Big Breaches, Big Data, Big Context How to Empower the Next Generation of Security Threat Detection Steve TcherchianSeptember 24, 20190224 views It can take months or even years before a data breach is detected. The latest statistics from Ponemon Institute’s 2018 Cost of Data Breach Report outlines that it takes an average of 197 days to identify a breach. That means someone is in your network, on your systems, in your applications for over six months before they’re detected, IF they’re detected. That’s six months! On the higher end of the same report, there are companies that have been breached for years before they realize it. For example, sources indicate the Marriott data breach occurred back in 2014, but it was not disclosed until 2018. The scale of that breach is still being evaluated and it seems to get bigger and more impactful as more information is discovered. Read more
PROTECTING YOUR DATA: WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? Henry FonsecaJuly 30, 20190335 views There are several different factors to consider when thinking about protecting your data. The subject can be complex and usually involves multiple parties. Let's begin with a simple thought exercise. Think about how much personal information you share on a day-to-day basis, online or otherwise. Consider who and what you interact with; applications, devices, websites, humans, corporations, etc. How much time do you spend thinking who has access to your data and what they could do with it? What are some of the things that you do to ensure you are protecting your valuable information? Read more
NonStop Migration: Should you stay or should you go? Karen CopelandJuly 30, 20190494 views In 1982, a band called THE CLASH sang, “Should I stay or should I go now? If I go, there will be trouble, and if I stay it will be double . . .” and it’s possible some NonStop customers may think it is better to stay on the NonStop i boat rather than migrate but over time that decision will cause them to miss out on new features and enhancements coming to the NonStop X product line. HPE NonStop recently announced the end of sales for NonStop i, our Itanium product line and of course it’s natural that customers are starting to ask if it’s time to migrate and to contemplate what the effort to migrate might involve. Read more
NonStop – to win in an “On-Line, Real-Time, All-the-Time” World Ron ThompsonJuly 30, 20190147 views Increasing business relevance and revenue on an ongoing basis is very challenging. For proof, look at the increasing number of companies dropping off the Fortune 500 list. And even for some established companies still on the list with shrinking valuations, it’s clear digital transformation to successfully address new opportunities and increasing business demands is difficult. 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
News from HPE’s NonStop Enterprise Division Prashanth Kamath UJuly 30, 20190215 views We are in the middle of 2019 already!! I guess a large part of the northern hemisphere is awaiting the onset of summer. Global warming and El Nino are posing twin challenges to our lives with rising temperatures and scarce or untimely rainfall. Here in Bangalore - India where I work, the summer has just gone past without much heat (sigh!!) but the rain is playing hide and seek. Read more
A Note from Connect Leadership Navid KhodayariJuly 30, 20190147 views [vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Greetings NonStop Community, Welcome to Summer! We had a great first half to our RUG season and most recently an always great N2TUG meeting in Dallas where the audience was treated to a great presentation about DevOps by Meg Watson of HPE’s Advanced Technology Center. Just the week before N2TUG, your Connect team was in fabulous Las Vegas for the HPE Discover Show, where NonStop and other technologies were on full display.… Read more
Back for More Richard BuckleJuly 30, 20190181 views [vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]While the northern hemisphere is in the middle of summer, some of its occupants scorching under the heat one normally only ever sees coming from Australia or perhaps in parts of Nevada and Arizona, it could also be considered the season of major events. From Scotland to Dallas to Las Vegas, the information coming from HPE has been diverse as it has been uplifting.… Read more
What Wikipedia can tell you about Batch Scheduling David ShieldsJuly 30, 20190188 views [vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Lots! However, nothing about HPE NonStop batch schedulers, especially MultiBatch, the mainframe-class NonStop Batch Scheduler. So, let me resolve this oversight (depending on your perception of Wikipedia)… As an example, some examples of the benefits that our UK Central Bank and OFI customers have when using MultiBatch: Run RTGS applications Reduce NonStop online-dealing batch run times by 6 hours per day (source available) Manage and process securities settlements Manage and monitor Atlas/GBS applications Meet or exceed SLAs for NonStop site-swaps Fast batch and application recovery following a site-swap Fast and reliable NonStop system coldloads Run Guardian and OSS jobs within the same schedule Execute OSS jobs, incorporating STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR (no TACL scripts, or work around required) For nearly 30 years, our customers have depended on MultiBatch to help improve their SLAs and batch scheduling run times.… Read more
Protecting your business with data-centric security on HPE NonStop Thomas GloerfeldJuly 30, 20190272 views [vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Introduction Did you know that HPE NonStop systems are present in over 50% of the Global 500 banks, at some of the largest retail payment processors in the world, and over 75% of the Global Telcos? If we look at the kind of applications that run on HPE NonStop systems, it quickly becomes apparent that high volumes of mission-critical, sensitive data are routinely processed on HPE NonStop servers.… Read more