The Connection

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

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

In an industry defined by rapid innovation and constant disruption, leaders are not only responsible for navigating the complex technology landscape of today but also shape the future of their business and the broader industry. Casey Taylor, Vice President and General Manager of HPE Nonstop, sat down with Charlie Higgins, HPE UKI Nonstop Specialist and Member of the New to Nonstop (N2NS) Committee,

For the Nonstop community, the month of April always means a trek across to Europe for the annual Nonstop user conference, the first of the two major events of the year. On this occasion, the destination was Munich, Germany where the E-GTUG – European Nonstop Symposium 2026 was held.

In this month’s Trends & Wins I am very happy to be reporting a win. This is a message that was sent by Neil Davis regarding a major Bank upgrade/migration.

“Last year one of our largest banking customers, who rely on HPE Nonstop to run their core retail and mobile banking applications, reaffirmed its long-term commitment to Nonstop

The New Privacy Paradox CIOs Are Facing: And it’s running on your enterprise infrastructure.

AI continues to be at the center of every conversation, as reflected in recent events such as GTUG in Germany or N2TUG in Dallas, Texas. There is growing pressure from CEOs for IT teams to identify and leverage AI capabilities wherever possible. Yet the elephant in the room

How fast can you judge a book by its cover?
How long would it take to truly understand a million-page epic — and then accurately predict the next volume in the series?
Traditional Nonstop monitoring tools only scratch the surface. They watch CPUs, processes, programs, and a handful of files — essentially reading just the cover and a few random pages.

ManAIge reads the entire book in seconds.

The Nonstop Community has never been one to pass on a major conference or event. When it came time for Munich, Germany, to play host for E-GTUG – European Nonstop Symposium 2026, the community turned up in numbers that proved reassuring to all supporters of HPE Nonstop.

We had a well received event with good feedback from Nonstop customers. We had 27 individual participants. Of these 13 were end users representing four financial sector companies, one consulting company, and one individual consultant.