Discover has come and gone and it was a fantastic event for me. I had a great time meeting people and sharing my passion for storage. If you were unable to join us in Las Vegas, I want to give you an overview of some huge news we announced at HPE Discover 2019. If you’d rather watch a video, this Chalk Talk is the same information but there are several links in my article that you can get more on the things I discuss.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Let’s start at the beginning. What Is Hybrid IT? At its most basic level, hybrid IT is a blend of cloud-based and on-premises IT services. The pursuit of standardisation used to be a best practice for building IT architecture, as IT organisations prefer to manage only one type of computing. Due to pressures from both the business and IT to shift toward cloud services, however, hybrid IT has become more and more prevalent.…
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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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“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.…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Transaction processing is a mission-critical service within any 21st-century organisation and a key element of any service provider’s portfolio. However, the demands on transaction processing and similar systems types such as payments are continually increasing.
The volume of transactions being sent continues to grow exponentially as users exploit increasing availability and functionality of transaction and payments based services.
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) between both end-users and service providers are being imposed more frequently (both within organisations and within outsourcing arrangements).…
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.
Over the past four decades, storage and backup technologies have made evolutionary, but rapidly accelerating, progress; progress that has traversed all the way from the traditional reel-to-reel tapes, through disk drives and their virtual avatars, and ultimately, to breakthrough technologies like data deduplication and object storage that massively reduces data redundancy and overheads. Yet, data storage, being a long-term strategy and investment, has made it a herculean task for CIOs to embrace newer technologies and systems, especially at a time when enterprises are witnessing unprecedented levels of data generation.
[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.…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Earlier this month, Stacie Neall asked for Tributary’s observations on the 2018 NonStop Boot Camp held last November. Well I have some, of course. However I would be remiss if first I didn’t take a moment to recognize all those that plan, facilitate, and in a sense “operate” the event. Stacie, Kathy Wood, Kelly Luna, Karen Copeland and Kristi Elizondo immediately come to mind.…
[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.…