Welcome to the TandemWorld Newsletter for November 2004.
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Contents
BrightStrand – New name announcement!!
TMF to Virtual TapeServer is Faster than to HP NonStop Disk
Idelji Introduces Remote Analyst
NetBatch™ to MultiBatch Conversion
IT Audit and Security Management
Integrated Research appoints new CEO.
TSI announces latest generation CT9841FC tape drives 
ETI-NET Announces the latest release of Backbox Virtual Tape
First beta site worldwide for Insession technologies
ITUG News
Employment
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BrightStrand – New name announcement!!
We are very pleased to advise you that from 1st November 2004, Sionet International Limited will be known as BrightStrand International Limited. We are now approaching our 6th anniversary and very proud of our achievements. The name change is yet another indication that we are moving on to the next exciting phase of our company development. There is no doubt that we would not be in this position, had it not been for the support received from our customers and partners. We really appreciate that support and look forward to building on it. 
A copy of the new logo can be obtained from our website www.brightstrand.com, which is already available for access. This will appear on all of our correspondence, merchandise, websites etc. from 1st November. 
We would be grateful if you would forward this information to your colleagues and again, we thank you for your invaluable support to date and look forward to working with you in the future under our new banner. 
For more information please contact BrightStrand via EMAIL or 00 44 (0) 141 204 4046
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TMF to Virtual TapeServer is Faster than to HP NonStop Disk
Many customers have opted to use NonStop backup-to-disk functions for their TMF Audit Trails and On-line Dumps because using tape was a slow process. 
Now, in a real-world benchmark test (using production data) at the world's largest Internet Service Provider, Virtual TapeServer achieved
a 20% performance improvement vs. TMF operations to NonStop disk. Using an extremely fast "on-the-fly" data compression algorithm, Virtual TapeServer writes significantly less data to inexpensive fault tolerant disk arrays, utilizing high-performance SCSI or Fibre Channel connections, outperforming native backup-to disk operations, while safely storing the data off of the NonStop platform. Additional system optimization is expected to increase this performance improvement. 
For more information,
contact TapeLabs at +1 (310) 577 1700 or visit the TapeLabs website at http://www.tapelabs.com. For EMEA please contact BrightStrand International at info@brightstrand.com or 00 44 (0) 141 204 4046
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Idelji Introduces Remote Analyst
Regular Analysis of your NonStop server just got simple with Remote Analyst. Remote Analyst is the NonStop communities' first truly automated, web-based, performance analysis service. View your reports anytime, anywhere, in a secured environment. Once you register at the site (www.RemoteAnalyst.com), there are three easy steps to get started: 
•	Download the Collector 
•	Collect data off your NonStop server 
•	Upload that data to Remote Analyst 
Within minutes, Remote Analyst will prepare in-depth reports to view online. Billed as a subscription service, Remote Analyst will provide you with all your performance analysis needs. Find out more and register for a one week free analysis at www.RemoteAnalyst.com 
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NetBatch™ to MultiBatch Conversion
MultiBatch is ITL’s mainframe class batch scheduler for the HP NonStop platforms, with the ability to run both GUARDIAN and/or OSS applications. See our website for further details, or alternatively see our partner Insession Technologies for details of an international distribution agreement between Insession and ITL: http://www.insession.com/multibatch/press_release_12-23-03.asp
For users of HP’s NonStop NetBatch batch scheduler, ITL have developed conversion routines to migrate NetBatch schedules into ITL’s MultiBatch system. 
By converting batch schedules to MultiBatch, users can avail themselves of continuous development of MultiBatch with the added confidence of the product being in-step with HP technical programmes for NSK. 
Some of the features MultiBatch provides are: parallel step processing; no JCL or OSS shell knowledge requirements; easy pin-pointing of job failures; job restart functionality; pre-run integrity checks, multi-level security. MultiBatch also incorporates a GUI interface (as well as Pathway) and an exciting new release of MultiBatch called: MCP (MultiBatch Control Point), due for delivery, Q1 2005.
MCP (MultiBatch Control Point)
The next generation of MultiBatch provides an improved set of facilities which will allow configuration, monitoring and creation of batch process management from a single interface. Dynamic configuration changes will also be available allowing a user (with appropriate security) to make configuration changes to a job, or jobs from within the MCP interface.
Ad-hoc queries against an SQL database will be available, e.g. "Show me all jobs which have abended within the last 7 days". 
Management Information reports will also be available, for viewing, printing or e-mailing; this facility could be used to graphically represent the numbers of consistent MultiBatch Unit failures, or to trend an increase in batch execution time over a period.
Further updates regarding MCP will be provided in future TandemWorld Newsletters.
SENTRA ES-M Hypervisor
SENTRA ES-M Hypervisor provides an integrated and customisable view of your middleware applications from a single graphical control point, whether the middleware is running on HP NonStop, Windows 2000/2003/NT, UNIX, or Linux.
Data from various sources is relayed to SENTRA ES-M Hypervisor, e.g. WebSphere MQ, the XPNET Layer, UNIX Syslogs, Message Server log files, EMS and OSS, along with State, Rate, Queue Monitoring and Interchange Metrics via XPNET extraction layers.
A ‘Flash’ demonstration of this product is available from ITL. 
ITANIUM
Insider Technologies Limited is registered with HP as a member of the Itanium validation program, enabling ITL to validate our solutions and ensure solution in readiness by First Customer Ship (FCS).
ITL is also a member of the NSAA (NonStop Advanced Architecture) group.
Reflex ‘User Group’ meeting
The next Reflex User Group meeting is scheduled for 7th December, at ITL’s Manchester office. Invites will be sent in due course to ITL’s Reflex / MultiBatch customer base.
For further information, copies of presentations, PDFs, etc, please contact Bernadette Doyle (Bernie.doyle@insidertech.co.uk) on +44 (0) 161 876 6606, or visit ITL’s website www.insidertech.co.uk
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IT Audit and Security Management
Corporate Computer Consultants Limited (CCCL - www.cccl.net ), leading IT audit and security management consultants, are delighted to announce the launch of ITSecuritySurveys.com www.itsecuritysurveys.com. ITSecuritySurveys.com was launched in the second quarter of this year, as a portal focussing on IT security surveys across all industry sectors. The site is based on findings from consultations with senior business and IT managers, who have had difficulties in obtaining external sources for IT security survey material. The aim of ITSecuritySurveys.com is to encourage greater dialogue in determining how IT security issues align with overall business objectives of organisations. We have also teamed up with Cygnus Business Consulting & Research to provide a regular industry monitor to site subscribers and clients. 
IT professionals who are responsible for or interested in security should have a look at this site for the latest benchmark surveys on IT security. In 2005, we plan a number of surveys, reviews, and articles focused around the HP NonStop (Tandem) platform. 
Next month www.itsecuritysurveys.com will publish its commissioned article on Intellectual Property/IT - "IP Protection and IT legal/commercial issues" an article by DR R Cooper CChem FRSC; Dip IP,an internationally recognised IP Lawyer of RT Coopers Solicitors. 
To get a copy of this article, subscribe to www.itsecuritysurveys.com or e-mail ebby.john@cccl.net with the title "IP Protection and IT legal/commercial issues" The article will be avaialble from 30 November 2004. 
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Integrated Research appoints new CEO. 
Mr Brian Gatfield, Chairman of Integrated Research Limited (ASX code: IRI) (IR), today announced the appointment of Mr Keith Andrews to the position of Chief Executive Officer of the Company, with effect from 1 November 2004. He succeeds Mr Steve Killelea, the founder CEO, who announced his retirement in March 2004, and will remain actively involved with the Company as a non-executive director.
Mr Andrews, 44, joins Integrated Research after over twenty years experience at senior management levels in the IT industry in Australia and overseas. He has most recently been providing interim CEO, directorial and corporate advisory services in the technology sector to both ASX-listed and private companies through Ellipsis Pacific. 
Previously, Mr Andrews held various positions with Stratus Technologies and its predecessor company, Stratus Computer, including Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand, and senior corporate roles based in the US and Asia. These roles gave him significant international experience in the ‘nonstop’ availability market, focused specifically on the ATM/EFTPOS solutions and telecommunications (VoIP) segments. 
In making the announcement, Mr Gatfield said: "We are very pleased Keith is joining Integrated Research. He has an ideal background to help us realise on the outstanding growth opportunities within the Company." 
Mr Killelea added: "The worldwide market place for our Prognosis suite of products and VoIP initiatives has never looked better. Keith’s international sales and marketing leadership experience in the US and Asia Pacific is an excellent fit for Integrated Research at this important time in its growth cycle. I am delighted to welcome him as my successor."
Responding, Mr Andrews said: "The opportunity to join Integrated Research is an ideal match with my experience and career goals. Most of my working life has been involved with mission critical technology solutions, and I am really looking forward to working with the fine team at IR." 
Contact: 
Steve Douglas
Integrated Research 
+44 1344 386671
steve.douglas@ir.com

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TSI announces latest generation CT9841FC tape drives
Tributary Systems, Inc. (TSI) announces availability of the new CT9841FC-x tape drives for HP NonStop S-series servers. These new CT9841FC-x tape drives, based on the 9840C technology, provide high capacity, high performance, greater reliability and are a replacement path for the CT9840-x series products. The CT9841FC-x tape drives are available in two library configurations, the HP CTL700/CTL700M and the StorageTek 9310 Powderhorn. These latest generation tape drives are available through the HP NonStop sales channel and are listed in the HP NonStop price book.
TSI is a storage solutions provider for HP platforms. For more information on TSI's new enterprise-level storage products, contact TSI European Sales: United Kingdom – Jim Elliott, +44 135 524 3500, TSI USA Sales at 1 (817) 354 8009 or visit the TSI website at http://www.tributary.com
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ETI-NET ANNOUNCES THE LATEST RELEASE OF BACKBOX VIRTUAL TAPE 
ETI-NET is pleased to announce the latest release of BackBox, V1.31. This release of BackBox expands a user’s configuration choices for storage of virtual tape volumes across multiple, independent disk pools, and it increases the overall robustness of the BackBox environment.
This new version provides:
Improved Fault Tolerance
· BackBox DataStores, configured as multiple independent pools of disks, automatically tolerate pool errors when writing tape. 
· BackBox "Bare-Metal Load" allows the Cold-Load of an HP NonStop system from a BackBox Virtual SIT tape. 
· Protection and Recovery of the NSK-resident BackBox catalog is now managed from Backup/TMF dumps written to BackBox virtual volumes. 
Advanced Load Balancing 
· The BackBox assigns virtual tape drives using a load-balancing algorithm. This assignment spreads the workload across all available BackBoxes and all virtual buses for better distribution of disk space in a multi-BackBox configuration. 
· The Auto-scratch mechanism recreates virtual volumes on the best path of the pool. 
· Load balancing distributes the job load of each BackBox across physical disks. 
· Local disk is allocated before Remote disk. 
· Disks with most free space used first. 
For more BackBox information visit www.etinet.com or contact us at information@etinet.com.
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First beta site worldwide for Insession technologies
A large switch based in Norway has just become the first beta site worldwide for Insession technologies to sign up for our HPR/IP module to ICE. 
The customer has been an Insession customer since February 1997 and have been utilising Insession’s ICE product for SNA communication between their HP NonStop and in-house IBM as well as 5 customer data centres throughout Norway.
The customer has decided to replace their mainframe environment with Unix, and as a consequence of this utilise their HP NonStop Server for SNA LU6.2 communication. Their initial ambition was to move their communication lines to pure IP, however the major stumbling block was the 5 data centres which were owned by more than 20 of their customers and all with large IBM centres. For them to switch to pure IP and be able to communicate with the HP NonStop Server they would need to spend a considerable amount of money re-writing many applications. 
The decision was made to identify alternative forms of communication. 18 months ago Insession began development on a product that hatched from the ICE technology to which 100’s of customers worldwide trust in, and allows SNA communications to travel over pure IP. 
The solution is called HPR/IP (Enterprise Extender) which resolves the issues of supporting hybrid IP networks and SNA application environments using High Performance Routing/Internet Protocol (HPR/IP). 
HPR/IP represents an alternative way to integrate SNA applications with an IP network and includes enhancements that improve APPN’s performance and reliability.
To find out more in depth details of HPR/IP and how this can help in your environment go to http://www.insession.com/nonstop/hprip/Default.asp
Alternatively call your local Insession representative on +44 1923 812721 or email jamesk@insession.com,

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ITUG Hot News
1. ITUG NonStop Availability Award winner announced
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2. ITUG Product Development Excellence Award winner announced
http://www.itug.org/member/product_award.cfm 

3. Sign up NOW for November 4th call with Pauline Nist! - Announcing the NonStop Customer Conference Call Program
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4. 2005 ITUG European Conference
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5. Instapoll
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6. Online Quick Start Service
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7. RUG Update 
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SCTUG: http://itug.org/regions/sctug.cfm
RUG & SIG Calendar
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Employment
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