“CSP’s PassPort®"

has been enhanced to provide improved user accountability and command control capabilities, for your NonStop servers. Our product:

· Provides user and command control, password quality enforcement and comprehensive auditing

· CSP PassPort® allocates and filters user access to systems, programs and commands.

· Also monitors all user terminal input/output operations and provides an early warning for errors and non-permissible functions.

· Merged Audit: interrogation using the Safeguard reporting tool AuditView®

Version 5.21 provides is Itanium® ready and, in addition to its already impressive features, it now includes:

· OSS support

· Tighter Guardian system integration

· OBEY / EXEC file validation

· Significant Security improvements

Contact CSP at sales@CSPsecurity.com or visit us at www.CSPsecurity.com and enquire about an evaluation copy.

Availability Digest Promotes Recovery-Oriented Computing

The Availability Digest’s February issue examines how rapid recovery times promote user perception of a faultless system. Also highlighted are transaction replication, failover time’s role in NonStop system availability, and how Murphy’s Law sabotaged a well-designed but untested recovery plan.

Edited by Dr. Bill Highleyman, the Digest focuses on continuous processing architectures, with particular attention given to active/active technology. Each issue of the Digest features articles on the following topics: Case Studies, Never Again, Best Practices, Active/Active Topics, Recommended Reading, Product Review, and The Geek Corner.

The free Digest is published on the second Tuesday of each month. It includes useful article synopses as well as some complimentary articles. The detailed content of others is available by paid subscription. For more information, visit www.availabilitydigest.com.

Tributary Systems, Inc. (TSI) is pleased to announce a New European Partner

Tributary Systems, Inc. (TSI) is pleased to announce MeR.ITS GmbH as a distribution and support partner in Germany, Austria and Switzerland for its VITAL (Virtual Integrated Tape and Library) solution, TE 2000/2200 FIPS 140-2 Level 3 encryption products and TSI's direct-attached tape storage and automation solutions.

The CEO of MeR.ITS, Dr. Michael Rossbach is also the CEO of comForte GmbH. TSI is also pleased to announce that comForte will also recommend the TE2000/2200 tape encryption hardware solutions worldwide as a complement to its own security products.

Please contact Axel Hahn at MeR.ITS at ah@merits.de or +49-611-3411730 for additional information on TSI solutions in Europe, and Larry Meyers at lmeyers@tributary.com or 817-354-8009 for inquiries in the U.S.

CAIL Security Extensions

CAIL extends your security capabilities with full TLS 1.0 / SSL 3.1 and SSH secured Telnet and FTP sessions.

This enables organizations to easily and quickly improve system security - at no extra cost with current CAIL licenses, or as an upgrade for other software.

More specifically, CAIL / Suite enables you to securely connect to NonStop systems with TLS 1.0 / SSL 3.1 and SSH that is easy to install and configure.

In addition to authentication and encryption for both Telnet and FTP sessions between the PC and the NonStop Host, CAIL / Suite now also includes a TLS 1.0 / SSL 3.1 based NonStop FTP Client Proxy for secure file transfers between NonStop Hosts, or to other Hosts that support the FTPS standard.

For more information on enhancing system security and improving user productivity, please visit www.cail.com/techhigh

HP will be exhibiting their Virtual TapeServer solution in cooperation with Crossroads Systems, Inc. at the upcoming GE Healthcare Technology Conference (January 28 -31) in San Antonio, TX and at the RSA Conference (February 5 -
9) in San Francisco, CA.

The GE Healthcare Technology Conference is held annually for users of GE Healthcare's solutions. Many users of their Carecast solution, host this application on HP NonStop Servers. VTS has proven to be valuable to many healthcare providers, who need guaranteed access to stored information for long periods of time. For information regarding the GE Healthcare
Technology Conference, please visit: www.gehealthcare.com

RSA Conference 2007 is recognized as the premier international event for technology security, attracts 300 organizations to demonstrate and show their new product to a variety of vendors, analysts and journalists. HP and Crossroads will take advantage of their combined presence at RSA to offer live demonstrations of solutions designed to ensure the accessibility,
resiliency and security of vital data. For information about the RSA Conference, please visit: http://www.rsaconference.com/2007/us/

For more information about Virtual TapeServer, please visit the HP website
at:
http://h20223.www2.hp.com/NonStopComputing/cache/79759-0-0-225-121.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN and the Crossroads website at:
http://www.crossroads.com/Products/SurePath/VTS.asp

An FTP-like commandline program, copying Tandem Sql/Enscribe files directly into Ms Sql table, Ms Excel file, html or simple text file

Mirroring/replicating BASE24 (P)TLF data into Windows/Tandem destinations.The mirror process can manage up to 100 transaction/sec

During development of this utility, the BCD (Binary Coded Decimal) data format got supported. To test the utility we converted also the cobol definitions of the 12 DDL Dictionary files.

2. The BASE24 PTLF/TLF Structure Definitions has been enhanced to be able to digest into the Chip tokens.

Daylight Saving Time testing with OPTA2000-Time-Zone simulator

The OPTA2000-Time-Zone simulator product from TANDsoft, simplifies Daylight Saving Time testing.

NonStop applications can be tested for the new Daylight Saving Time transitions for 2007, without changing the NonStop Server system time.

With OPTA2000-Time-Zone, multiple Time Zones can exist on a single NonStop server, no application source code changes are required and all Native and Non-Native programming languages are supported.

Find out more at http://www.tandsoft.com/Products.html.

In addition to the standard SafeGuard features SafePoint 2007 OSS Security Solutions Include:

ITUG News

Save the Date for ITUG Europe 2007

Plan to attend ITUG Europe 2007 8-10 October in Brighton, England. You will not want to miss this unique opportunity to attend Europe’s premier event for NonStop users.

For ITUG partners planning to exhibit at ITUG Europe 2007, please view the ITUG Europe 2007 Sponsorship and Advertising Contract. For more sponsorship information, please contact Sara Matthys, ITUG Sales Manager at 1.312.673.4779 or at smatthys@itug.org.

BITUG - Ops Management SIG to be held on 13th February 2007. High attendance is expected for this first Special Interest Group of 2007. We have a good spread of presentations, focusing on Various Ops Management Issues with a selection of HP, User and Vendor presentations – not forgetting the Oh so useful Group Discussion session. For more information please consult www.bitug.com

OTUG - Time for another OTUG meeting. Please mark your calendar now for an OTUG Meeting on March 16th. This is a Friday. It will be held at the Chase Bank (used to be Bank One) Polaris location in Columbus, Ohio

SATUG 2007 Summit & AGM
The SATUG 2007 Summit & AGM will be taking place on the 20th and 21st February 2007, followed by a Security training day on the 22nd.This year we will be joined by HP Senior Representatives Randy Meyer, Director of NonStop Product Management and Neil Pringle, Director NED, EMEA. SATUG 2007 Delegate and Vendor Registration forms can now be downloaded from this website.

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