For as long as NonStop systems have been sold and yes, dating back to the days when Tandem Computers made its presence known to IT markets, the message being delivered to global markets centered on the Power of Parallelism. It was the ability to run processes in parallel on loosely coupled processors that enabled NonStop to be fault tolerant. This message provided a compelling story in support of the value for business of even the earliest of Tandem computers. So much so, that it was the only message that appeared on Tandem stock certificates.

The partnership between NTI and TANDsoft dates back to when first NTI added TANDsoft’s FileSync product to NTI’s data solutions. Of particular interest to NTI and its customers was FileSync’s ability to replicate and synchronize non-database files, including edit files as well as objects, source, blobs and TACL files. “Given the early success we experienced we have now added to our product offerings support for TANDsoft’s FS Backup and Restore and FS Compare,” said Dunne. Shortly, there will be further announcements coming as NTI adds FS Repair to its product portfolio.

NonStop and earlier, Tandem, all saw the potential of partnerships. From the very beginning they recognized the power of parallelism in addressing fault tolerance. Today, that message continues but equally as impressive has been the way the NonStop vendor community has embraced partnerships. Partnerships are equally just as powerful. NonStop vendors strong on marketing and sales can tap the development resources of partners to accelerate the delivery of products that complement core products and solutions.

“Adding greater business value to what our customers currently enjoy with NTI products is always a win-win situation no matter which way you look at it,” said Dunne. As NonStop continues to create data and as business continues to analyze to derive all important business insights, the power of partnership is on display in a tangible and meaningful manner and this is of benefit to both NTI and TANDsoft. 

With FS Compare now available from NTI have you been thinking about the value this will add to your NonStop deployment, we encourage you to call or email us – we will be happy to tell you more about our strategy, products and yes, all that NTI does to bring a better data replication, integration and transformation solutions to your business.

Network Technologies International, Inc.

635 Park Meadow Road, Suite 209

Westerville, Ohio 43081-2877

Phone: +1 (614) 794-6000

N.T.I. Limited 

Ard Mhuire

Camp Street

Oughterard 

Co. Galway

H91 K5PE

Ireland 

Phone: +353 (91) 463086

Imagine all of these IBM MQ 8 EMS events occurring on your NonStop systems. 

They all look the same, right?

Within Reflex Console (below), the structure of the events are better presented. From here, you can see that ALL MQ events contain the same SSID, Event Number and Subject tokens.

All meaningful data is presented in large text buffers. Pretty difficult for the Business to distinguish important events.

Reflex Console

Monitoring MQ Events

·        How do you decide which ones require investigation

·        How do you decide which MQ event to escalate

The same event (SSID / Event Number) occurs for all your MQ Managers, Queues and Channels.  Not very user friendly.

If something critical does occur, it can be difficult to identify, e.g. dead-letter queue full; queue depth limit reached; channel has stopped; queue not serviced within a specified time.

MQ Gate

To avoid the risk of ever missing those important MQ events, MQ Gate from Insider Technologies, takes these IBM MQ events and generates alternatives:

·        Unique Event Numbers

o   created from the ‘AMQnnnn’ number in the text buffer

·        Unique Subject Tokens, e.g. Channel Name

o   extracted from the text buffer

·        Unique Manager Tokens, i.e. the MQ Manager Name

o   extracted from the text buffer

Result:

·        No longer are you at risk of missing important events.

MQ EVENT ESCALATION

Using MQ Gate, you can identify the important MQ events that are critical to your business.

If no escalation, or graphical monitoring solution exists, then Insider’s NonStop complimentary systems monitoring product – REFLEX - provides a single pane of glass solution for all your NonStop systems, including IBM MQ.

The newly parsed MQ Gate events are received by individual Managers, Queues and Channels, where colour coded state changes occur for exception conditions.

 During this time of unprecedented uncertainty, we at XYPRO are concerned about the safety and health of our employees, their families, our customers and everyone who makes up our global community.

XYPRO is about problem-solving and we have been since the company’s founding in 1983. Like us, many of you have been in the process of keeping your business running and adapting to this new way of working. XYPRO started preparations in late January and you can review our process as documented by Dr. Melodie Bond-Hillman, XYPRO’s head of Human Resources.

The safety of your workforce, including their digital safety, is of paramount concern. We’ve seen a sharp uptick in the amount of cybercrime targeting the new “work from home” situation and there is no shortage of criminals looking to take advantage of chaos and fear–two things in abundance right now. It’s never been more important to continue being “security-aware” and staying vigilant.

Multi-Factor Authentication

According to Microsoft, 81% of data breaches occur due to weak, default or stolen credentials and 99% of these attacks can be blocked by implementing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).

MFA is an authentication method where a user is granted access only after successfully presenting two or more of the following pieces of information:

·        Something you know (password)

·        Something you have (security token)

·        Something you are (biometrics)

All it takes is one compromised account to one legacy application to cause a data breach. With the unfortunate increase in COVID-19 phishing scams targeting remote workers isolated from their day-to-day environments, there is no better time to implement multi-factor authentication across your critical applications, servers and services.

In addition to MFA, XYGATE User Authentication integrates your NonStop and application user IDs with Microsoft Active Directory, providing enterprise, global password policy enforcement. This ensures the same password policies within Active Directory apply to your NonStop servers and applications, removing the risk from weak or default passwords.

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NuWave Technologies has been extremely fortunate, as we haven't experienced a disruption to customer support or the rest of our business during the COVID-19 pandemic.

So, as we stay at home to flatten the curve, we have decided to offer additional help to our partners, customers, friends, and anyone who needs it.

We've all heard a lot about REST Web Services and how important they are to an organization's development strategy. You've probably also read about REST being used with Cloud services like AWS or Azure, and how API Gateways like MuleSoft and Apigee support RESTful API designs. Perhaps you might wonder, then:

• Which NonStop applications are benefiting from using RESTful API's out there?
• How practical is this for my NonStop environment?
• What do I need to do to leverage REST on NonStop?

In this webinar, we will discuss how some NonStop customers are using the LightWave REST product suite to extend their applications, as well as share some additional ideas on what else you can do with REST and NonStop.

Date: Wed, May 13, 2020 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT

Setting aside for a moment all the bizarre hoarding practices around the globe and your favourite Netflix movie,  the key lesson we’re learning from the lockdown is the importance of e-commerce, or ECOM, the ability to conduct trade remotely using traditional payment mechanisms of Card, P2P payments etc using trusted 3rd party trading platforms.   Ebay, Amazon & other online merchant aggregators have seen their volumes sky-rocket during the lockdown.  With not much else to spend your money on and the choice of products and services limited, folks have focussed their spare time on home baking, exercise with personal gym equipment, growing their own food, and other pastimes.  Oh and buying enormous quantities of food.

While the Brits hoard all sorts of bizarre toiletry products, our Russian friends instead chose to hoard cash, while in many other countries panic levels are growing about the cleanliness of cash and how it could help spread the dreaded virus. I’ve had the same cash in my wallet now for weeks, with no idea when I’ll be spending it.  However, have you noticed how we’ve all turned into remote purchasers? In the supermarket, please don’t show me your money, it had better be contactless or mobile payment; on the web it’s your favourite m-Wallet that’s paying.  I’ve even paid for several products and services in the last few weeks using direct account-to-account transfer using a digital bank service, so some of that money never even touched the card schemes at all. What’s perhaps more interesting is that these habits are intensifying and will likely endure even after the lockdown.

Where are we spending our money?  Let’s look again at the Supermarkets.  The increase in demand has put considerable strain on supermarket delivery services. Even long-term existing customers are struggling to get a meaningful slot.  It has to be hard for the online retail market to scale up quickly.  Every element of the pick, pack and delivery chain needs to scale up virtually overnight with little notice.  How do you purchase and equip another 300% of delivery vans?  Where do you locate them in order to load the goods?   Nonetheless, online retailers will emerge from this crisis in fine fettle.  The ones that innovated and scaled quickly will be tomorrow’s leaders. These new consumer habits will tend to stick. 

Many countries where e-commerce is only just taking off will see the biggest changes.  Laws to help consumers will encourage this practice, and the early entrants to the market will see the early-entrant advantage.

Who is helping these countries innovate in the scope of remote payment?  OmniPayments of course!  Our e-commerce offering makes it easier than ever for merchants & acquirers to process e-commerce payments, pay for bills, pay for services, make refunds, secure and protect merchants from fraud, P2P payments, relay cross-border remittances, and ensure timely settlement. 

With a rapid time to cloud-service, OmniPayments is leading the way in e-commerce, enabling adaptable merchants to strike a lead in the new world.  Need an experienced payments provider to launch your payments service?  We’re OmniPayments steering payments to a better place. You can sign up with us tomorrow.  Always OmniPayments. Always-ON.

Shadowbase Compare provides information at the file/table aggregate level, as well as down to the individual records/rows, and fields/columns. It is impossible to resolve or repair data issues when you do not know the primary keys of the offending records/rows and the specific data content that mismatches!

Shadowbase Compare supports verifying your Enscribe, SQL/MP, and SQL/MX datasets, and is most commonly used in business continuity architectures to provide assurance that the data is consistent. It works alongside any data replication product. It supports comparing active and off-line databases, in all BC architectures (active/passive, sizzling-hot-takeover, and active/active), regardless of where the data is being updated. It integrates with the Shadowbase data replication engine to eliminate any “false-positive” comparisons that can otherwise occur due to replication latency.

Shadowbase Compare is fast, using advanced data compression algorithms to reduce network traffic and improve efficiency. Our SQL/MP and SQL/MX features and comparisons are unrivaled, and we are working to enhance the performance of our Enscribe comparisons to incorporate the same technologies. Shadowbase Compare easily installs into database environments without application modification, and leverages NonStop fundamentals to provide parallelism and to scale even the largest of comparisons.

HPE Shadowbase Solutions Available for Attunity EOSL Product Replacement

Enhancing asynchronous replication, Shadowbase ZDL uses a patented method of synchronous replication, which eliminates the possibility of data loss caused by a disaster – potentially saving a business a huge expense, preserving lives, upholding its reputation, preventing lawsuits, and satisfying zero data loss regulatory requirements. Jonathan explains how he and the entire Gravic team are working to overcome the challenges involved with such important technology to avoid the significant costs from data loss!

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Numerous obstacles and challenges of switching are discussed, as well as the methods and architectures of migrating, and several important HPE Shadowbase solution features.

·        A Message from TIC Software: Leverage the Power of Shadowbase User Exits

Gravic and Shadowbase Support is Available During the Pandemic

Let me begin by saying that I hope you and your families are safe and doing well. We are living in an unprecedented moment in modern history. Fortunately, the “NonStop mindset” allows us to take on these challenges head-on. In these uncertain times, organizations and individuals will rely on essential businesses such as health services and financial institutions, many of which are current users of our solutions. Now more than ever, CSP is proud to support those essential businesses that rely on our trusted security solutions to protect the integrity of their applications.

Cyber-crime is a constantly evolving enterprise. Cyber-security threats are becoming more sophisticated, as cyber-criminals refine their methods of intrusion and attack. However, the past year has seen a resurgence in certain types of low-tech cyber-attacks that are nonetheless incredibly effective. Let’s discuss some of these resurgent types of attacks.

Business Email Compromise (BEC) is a type of scam that targets businesses working with foreign customers and suppliers, and/or businesses that regularly perform wire transfer payments. This scam is carried out by fraudsters compromising email accounts through social engineering or computer intrusion techniques to conduct the unauthorized transfer of funds.

BEC attacks take a variety of forms and target companies in many different industries, but the basic aim is the same: to gain access to a company’s network, often through a combination of phishing attacks and malware. This malware is then used to carry out surveillance on the organization and its senior executives. Later, at a time of their choosing, criminals can initiate the scam by sending emails, purportedly from senior executives, to someone in the organization (typically the finance department), and requesting an immediate transfer of funds.

Unfortunately, BEC scams are constantly evolving as fraudsters become more sophisticated and find new ways to carry out these attacks.

In 2019 Business Email Compromise represented $1.78 billion in losses, with $53.4 billion coming specifically from Corporate Data Breaches.

Phishing also remains one of the most effective entry points for cyber-attacks. More than a dozen banks in the US and Canada recently found themselves on the receiving end of a mobile phishing scam that claimed approximately 4,000 victims. In this case, scammers duped victims with messages containing links to phishing pages made to appear like legitimate mobile banking pages.

These fake banking websites were designed to look like the actual mobile versions of the institutional sites. They featured everything from the correct fonts, layouts, and sizing, to authentic links to related pages that users would expect on a banking website, including notices about security and privacy.

Consumers increasingly use mobile banking applications as their primary means to manage their finances, transfer funds, deposit checks, and pay bills. This makes the perfect target for cybercriminals who are starting to exploit these applications as a new attack vector.

Financial loss, reputational damage, time, resources, these types of attacks can create incalculable harm throughout an organization. Banks and other financial institutions have long been in the cross-hairs of scammers and these attacks are just the latest incident in a long line of cybercriminals targeting financial institutions.

These attack campaigns, whether via BEC or Phishing, are a low-risk/high-reward type of cyber-crime for hackers. This makes them a persistent threat to all businesses, especially financial institutions. There are many steps which can be taken to ensure that sensitive information is kept safe, including the use of strong passwords, the use of a mobile password manager to help keep passwords strong and unique across all of devices and accounts, locking applications when not in use, and signing out of accounts not being used.

The ability to verify a user's claimed identity through various authentication factors has become crucial for NonStop systems, especially for users that will be logging-on to business-critical applications. Ineffective authentication comes with significant direct and indirect risks, including compliance penalties, data theft, loss of customer trust, and significant loss of revenue. There is an over-reliance on insecure forms of authentication, such as passwords and security questions, this can lead to security gaps that create opportunities for intruders. 

By implementing additional security measures, such as strong passwords and the use of multi-factor authentication, users can prevent credentials from being compromised and avoid falling victim to these types of attacks.

Modern authentication methods represent a more robust security structure, and also provide a better user experience when logging into applications. MFA also makes it easier for auditors to get answers to critical compliance questions; providing information such as which users are granted access to which system, and also how the access policy is being reliably enforced. Additionally, some of the modern MFA applications available today also include reporting capabilities, which ensure that compliance standards, such as PCI DSS, are being met.

CSP Authenticator+™ Dashboard

CSP Authenticator+ can provide authentication services via Safeguard Authentication SEEP, or Pathway and Non-Pathway servers. Almost any application, including TACL, can now easily support multi-factor authentication (MFA).

Authentication methods such as RADIUS, RSA Cloud, Active Directory and Open LDAP are supported. Additional authentication methods include RSA SecurID, Email, Text Message, and Google Authenticator. You can now enable MFA logins for different applications, making them more secure! 

CSP Authenticator+ Key Features:

·        Configurable for all or selected users

·        Support for virtual addressing

Regards,