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We are really pleased to announce that you can automatically migrate to HPE NonStop environment from Oracle, MS SQL Server, IBM DB2, SAP Sybase, Informix, PostgreSQL and other platforms.

With Ispirer Migration and Modernization Toolkit 2015 – Ispirer MnMTK 2015 the move to NonStop is fast and cost-effective.

We can achieve fully automated migration process of data and business logic through flexibility of our technology. Ispirer technical team has many years of experience in cross-platform migration projects of different levels of complexity.

Ispirer enrolled as a HPE Technology Partner at Silver Level.

With the new Ready for Technology Partner Program, we will be able to design, test, and promote Ispirer Migration and Modernization Toolkit developed especially to perform migration to HPE platforms. Being a Silver Partner, Ispirer is able to test database migration by Ispirer MnMTK 2015 in connection with HPE Business Units, such as NonStop. Working in close liaison with HPE helps us delivering high value software to HPE clients.

In the February 2014 and April 2015 issues of The Availability Digest, we described an hours-long Lloyds Banking Group outage as the result of a server failure and then a failover fault. Recently, a Digest subscriber contacted us with a more accurate accounting of the outage’s cause. It appears that a rare firmware bug resulted in the simultaneous failure of multiple CPUs in an NS16200.

“Lloyds Banking Group Outage – A Correction” includes a detailed description of the CPU failure and the challenges Lloyds encountered in failing over to the unaffected server in the active/active system. Since the compromised server was actually “sick but not dead,” the failover did not take place automatically. In fact, it is quite possible that many companies do not take into consideration the “sick but not dead” scenario when they test their failover procedures. Lloyds’ firmware bug may have been impossible to recreate in failover testing, but how many other “sick but not dead” scenarios that can be tested are not tested?

In addition to “Lloyds Banking Group Outage – A Correction,” read the following articles in the Availability Digest’s January 2017 issue:

What if GPS Fails? – Digest Managing Editor Dr. Bill Highleyman counts on GPS when he drives and when he flies. It is a daily essential for him as well as for billions of others worldwide. But our GPS systems are vulnerable from both natural and manmade threats. It’s one of the reasons why the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is updating its old Loran ground-based system, now eLoran, to use as a reliable GPS backup.

The Fallacy of Classic Availability Theory – Math alert! In this article, the Availability Digest points out a fallacy in classic availability theory. MTBF, the Mean Time Between Failures, is the average time between failures of a system. MTR, the Mean Time to Repair, is the average time it takes to repair a system. In classic availability theory, MTBF and MTR are random variables and are considered memoryless. In other words, the event (the failure of the system or the repair of the system) is independent of what has happened in the past and will have no impact on future occurrences. We think that is incorrect because availability in the real world is time-based. Memory exists. As such, we introduce MTTF – Mean Time to Failure.

The High-Availability Design Spectrum – Part 2 – In last month’s Digest, we focused on the first four of 23 areas that Dr. Terry Critchley lists as having an impact on the availability of IT business services. In Part 2, Dr. Critchley discusses the next nine areas. All can be found in his book, High Availability IT Services, now available for rent or purchase on Amazon’s Kindle.

@availabilitydig – The Twitter Feed of Outages - Our article highlights some of our 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 for a variety of industries as well as consulting services on risk assessment and system architecture. We ghostwrite for others and have years of experience in writing patent disclosures.

Published monthly, the Digest is free and lives at www.availabilitydigest.com. Please visit our Continuous Availability Forum on LinkedIn. We’re at 788 members and counting. Follow us as well on Twitter @availabilitydig.
 

 By Glenn Garrahan, Director HPE Business for Tributary Systems

• Storage Director reduces costs
  • Floor space
  • Energy
  • Number of tape libraries, drives and other hardware
  • Manpower
  • CPU cycles
  • DASD
  • Using the most cost effective storage media by data pool
• Storage Director Improves Performance
  • Speedy access to data
  • Reliability
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Data migration
  • Disaster recovery
• Storage Director Consolidates Backup/Recovery/DR
  • Eliminates the need for multiple backup solutions for multiple server platforms (Mainframe, Power Systems/AS/400/iSeries, NonStop, open etc.)

ggarrahan@tributary.com or visit our website: www.tributary.com

We think broadening the reach of NonStop, as vNonStop will surely do, is good news for everyone in the NonStop community. Of course, the more we read of HPE NonStop developers talking up the benefits of virtual NonStop (vNonStop), the more excited we become. And why wouldn’t we be excited – if anything will help grow the base of NonStop users then surely vNonStop will be responsible for considerable expansion of the base in the coming years.

While our success on NonStop has come from helping some of the biggest users of NonStop we are still surprised to hear about companies nowhere near as big still devoting operational resources to scripting file transfers – how many people still write their own sort / merge utilities? Isn’t it time you took a good long look at how much this is costing you and how potentially unreliable has it become not to mention the ongoing support costs? And if all you contemplate doing with vNonStop is to deploy them among development groups – won’t you be moving even more files?

There’s a reason too why there’s acceptance of server requestor or client server or even application and applet – someone has the data and someone else needs to see or process it. For that reason too DataExpress can reside at either end of the exchange – happily sending files just as it can readily receive them.  The great news is that we have always been able to tailor the cost of our products for lower volume transfer opportunities, on smaller footprint machines etc., so we can adjust as appropriately as the new customers’ market would require. However, for now this great news is tempered somewhat by our concerns here at DataExpress as to the hardware vNonStop will run on – how much reliability will be lost when running vNonStop on less fault tolerant hardware?

DataExpress has a lot of experience with poor reliability and the impact this has on all applications as a result of DataExpress customers running DXOP on hardware that has not been scaled to meet the ongoing growth of the file transfer demands. All too often we see our product performing badly simply as a result of inadequate hardware capacity planning exercises. One customer in particular drew our attention to such performance degradation with DXOP routinely failing for them. But as soon as they upgraded their ten year old hardware, DXOP performed like the super star we know it is!

We would hate to hear of customers forming opinions about vNonStop based on their own experiences with flawed hardware configurations. And yet, will users moving to vNonStop expect it to perform that same as if it were running on a big Blade system? Or the latest NonStop X system? One can hardly expect a desktop PC to perform the same as much larger machines we are used to seeing NonStop running on today – we are more than certain that there is a good reason why such NonStop systems are so big!

However, as HPE NonStop developers talk up the benefits of vNonStop perhaps the real story here is not of existing NonStop users migrating to vNonStop (on hardware of their own choosing) but rather, existing x86 server farms – even those providing Software as a Service (SaaS) or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - turning to vNonStop in support of critical databases and applications. And with these server farms and / or clouds, DataExpress can certainly prove valuable.

If you prefer to run DataExpress as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (Iaas) then send us an email because today both DXNS and DXOP can easily be configured to run from within the cloud, and be engaged as a service! You may have already seen us making this announcement but it’s a message for the entire NonStop community looking at likely scenarios for running vNonStop.  

We are even prepared to offer the management of such a service where a customer could tell us they have xxx files in yyy location to be sent daily/weekly/monthly to zzz and we could set it all up for them and manage it end to end. And we could do it for multiple customers. Remember our software can reach out and “get” files as well as “push” files, so the customer could even be totally “non-IT knowledgeable” and still take advantage of sophisticated software with quality oversight and management.

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email:                   sales@dataexpress.com

Did you know? Now you can use FIC’s new Multi-Node “Guardian Fileset Compare” feature to compare the attributes of any two file sets on any two systems against each other, e.g. between production and disaster recovery systems.

Multi-Node Compare allows you to ensure that no unwanted or unauthorized changes occur during the synchronization of files between systems.

FIC (File Integrity Checker) can be used to verify file sets over time on a single system or across multiple systems to: 

·       Compare, Report and Alert on changes to multiple filesets

·       Monitor software objects as they are promoted from development, staging and production environments

·       Compare, report and Alert on variations of multiple database record counts

·       Monitor changes to application configuration files and critical operating system files

Why is FIC crucial to NonStop security?

NonStop systems are now being used in far more dynamic situations and have more external connections than ever before. File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) is considered a crucial part of protecting business assets and a requirement for PCI compliance (PCIDSS requirement 11.5).

Enter CSP's File Integrity Checker (FIC), which gives you the ability to check multiple filesets, enabling the verification of groups of critical files more often (i.e. hourly) and less critical files less often (i.e. daily or weekly).

CSP's File Integrity Checker: it's the complete solution for NonStop File Integrity!

So what can you do if certain files are too sensitive to wait for changes to be analyzed? Use CSP’s Alert-Plus to immediately invoke notifications (alerts) and investigative remedial actions.

Alert-Plus receives data from Safeguard Audit, EMS messages, ACI’s BASE24 messages and CSP solutions like PassPort, CRM & FIC and can forward them to any number of data warehouse products such as HP ArcSight, RSA Envision and NETIQ Log Management.

For more information on CSP solutions visit www.cspsecurity.com

For complimentary access to CSP-Wiki®, an extensive repository of NonStop security knowledge and best practices, please visit wiki.cspsecurity.com

We Built the Wiki for NonStop Security ^TM.

Regards,

The CSP Team     

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XYPRO - NonStop Technical Bootcamp 2016 – Five Great Takeaways

NonStop Technical Bootcamp 2016 – Five Great Take Aways

Since I started with XYPRO over 10 years ago, I’ve been to a few NonStop events. This year’s NonStop Technical Bootcamp was big. Nearly 500 attendees crowded the hallways, conference rooms and lobby bar at the Fairmont in San Jose. The atmosphere felt electric and immersive. There was a lot going on over the 5 days of festivities, so I’ll boil it down to the 5 key takeaways I found the most exciting.

XYPRO Announces OEM Partnership with HPE Security – Data Security

One of the first highlights of the event was XYPRO’s major announcement of a strategic OEM partnership with HPE Security – Data Security, formerly known as Voltage Security. XYPRO unveiled the newly evolved partnership during the Sunday beer bust. This was followed up throughout the week with multiple sessions describing the importance of the relationship and the extended benefits to NonStop customers and others wishing to protect data at the source. The OEM relationship now engineers XYPRO Data Protection (XDP) with HPE SecureData, making HPE SecureData a solution called “Transparent Data Protection” the pre-eminent solution for protecting your sensitive data on your HPE NonStop servers, as well as seamlessly across the enterprise.

Actionable Insight through Intelligent Data

A year ago, at NonStop Technical Bootcamp 2015, XYPRO revealed XYGATE SecurityOne® (XS1), our vision and new product line for providing real-time, intelligent and actionable security information to the industry. This year we were able to update progress and new features such as data trending and CLIM Risk Monitoring. We also discussed how XS1 has been deployed at customers to meet stringent requirements and how they are already extracting value.

Using patent pending technology, XS1 gathers data from multiple, disparate HPE NonStop server sources; including application and system data, subsystems, user behavior, file operations, network data, command input and other sources and uses specialized security intelligence algorithms to correlate, contextualize and analyze events to paint a detailed security incident picture in real time. This enables users to detect security events before they culminate in an incident or breach.

With its newly introduced trending capabilities, XS1 leverages what it has learned about the past to help crystalize what is happening in the present and warn you may happen in the future. It’s no secret – everyone wants a better understanding of their data to make quicker and more accurate decisions. Being able to understand what happened in the past helps you better understand how it will affect the future.

To go from concept to deployment in less than a year was no small feat. This was mostly due to a lot of hard work and late hours from our engineering team, a lot of market research and close relationships and feedback from our customers using the solution. This ensures XS1 fits the needs of today’s mission critical environments.

Customer Presentations

HPE NonStop technical Bootcamp was bookended by two important – not to miss – customer sessions.

Paul Freeman, Information Security Manager at TSYS presented how TSYS began a major effort to migrate away from unsupported legacy security system that was deeply integrated into their HPE NonStop environment. TSYS had to deal with a slew of requirements including limiting internal disruption, maintaining current capabilities, the ability to add new functionality to their applications, meet some very demanding internal and external compliance regulations and of course, budget. This was a multi-year process that included evaluating a variety of potential solutions from both internal and external sources. TSYS ultimately chose the XYGATE Suite of products from XYPRO to protect their HPE NonStop environment. Paul described in detail how the TSYS requirements were met by the XYGATE suite and how XYPRO’s technical team was able to deliver and implement the new solutions on a tight deadline.

One Wednesday, Chris Draper, AVP at Wells Fargo Bank, presented Wells Fargo’s experience as an early adopter of XYPRO’s newest solution, XYGATE SecurityOne® (XS1). Chris laid out the bank’s requirements, which included proactive monitoring, intelligent and actionable data and behavior analysis of their applications and environment. Wells Fargo, as is the case with most organizations today, wanted insight on the data they already have to allow them to make quicker decisions earlier in the process. At the same time, they need context applied to the data to determine which events are actionable and which are benign.  This knowledge allows them to focus their efforts and resources on items that warrant action. XS1 has allowed them to meet those requirements. Chris described specific use cases in which they’ve been able to leverage the solution internally.

In Chris’s words, “XYGATE SecurityOne fulfills the vision of where we want to be with security. It’s the right solution at the right time”. Chris is a fantastic presenter and needless to say, this created a lot of buzz at our booth and in the hallways. Chris’s presentation is available on www.nonstopbootcamp.com.

The Under 40 SIG

I started working at XYPRO when I was 23. For the next several years, I remained the youngest person at the company.  Over the last few years, I’ve seen the culture at our company get younger and hungrier. New ideas, new methods, and new ways of thinking. When I heard Navid Khodayari of Idelji was organizing an Under 40 SIG, I was all over it. I was interested to see how the others were addressing the challenge of introducing NonStop to a new generation. To keep the industry viable long term. Needless to say, we weren’t the only ones with this issue on our radar. The SIG had about 50 participants, from both vendors and customers. The discussion circled around finding a new crop of talent, onboarding and training younger folks and capturing that large repository of NonStop knowledge that exists with the seasoned veterans of the NonStop industry. There is a lot of work to be done and we had some great ideas to put into place over the next few months. It was refreshing to see the industry as a whole has taken notice and given us youngsters the opportunity to showcase our talents to catapult NonStop into the next generation.

vNonStop

In early 2016 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, HPE demonstrated the virtual NonStop (vNonStop) concept. vNonStop is HPE’s advance in virtualizing the NonStop operating system. vNonStop enables customers to take full advantage of all the fault tolerant capabilities of a NonStop server, without the upfront investment in hardware. This allows users to create a NonStop guest VM, similar to how you would stand up a Windows or Linux VM using KVM (think of KVM as a VMWare or Hyper-V alternative) as the hypervisor. This technology and its vision was front and center at this year’s NonStop Technical Bootcamp. HPE even had a fully functional demo unit on the show floor. Andy Bergholz, Director of HPE NonStop Engineering, laid out a detailed vision and the advantages of the vNonStop and the importance of it to HPE’s future. The advantages of this technology are profound. Virtualizing the NonStop core allows for faster deployment of systems and applications, massive scalability, flexibility in sizing up and sizing down your infrastructure as needed and much more. I’ve seen Andy present on this topic multiple times now and he does as fantastic job of articulating the importance and relevance of this technology. The advancements in 2017 are going to be fun.

It really was a whirlwind week. We got to meet some terrific people, attended excellent sessions and had some amazing fun. But now that we’re back and have had a chance to unwind and decompress, the real excitement starts. Everything picked up from the week in San Jose gets put in motion for 2017 and the list is big. XYPRO is well into our vNonStop validation efforts, with our newest OEM announcement, the HPE Security – Data Security partnership is stronger than it has ever been, XS1 is taking off like a rocket ship and new product innovation is happening at a feverish pace in our R&D department. 2017 looks brighter than ever for XYPRO and for the NonStop community as a whole.

Finally, a couple of short notes of appreciation from the XYPRO team to Connect for organizing another extremely valuable event. Thank you to all the customers and partners involved well as to the HPE staff who dedicated so much of their time to pull the schedule and content together. It was a blast.

We’re all looking forward to seeing everyone again next year!

Steve Tcherchian
Chief Information Security Officer
XYPRO Technology

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Elsewhere in social media channels I mused about the return to growth and popularity of the HPE NonStop team and its products. More importantly, I suspect, was my musings about how this is beginning to have an impact on the NonStop vendor community. How so, you may ask? In the dealings I have had of late with the vendor community it’s clear to me that, for some of the vendors, the corner has been turned and what were once dour predictions about the NonStop marketplace have been overturned. Yes, there’s enthusiasm coming from them after many years of silence! From just a few discussions that have occurred this month visions, strategies and plans are being adjusted to accommodate additional NonStop systems being deployed and increasingly, the support for hybrid systems is attracting even more attention from the vendor community.

When you talk to HPE executives who are much close to the NonStop business you will often hear them opining about the vendor community being made up of mostly very small companies. This is the big reason why none of the NonStop vendors are openly courted for a high profile presence on the exhibition floor at big tent events like HPE Discover – their profile is well, to be truthful, way too low! So here’s the deal and indeed, the challenge for the NonStop vendor community. If we all want to see NonStop thrive in the marketplace then we have to project a bigger image of ourselves and how do we do that? Especially now, at a time when HPE development is already stealing the spotlight from many of the lesser profiled vendors!

The challenge here for all vendors is that HPE NonStop development continue to place huge bets on NonStop products and features; simply put, NonStop development is outspending NonStop vendors and the vendor community needs to make adjustments. When it comes to 2017 there is an awareness that greater cooperation – perhaps even select M & A activity - will take on a new sense of urgency and I expect to see the emergence of several much larger NonStop vendors surface before the end of the year. So, as you read more of my blog posts and industry commentaries, expect to see even more focus being directed at the vendor community and with HPE NonStop hosting the 2017 Partner Symposium in their offices at Palo Alto shortly (March 21 -23), I am sure this will be the topic of many discussions. Stay tuned for more from me on this following this Symposium.   

And yes, if you missed the promotion of my many posts and commentaries for last month check out the following list:

 ATMmarketplace:
https://www.atmmarketplace.com/blogs/lost-in-translation-the-changing-language-of-transactions/

 And yes, one post made the Top 10 “Fintech Opinion Pieces for” – scroll down to see what took 9^th spot:

 TCM Solutions:
Welcome to the third issue of NonStop Insider …
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8546566/8546566-6214462309084000259

 Cheers,

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