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“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.

Recently, a customer performing data validation identified some missing DR files and contacted Gravic for assistance.  Upon review, the customer

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.

In the dynamic landscape of digital transactions, the imperative to secure financial data has reached unprecedented heights. Lusis Payments, a

Introduction One of the most interesting new technologies that went viral in 2023 is ChatGPT – the generative AI large

A mere week ago (as I write this), Connect held its annual showcase NonStop user meeting. As I first sat down to write about it, I realized it’s the first time since 1995 that the annual ITUG or Connect NonStop meeting has been held outside of California

Our younger son and his wife bought a 12 year old house ‘as is’ in the spring of 2022.

In the world of technology, the annual NonStop Technical Bootcamp (TBC) has long been an essential event for HPE NonStop professionals, and this year’s edition in September 2023 was no exception.

This article describes about how applications can use secure communication using NonStop JDBC Type 4 and Linux ODBC/MX drivers. Check out the NonStop JDBC Type 4 Driver Programmer’s Reference for SQL/MX Release 3.8

Business disruption is inevitable today. And increasingly it’s down to cyber incidents. Attacks caused $10.3bn in losses last year, in cases reported to the FBI alone.

Gartner has started talking about a new ‘stalking horse’ called the Digital Immune System (DIS). In fact they say “By 2025, organizations that invest in building digital immunity will increase customer satisfaction by decreasing downtime by 80%.” As you might imagine when a NonStop person hears about ‘reducing downtime’ and ‘increasing customer satisfaction’ our ears perk up.

As you all may know, HPE is on a fiscal year which starts Nov 1 each year.  Traditionally NonStop usually has a great 4th quarter and the pattern is a soft First Quarter.  It’s not written in stone but falls into the general pattern for as long as I can remember. 

What better way to start the annual NonStop Conference calendar than with a trip to SunTUG in Florida?!
Many thanks to Pat, Teri and the SunTUG team for organising a great event and many thanks to all attendees who helped make it one of my favourite events of the year… the less said about our team’s golf performance the better, though!