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·     Introducing infni Qube™

3Qube introduces the industry’s fastest backup automation and virtualization solution ever!

Cloud Based Backup and Recovery Made Simple and Affordable. 3Qubes’ infni Qube reduces complexity, cost, and time by integrating software, storage, and cloud technology in an all-in-one solution.

Facts:

Explosive increases in the quantity of data in digital format (i.e., email, faxes, application data, documents, and media files) are fueling small businesses and large enterprises to need data storage and backup technology like no other time in the history of the electronic age. Despite a sharp increase in affordability and availability of automated backup systems, many businesses still rely on unsecure tape devices and complex physical media retention strategies to backup and restore vital information.

Further, management may not fully appreciate the risk they take by neglecting backups in favor of “more important” issues. Any non-expert can observe that data loss frequently occurs even with a backup system in place. According to one survey, nearly one in four enterprise to midsized customers reported that at least 20 percent of their recovery attempts fail. Cited as the primary cause for data loss: human error in the backup process or in the interchange and handling of physical tapes.

Solution: infni Qube

infni Qube is a backup storage virtualization and consolidation solution. infni Qube   is an  any host  platform  to  any storage  media  or  device  solution  that  virtualizes  and  consolidates backup storage in any heterogeneous datacenter or the cloud, public, private, or hybrid!  infni Qube was designed for fault-tolerant, high availability computing environments such as HP NonStop™ (Tandem). infni Qube preserves NonStop fundamentals in the areas of Data Integrity, Scalability, Security and Reliability while meeting or exceeding data backup requirements for speed, capacity, with any-to-any host/storage and S3 cloud compatibility.

Key Features

·     Provides fully automated backup and restore operations

·     Securely vaults data to HP Helion and all other Amazon S3 compatible clouds

·     Integrated monitoring capabilities for industry leading reports, analysis, and capacity planning

·     Implements data compression on disk cache and in the cloud

·     Ensures data-at-rest integrity and security via AES 256 bit encryption for both disk cache and data in the cloud

·     Transparent remote backup and restore features to satisfy off-site archival requirements

·     Enables alternate site disaster recovery schemes

·     User defined policies allow flexible data migration strategies

·     Specifically designed for heterogeneous, multi-platform environments including proprietary platforms such as IBM® Mainframe, HP NonStop, virtual environments etc.

·     Customized configurations for higher availability and specific customer needs

·     Supports physical tape to cloud data migration and consolidation

·     Supports remote replication with latency management/ WAN optimization

·     Connects to existing customer SANs, de-duplication solutions and backup applications

infni Qube offers a state-of-the-art backup storage consolidation platform which can handle requirements from even the most complex environments. infni Qube implements a wide variety of data protection schemes and tape to cloud migration, thus eliminating the need to dedicate devices for specific backup purposes.

Fully Automated Backup and Restore Operations

The technology within infni Qube brings a scalable, flexible, and high-throughput solution to backup and restore operations. No longer does operations staff need to monitor data movement.

infni Qube provides dynamic drive sharing, customer defined virtual tape policies, backup to local and remote sites or S3 compatible clouds, and a performance improvement over current backup methods.

Multi-Platform Heterogeneous Environments

infni Qube emulates several standard front-end interfaces in which existing backup servers and applications can connect and control.  Because infni Qube adheres to using standard interfaces, backup servers can reside on nearly any platform and operating system in the market.

This includes all open platforms (x86 Intel® or AMD based systems) as well as IBM iSeries™ (AS400), IBM  Power  Systems™ (running AIX, Linux®, and i/OS), IBM PureSystems™ (running i/OS, AIX, Windows® and Linux) HP OpenVMS, HP UX, Sun® SPARC, and blade systems (running Windows, Linux and UNIX®). infni Qube also has custom developed interfaces for proprietary computing platforms such as IBM Mainframe (running  zOS™ and Linux) and HP NonStop.

Remote Site Backup and Disaster Recovery

Off-site data storage is a necessary prerequisite in satisfying complete data backup and security. This can be accomplished by writing encrypted data to an S3 compatible cloud hosted off site. Since the encrypted data is readily available in the cloud, restoring using infni Qube at a remote site can now be integral part of any disaster recovery plan, providing much faster data accessibility when compared to restoring from archival tape or even de-duped data from a Virtual Tape Library.

Elastic Scalability

As backup requirements change, so too can infni Qube.  Cloud backup allows immediate “on-demand” elastic expansion. Also, additional local disk cache can be introduced into the system, and throughput performance and higher availability can be achieved through the multi-node architecture. infni Qube will meet the needs of today and protect your investment by meeting a different set of needs tomorrow.

Want more information on the exciting new possibilities infni Qube offers?  It’s easy, just contact Jimmy Mathews at jm@3qubetechnologies.com, or call +1 817-354-8009.  Email:  info@3qubetechnologies.com; www.3qubetechnologies.com

Musings on NonStop!

November, ‘14

The opinions expressed here are solely
those of the now self-employed author

It is relatively easy to write short summaries of past events just as it’s easy to report good news. However, this past week, my job was made so much easier following the turn of events all participants witnessed at the 2014 NonStop Technical Boot Camp. Yes, I know, the label “Boot Camp” doesn’t do justice to the nature of the event, but I will let that slide as I am acutely aware that flying-under-the-radar is very important for all practical purposes when it comes to holding events such as we just did.

The venue – Hayes Mansion – was a total surprise for me. Having lived in Silicon Valley for nearly a decade I didn’t know of its existence, but as a venue for hosting a gathering of the NonStop community, it was close to perfect. Following a flurry of registrations over the last couple of days, there weren’t 350 attendees but very close to 500! All up, some 480 or so NonStop community members participated and if I were reporting on this the way we did back in ITUG days, this was a 1500 man/days turn out (excluding the preconference sessions)! Yes, the NonStop community is alive and kicking and not to be ignored, discounted, or in any way relegated to being nothing more than a historical footnote.

For me, the sense of a major sea change under way started with Sunday morning as attendees arrived for an early 7:00am breakfast prior to an 8:00am start for numerous four-hour pre-conference sessions. The harried look on the staff manning the registration desk spoke volumes – even with extra hands on deck lines began forming and it was still very early Sunday morning! I was to give a 50 min presentation on Big Data as a way to introduce the products now available from WebAction and was taken by surprise by an almost full meeting room.

As an aside, I blogged on what transpired most days of the event and if you have not as yet checked out these posts, the best place to find them is as discussions on the LinkedIn group, Real Time View. In sequence, these included:
     Mid-event impressions – 2014 NonStop Technical Boot Camp

     Second full day – what was said (and not said) …

     Heading out the door - 2014 Boot Camp; final thoughts …

When it comes to highlights, it would be very remiss of me not to mention the joint HP / InfraSoft presentation given by HP’s Keith Moore and InfraSoft’s Dave Finnie. Focused on what is to come with NonStop support of Intel 86 architecture the wraps were removed from the availability of a new platform for the NonStop – shortly, you will not only be able to port solutions written in C / C++ and Java, but in JavaScript as well. Representing a very deep port, fully exploiting the key attributes of NonStop, come the mid-March timeframe, you will see Server Side JavaScript (SSJS) supported and while I blogged about this in Real Time View (yes, check the post: Modernization – and NonStop is a key part of the landscape!) it still came as a surprise to many in the audience.

But wait, there were more highlights than just the unveiling of SSJS – for the first time in many years there were solutions vendors participating. Brian Miller from Lusis Payments, Yash Kapadia from OmniPayments and even Doug Grote from (ACI albeit representing a different group within the company) gave the event a distinct solutions feel. Today, many of the major middleware solutions are bordering on becoming full-blown solutions in their own right, particularly when hybrid platforms are involved, the participation of such a strong presence in the Finance sector I hope attracts solutions vendors from other segments – healthcare and telco in particular.

There were some small wins for the community as well. DataExpress made a return to events after an absence of some time and I was able to sit down with Susan Raye, about which I will post in a few weeks’ time. Likewise, seeing a perimeter of booths surrounding the exhibition hall with names I wasn’t familiar with came as quite a shock – yes, vendors continue to maintain a presence in the NonStop community even as new vendors spend more of their own nickels and dimes on NonStop. Before I change topics here I have to make sure everyone in the NonStop community knows just how big a commitment vendors made to the event as without their support this wouldn’t have been the success it clearly was – make sure you all thank them next time you see a representative.

One final observation – did you realize that there is so much activity was under way involving Clouds and Big Data? While these are key focus areas for HP it wasn’t immediately apparent just how involved the NonStop community would be in Security, Mobility, Big Data and Clouds. It’s not necessary to stress the Security aspect as NonStop has been well served by a strong vendor community participation – I lost track of just how many actual conference sessions, not to mention pre-conference sessions, comForte provided but I was constantly checking the program to see if what interested me conflicted with something that they were giving – and Mobility is already being fairly easily accommodated (as just another device). But Big Data and Clouds?

I’ve already written of WebAction and the roll-out of Big Data product for NonStop but who knew OmniPayments has a Cloud up and running built around NonStop – watch for a lot more on this from me in the coming months. And there were other vendors too clearly pursuing both topics – watch too for updates on maRunga shortly, as this product’s messaging focuses more on Pathway. Overall, it is a good time for the NonStop community to remind their own CIOs that NonStop cannot be ignored or overlooked. Yes, it’s a player!

All of this made it very easy to report on the Boot Camp. Will the event be held next year? At the same venue? Will there be a lot more on NonStop with x86 support? It’s very early days but even as budgets for 2015 are mapped out, don’t overlook this very important event – attendees from as far afield as Australia, Japan, Singapore, South Africa and much of Europe and South America all made the event this year! But another Boot Camp? Well, let’s just see what the planners come up with next year but this has moved well beyond what we traditionally have associated with a Boot Camp. This is a very serious occasion to really come to grips with all that is today’s NonStop!

Richard Buckle
Founder and CEO

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

Following my blogs? My web publications? My discussion Groups?

Check out (or copy and paste to your browser):

Real Time View at http://www.itug-connection.blogspot.com/

…. And check out the Group on LinkedIn, Real Time View

comForte at http://blog.comforte.com/

…. And check out the Group on LinkedIn, comForte Lounge

Realtime.ir at http://realtime.ir.com/

…. And check out the Group on LinkedIn, realtime.ir

WebAction.com at http://webaction.com/blog/

…. And check out the group on LinkedIn, Data Driven Apps

ATMmarketplace at
http://www.atmmarketplace.com/blogger.php?id=130763

buckle-up at http://www.buckle-up-travel.blogspot.com/

…. And check out the SubGroup on LinkedIn, Pyalla Track Days

comForte publishes Q4 Newsletter

The comForte Newsletter has become a regular feature and it covers the latest company and product news.

Read the current version for Q4 2014 at ...

http://www.comforte.com/news/newsletter

Delegates enjoyed five sessions on HP Shadowbase at the 2014 Connect HP NonStop Technical Boot Camp held November 16-19 at the Hayes Mansion in San Jose, CA. HP is now globally reselling and supporting Shadowbase solutions, in the business continuity, data and application integration, and zero downtime migration product space. We presented the following sessions describing this partnership and the exciting new features available in our HP Shadowbase products:

·        HP Shadowbase Introduction and Overview (targeted to sales/pre-sales and explaining how HP Shadowbase is packaged and sold)

If you are interested in discussing any of our TBC presentations’ content or having us present these to your staff, please contact us. Congratulations to Eduardo Roloff of GET Net who won our Kindle Fire HD prize!

·        read the HP data sheet, HP Shadowbase Suite for HP NonStop and Other Servers,

·        read the HP brief, Make your Business ‘Nonstop’,

·        read the Mission Critical Computing Blog, When planned or unplanned downtime has to be zero—the HP Shadowbase product suite keeps you running,

·        or contact your HP NonStop Sales Representative.

Gravic publishes a new case study: A Bank's Crisis Migration to a Shadowbase Data Replication Solution. As part of an HP NonStop system upgrade project, a major bank and financial services institution found itself faced with either paying a large increase in license fees for its current data replication engine or having those licenses terminated. With only two weeks to go, the bank turned to the Gravic technical team, who configured, installed, and tested its Shadowbase data replication product in time to replace the bank’s existing replication solution before the licenses expired. The bank is now extending its use of the Shadowbase product suite to satisfy all of its data replication needs.

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