July-August 2026

Dr. Bruce Holenstein of Gravic, Inc. shared this remembrance: My brother, Paul, and I began consulting for Dr. Bill’s company called Sombers after our mom, Pat, started chatting with Dr. Bill’s spouse at a high school lacrosse game in 1980. Dr. Bill’s

On May 6 th , N2TUG’s members came together for our 2026 meeting. As this year is the 250 th Anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence, and that just happens to coincide with the 50 th Anniversary of the first Nonstop

CTUG is Canada’s leading conference for the HPE Nonstop community and a key event for customers and partners. Held on June 3rd at the HPE office in Mississauga, Ontario, the 2026 Canadian Tandem User Group conference featured a day full of excellent

Few communities understand the value of “always on” better than this one. For half a century, the people who read The Connection have built, run, and trusted systems that simply do not stop: the mission-critical backbone of banking, payments, and commerce. That

As the enterprise security landscape rapidly evolves, NuWave Technologies is bringing a critical conversation to the forefront at TBC 2026 in Orlando . In a recent article, “ Modern Certificate Lifecycle Automation Comes to HPE Nonstop Software ,” NuWave outlines a major

The payments landscape is evolving at breakneck speed. Real-time rails like those from India: NCPI/UPI, Europe: Wero, USA: Stripe, XRP Ledger integrations, and blockchain-based settlement are no longer future concepts — they are operational realities reshaping customer expectations and competitive dynamics. For

McKinsey & Company recently described successful AI adoption as “transformation, not automation,” emphasizing that the real value of AI comes from redesigning workflows rather than simply adding AI tools on top of existing processes. That distinction matters enormously in the Nonstop community.

How Shadowbase Zero Downtime Migration Keeps Mission-Critical Systems Running Through Complex Modernization Shadowbase Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) Solutions for HPE Nonstop Software Every major infrastructure migration carries the same fear: what if something goes wrong mid-cutover and the system goes dark? For

You’ve completed your HPE Nonstop vulnerability scan. Now what? Finding vulnerabilities is only the first step. The real value comes from what happens next. A vulnerability report isn’t a checklist. It’s information that helps you make better security decisions. Here are five

Modernization continues to be an important talking point among Nonstop community members. IT professionals may not be able to recall exactly when this topic was elevated to become the most important criteria for product selection, but history reflects such a reality. Be

Scottish pragmatism runs deep. The typical Scotsman is averse to the trivial and to the speculative so much so that the more focused a Scotsman might be, the greater their perceived value. It was a Scotsman that invented the steam engine and

In the last few articles, we’ve looked at how AI systems can be connected to HPE Nonstop environments, why Nonstop is unusually well placed to participate in AI-driven workflows, and what kinds of practical use cases become possible once that connection exists.

The rise of the Agentic Enterprise was the leading theme for HPE Discover this year as agentic AI is making its way in every domain of the IT industry, from the network infrastructure to all layers of the software stack. Autonomous networks,

I was chatting recently with a colleague who had just returned from a financial services conference. He described a demo where an AI agent – not a human, an ‘autonomous’ software agent – had negotiated a series of foreign exchange (FX) trades,

From the time we first heard the artificial voice of HAL in the movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey, we knew that there was future where similar dialogues would appear: “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” Even though there was

AI is beginning to move from advising customers to acting for them, and that shift could reshape how payments are initiated, authorised and trusted. Agentic commerce is emerging as a new trend in digital commerce, enabling AI agents to do more than

Erfan Shadabi You have been part of comforte and the Nonstop community for many years. For readers who may not know you personally, can you briefly introduce yourself? Henning Horst I have spent most of my professional career at comforte, working closely