May-June2019

A Note From Connect Leadership

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Greetings NonStop Community,

We are now in full swing TUG season with meetings taking place from Los Angeles to New York to Scotland! Flights are being taken by HPE and Partners alike, and customers are hearing about all the latest and greatest NonStop. Speaking of great; the story at a lot of the meetings has been the fantastic performance of the NonStop Enterprise Division within HPE.…

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Back for More

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]This issue will be all about the processing of data – developing and implementing those all-important programs in support of mission critical transaction processing. In particular, the languages, tools methodologies, frameworks and much more that all play a role in creating the business logic necessary to process the data created by transactions. The two, data and processing have been linked since the very first computer was built and even today, there are those in the NonStop community that can recall being recruited to work in “data processing.”…

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The State Of NonStop – Current and Future – with ATC’s Franz Koenig

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Andrew Price:  All longtime NonStop users have watched over the years as the NonStop platform has become more and more standards-based. From the point of view of a NonStop end-user (developer and/or administrator), what do you think have been the most beneficial moves in standards adoption?

Franz Koenig:  With the seven domains of modernization that I had defined many years ago, the goal was not only to bring newer technologies, but also to adopt many more industry standards, pseudo standards and practices.

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The IT Director’s Perspective: Maximizing the Value of HPE NonStop

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Introduction

“You are traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination.”

Your next stop, the datacenter.

It is full of the latest and greatest technologies. Rows and rows of servers sit surrounded by flash disk arrays and enough fiber to reach to the moon and back.…

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What happens without NonStop – in an On-Line , Real-Time , All-The-Time World

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Based on the news “Shares of Wells Fargo & Co. closed down more than 2 % after a nationwide outage hit the bank’s ATM and online networks.”. To quantify how bad this is for the business and stakeholders, based on a business valuation of $243 B, the 2 % hit equals a loss of about $5 B!

This is the exact situation no organization wants, and a situation very preventable with NonStop.…

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NonStop Trends & Wins

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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.…

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From Hacker to Hackathon – History in the Making!

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]The year 2018 marked a very important milestone for our company, Gravic, Inc. We hosted our first-ever hackathon, and it was a major success. After months of planning, scheduling, coordination, and approval, we successfully hosted what has now become a highly anticipated annual event.

 

What do you think a hacker is?

What comes to mind when you hear the word hacker?…

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Remembering Esther Sanchez

It is with deep sadness that HPE announces one of our former HPE NonStop colleagues Esther Sanchez’s passing. Esther was a passionate advocate of the technology and culture of NonStop and had a long history with the platform from her Base24 customer experiences in Spain.
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Chapter News – CTUG’s 2018 Fall Conference Report

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]The CTUG fall conference was another great event. The theme for this year’s event was “NonStop’s Value Today”. There are more reasons to choose NonStop today and we wanted to show how that value continues to grow.

CTUG was held at the HP Enterprise head office for Canada in Mississauga, on September 26, 2018. We made a few changes this year, we moved our date up one month to make it a little easier for HPE staff to attend.…

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Chapter News – 2019 NYTUG Recap

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