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Richard Buckle

Strolling through the local mall I came across this simple sign. Yes, I can explain everything … well, sort of! For starters as you read this column,

May-June 2023

Bolster Your HPE NonStop Server Security with AI

Ugan Naidoo

The first movie to have a robot as a central character was Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent feature, Metropolis. Sci-fi connoisseurs of slightly younger vintage will recall the 1968 premier of Stanley Kubrick’s masterful film, 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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Richard Buckle

For the better part of the past two centuries, there is barely a time when modernization isn’t the subject of conversation. Attend any gallery opening, any new musical or any open house and very quickly the conversation turns to whether or not the item represents modernism. In other words, is it an indicator of things to come or is it just more of the same.

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HPE NonStop, what does Artificial Intelligence think about it?

Casey Krasner

With the emergence of ChatGPT and other AI tools in 2022, we are seeing the impact these tools can have on individual job roles and entire industries. While AI has not entered into the NonStop space just yet, it is still something we as technologists and self-proclaimed nerds are watching from a distance.

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uLinga for Kafka – High Performance, Fault-Tolerant Kafka Streaming

Andrew Price

In the Sept-Oct 2021 edition of The Connection, we gave an overview of Kafka, and how it is being used by many Fortune 500 companies to manage “streams” of data, which have become prevalent as internet usage massively boosts the amount of data being generated, and requiring processing. Kafka allows these huge volumes of data to be processed in real-time, via a combination of “producers” and “consumers”, which work with a Kafka “cluster” – the main data repository.