always ensured or even accepted. This was brought to my attention when I came across a paper I had written years ago titled “Can the Computer Industry Truly Support Openness?”

The paper made several assertions that seem surprising in today’s technology.…

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Protecting Your Enterprise – That’s Our Mission

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Our Story

From connecting systems that never stop, to data protection

comforte was founded in 1998 by the creators of a connectivity solution for mission-critical systems.
Soon after becoming the most widely used terminal emulation solution for HPE NonStop systems, comforte realized the next logical step was to make sure that communication between systems and applications were securely connected as well.…

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Our Data Is Under Attack! Getting Your Data Security Strategy Up To Par With GDPR

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]If I was writing this in the early 2000s, I would have started with the line “open any newspaper and the headline will be screaming about…” but since this is 2018, and newspapers have pretty much gone the way of the dodo bird, I will start with: open any web browser or news app…” My point is that things have evolved very quickly over the last 20 years thanks to the internet.…

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Big Data Meets HCI–How South African Insurance Provider Gives Developers the Royal Treatment

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]How an insurance innovator built a modern hyperconverged infrastructure environment that rapidly replicates databases to accelerate developer agility.

Dana Gardner: Hello, and welcome to the next edition of the BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer podcast series. I’m Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, your host and moderator for this ongoing discussion on digital transformation success stories. Stay with us now to learn how agile businesses are fending off disruption — in favor of innovation.…

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HPE Greenlake Compute

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Compute power is moving closer to where the action is. After years of becoming increasingly concentrated at centralized locations – in data centers or in the cloud – it’s moving to the geographically dispersed locations where data is generated. It’s moving to factories, branch offices, oil rigs, cargo bays, maintenance facilities … anywhere there’s a need to rapidly convert data into insight and action.…

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