Month: March 2024

OzTUG put on a maximum charm effort. I was present for the events held in two cities, including managers from the Singapore office and representation from the HPE head office.

Please enjoy this reprint from the September-October 2021 edition of the Connection. In early December 2020, I had an opportunity to sit in on a virtual fireside chat with Scott Dorsey, former Founder and CEO of ExactTarget at the 2020 Instill Culture Conference.

“The Federal Reserve has launched its long-anticipated faster payments system, called FedNow. It’s the first government-created platform to help your bank transfer money in real time, similar to what the private sector has created through payment apps like Venmo and Cash App that send funds almost instantly but outside of bank accounts.”

The image of Sentinels has been with us since antiquity. Their presence is a reminder of times when safety was of primary importance. When it came time to branding and naming, it seemed only natural for ETI-NET to call its advanced management product Sentinel, whose primary purpose is monitoring and managing NonStop systems.

While ISO 8583 remains the foundation of card-based transactions, ISO 20022 is driving standardization and harmonization across a broader range of financial activities.

Applications that use relational databases take advantage of the powerful Structured Query Language (SQL) that expresses only what data is required but not how this data needs to be accessed. This takes away the effort to know the data structures and access methods of the data from a developer, however, on the other hand a performance analyst may have to spend the time to figure out how an application is accessing a database.

Expanding on their leadership positions in HPE NonStop Backup Storage Management and Cybersecurity Threat Detection, the latest partnership delivers enhanced levels

uLinga for Kafka, widely recognised as the best solution for integrating NonStop applications with Kafka, and uLinga Gateway, the newest product in the uLinga suite, have recently been enhanced to add powerful data transformation capabilities. 

For two decades, the payments security industry body the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has demanded compliance with an ever-growing set of rigorous technical and operational requirements in order to protect cardholder data. PCI DSS 4.0 is the biggest update to its payment card industry data security standard since its inception in 2004.

This is not merely another iteration of conventional business continuity methodologies such as disaster recovery, active-passive, or active-active. Instead, the emphasis lies on crafting, constructing, and implementing a fault-tolerant solution capable of confronting and autonomously resolving infrastructure failures without human intervention.

It’s always good to have something up your sleeve, so they say. An extra ace when playing cards; a Plan B if you like when situations change.