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N2TUG 2024

Bill Honaker

On May 2nd, N2TUG’s members came together for our 2024 meeting.  This year, the larger community of NonStop is celebrating 50 years since Tandem Computers first formed to create the NonStop platform, and we took the opportunity to celebrate!  Our theme was “Golden: 50 Years of NonStop.”

Accelerating the Journey to PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance with ACI Worldwide
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comforte and ACI Worldwide Partner to Help with Enabling PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance by March 2025

Thomas Gloerfeld

In a significant move towards enhancing payment data security and achieving compliance with the latest PCI DSS standards, ACI Worldwide has announced a strategic partnership with comforte AG, a global leader in data protection and compliance solutions. This collaboration aims to empower ACI’s customers to seamlessly transition to PCI DSS 4.0 standards by March 2025, ensuring robust security measures for payment transactions.

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TANDsoft News: Blazing Fast Solutions Now on HPE GreenLake

Jack Di Giacomo

Several years ago, we first announced the “blazing-fast” technology featured in our solutions, specifically FS Compare and Repair and FS Backup and Restore. In fact, we made our first big announcement at the HPE NonStop Virtual User Group event (VIRTU-NUG) that took place in 2020. FS Compare and Repair offers fast, advanced capabilities to ensure your nodes are kept in sync at all times. The solution employs a market-leading, block-level hashing technology that delivers breakthrough speed and scalability.

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NonStop Manageability: Part -1

Kamala Sreenivasan

Traditionally, NonStop Products on Guardian OS had the best-in-class manageability features, with each product having subsystem plugins for SCF, Measure, etc. ​As NonStop started supporting open-source software, there has been a proliferation of manageability functions and interfaces, as each open-source software comes with its own manageability functions and interfaces. Today there is a bouquet of products offered under NonStop Manageability.

Mike Mitsch, ETI-NET Director, Business Development, addressing the N2TUG attendees gathered in Dallas Texas
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New Sentinel Release Enhances HPE NonStop Monitoring

ETI-NET Marketing Team

On May 2, 2024, ETI-NET announced the availability of Sentinel Release 1.1. As reported in the press release, with Sentinel 1.1, it extends the leadership position in NonStop Backup Storage Management as these new Sentinel features deliver enhanced NonStop Enterprise System Monitoring.

XYPRO and ACI Worldwide offer PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance for BASE24 Customers
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XYPRO and ACI Worldwide offer PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance for BASE24 Customers

XYPRO Team

Most banking applications are built on earlier architectures and technologies and pose significant security challenges, especially under the new Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards 4.0 (PCI DSS). These applications face greater risk due to coding practices at development time and the absence of modern security features like Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). Enhancing these applications with MFA is a necessity to protect against unauthorized access and data breaches.

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The Flip Side

Gaye Clemson

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.

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So, where’s the retail payments puck going?

Justin Simonds

“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.”

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Using Measure to monitor NonStop SQL performance

Frans Jongma

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.

Preparing for PCI DSS 4.0: Five Steps to Get Financial Institutions Ready
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Preparing for PCI DSS 4.0: Five Steps to Get Financial Institutions Ready

Thomas Gloerfeld

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.

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Why Training Matters

Joe Androlowicz

It seems like common sense, yet so many shops fail to keep their teams trained and refreshed on the technologies that drive their business and those of their customers. Minor mistakes can lead to catastrophic problems. HPE recently reported that 28% of customers have experienced data center downtime due to human error and that up to 70% of server outages can be tied back to configuration errors.