
Anticipation, anticipation …
Is keepin’ me waitin’
–Carly Simon
When it comes to conferences and events, whereas there is value in finding time to reflect on all that took place in 2024, for your TCM team it’s all about what is to come in 2025. It might best be described as anticipation, but the reality is more a mixture of excitement with apprehension. Our preliminary calendar for support and participation in conferences and events has us traversing the globe, and that’s about the only apprehension we experience, but it is quickly offset by the excitement such global exposure generates.
“As it looks right now, our presence will be observed internationally from Australia with OzTUG to Canada with CTUG, not forgetting the big ones for us, eBITUG (Dublin) and NonStop Business and Technology Conference (Houston),” said TCM’s Andy Vasey. “And we do like the name change from NonStop TBC to HPE NonStop Technical and Business Conference as we believe it will be easier to market this annual event to senior management of our NonStop clients.” As it now stands, there will be additional events where you will see our presence. From what we saw in 2024, TCM is truly excited by what we saw with regard to NonStop customer participation, and clearly, from our standpoint, we anticipate similar, if not greater, NonStop community support in 2025.
The news of the appointment of Neil Davis to lead sales of NonStop worldwide as the Global Sales Director, HPE NonStop at Hewlett Packard Enterprise is being well received by community members we have conversed with as 2024 drew to a close. While at the INNUG (Netherlands) NonStop community event, “I had the opportunity to congratulate Neil on his latest appointment where Casey Taylor, VP & GM HPE NonStop, Compute, HPC & AI, was also in attendance, and there was no mistaking the positive vibe coming from them both,” said Andy Vasey.
While 2024 has seen NonStop nee Tandem Computers celebrate its golden anniversary where, several museum displays attracted considerable interest where event attendees could view NonStop and Tandem collectibles spanning five decades. While it was a reminder of where we came from, even as it brought smiles to many faces, it didn’t hold the attention of the viewer for all that long as what the next fifty years might hold for NonStop became central to many of the conversations that followed. 2024 might have been a time for nostalgia but 2025, it’s going to be transformational year with new management, new hardware, new software and operational options and even an acceleration in solution offerings for industry at large.
Let’s take a closer look at the big one for TCM. This year’s eGTUG / IT Symposium held in Berlin may still be talked about, however it’s now time to look ahead to E-BITUG, Dublin 2025. Considered by everyone at TCM as being held on home turf if for no other reason than our shared passion for golf and whisky, Dublin, as indeed Edinburgh has demonstrated in the past, promises to be transformational in that all that was covered in 2024 (as far as what product roadmaps promise), will be entering early adoptions and advanced Beta-testing. “Nostalgia for the past fifty years of Tandem Computers is all well and good,” said Andy Vasey, “but seeing the continued modernization of NonStop is sure to galvanize the community in support of what TCM views as the major European event of 2025.”
It is at these events that TCM promotes our own path to modernization. A path that has evolved with time as experience continues to develop. Gaining this experience has been an investment that TCM has not shied away from funding, and already results are beginning to appear. There is nothing better than to talk to those who have gone before. With the tools and services familiar to those just leaving educational institutions gaining momentum, not even the most jaded of NonStop professionals are prepared to ignore the contribution to productivity this modernization movement represents.
TCM has given a considerable amount of attention to our TCM InSight product. As recounted here numerous times, this was a natural next step for us given that InSight was a tool we used in our consulting role- it provided us with a baseline of information concerning all operational aspects of a client’s deployment of NonStop. When asked as many times as we were about the tools we were using, it only took a short while before productization was completed and we have been very pleased with the take-up by NonStop customers that followed.
Bringing a product to market was not the only highlight of the year, as we were engaged numerous times on modernization projects. “When we look at application modernization, our own path here at TCM has led us to develop and test a number of open-source tools that contribute to the true modernization of NonStop applications developers. These have been central to the presentations given at events in 2024, where TCM’s Shiva Subramanian has been at the forefront of their promotion. And we expect to hear even more from Shiva in 2025,” said Andy Vasey.
It goes without saying that we continue to be presented with stories about how the water level of the pool of experienced NonStop personnel keeps dropping. “Such a growing shortage of experienced and knowledgeable people waiting in the ranks to step in to fill positions vacated by those entering retirement has been driving new business for the services side of TCM. It’s a real problem but we have witnessed some success as we show NonStop customers how they can now employ developers straight out of educational institutions and have them using the same tools on NonStop that have traditionally been the domain of Linux developers.”
If this sounds familiar or your company, like many others, is anticipating a shortfall in NonStop expertise, particularly as you look into 2025 and see system upgrades and refreshes in the plan, then if working with TCM, we can always be found providing the optimum balance between timeliness and functionality. Like the majority of the NonStop community we talk to, anticipation has entered the conversation and whereas such anticipation may have been fraught with the prospect of projects being delayed, TCM is a resource that eases any such angst about all such future projects. We look forward to hearing from you, and yes, we will be repeating this throughout the year; consider this your encouragement to come see us in 2025 at eBITUG in Dublin and again at the HPE NonStop Technical and Business Conference in Houston.
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