Make sure you are ALWAYS ready!

The U.S. government operates 28 systems that are at least a quarter century old and 11 systems that are more than 35 years old. It annually spends USD $60 billion, 75% of its IT budget, to keep the systems operational. Just finding the skill sets to maintain old systems is increasingly difficult. The original programmers have retired, and less than 25% of university computer-science programs teach old-school skills such as COBOL.

“The U.S. Government’s IT Fossils” examines the challenges faced when a company – or in this case a government – runs its mission-critical systems on fragile, often unmaintainable technologies. Beyond the operational issues and consequences of outages looms the specter of security risks. Many older systems are impossible to secure against cyberattacks.

In addition to “The U.S. Government’s IT Fossils,” read the following articles in the Availability Digest’s February 2016 issue:

Hacktivism – The art of hacking, or breaking into a computer system, for a politically or socially motivated purpose is called hacktivism (think activism). Hacktivists are not cyber criminals in the traditional sense. They do not break into computer systems to steal money or data. Instead, they illegally access systems – typically websites – to make a statement. How does a company protect itself against hactivist groups like Anonymous? Several strategies appear promising.

The HPE Helion Private Cloud and Cloud Broker Services – HPE Helion is a complete portfolio of cloud products and services that offer enterprise security, scalability, and performance. Helion enables customers to deploy open and secure hybrid cloud solutions that integrate private cloud services, public cloud services, and existing IT assets to allow their IT departments to respond to fast changing market conditions and to get applications to market faster. HPE Helion is based on the open-source OpenStack cloud technology.

Software Documentation – The role of software documentation has changed a great deal over the last several decades. Moving from the extensive upfront documentation of the Waterfall model to the minimal documentation of the Agile method, software documentation is now more a matter of inclusion within existing code than it is of writing large documents to guide code development. Although self-documenting languages are now the norm, it is a concern of many in IT that today’s casual attitude toward documentation can lead to problems later for application maintenance, clearly understood user manuals, and marketing communications.

@availabilitydig – The Twitter Feed of Outages - Our article highlights some of the numerous tweets that were favorited and retweeted in recent days.

The Availability Digest offers one-day and multi-day seminars on High Availability: Concepts and Practices. Seminars are given both onsite and online and are tailored to an organization’s specific needs. We also offer technical and marketing writing services as well as consulting services.

Published monthly, the Digest is free and lives at www.availabilitydigest.com. Please visit our Continuous Availability Forum on LinkedIn. We’re at 739 members and counting. Participate in our recent thread, “Does Big Data Require Continuous Availability?” Follow us as well on Twitter @availabilitydig.

 

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The future may indeed look “so bright, I gotta wear shades,” as I wrote in my closing of last month’s musings. And yet, for many within the NonStop community there’s still an element of uncertainty, driven in part by news coming from some of the biggest members of the NonStop community, about the future of NonStop inside their data center. Last month, in my IR sponsored webinar on NonStop - Vision, Strategy and Goals I was pretty specific in my take on some of the news I was hearing – enterprises may now be acting out on information, indeed perceptions, taking root some 3 and even 4 years ago.

So, what are the two biggest drivers to greater acceptance of NonStop? I am asked this more than once a week – what will contribute to the future growth of NonStop systems? I reference just the two biggest drivers, as once you get past them all else pales into more or less insignificance that takes very little to correct. Without any need to remove our shades we can see that NonStop will get its big boost from greater support within HPE even as it gets an even bigger boost from a greater variety of application, middleware and solutions vendors.

No plan is without a certain degree of risk, even as the idea of growth often needs to be hedged. In the financial world, they don’t call it hedging for nothing. And for the first few weeks of 2016 the losses being racked up on stock exchanges around the world are terrifying to many to the point where I don’t think you can hedge enough to offset the real losses being incurred. But as with supporting capital markets, any future envisioned for NonStop comes with risk and a need to hedge.

It was back in late 1988, after leaving Tandem Computers having been in senior management positions (as was the case for Margo) and then experienced the returns generated by the sale of a start-up, Insession, to publicly-traded ACI Worldwide, for a brief period Margo and I became day traders. It was awful, even as it was life changing. Taking a vacation to Asia towards the end of 1999 meant spending every moment of our onshore time inside some Internet café, trading.

With the ITUG Europe event of 2000 to be held in Vienna (together with DECUS), followed by a brief European vacation, Margo called to ask if I would mind if she sold everything and parked our gains in cash till we returned from Europe? Hedging wasn’t really something to be considered Margo noted as this carried too much risk when left unmonitored. No problem, came my response with the recent experiences in Asia still fresh in my mind. It was as only when we climbed the stairs of the bus taking us from the hotel to the conference that we heard news of the enormous sell off on markets worldwide. Enough to qualify as a crash and we dodged it. Lucky? Fortunate? All of the above, of course so much so we never returned to day trading handing the cash we had accumulated to the same professional team we had just selected to manage ITUG’s cash funds.

The point is, timing, speculation, and even hedging comes with a price and for the NonStop community it’s all too easy to sit back and let situations unfold and then suggest we knew all the time that this, or that, was going to happen. It is the NonStop community that still holds many of the cards that will influence HPE over the future of NonStop. HPE has placed its own sizable bet on NonStop – there’s no escaping the fact that in today’s tech world the quarter billion investment “bet” in NonStop that HPE made when of all the Mission Critical Servers within the portfolio only NonStop made the cut and was ported to the Intel x86 architecture.

Furthermore, with all the talk and presentations on the need for a transformation to a hybrid architecture, it was NonStop with InfiniBand that saw project Yuma launched to significantly up the ante for those considering hybrid NonStop / Linux configurations. And just how much Linus is propelling clouds forwards? Well, certainly the likes of Amazon and Salesforce.com. Taking an out and “parking technology” while the company took a vacation was never an option for HPE and the exposure to pure luck was never a consideration.

The plan for NonStop, even within HPE, was risky after all, by all accounts. Three projects initiated to port HP-UX to x86 were terminated to where, eventually, the centerpiece for HPE Mission Critical Servers, the SuperDome X, only runs Linux, Windows and VMware today … No HP-UX! So, yes, HPE gets it: SuperDome X and NonStop X, and they can be configured as hybrids via the InfiniBand fabric, applications on Linux, NS SQL on NonStop. MySQL on Linux, and a payments solution on NonStop! And any combination of the two that you like! Yes, HPE is riding the value proposition of NonStop into the future world of hybrid infrastructures.

As for any surge in new applications on NonStop the answer here is right in front of us – ALL applications will be able to run on HPE supported hybrid infrastructure where NonStop adds value – yes, there’s always a role for fault tolerance and no, clustering and replication can’t match the price performance NonStop provides. With the arrival of ServerSide Java Script support on NonStop and the considerable improvements in performance of Java, the most modern of applications can be fired up on NonStop with little to no change; want to open a chat session in a window of your payments solution screen then check out any of the freely available chat solutions developed in JavaScript – and yes, demonstrated running from a NonStop X system to a live audience during the NonStop Technical Boot Camp.

When it comes to finance, it may be wise sometimes to cash out and walk or sail away. It may be also prudent to hedge your bets and take a pause from looking to port solutions to NonStop. But no more! HPE is with the program. NonStop is attracting even more investment by HPE as a software solution running, as we are now hearing, on virtual machines. So if HPE gets it and there’s now no limit on the number of modern applications running on hybrids that include NonStop – the rest remains in our hands, the NonStop community. Have you made the decision to wear shades? Or, are you on the sideline, standing in the shade or worse, behind the hedge?

Richard Buckle
Founder and CEO

Pyalla Technologies, LLC
Email:             richard@pyalla-technologies.com

Have you participated in any of our recent webinars? In the third installment in his recent series of updates, Richard Buckle provided his unique insight on the vision, strategy and goals of the new Hewlett Packard Enterprise organization (HPE) and on the NonStop platform. If you would like to replay any or all of these webinars,  you can still view all three via the IR web site at the following URLs:

Webinar: House of Cards – NonStop X & Hybrid Computing

Webinar: 2015 NonStop Technical Bootcamp Recap

Webinar: NonStop X: The New Goal – Independence from Systems Infrastructure

Look for additional webinars coming over the next few months from Richard and the IR team, where the topic will focus more directly on payments. We are seeing a renewed interest from the payments industry in NonStop systems, which translates into new opportunities for IR. This elevated level of interest in NonStop certainly includes the NonStop X series and the new NS3 X1 in particular. The decisions made by HPE to invest significant R&D dollars in NonStop systems comes as a welcome relief for me and the team at IR.

As I wrapped up last month’s article, I wrote of how we see IT continuing to evolve into a very complex world, with new technologies taking us in directions we didn’t think would be possible.  And yet, one of the real strengths of Prognosis is that it already has a strong foothold in the new technology vision now being promoted by HPE. In particular, Prognosis excels as an infrastructure management solution, as well as managing mission critical payment processing applications.  We have customers already running Prognosis on NonStop, Unix, Windows and Linux platforms.  Supported operating systems include NonStop, HP-UX, AIX, Linux and Solaris. Prognosis is even pulling transactional data off mainframe based applications. Given the growing popularity of virtualization, including private cloud usage and the new focus on this area by HPE, Prognosis includes comprehensive monitoring of hypervisors, including VMware.

When I think of how we have been watching the rise in popularity of particular platforms, I think back to when I first heard of the saying, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Having viewed the presentations by Buckle, it’s hard to miss his use of pictures to illustrate this complex world of technology. Visualizing something helps with recognition and can even elicit a specific call to action. I think we can all recall how we felt as we sat anxiously in front of our televisions to watch Neil Armstrong step off the Lunar lander to make the first footprints on the moon; a landscape never before touched by mankind. Visualization is a powerful form of communication and indeed, looking at the schematics on display inside some data centers, it’s easy to see why a picture, chart, or dashboard is worth a thousand words. 

Perhaps the single biggest feature of Prognosis is its powerful visual representation of all that is happening within an enterprise’s data center. What’s running, how it’s performing and the resources being consumed can be depicted via intuitive dashboards and reports. Even today, nothing grabs the attention of data center operators as much as an icon suddenly flashing red. Inside many of these data centers you will also often see newsfeeds from cable providers such as CNN, CNBC and FOX being displayed. Not only are the internal workings of the data center important to monitor, but watching what is happening in the ever shrinking outside world is also every bit as important. When a snowstorm brings down power lines across a region, networks may fail and customer service levels can be severely impacted – something immediately recognizable from a picture of a journalist standing knee deep in snow.

It is this visualization provided by Prognosis as it is running across multiple systems including NonStop, Linux as well as virtual machines, that is an important consideration for everyone in the IT community. NonStop the system, NonStop the software and NonStop the service all have the potential to change operations dynamics considerably. As data centers transform and embrace hybrid infrastructure, it will not be good enough to know what’s taking place on a single node or a single system.  New applications will likely span many systems with the application itself on one server, the database on another server, the network terminating on a third, and static web pages coming from a different server entirely.

Technology is indeed becoming increasingly complex.  Tools like Prognosis that provide visual immediate feedback on what is taking place deep within mission critical systems are now required by those charged with the responsibility of keeping an enterprise in business. If your plans include deployment of the new NonStop X systems, Prognosis is enabled for the platform and is already in production use. IR is also ready to support customers who are about to step into the hybrid world of NonStop and Linux (with Yuma). If application monitoring is important to your enterprise, then visualize this – it can all be monitored by Prognosis. 

 
Andre Cuenin
andre.cuenin@ir.com
+1 303 390 8732
 

XYPRO - Cyber Crime Report has Important Insights for NonStop Users

The latest reports on IT security all seem to point to a similar a trend—both the frequency and costs of cyber crime are increasing.  While that may not be too surprising, the underlying details and sub-trends can sometimes be unexpected and informative.  The Ponemon Institute’s recent report, “2015 Cost of Cyber Crime Study: Global”, sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, definitely provides some noteworthy findings which may be useful for NonStop users.

Here are a few key findings of that Ponemon study which I found insightful:

• Cyber crime cost is highest in industry verticals that also rely heavily on NonStop systems

Source: Ponemon Institute “2015 Cost of Cyber Crime Study: Global”

The report finds that cost of cyber crime is highest, by far, in the Financial Services and Utilities & Energy sectors, with average annualize costs of $13.5 million and $12.8 million, respectively.  As we know from HPE user group presentations, these two verticals are greatly dependent on NonStop.  Other verticals with high average cyber crime costs that are also major users of NonStop systems include Industrial, Transportation, Communications and Retail industries.  So, while we’ve not seen the NonStop platform in the news for security breaches, it’s clear that NonStop systems operate in industries frequently targeted by cyber criminals and which suffer high costs of cyber crime—which means NonStop systems should be protected accordingly.

• Business disruption and information loss are the most expensive consequences of cyber crime
  Among the participants in the study, business disruption and information loss represented the two most expensive sources of external costs, 39% and 35% of costs, respectively. Given the types of mission-critical business applications that often run on the NonStop platform, these sources of cyber crime cost should be of high-interest to NonStop users and protected against (for example: protecting against data breaches with a NonStop tokenization or encryption solution, like HPE SecureData and XYGATE Data Protection(XDP)).

< Related products: XYGATE Data Protection (XDP) and HPE SecureData >

• Malicious insider threat is most expensive and difficult to resolve per incident

Source: Ponemon Institute “2015 Cost of Cyber Crime Study: Global”

The report found that 98-99% of the companies experienced attacks from virus, worms, Trojans and malware.  However, while those types of attacks were most widespread, they had the lowest cost impact with an average cost of $1,900 (weighted by attack frequency).  Alternatively, while the study found that “only” 35% of companies had had malicious insider attacks, those attacks took the longest to detect and resolve (on average, over 54 days!).  And with an average cost per incident of $144,542, malicious insider attacks were far more expensive than other cyber crime types.  Malicious insiders typically have the most knowledge when it comes to deployed security measures, which allows them to knowingly circumvent them and hide their activities.  As a first step, locking your system down and properly securing access based on NonStop best practices outlined inXYPRO’s NonStop security manuals, the HPE NonStop Security Hardening Guide and corporate policy will ensure users only have access to the resources needed to do their jobs.  As a second, and critical layer, actively monitoring activity for suspicious behavior and deviation from normal established process can ensure suspicious activity is detected and alerted on before it culminates into an expensive breach.  XYPRO’s patenting pending SecurityOne provides real time Security Intelligence and Analytics for the HPE NonStop Server.  It is designed to actively detect NonStop specific indicators of compromise and alert on suspicious activity.
< Related products:  XYGATE SecurityOne (XS1), XYGATE Compliance PRO (XSW, XYGATE Merged Audit (XMA),XYGATE User Authentication (XUA), XYGATE Access Control (XAC), and XYGATE Object Security (XOS) >

• Basic security is often lacking
  Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the study, to me at least, was that so few of the companies had common security solutions deployed. Only 50% of companies in the study had implemented access governance tools and fewer than 45% had deployed security intelligence systems or data protection solutions (i.e., encryption).  From a NonStop perspective, this highlights the critical importance of basic security principles, such as:  strong user authentication, policies of minimum required access and least privileges, no shared super-user accounts, activity and event logging and auditing, and integration of the NonStop system with an enterprise SIEM (like HPE ArcSight).  It’s very important to note that HPE includesXYGATE User Authentication (XUA) and XYGATE Merged Audit (XMA) in the NonStop Security Bundle, so most NonStop customers already have much of this capability.  Hopefully, the NonStop community is more security conscious than the participants in this study—but we can’t be sure and it’s worth reviewing whether security fundamentals are being followed.

< Related products:  XYGATE SecurityOne (XS1), XYGATE Data Protection (XDP), XYGATE Access Control (XAC),XYGATE Compliance PRO (XSW), XYGATE Merged Audit (XMA), XYGATE User Authentication (XUA) >

• Security solutions have strong ROI

• While it’s dismaying to see that so few companies had deployed important security solutions, there is good news in that the report shows that implementation of those solutions can have a strong ROI. For example, the study found that security intelligence systems had a 23% ROI and encryption technologies had a 21% ROI.  Access governance had a 13% ROI.  So while these security solutions aren’t as widely deployed as they should be, there is a good business case to putting them in place.

Source: Ponemon Institute “2015 Cost of Cyber Crime Study: Global”

Those are just a few takeaways from an excellent study; there are many additional interesting points made in the report and it’s worth a full read.  As always, if you have questions about NonStop security, please feel free to contact me (email: kenneth.scudder@xypro.com) or your XYPRO sales representative.

Statistics and information in this article are based on the Ponemon Institute “2015 Cost of Cyber Crime Study: Global” sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (http://www8.hp.com/us/en/software-solutions/ponemon-cyber-security-report/)

Ken Scudder

Sr. Director, Business Development and Strategic Alliances

XYPRO Technology Corporation

Among the most widely read surveys in the industry is the recent “Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends 2016.”

According to Gartner, the seventh trend on their 2016 list centers on what they call Adaptive Security Architecture. In a recent article on this year’s trends, Forbes magazine described Adaptive Security Architecture as the idea that “… companies must build security into all business processes, end to end, versus only blocking the virtual perimeter. Keeping security as an afterthought is tantamount to inviting issues.”

NuWave Technologies will be attending several of the spring NonStop events, both in the US and in Europe. Now is your chance to learn more about how you can bring your NonStop applications into the modern age!

SunTUG: March 4-5
MRTUG: March 15
OTUG: March 17
GTUG: April 18-20
BITUG: May 12

Learn more about these events on NuWave's website.

Interested in connecting with us at these events? Email Gabrielle Guerrera (gguerrera@nuwavetech.com) for US events or David Ross (davidross@nuwavetech.com) for International events to schedule a time to meet.

·       MD5/MD5-Inc

·       File Type

·       Last Modified

·       File Status Changes

·       File Owner

·       Security Type (Safeguard or Non-Safeguard)

·       Safeguard Security Vectors

·       Guardian Security Mask

·       Group Access

·       Set UId

·       Set GId

·       EOF

We look forward to seeing you at the following events. HPE globally licenses, sells, services, and supports Gravic’s leading-edge Shadowbase solutions under the name HPE Shadowbase. We hope to share with you how the HPE Shadowbase product suite can provide solutions to your most pressing business issues for business continuity, data integration and synchronization, and application integration.

To speak with us about your data replication and data integration needs, please visit us at www.ShadowbaseSoftware.com, email us at SBProductManagement@gravic.com, or call us at +1.610.647.6250.

The MRTUG Board has set up or next meeting for March 15, 2016 in Oak Brook, IL.  Please look at the details and register for the group event MRTUG - Meeting March 15, 2016, which has been added to the Chapters: Midwest Region (MRTUG) Chapter group on www.connect-community.org.

To view the group event details, please click the link below:

http://www.connect-community.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=773181

Agenda as follows:

MRTUG - Meeting Agenda

March 15, 2016

Resource 1 Facility

701 Harger Rd. Suite 100 | Oak Brook, IL 60523

8:30 – 9:00       Registration & Continental Breakfast – provided courtesy by HPE

9:00 – 9:15 Welcome, Opening Remarks, MRTUG Business - Ted Padgett, MRTUG President / John Sesolak HPE Liaison, kick off of the meeting

9:15 – 9:45 Tom Moylan/Jeff Skinner/ HPE NonStop Americas Sales Manager- NonStop Update

9:45 – 10:30      HPE Roadmap and Futures – Wendy Bartlett – What’s new and what’s on the horizon, including YUMA and NonStop virtualization

10:30 – 10:45     Mid morning break

10:45 – 11:15     XYGATE SecurityOne Solution and XDP, Compliance Pro update,– Kevin Boham –

11:15 – 12:00     HPE NonStop X – Wendy Bartlett – Technical Overview and Migration

12:00 – 12:50           Lunch – provided courtesy of HPE

12:50 – 1:00      Connect & Technical Boot Camp Update – Hear all the excitement & what happened in 2015 and plans for 2016 big event from John Sesolak. 

1:00 – 1:30 Modern NonStop management via Cloud- Khody Khodayari– Overview: Online monitor, along with Cloud analytics, offer current view, along with deep analytics, behavior analyses, and accurate growth projections

1:30 – 2:00 Reducing Downtime and Eliminating Risk for Disruptive Migrations with HPE Shadowbase Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) Technology - Paul J. Holenstein, EVP– This presentation will demonstrate how customers are leveraging HPE Shadowbase solutions to perform zero downtime migrations for otherwise risky and disruptive application, database, and operating system upgrades

2:00 – 2:30 HPE IOT Demo – Keith Moore –The Internet of Things (IoT) is the hot topic for next generation of the Internet. NonStop servers are great enablers for collection, analysis, and distribution of this new type of information.

2:30 – 2:45       Mid afternoon break –

2:45 – 3:30       NonStop Security Update – Wendy Bartlett – New options to protect data in motion and data at rest and more

3:30 – 4:00 HPE Atalla update – Ed Adams – Update on NSP’s and ESKM and trends

4:00 – 4:30 Node.js Update – HPE Keith Moore – Deeper dive on Node.JS and the NonStop Environment

 4:30 Prize drawings and closing: 

MRTUG wishes to thank its sponsoring partners for their generous support.

Special thanks to our partners Resource1, HPE, Xypro & Gravic and Idelji

The OTUG Spring Meeting is scheduled for March 17^th, at the JP Morgan Chase Polaris facility, in Columbus, OH.  The event is scheduled to begin at 8:30 AM and end around 4:30 PM.

 The provisional OTUG board (Jen, Marilyn, Dave, Rick and myself) has the distinct honor of having Distinguished Technologist, Wendy Bartlett, join us for the day. Wendy will present some new and exciting topics for HPE NonStop including high speed (DMA) Linux/Windows to NonStop.  The agenda is displayed below and is also attached in a PDF. Feel free to pass it on to others who may be interested in attending.

We encourage you to spend time with an impressive group of knowledgeable presenters, before you head out for St. Patrick ’s Day festivities.

Please RSVP directly at the Connect web site:  Register at:  http://www.connect-community.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=773222. Keep in mind that Connect membership is free for Chapter Affiliates, or you may join the full Connect membership. 

If you have any problems with registration, please send Jen Perry (jennifer.j.perry@jpmorgan.com) or myself an email.

We look forward to your participation!

Jen, Marilyn, Dave, Rick and Steve

OTUG - Meeting Agenda

March 17, 2016

Register at:  http://www.connect-community.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=773222

JPMC JP Morgan Chase - 1111 Polaris Parkway

Columbus, OH 43240-205 - Room 1D0269

8:30 – 9:00                           Registration & Continental Breakfast – provided courtesy by HPE

9:00 – 9:15                           Welcome, Opening Remarks, MRTUG Business -  Steve Barker, OTUG President / John Sesolak HPE Liaison, kick off of the meeting

9:15 – 9:45                           Tom Moylan HPE NonStop Americas Sales Manager- NonStop Update

9:45 – 10:30                        HPE Roadmap and Futures – Wendy Bartlett – What’s new and what’s on the horizon, including YUMA and NonStop virtualization

 10:30 – 10:45                     Mid morning break

10:45 – 11:15                      XYGATE SecurityOne Solution and XDP, Compliance Pro update,– Dale Van Stratten – the evolution of Security on the NonStop is designed to actively detect NonStop specific Indicators of Compromise and alert on suspicious activity

11:15 – 12:00                      HPE NonStop X – Wendy Bartlett – Technical Overview and Migration

12:00 – 12:50                      Lunch – provided courtesy of HPE

12:50 – 1:00                        Connect & Technical Boot Camp Update – Hear all the excitement & what happened in 2015 and plans for 2016 big event from John Sesolak. 

1:00 – 1:30                           Modern NonStop management via Cloud- Khody Khodayari– Overview: Online monitor, along with Cloud analytics, offer current view, along with deep analytics, behavior analyses, and accurate growth projections

1:30 – 2:00                           Reducing Downtime and Eliminating Risk for Disruptive Migrations with HPE Shadowbase Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) Technology - Paul J. Holenstein, EVP– This presentation will demonstrate how customers are leveraging HPE Shadowbase solutions to perform zero downtime migrations for otherwise risky and disruptive application, database, and operating system upgrades

2:00 – 2:30                           HPE IOT Demo – Keith Moore –The Internet of Things (IoT) is the hot topic for next generation of the Internet. NonStop servers are great enablers for collection, analysis, and distribution of this new type of information.

2:30 – 2:45                           Mid afternoon break –

2:45 – 3:30                           NonStop Security Update – Wendy Bartlett – New options to protect data in motion and data at rest and more

3:30 – 4:00                           Modernization through Integration– Gabrielle Guerrera NuWave – Learn how to modernize your NonStop applications by integrating them with other platforms, applications, and Web services.

4:00 – 4:30                           The Precedent and The Threat - Steve Kubick Comforte – Protecting sensitive data, why it matters to you and your company. We will also mention the comForte products that are new in the HPE price to help protect data.

4:30                                       Prize drawings and closing: 

OTUG wishes to thank its sponsoring partners for their generous support.

Find out more about us at www.tandemworld.net