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Options to increase NonStop value ….

Interested in improving system security, modernizing applications, having more satisfied users, or leveraging information on NonStop to address new requirements ?

Want results fast ? 

Have you considered the important advantages of better positioning NonStop within corporate IT and increase value to the business ?

…. with no system or application changes

To explore your options to move systems forward, please visit the CAIL exhibit at the NonStop Symposium to learn more -

1. Embed 6530 sessions / information within applications to simplify systems for Users
2. PCI compliance / system security
3. Better integrating NonStop information services in enterprise IT infrastructure (and being part of a corporate standard for Host access and security)

www.cail.com/adapt        800-688-5769     905-940-9000              info@cail.com

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Please Visit Gravic at the Connect NonStop Symposium & Expo 2010

Please join us at the Connect Worldwide HP NonStop Symposium & Expo 2010, September 26-29 at the Fairmont Hotel & Resort in San Jose. This show is similar to the ITUG shows of the past, designed specifically for NonStop practitioners and managers, to hone your technical skills, sample HP and partner solutions, network with your community, and celebrate 35 years of NonStop innovation.

Please stop by Booth 22 for a chance to win an Amazon Kindle.

While at the show, we hope that you can attend these presentations:

·        Shadowbase Data Replication Case Studies for Mission Critical Business Needs by Paul J. Holenstein and Dick Davis of Gravic

·        State-of-the-Art Async and Sync Replication: Advances in High and Continuous Availability Architectures for NonStop Systems (Two Parts) by Paul J. Holenstein and John Hoffmann of Gravic

·        Active/Active Failover by Bill Highleyman, Availability Digest

·        Active/Active Networks, a preconference seminar by Bill Highleyman, Availability Digest

·        The HP-AOL Modernization Success Story by Rob Lesan of AOL

·        Leveraging SQL/MX: Better-Cheaper-Faster by Jon Healey, Stream Phase3, a SunGard Company

Please Visit Gravic at these Fall 2010 Shows:

CTUG Fall Conference

Canadian Tandem User Group

HP Headquarters

Mississauga, Ontario

October 27-28

 

ACE Africa 2010: ACI Customer Exchange

ACI Africa User Group Conference

Hyatt Regency

Rosebank, Johannesburg, South Africa

November 3-4

 

BITUG National NonStop Meeting: The BIG SIG

British Isles NonStop User Group

HP Offices & Trinity House

London, England

December 1-2

For additional information about Gravic’s products and services, including free whitepapers on how Shadowbase data replication solutions can solve your company’s business continuity, data integration and synchronization, application modernization, and real-time business intelligence challenges, please visit: www.gravic.com/shadowbase.

 

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Check Out NuWave's Games at the NonStop Symposium

I know you're all wondering: is NuWave Technologies attending the NonStop Symposium?

Of course we are--it's the first big NonStop-only event in years!

We are very excited to have this event back in San Jose and to see that the focus is back on Tandem.

We look forward to connecting with all the users as well as our fellow vendors.

Not only is NuWave exhibiting, but we're also bringing along some new goodies.

We'll raffle off a remote controlled helicopter AND we'll have a helicopter simulation computer game to play during the exposition, so come visit us at booth #36! 

For those of you interested in learning about enterprise services buses (ESBs) and how your NonStop environment can benefit from the use of one, come to our vendor session "Moving Beyond Web Services" on Tuesday, September 28th from 1-1:45pm.

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Computer Security Products is looking forward to meeting you at the NonStop Symposium in San Jose.

This year CSP will be addressing how to extend security beyond NonStop servers.

We will show how CSP products are designed to provide security administration and audit reporting capabilities to other platforms in the enterprise. Security management for GUARDIAN and OSS continues to be CSP’s core focus, however managing your security policies is now becoming even easier by bringing the same concept to managing your UNIX environment.

Learn, what CSP is doing to help organizations efficiently manage their security policies across platforms in the enterprise.

We look forward to seeing you at our presentation on Monday at 1:00PM #407 in the Crystal room to hear how NonStop servers can play a key role in Enterprise security.

3 Reasons to join us in San Jose

    * learn how common security administration tools can be used for multiple platforms.

    * understand, how CSP products help to reduce the risk of unauthorized system access

    * hear about development projects and product news, in particular aiming to help organizations meet their audit requirements

In case you would like to reserve your individual meeting slot and discuss this with CSP in greater detail, please contact sales@cspsecurity.com.

 

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"Path to SOA" Webinar Recording Now Available

In this webinar, NuWave's president gives a high-level presentation on the fundamentals of SOA and how HP NonStop users can benefit from web enabling their applications. He also describes the business drivers for this technology, the challenges associated with it, and how to develop an implementation strategy. Topics include: 

§  Planning an SOA initiative

§  Moving beyond web enabling (including automating business processes)

§  Transforming the role of Tandem

§  Steps to SOA enabling your applications

§  Best practices  and a recipe for success

To watch the video, just register. Or, to see a list of all recorded webinars, try out some online tools, and learn more about the best NonStop web enabling software, visit our resources page

 

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TANDsoft Announces New Command Stream Replicator

Command Stream Replicator (CSR) is the latest addition to the TANDsoft product suite. CSR automatically replicates DDL structure and other environment changes to target systems – changes and settings that normally are not replicated because they sit outside the TMF Audit Trail. CSR supports Enscribe, SQL/MP, and SQL/MX databases as well as FUP, SQLCI, MXCI, SCF, and TACL utilities. Efficient command-only replication ensures minimal requirements for operator intervention.

Command Stream Replicator information will be available in Booth #33 at the upcoming NonStop Symposium and Expo in San Jose, California. The Symposium will include TANDsoft President Jack Di Giacomo and Royal Bank of Canada Manager Grant Lowe co-speaking on “Time-Zone Simulation Helps Royal Bank of Canada Consolidate Data Centers.”

Also new from TANDsoft is increased functionality for the Enscribe-2-SQL Toolkit’s support of dynamic SQL.

TANDsoft’s “best of breed, best in price” philosophy offers highly competitive value for all TANDsoft solutions. They include Command Stream Replicator, FileSync for automatic file synchronization and replication, the OPTA2000 clock and time-zone simulator, and the Enscribe-2-SQL and TMF-Audit Toolkits. For more information, visit www.tandsoft.com. Or call us at +1 (514) 695-2234.

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Availability Digest Highlights Wells Fargo’s Active/Active ATM Network

From its 19^th century operation of the American Wild West’s Pony Express to its current position as one of the top four banks in the United States, Wells Fargo has been a pioneer in bringing banking convenience to its customers.  The Availability Digest’s September issue highlights Wells Fargo’s early adoption of ATM technology and the bank’s current use of active/active architecture and NonStop systems to avoid the hassle to patrons of ATM downtime.   

Other topics in this month’s Digest include examining the cause of American Eagle Outfitter’s eight-day website outage, updating the findings behind WestHost’s fire- suppression test fiasco, and exploring the most current techniques to detect and resolve or to avoid altogether the data-collision threat arising from the use of asynchronous replication.

Digest Managing Editor Dr. Bill Highleyman will be a presenter at the upcoming NonStop Symposium in San Jose, California, USA.  On September 26^th, join Bill for an all-day, preconference seminar - “Achieving Continuous Availability with Active/Active Networks.”  You can also hear him speak on “Active/Active Fast Failover” on Monday, September 27^th, at 2pm. 

Published monthly, the Digest is free and lives at www.availabilitydigest.com.  Our new “Useful Links” page is a great resource for use in the online research of products and services focused on high- and continuous availability and mission-critical systems. 

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French User Group

In case you do not know or remember myself, just let you know I have been working 3 years at Banamex/Mexico on Tandem systems and then 23 years at Tandem/Compaq/HP in France at various technical positions.

I left HP 4 years ago to create my own consulting company (NSAS) and with this job I would like to organize, in the autumn this year, a one day meeting for French NonStop customers dedicated to NonStop partners tools and products.

This could be the restart of the French tandem Users group which has been dissolved 5 years ago and a good opportunity for you to (re)connect with french customers. The exact date is not yet fixed as I am looking at NonStop events being organized around Europe to reduce travel costs for people possibly coming from USA or Canada and also to avoid agenda conflicts.

Let me know if you are interested in participating to this event and what you would like to do. Depending on the number of answers, this event can be one room with tables to let you present yourself and your products. If required we may have access to NonStop server for specific demos.

Depending on your requirements and the number of answers , if could be free or I may request a small fee (100 Euros?) for you to participate.

I have done a small survey during the customer meeting at HP France in may and every answer was very positive.

I also have support from European Nonstop presales manager Esther Sanchez and from Connect president Chris Koppe.

For your information I will be at Connect NonStop event in San Jose within a few weeks, so if you are there too, this could be a good opportunity to talk about this project, but before this I would like to have an idea of people interested in participate.

Please email me here to express your Interest.

I will keep you informed on the conclusion of this "survey".

Best regards

Yves Tournier 

NSAS NonStop Availability Services

www.nsas.fr

Tel +33(0)6 1480 3175

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XYGATE Software Exceeds Regulatory Auditing Requirements for HP NonStop Systems

State of the art auditing & compliance solution to ship
with latest HP Integrity NonStop operating system

(September 14, 2010) Simi Valley, CA – XYPRO Technology Corporation, a leading provider of security software and services for HP NonStop server environments, today announced its audit and reporting solution, XYGATE Merged Audit (XMA) software, will be included in the HP NonStop Operating System Mission-Critical Edition software package.

This XMA software addition will allow customers to better monitor the state of their mission-critical systems.  XMA collects, filters, normalizes, and writes audit data from a variety of sources across dozens of systems in an HP NonStop system network.  The software then writes data to a consolidated NonStop SQL database.  These advances will allow security administrators to efficiently produce reports based on audit data from one or multiple sources, create real-time alerts for specific events, and feed many off-box central audit logging devices or SIEMs (Security Incident Event Monitor), such as the HP Compliance Log Warehouse (CLW), facilitating Integrity NonStop server participation in an Enterprise Security Program.

“Security has changed drastically over the last five years,” said Sheila Johnson, XYPRO’s CEO.   “Starting in September, customers who purchase new HP NonStop servers running on the J Series or H Series platform will receive XMA on their system.”

HP NonStop customers who wish to upgrade their existing systems can purchase an OS upgrade package that includes XMA software and entitles them to new versions of the product going forward.  XMA software also continues to be available for individual purchase and direct support from XYPRO.   

“In the current climate, many businesses are under increasing pressure to comply with regulatory audit standards – all while protecting their mission-critical data and resources,” said Randy Meyer, Director of NonStop Product Management, Strategy and Technology at HP. “HP is working with XYPRO to provide clients with solutions that simplify risk management and increase effectiveness of system monitoring in complex information security environments.”

“Bundling XMA software as part of the OS distribution provides customers with greater consistency, significant savings, comprehensive audit consolidation, and reporting,” said Lisa Partridge, XYPRO’s Vice President of Sales & Marketing.  “We are excited to work with HP to bring best-of-class security to the HP NonStop user community.”

About XYPRO

XYPRO Technology offers more than 27 years of knowledge, experience and success in providing HP NonStop information systems tools and services.  Businesses that manage and transport business-critical data turn to XYPRO for a variety of solutions. XYPRO helps businesses to better manage security risks, protect assets and gain a competitive edge through compliance while improving efficiency.  www.xypro.com

XYPRO Contact:

Lisa Partridge

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Ross Systems International SAFEGUARD™ Reporting Feedback

Our article in last month’s Tandem World was very well received with a huge number of readers, Thank You.

We also receive some very valuable and interesting feedback the gist of which was that it was not just the determination of how the system was protected by SAFEGUARD, which was the subject of my last white paper, which you can still download using the link below, but also how to set up SAFEGUARD on a database.

The general moan seemed to be even with the most recent point and click interfaces and the inclusion of DISKFILE-PATTERNS in the SAFECOM  and SPI interfaces the job of protecting a system using SAFEGUARD was very messy and did not really represent the way in which most system managers think.

The problem can be likened to trying to paint a picture and rather than having broad brushes to spread many different types of paint on over the broad range of the canvass one is limited to having a small brush which can paint only one pixel at a time and a paint a square tool.

The problem is thus encapsulated in the poorness of the SAFEGUARD descriptive language whether expressed directly or in the form of point and click favoured by many GUI interfaces which are all constrained by the problems of granting or denying access to a file to a given user under a given set of conditions.

Would it not be nice to have a descriptive language where once could say for instance:

FOR ALL SQL FILES DISKS CALLED name_pattern_list
EXCEPT WHEN ALREADY SAFEGUARD PROTECTED OR
BELONGING TO USERS user_pattern_list OR
LAST ACCESSED time WEEKS AGO
DENY ACCESS TO ALL USERS EXCEPT user_pattern_list AND
GRANT ACCESS TO user_acl_list

Or
GUARDIAN PROTECT USING rwep

Or something like that and then having an engine which could compile this into the corresponding SAFEGAURD commands. It would also be even more revolutionary to have a decompiler which could look at a system and generate a description of the SAFEGUARD status of the system from what it found:

ALL DISKS NOT SAFEGUARD PROTECTED
EXCEPT pattern FILES ON DISKS CALLED name_pattern_list
BELONGING TO user_pattern_list AND
LAST ACCESSED WITHIN time WEEKS AGO
ACCESS DENIED TO ALL USERS EXCEPT user_pattern_list AND
ACCESS GRANTED TO user_acl_list

The terms round trip engineering and object modelling spring immediately to mind with the quantum leap which always accompanies the transition from purely context free declarative and imperative languages into context dependant natural languages of which our own is an example.

It also has the property of combining the GUARDIAN and SAFEGUARD environments into a holistic whole, which is what they are in reality.

We are working with our partners to further this idea and decide what is required for it to be a success. Your ideas too would be more than welcome.

In the meanwhile you will simply have to manage with the existing facilities which are contained your favourite package or in our current version of FINFO as shown by last month’s white paper.

Download:  WHITE PAPER

Product:     FINFO Version 3.3

Availability: Now.

Trial:          30 day trial license available on request.

Email:        Rupert Stanley, rupert@rsi-ns.com

Telephone: +44-1206-392923

Web: http://www.rsi-ns.com/

 

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Crystal Point Introduces OutsideView 8.1 - a Major Advancement in NonStop Host Connectivity

Crystal Point, the world’s leading provider of PC connectivity software for NonStop™ systems, today introduced a new release of OutsideView, the company’s popular host connectivity solution. OutsideView 8.1 was designed to become a stronger tool; targeting time savings and increased productivity through new features and enhancements that include:

·       Microsoft® Windows 7 Certified

·       Modernized look and feel with user selectable themes and live thumbnail views

·       Identity Caching for rapid login, session cloning (and a real time saver)

·       Enhanced Failover/Failback capabilities for core Enterprise architecture and individual sessions

·       Extended context recognition for dynamic, user definable tool bars

·       Advanced .Net API to create new automations or custom tools

·       Host-to-Host file transfer

·       NonStop-aware text editor integrated with SFTP/FTPS/FTP file transfer

·       Upload files to Multiple Hosts

·       Enhanced Logging

“Our goal is to always stay in touch with our customers’ needs and requests, and bring the latest connectivity technology to the NonStop market.  I think customers will see in OutsideView 8.1 that we have done just that.  The new features and functionality will make their jobs easier, more productive and efficient.” said Chris Smith, President and CEO, Crystal Point.   

“What I like about OutsideView 8.1 is the advances with secure file transfer handling, such as file attribute control, and lateral host-to-host transfers. I also really like the ease of configuration of the new function key toolbars”, says Wili McKinney of Ericsson.

OutsideView 8.1 is available now. Contact Crystal Point for additional information and to learn more about other Crystal Point solutions.

About Crystal Point
For more than twenty years, Crystal Point has been recognized as the worldwide leader in PC-to-host connectivity software for NonStop systems. Crystal Point developed the original Tandem terminal emulator (TTE) and evolved it into its flagship product, OutsideView. OutsideView continues to be the #1 NonStop 6530 connectivity solution, used by more Fortune 500 companies than any other product of its kind

www.crystalpoint.com