Mission Critical

Well, here we are at the end of May and the prospect of Summer ahead of us.  It’s been a busy couple of months for Connect with lots to talk about.

As you may already know, our NonStop TBC conference, which happens traditionally in November, has been advanced this year.

A large Global Company and NonStop customer emerged from a restructuring initiative led by new investors to increase profitability and cash flow, along with streamlining assets. There was also new services and partnerships to be considered in their planning process.

Business disruption is inevitable today. And increasingly it’s down to cyber incidents. Attacks caused $10.3bn in losses last year, in cases reported to the FBI alone.

It’s been a while since we reported on an N2TUG meeting, which was in June of 2019. For reasons we all know too well, there was no meeting held in the intervening years, but that changed on June 15th this year!

Wow! My first MexTUG (and first visit to Mexico City) was fantastic and went beyond all my
expectations.

NonStop is different, in case no one noticed, I figured I would finally say it. There is no GUI, no web browser, no user accessible HDMI, USB, or flash drives. The operating system is hardened, secure, with unmodifiable system memory.

There are numerous approaches to migrations. One HPE NonStop user said, “We fall forward,” meaning, they migrate their application to the new system NO MATTER WHAT, even if there are issues

PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) compliance is a set of security standards with which organizations who handle payment card data must comply. The purpose of these standards is to ensure that sensitive information like credit card numbers and personal data are protected from unauthorized access and theft.

HPE Integrity Detective was born as a result of frustration. Frustration with long-winded and laborious installation and configurations. Frustration with software which did 65% of

Gartner has started talking about a new ‘stalking horse’ called the Digital Immune System (DIS). In fact they say “By 2025, organizations that invest in building digital immunity will increase customer satisfaction by decreasing downtime by 80%.” As you might imagine when a NonStop person hears about ‘reducing downtime’ and ‘increasing customer satisfaction’ our ears perk up.

There is a reason why Margo and I travel to events by car. Those that know us well and see us walking to the registration desk will often ask what car we drove to the venue this time?

Well, here we are at the end of May and the prospect of Summer ahead of us.  It’s been a busy couple of months for Connect with lots to talk about.

As you may already know, our NonStop TBC conference, which happens traditionally in November, has been advanced this year.

A lot has been written about Enterprise Security over the years and there has been a marked shift away from perimeter protection and siloed enterprise applications and data security towards a more integrated data-centric security approach

The event exceeded everybody’s expectations in an era post-Covid where travel authorisation has become challenging. Customer numbers were only slightly

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.

Data volumes are soaring globally as the digital world continues to grow exponentially. By some estimates, the amount created, captured, copied, and consumed worldwide will grow by 24% year-on-year to hit 120 zettabytes by the end of 2023. It could reach as much as 181 zettabytes by 2025.

Well, here we are at the end of May and the prospect of Summer ahead of us.  It’s been a busy couple of months for Connect with lots to talk about.

As it appears evident this year, we’re all going to discuss of cyber resilience, isn’t it? Is it just marketing fluff and a new name for cyber security? Or is there more to it? Whenever there is a new trend in the industry, you invariably see everyone jumping on the bandwagon, claiming they have the best offering to address that problem. And why not.

Call it juxtaposition serendipity. Unpacking my bags following this year’s pan-European E-BITUG event in Edinburgh, Scotland, I happened to place this year’s celebratory coffee mug alongside one that I scored more than two decades ago when the European ITUG Spring Conference was held in Nice, France. The dates may indeed be separated by the years, but not the sentiment. The tradition that underpins these annual events is hard to ignore.

As you all may know, HPE is on a fiscal year which starts Nov 1 each year.  Traditionally NonStop usually has a great 4th quarter and the pattern is a soft First Quarter.  It’s not written in stone but falls into the general pattern for as long as I can remember.