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comforte and ACI Worldwide Partner to Help with Enabling PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance by March 2025
Thomas GloerfeldIn 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.
TANDsoft News: Blazing Fast Solutions Now on HPE GreenLake
Jack Di GiacomoSeveral 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.
NonStop Manageability: Part -1
Kamala SreenivasanTraditionally, 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.
NonStop middleware product enhancements released after the L23.08 RVU
Sridhar NeelakantanThis article provides a brief description of new versions and features released in the Nonstop middleware domain after the L23.08 RVU was made generally available in August 2023. It discusses NSJ 17, NSJSP 10.1, API Gateway 1.4, NSHTTP Server 2.4 Update 4, TS/MP 2.8 Update 6 and the NSDevEnv in Public Cloud
New Sentinel Release Enhances HPE NonStop Monitoring
ETI-NET Marketing TeamXYPRO and ACI Worldwide offer PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance for BASE24 Customers
XYPRO TeamMost 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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Richard BuckleThe Flip Side
Gaye ClemsonSo, 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.”
Capture & compare historical data in the latest release of Sentinel for HPE NonStop
ETI-NET Marketing TeamThe 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.
Capture & compare historical data in the latest release of Sentinel for HPE NonStop
ETI-NET Marketing TeamThe 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.
Using Measure to monitor NonStop SQL performance
Frans JongmaApplications 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
Thomas GloerfeldFor 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.
Surviving Planned or Unplanned Outages: Zero Downtime Business Applications
Greg HuntThis 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.
Why Training Matters
Joe AndrolowiczIt 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.