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Happy Holidays to You and Yours!

This is the time of year when we reflect on how much we appreciate our customers, partners, and friends. Thank you all so much for your support this year and always.   We want to wish you all a joyful holiday season. May you enjoy the warmth of your friends and family and eat, drink, and be merry!     From All of Us at

 

 

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Insider Technologies – Can Help you Achieve NonStop/X Cost Savings

 

It’s an exceptionally busy time in the NonStop world. Most of our customers have already presented their NonStop X budgets to their respective leadership teams, some of which have had formal approval and are expecting their shiny new kit to be delivered as early as January. This has a big knock on effect for NonStop application providers, as we scramble to present new term licences and transfer fees to move applications to NSX.

 

Whilst these are hay making days for HPE, spare a thought for the IT manager who has to go to battle with a fearsome budget committee and ask for a significant investment for the NonStop and all the bells and whistles that go with it.

 

I had many a NonStop product owner cry on my shoulder at the ETBC and TBC and even more call me with an outpouring of emotion around how tough it is in their world at the moment and what could I possibly do to help!?

 

When sizing up a significant purchase, I tell my clients the same thing. Don’t be prepared to negotiate with the vendor alone. Get yourself ready for internal negotiations as well. This is often the most difficult part of securing the budget that you need to get the solution you require. Knowing your numbers is one thing, being able to present cost reduction alternatives in other areas will give you significant credibility and bring those pesky procurement people on to your side.

 

There are many solutions when it comes to monitoring the NonStop and NonStop applications. The most expensive one is a fantastic product that’s almost unlimited in its capability to monitor everything across the NonStop estate and is beloved by NonStop Operations teams across the globe. Of course, to maintain and manage such a powerful tool comes at a cost. And it can be a significant one.

 

If you, like many organisations, are looking to simplify your internal process and to focus on monitoring the data that is critical to your business, there are other solutions that can deliver your monitoring SLA’s and put a big fat smile on the face of your Procurement Director.

 

Reflex is a dynamic Operations and Service Management product for the HPE NonStop arena used by the world’s most demanding organisations. Reflex’s unique design lies in its ability to pull together a massive amount of active monitoring into a single set of screen objects, providing the means to diagnose a problem object in more detail via context sensitive drill-down. Performance monitoring is included, supplying Dashboards for the Business, Technical and Operational communities.

With the RTLX module, you can also get real-time monitoring and querying of transaction flow information created by ACI BASE24, ATM & POS applications and other payment engines. Status screens and hypervisors display the information visually.

 

And in most cases, we can offer more than a 50% saving against existing competitor contracts.

 

If you depend on the myriad of modules that these products offer, which are engrained within, then we absolutely recommend you stick with your current monitoring strategy. If, however, you are looking to reduce complexity, improve efficiencies and reduce cost, then please get in touch!

 

Insider Technologies would like to wish all of our customers, partners and friends, a very Happy Christmas and a prosperous 2020.

 

hello@insidertech.co.uk

+44 (0) 161 876 6606

 

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TANDsoft Introduces Blazing Fast FS Backup & Restore

 

Innovative TANDsoft Inc. is at it again with a new product developed specifically for a customer problem overheard at Boot Camp. Introducing FS Backup & Restore. It addresses the needs of NonStop customers whose hours-long backups are creating troublesome challenges within their processing environments.

FS Backup & Restore is efficient and blazing fast. It sends only changed data blocks to the HPE Backup program, whose inputs normally are whole files from disk. The result? Backup times that formerly would take hours now are reduced to minutes.

Here’s an example. A company must perform daily backups to tape in order to satisfy industry regulations. Every day, whole files are backed up, including any changes or modifications made to the files. This may take hours, with additional time required if data growth takes place. However, with FS Backup & Restore, only the changed data blocks are backed up on following days. Backup times are reduced significantly, and the subsequent weekly and monthly tape backups require far less processing time.

FS Backup & Restore supports Guardian Enscribe, SQL/MP tables, and OSS files. It can be installed without the need for any application modifications.

In addition to the new FS Backup & Restore, TANDsoft’s solutions include the OPTA2000 virtual clock- and time-zone simulator; FileSync for automatic file synchronization, replication, and data deduplication; and Sensitive Data Intercept (SDI) for protecting and masking sensitive data-at-rest in Enscribe, SQL/MP, and SQL/MX databases. All are easy to install, easy to use, and are backed by exceptional support. They are certified on NonStop X, vNonStop, and all other NonStop servers.

Learn more about TANDsoft solutions at www.tandsoft.com, or call us at +1 (514) 695-2234. We are an HPE Silver partner.

 

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