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XYPRO’s 2020 Cybersecurity Predictions – Add 2 Factor Authentication and Machine Learning to Your Plans!

November 30, 2019 0

Steve Tcherchian

As 2020 approaches, it’s time to discuss cybersecurity predictions that will impact the industry in the upcoming year. As a CISSP and Chief Information Security Officer for XYPRO, I thought long and hard about what I could say that would be impactful and hasn’t been said before – that’s a tall order! The reality is, what we predicted would be important in 2019, 2018 and even 2017 – is still applicable. A lot of what we predicted back then was never properly addressed and remains a risk today – credential theft and attacks targeting privileged user logins are more prevalent than ever. Currently, the best way to combat these types of attacks is to use 2-factor authentication.

NuWave’s Year in Review

November 30, 2019 0

Gabrielle Guerrera

We’ve had a busy year here at NuWave, and as of this writing, NonStop TBC hasn’t even happened yet! This year was NuWave’s 20th anniversary, as you may have read about in the July/August issue of The Connection, and it was also the 15th anniversary of our partnership with TIC Software, NuWave’s primary reseller in the United States and Canada. This year, we’ve also been doing a lot of traveling to meet all of you lovely NonStoppers and to spread the word about Web services!

NonStop SQL/MX: High Transaction AND Online Analytical Processing

November 30, 2019 0

Justin Simonds

Many years ago now, a company known as Tandem was struggling to stay viable in the new world of client-server. This was in the mid-1990s, and the CEO of Tandem, Roel Pieper, was looking at partnering with Microsoft, the main company driving client-server architecture. Microsoft was struggling to move up within the enterprise space, needing a more robust solution and decided to provide a clustering option, code-named Wolfpack, to Windows. Several vendors contributed to Wolfpack, including Tandem which became Windows clustering software…

Data is your superpower

November 30, 2019 0

Thomas Gloerfeld

In today’s world of round-the-clock online business and commerce, data is everywhere. Data has become your superpower, even more so when it’s protected data.

As many users of HPE NonStop systems are processing a large amount of sensitive or mission-critical data it is paramount that such data is protected in the best possible manner.

The challenge that many organizations are facing is that the isolated databases of old have evolved dramatically and so has the need for appropriate data protection and security.

NSU40 SIG Hosts First Annual Hackathon at Connect’s 2019 NonStop Technical Boot Camp

November 30, 2019 0

NonStop Under 40

The call went out weeks before attendees started arriving in Burlingame for the event:

“If you enjoy a challenge, competition, spending time with your NonStop community members, beer, pizza, chip and dip, AND taking home cash prizes, sign up now!”

Connect Announces Future Leaders in Technology Scholarship Recipients!

November 30, 2019 0

Connect Worldwide

The Connect Future Leaders in Technology (FLIT) is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering and supporting the next generation of IT leaders. Established in 2010, Connect FLIT is a separate US 501 (c)(3) corporation and all donations go directly to scholarship awards. Applications are accepted from around the world and winners are chosen by a committee of educators based on criteria established by the FLIT board of directors including, GPA, standardized test scores, letters of recommendation and a compelling essay. The scholarship awarded to each recipient is $2,000 and is paid directly to the scholar’s university.