image representing encryption
Articles

The Quantum Computing Encryption Problem

Hugo Bouderlique

While the generally supported opinion is that we are still a number of years away from a functional quantum computer, there is a significant quantum computing-related problem that needs to be considered right now.

You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love New Tech
Articles

You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks 

Joe Peterson

Most who’ve worked on a NonStop platform for more than a few years have likely used TEDIT or EDIT/VS to edit text files. There’s nothing wrong with that. I did it myself that way for decades. Unfortunately, it does have its drawbacks.

Supports Zero-Downtime Migration with FS Compare and Repair
Articles

Zero-Downtime Migration with FS Compare and Repair

Jack Di Giacomo

In today’s business-critical HPE NonStop environments, downtime—whether planned or unplanned—can be extremely costly. However, ensuring continuous uptime is a challenge for many teams today.

On an ongoing basis, migration efforts can pose particularly difficult obstacles for teams looking to avoid downtime.

MATUG and NEXTUG 2024
Chapter News

MATUG and NYTUG 2024 Recap

Peter Schvarcz

HPE hosted the MATUG meeting on May 14 in their offices in the Reston Town Center, Virginia. The day began and ended with two interesting HPE presentations: John Vollers (Solution Architect) presented HPE Strategy and NonStop Roadmap, and John Zimsky (Master Engineer) presented Deploying REST Applications to NonStop.

MEXTUG 2024 Mexico City
Chapter News

MEXTUG 2024

Gabriel Alvarez

The recent MexTUG event was a resounding success, attracting a record number of attendees and surpassing previous years’ achievements as HPE NonStop leaders, experts, and enthusiasts gathered to discuss the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in the industry. Engaging keynotes captivated participants fostering invaluable networking opportunities throughout the day.

Accelerating the Journey to PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance with ACI Worldwide
Articles

comforte and ACI Worldwide Partner to Help with Enabling PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance by March 2025

Thomas Gloerfeld

In 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.

Digital bright abstract fire background
Articles

TANDsoft News: Blazing Fast Solutions Now on HPE GreenLake

Jack Di Giacomo

Several 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.

Articles

NonStop Manageability: Part -1

Kamala Sreenivasan

Traditionally, 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.

Mike Mitsch, ETI-NET Director, Business Development, addressing the N2TUG attendees gathered in Dallas Texas
Articles

New Sentinel Release Enhances HPE NonStop Monitoring

ETI-NET Marketing Team

On May 2, 2024, ETI-NET announced the availability of Sentinel Release 1.1. As reported in the press release, with Sentinel 1.1, it extends the leadership position in NonStop Backup Storage Management as these new Sentinel features deliver enhanced NonStop Enterprise System Monitoring.

XYPRO and ACI Worldwide offer PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance for BASE24 Customers
Articles

XYPRO and ACI Worldwide offer PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance for BASE24 Customers

XYPRO Team

Most 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.

Unveiling the 5-fold advantage of HPE NonStop
Letters

News from HPE’s NonStop Division

Roland Lemoine

2024 is the year we get to celebrate 50 years of NonStop! While many platforms have appeared and disappeared over that period of time, NonStop has only grown stronger, building on an initial design that was simply visionary and, over the years, never taking anything for granted, adapting to industry changes while keeping NonStop fundamentals preserved…

Articles

The Flip Side

Gaye Clemson

Please enjoy this reprint from the September-October 2021 edition of the Connection. In early December 2020, I had an opportunity to sit in on a virtual fireside chat with Scott Dorsey, former Founder and CEO of ExactTarget at the 2020 Instill Culture Conference.