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2015 NonStop Technical Boot Camp Attendee Registration:   $1295
Early Bird Registration:  $1095 until June 1, 2015

Pre-Conference Seminar Registration:   $150

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HP NonStop Technical Boot Camp 2015 rate:  $209 + taxes

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Agenda:

11/15/15 –   Pre-Conference Seminars                         9am to 5pm

                        Welcome Reception                                  6pm to 8pm

11/16/15 –   Partner Pavilion open                                7:30am to 5pm

                        General Session                                           8am to 10am

                        Breakout Sessions                                     10am to 5pm

                        TBD                                                               6pm to 9pm

11/17/15 -    Partner Pavilion open                                7:30am to 9pm

                        General Session                                           9am to 10am

                        Breakout Sessions                                     10am to 5pm

                        Dinner                                                            6pm to 9pm

11/18/15 -    Partner Pavilion open                                7:30am to 1pm

                        General Session                                           9am to 10am

                        Breakout Sessions                                     10am to 12pm

                        Lunch

The Partner SIG looks forward to reuniting with Customers and HP this fall!

Kathy Wood

NonStop Partner SIG/Vendor Chair

kwood@blackwood-systems.com

All I have ever really known with complete certainty in my near thirty-year relationship with NonStop has been that HP NonStop computers are mission critical servers that are truly fault tolerant and have full redundancy capabilities for a single reason: they need to be available all the time. Availability is the primary directive. Or at least it was…

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What better place to host the latest E-Crime & Information Security Series than steamy Singapore: The modern gateway to the Asia Pacific Rim. The Marriott Tang Plaza acted as a fitting host on the bustling and extravagant Orchard Road in the heart of Singapore.

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What You've Missed on NonStop Innovations

 "A Call for Change in HP NonStop", the latest article on the NonStop Innovations blog, featured the managing director of Nexbridge, Randall Becker.

In the article, he talks about a new book that he is working on about an organizational phenomenon he calls "process drift".

He explained that when companies are given the choice between great people and great process, they tend to choose great people over improving their processes. Randall also discussed how process drift affects NonStop companies and what can be done to change it.

It’s a match made in NonStop heaven. TANDsoft, Inc.’s data deduplication solution works with all HP NonStop file synchronization products, AutoSYNC included. Developed originally as a feature for FileSync, TANDsoft’s flagship file synchronization product, FileSync Data Deduplication can be purchased separately and seamlessly integrates with other partner products with no need for application source-code modifications. Free trials are available.

Data deduplication, or client deduplication, takes place at the system hosting the primary database. Designed to improve synchronization / replication times for large files, deduplication significantly reduces bandwidth requirements and the size of backups by streaming to the backup database only changed data, not entire files. TANDsoft’s deduplication algorithm detects what changes have been made to an already replicated file and transmits only the unique data.

A complimentary add-on to FileSync Data Deduplication is FileSync Incremental, which eliminates the need to analyze all files. Instead, FileSync Incremental asks the system to provide for review only those files that have changed within specified time parameters – 12 hours, one day, a week, and so on. The result is a smaller, much faster synchronization effort, a substantial savings both in time and processing power. For large files, FileSync Incremental is used in conjunction with FileSync Data Deduplication. For one TANDsoft customer, a file synchronization runtime of 50 minutes was reduced to just 2 ½ minutes. The time and the bandwidth required to replicate the customer’s files were substantially reduced because multi-megabyte files could now be updated by sending just the few blocks that had changed rather than having to send entire files over the customer’s communication channel.

TANDsoft’s own file synchronization solution, FileSync, automatically monitors, replicates and synchronizes source files, program environments, application environments, configuration files, programs – anything non-database that needs to be kept current across the network. It supports all Guardian and OSS files as well as SQL/MP and SQL/MX catalogs, schemas, tables and partitions. TANDsoft customers use FileSync for system migrations, disaster recovery, upgrades, and backups. It works closely with all NonStop real-time data replication products to provide a comprehensive solution for maintaining duplicate system and application environments.

FileSync customers have grown to depend on FileSync Data Deduplication and its complimentary add-on, FileSync Incremental. Both solutions now can be purchased for seamless integration with other NonStop file synchronization products.

In addition to FileSync and FileSync Deduplication, TANDsoft solutions – all certified on NonStop X - include the OPTA2000 virtual clock- and time-zone simulator; the OPTA suite of interception and trace utilities (OPTA-Trace Online Process Tracer and Analyzer, Recycle Bin, Low Pin Optimizer, and EMS Alerts Online Startup and Termination Capture Utility); Stack Monitor, which alerts developers to the impending threat of a stack overflow; Command Stream Replicator, which logs and automatically replicates TMF-audited/unaudited FUP, SQL/MP and SQL/MX DDL structure and other environment changes to target systems; AutoLib, which automatically loads a user library or a DLL for executing processes; the Enscribe-2-SQL and TMF-Audit Toolkits and the Enscribe-2-SQL Data Replicator, all of which offer flexible, affordable alternatives to more expensive conversion products or manual conversion techniques; E2S-Lite, which permits efficient, low-cost Enscribe modifications without the need to change a program’s source code; and SDI/LOG (Sensitive Data Intercept), which logs Sensitive Data access to Enscribe files and SQL/MP tables.

For information about TANDsoft solutions, contact Jack Di Giacomo at +1 (514) 695-2234. Free trials are available. www.tandsoft.com.
 

 Reality check for U.S. retailers.  Through September 30^th, a purchase made with a fraudulent credit card will require the card issuer (Chase, Bank of America, etc.) to absorb the costs of theft and counterfeit. It has been that way for a long time.  However, on October 1^st, card issuers will be off the hook; and the liability for fraudulent transactions will shift to U.S. merchants.  They, not the card issuers, will absorb the costs and with it the financial hit to their bottom lines.   

No fines will be brought against non-compliant vendors.  No U.S. laws will be broken.  But retailers who are not EMV-ready by October 1^st will suffer consequences in the forms of loss of reputation, loss of business to their EMV-compliant competitors, and financial losses incurred from fraudulent transactions.  Sadly, current studies indicate that fewer than half of all POS terminals in the U.S. will be EMV-capable by the end of 2015.

OmniPayments is a financial-transaction switch in use by banks and retailers throughout the world, most of which has long been EMV-compatible.  As such, the switch already supports EMV protocols and other requirements necessary to bring the enhanced EMV security capabilities to the financial payments industry. 

OmniPayments, Inc. is now the host of ITUGLIB, a downloadable library with a wealth of software utilities, both legacy NonStop and Open Source.  OmniPayments provides maintenance, power, and bandwidth at no cost to the NonStop community.  The open-source content is available to any interested individual. NonStop legacy content is restricted to members of Connect. http://bit.ly/1D3mn8j.

OmniPayments, Inc. (www.omnipayments.com) is the product arm of Opsol Integrators Inc., a leading HP NonStop system integrator. For further information, contact Yash Kapadia at +1 408-446-9274 or at yash@omnipayments.com. 

Many parts of the United States are suffering through a severe drought that has lasted over four years. The states of California, Texas, and Oklahoma have been particularly hard hit, and California has put strict water restrictions in place. Data centers are notorious water guzzlers, consuming great amounts to cool their systems via massive chillers. The new NSA data center in Utah is reported to use 1.7 million gallons of water per day to cool 100,000 square feet of computer equipment. Microsoft’s San Antonio data center in Texas uses 8 million gallons of water per month.

How are data centers handling the drought? For the most part, they continue to operate as usual, with no reduction in water usage. According to “How Can Data Centers Manage Drought,” there are more efficient ways with respect to water usage such as desalination and air economizers. These technologies may be too late for existing data centers, but they certainly should be considered for new ones.

In addition to “How Can Data Centers Manage Drought,” read the following articles in the Availability Digest’s current issue. (http://bit.ly/1dZYTLI)

American Airlines Grounded by iPAD Glitch – In 2012, American Airlines replaced its pilots’ paper navigation charts with iPads that display navigational charts upon request. However, without paper charts, the pilots had no backup if their electronic charts failed. In April 2015, dozens of American Airlines flights were seriously delayed because pilots were unable to access their navigation charts on their iPads. Pilots had to return to the gates to reboot their iPads and to pick up paper charts as backups. The lesson? Every electronic system needs a backup to ensure availability.

Can an Airliner Be Hacked? – The flight controls of major jets are controlled by complex computers that connect to primary flight systems by an Intranet-like Ethernet bus using IP addresses. In many airliners, the passenger in-flight entertainment systems (IFEs) are also connected by an Intranet; and in some cases, these networks are not segregated. Instead, they are separated by firewalls. Could a hacker access a plane’s flight controls via the IFE system while sitting in his seat? Chris Roberts says yes and claims that he has done it.

HP NonStop Servers Migrated to x86 – Many Digest subscribers are not NonStop-aware. Thus, we work hard to introduce readers to platforms that support high- and continuous availability. In this article, we discuss how NonStop servers, while retaining their full fault-tolerant capabilities, have moved from proprietary hardware and software to become increasingly more open. HP has now taken the final step in moving NonStop servers to commodity technology by migrating them to an x86 architecture. The new servers are HP NonStop X and are configured as standard HP blades.

@availabilitydig – The Twitter Feed of Outages - This article highlights some of the numerous @availabilitydig 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 691 members and counting. Our latest thread focuses on “How do you see mainframes fairing in the future?” Follow us as well on Twitter @availabilitydig.
 

 Connect with NuWave Technologies at Upcoming Events

NuWave Technologies will be travelling to key events throughout the US to develop relationships in the HP NonStop community and to speak about how to integrate NonStop applications with Web services, bringing the platform into the 21st century. Want to network with a member of the NuWave team? Email Gabrielle at gguerrera@nuwavetech.com to schedule a time to meet.

Awareness, Appeal and Assistance

All at Tandemworld have been touched by this little girls plight and Courage, not only by Charlotte, but, all the Family and Friends striving to achieve the best for her.

This is our very precious and amazing daughter Charlotte Vanessa Chloé whom, with her identical twin Amelia Louise Chloé, has already survived a life threatening condition whilst they were still in the womb called Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS) for which I had to have laser ablation surgery for at 17 weeks pregnant...their only option for survival which was successful, then them being born very prematurely at 28+6 weeks weighing a very tiny 2lbs 11ozs and 2lbs 9.5ozs respectively...they were fighters from the start as was their big sister.

Due to TTTS (we believe) Charlotte was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy (Spastic Diaplegia) at 18 months old. She is now 3 years old and is unable to stand or walk unaided, has very tight muscles in her hips, legs and ankles which cause her a great deal of pain, balance & coordination difficulties which has already caused her hips to become displaced, and in time will cause various other deformities leading to orthopaedic surgery after surgery.

Despite her physical disability she rarely complains and enjoys life to the fullest that she can. Charlotte is such a happy, determined, funny, bright little girl and she is the reason we get out of bed everyday! She works very hard at physiotherapy, be it one to one or in groups although can, at times, be distracted easily by others wink emoticon She uses a Quest Rollator which gives her some freedom which she makes the most of.

We, Amanda & Andrew (her parents), have agonised over the decision to start fundraising for a surgery called Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (SDR). SDR involves cutting specifically damaged nerves attached at the base of the spine, hopefully relieving Charlotte of at least most of her spasticity if not all. The optimum age for this surgery is 2-4 years old as the longer the spasticity is there the more damage it will do

We are looking to raise £80,000 for this life changing surgery through Tree of Hope, a registered charity...a massive amount by most people's standards! We are currently looking at taking her to St Louis Children's Hospital in America for the world class Neurosurgeon Dr T S Park to do her operation who has been doing this surgery for 25+ years and has done over 3000 SDR operations with an undeniable success rate. The UK started doing this surgery a few years ago and we are looking into having it done here too but honestly we would like, as I am sure most parents would, the person who has the greatest experience at doing this complex surgery to look after our precious child. This amount would pay for the surgery (if we need to go to America or if we need to fund it privately in the UK), after care, flights/accommodation if necessary, private physiotherapy (regardless of where she has it done) which is upwards of £1,500 per month for up to 2 years plus and necessary specialist gym type equipment.

Charlotte is physically unable to join in most physical activities with her friends although we try to enable her to do so as much as possible but that means at least one of us having to help her whilst her friends are able to dance, play, jump etc. by themselves

Andrew & I are extremely private people so that is partly the reason why we have delayed starting this fundraising as we want to be as open and as honest as possible, which we will be. There is also the potential risks this major surgery involves; paralysation, meningitis being two of the most serious!

The third and final reason this decision has been so agonising is that Charlotte is not our only child...as mentioned above she is an identical twin, sadly and unexpectedly her twin Amelia died from meningitis at 10 days old as despite surviving TTTS and being so premature was doing really well, breathing on her own (as Charlotte was) within a few hours of birth. Their big sister Chloé Louise (our first-born) came into our lives in 2006, she gave us the most amazing experience of being first time parents. Tragically in February 2007 Chloé died, just before turning 1, from meningitis (different strain to Amelia's) due to NHS medical negligence. So we have already had to say goodbye to and bury two of our children, having Chloé die was (and still is) unbearable and then having Amelia take her last breath in my arms too is just incomprehensible! So, as I said earlier, Charlotte is the only reason we get out of bed everyday and honestly why we are still here.

I am a very 'all or nothing' type of person and coupled with all that we have been through/are still going through even the thought of this fundraising causes me personally great anxiety and stress before it has even begun! I want to do all I can to help our daughter lead a pain free and physically more able life, and this operation is currently the only long term option.

So, if you are able to please donate to her fundraising page...one pound would be amazing and so gratefully received...even better 'Challenge' yourself and do something you may have always wanted to do/did not think you could do...become one of Charlotte's 'Champions' smile emoticon Friends and family, as will we, are going to challenge them/ourselves...it would be fantastic if you could join us.

Our little girl would like to be able stand, walk and run like her friends can, ride a bike, dance and jump in muddy puddles like Peppa Pig, most importantly be pain and deformity free...if you can help Charlotte overcome her challenges it would be priceless and we would be forever grateful...thank you xxXxx

If you are able to donate please go to our JustGiving Page:
https://www.justgiving.com/CharlottesChallengeSDR/

Should we exceed the target amount (or if we do not raise enough funds, or if they cannot be used for any other reason) the funds raised will go to the general funds of Tree of Hope to assist other sick children.

Follow Charlotte and her progress at https://www.facebook.com/charlotteschallengesdr?fref=ts

Find out more about us at www.tandemworld.net