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

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So, where’s the retail payments puck going?

Justin Simonds

“The Federal Reserve has launched its long-anticipated faster payments system, called FedNow. It’s the first government-created platform to help your bank transfer money in real time, similar to what the private sector has created through payment apps like Venmo and Cash App that send funds almost instantly but outside of bank accounts.”

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Using Measure to monitor NonStop SQL performance

Frans Jongma

Applications that use relational databases take advantage of the powerful Structured Query Language (SQL) that expresses only what data is required but not how this data needs to be accessed. This takes away the effort to know the data structures and access methods of the data from a developer, however, on the other hand a performance analyst may have to spend the time to figure out how an application is accessing a database.

Preparing for PCI DSS 4.0: Five Steps to Get Financial Institutions Ready
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Preparing for PCI DSS 4.0: Five Steps to Get Financial Institutions Ready

Thomas Gloerfeld

For two decades, the payments security industry body the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has demanded compliance with an ever-growing set of rigorous technical and operational requirements in order to protect cardholder data. PCI DSS 4.0 is the biggest update to its payment card industry data security standard since its inception in 2004.

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Real Time View

Richard Buckle

It’s always good to have something up your sleeve, so they say. An extra ace when playing cards; a Plan B if you like when situations change.

Ian Inglis Manager, Product Management – NonStop Solutions at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Getting acquainted – a chat with a NonStop insider

Justin Simonds

Similar to our interview with Karen Ramirez a few issues back, Connect wanted to hear from HPE Product Management Manager Ian Inglis. Ian has been in the position now for two NonStop Technical Boot Camp events, so it was high time to find out more about him and his NonStop Vision.

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Why Training Matters

Joe Androlowicz

It seems like common sense, yet so many shops fail to keep their teams trained and refreshed on the technologies that drive their business and those of their customers. Minor mistakes can lead to catastrophic problems. HPE recently reported that 28% of customers have experienced data center downtime due to human error and that up to 70% of server outages can be tied back to configuration errors.