Gravic Publishes New HPE Shadowbase Web Page on Digital Resilience

We recently released Version 6.802 (T1122^ABG), which includes a number of enhancements in key areas, including improved performance, parallelism, and usability. This line of HPE Shadowbase Data Validation products provides confirmation to key stakeholders that your business continuity environment is working, up-to-date, consistent, and making sure the backup/standby database is ready to take over in an instant. It includes support for NonStop Enscribe, SQL/MP, and SQL/MX database comparisons, which can be done even while the application is actively updating either or both databases. Please see the new features for more information. Download it today!

Gravic Publishes New HPE Shadowbase Web Page on Digital Resilience

Please check out our new web page on HPE Shadowbase Digital Resilience Solutions and learn how to recover critical applications and data after a Malware or Ransomware attack. Today, the post-attack reactive goal is Detection and Recovery, which is different from the ultimate future goal of pre-attack proactive Identification and Prevention. Malware and Ransomware recovery architectures require an innovative approach with distinct personnel, processes, procedures, hardware, software, and infrastructure from existing Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity architectures. HPE Shadowbase software replicates data into immutable storage and quickly recovers applications on an air-gapped, isolated, and therefore, fully protected system. Gravic has actually been providing Digital Resilience solutions for 40+ years. Please contact us for more information.

Gravic Publishes Two Real-world Use Case Articles

Gravic published a use case article, Major UK Bank Migrates its BASE24™ Application to Active/Active for Continuous Availability in the November/December issue of The Connection.

A large bank in the U.K. provides lending, wealth management, card processing, and many other services for over 48 million customers worldwide. The bank’s original Disaster Recovery solution reached Mature product status, and did not support automated failover and recovery, nor continuous availability via a more advanced active/active business continuity architecture. The bank decided to explore alternative options and chose HPE Shadowbase as their replacement solution. It also rearchitected the new solution so that its BASE24™ classic ATM application could leverage the new solution’s dual-site active/active capability. With careful planning, best practices, and extensive testing, the bank migrated to the new solution with only a few minor difficulties during the process.

Learn about the bank’s journey to Continuous Availability, what went well, what could have gone better, and how the bank successfully completed the project with no application downtime.

Gravic will publish the use case article, Real-world Use Case: Avoid Data Corruption by Switching from Passive Replication to Automated Failover and Recovery in the upcoming January/February issue of The Connection.

Recently, a customer called us and was concerned about “missing DR files.” After further investigation, the customer identified the cause: application failover did not include all of the customer’s applications.

• The customer replicates data in a uni-directional Active / Passive Post-Disaster Recovery configuration using two HPE NonStop systems.
• Every few months, the customer does failover testing. This architecture requires the customer to manually failover all of the required applications and switch replication in the opposite direction.
• For some reason, one of the customer’s applications was not properly configured to failover and process transactions in the reverse direction.

Please read our article and learn how we helped resolve this customer’s issue, setting them up with a better approach to avoid these fail-over faults in the future.

Gravic Presented on HPE Shadowbase Digital Resilience at BITUG Little SIG

In December, Gravic presented on HPE Shadowbase Digital Resilience and Data Recovery at the BITUG Little SIG held in London. Data is a key aspect of digital resilience, and ensuring its continuous availability has never been more important. This is especially true as new government regulations, such as the European Union’s Digital Operations Resilience Act (DORA), impose stringent technical requirements on businesses to protect, detect, and recover from information technology incidents. We discussed exciting and innovative HPE Shadowbase solutions that are helping NonStop customers maximize digital resilience and address emerging business needs, like Cloud Integration, Streaming Data Analytics, and Virtualization. Please contact us if you would like us to present this topic to you or if you would like more information.

For additional information, please view our Shadowbase solution videos: https://vimeo.com/shadowbasesoftware, or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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