A large bank in the UK provides lending, wealth management, card processing, and many other services for over 48 million customers worldwide. The bank’s original Disaster Recovery solution reached Mature product status, and ...
The ATUG Meeting turned out to be a busy, content-heavy day at the HPE office in Alpharetta, Georgia. The day started out with mingling, and quickly switched to in-depth sessions.
Aprenda cómo lograr la disponibilidad continua de los servicios y la validación e integración de datos en una única solución: Haga que su Empresa no sufra interrupciones. Learn how to achieve Continuous availability of services and validation and integrating data into a single solution: Make Your Business ‘Nonstop’.
The ATUG Meeting turned out to be a busy, content-heavy day at the HPE office in Alpharetta, Georgia. The day started out with mingling, and quickly switched to in-depth sessions.
Gravic recently published the white paper, The Advantages of Transaction Protection – Avoid the Dangers of Non-audited Environments for Mission Critical Applications. Myths persist that the use of transaction management (TM) software and audited data comes at considerable cost, which outweighs the benefits. However, far from being an impediment, use of a TM and audited...
After a long Amtrak train ride from Southeastern Pennsylvania to downtown Manhattan, Paden and Paul Holenstein along with Chris Dunlap, attended the NYTUG meeting at the HPE Customer Innovation Center in downtown Manhattan (NYC).
After all the planning, the MATUG meeting went smoothly at the HPE office in the Reston Town Center. It was great to meet a few new faces (first-time TUG attendees!) and reconnect with existing friends. The day started with a continental breakfast and networking.
Shadowbase Monitor is a free plugin for your HPE Web ViewPoint Enterprise. It connects to HPE Shadowbase environments to provide monitoring, alerting...
The Connection, by Paden R. Holenstein
Gravic published an article, Data Validation – a Must-have for Mission-Critical Databases, in the March/April issue of The Connection. In Business Continuity architectures, consistency between the production and backup...
After a 40-hour (record-setting) flight and layover, Jonathan Sechrist, Director – Business Development, Asia-Pacific & Japan, finally arrived in Jakarta, Indonesia to represent Gravic at this exciting event. On the first day, Jonathan presented on HPE Shadowbase Business Continuity to potential NonStop customers and on HPE Shadowbase Data Replication and Utilities to existing NonStop customers....
This year’s SunTUG event was a blast. At the show, Jeff Kyle, VP & GM, HPC/AI – Data Solutions, opened the show by discussing how HPE NonStop computing has achieved growth over the past four years, the developing trend of HPE NonStop software running on public cloud providers and hot industry topics and trends. HPE’s...
Version 6.700 of HPE Shadowbase for NonStop Servers is now generally available. Note, a new license file is required to install and run HPE Shadowbase (for HPE NonStop and Other Servers) software version 6.700.
Gravic is proud to announce that Ken Scudder has joined our Shadowbase Business Development team as VP, Global Business Development. Ken has more than two decades of enterprise software experience in...
Gravic is proud to announce that Ken Scudder has joined our Shadowbase Business Development team as VP, Global Business Development. Ken has more than two decades of enterprise software experience in...
We Proudly Announce that Nelson Wong is the 2020 recipient of the HPE Shadowbase Hall of Fame Project Award. Nelson was vital in his role of implementing HPE Shadowbase at a customer site in the Asia-Pacific/Japan region. The project involved replacing Attunity products with HPE Shadowbase data replication solutions for active/active HPE NonStop/NonStop business continuity...
The Connection, by Keith Evans
HPE Shadowbase data replication solutions provide all the capabilities necessary to keep databases replicated and synchronized across multiple systems...
After a three-year hiatus, the HPE team was able to host this event in picturesque Bangkok, Thailand. We were honored to be invited. Thankfully, neither the heat nor the rain was a significant challenge for the trip. We enjoyed reconnecting with colleagues and partners in the Asia-Pacific Japan region. The Boot Camp focused on key...
The NonStop TBC 2022 was held at the Hyatt Regency SFO in Burlingame, California on November 8-10. We greatly appreciated everyone who made the journey to attend this event. Traveling is not easy, especially for our friends from other time zones (who had to endure jet lag plus the Daylight Savings Time change on Sunday)....
This past week, Gravic attended the CTUG (Canadian Tandem User Group) Fall Conference at the HPE Office in Toronto. Luckily for us, travel was not a significant challenge during this trip. The Conference Day kicked off on Wednesday with a breakfast reception and a brief CTUG update from Jack McAuley, CTUG President. There was even...
This article highlights physical tape, virtual tape, and the backup problem. An Online Backup of an Active Database via the Traditional Backup Method is summarized and discussed. However, The Better Backup Method significantly and efficiently uses backup media and backup/restore processing to improve current techniques, providing performance and efficiency improvements. Finally, The Best Backup Method...
Businesses with continuous access to real-time online transactional data have a competitive advantage. HPE Shadowbase data replication solutions support low-latency, uni-directional (one-way), and bi-directional...
The Connection, by Paden Holenstein
Access to Data is Required 24×7. Consequently, so too are the demands placed on real-time data replication solutions. Data is needed everywhere, all the time. With time, requirements change. Solutions that met yesterday’s...
Please visit our newly improved Performance FAQ web page. It now includes page sections, new FAQs, and links that can be shared with your colleagues.
HPE NonStop Shadowbase Version 6.700 (T1122^AAW) is a full release that includes a large number of new and improved features and includes a new license file requirement. (All customers need to acquire a new license file to run this release.) New License File Requirement For customers upgrading to HPE Shadowbase Version 6.700, you will need...
This past week, Gravic attended HPE Discover 2022 at the Venetian in Las Vegas. Luckily for us, travel was not a significant challenge during this trip. For some of our team members, it was their first time at this show, and they were wowed. HPE Discover is a three-day conference, centered on the “edge-to-cloud” concept,...
Gravic is proud to announce that Jonathan Sechrist has joined our Shadowbase team, with a focus on developing business in Japan. Jonathan started working at Tandem Computers in 1984 straight out of college (University of Illinois) and was with Tandem -> Compaq -> HP -> HPE until March 2020. He began his career as a...
Have You Seen our Demo? HPE Shadowbase Compare and Repair are popular solutions in the HPE NonStop business continuity space. This demo illustrates existing features along with new features in our next release. Why Do You Need Shadowbase Compare? Verification of replication software products for business continuity is critical and requires independent methods to ensure...
London was a very beautiful host city for the recent in-person BITUG (British Isles Tandem User Group) event, where attendees enjoyed a reunion among friends, colleagues, and HPE NonStop legends of old. At long last, BITUG was able to reconvene after being canceled for several years due to the COVID pandemic. The face-to-face nature of...
Please attend our presentation: CF5385 “New Data Integrity Architectures for Mission Critical Systems” on Wednesday, June 29 at 10:00 am. In this presentation, we will present the case for requiring your data to not only be available regardless if catastrophe strikes, but to also be consistent and known to be fraud-free. We will then present a...
At the recent in-person MATUG (Mid-Atlantic Tandem User Group) event, attendees enjoyed a reunion among friends, colleagues, and HPE NonStop legends of old. At long last, MATUG was able to reconvene after being canceled for several years due to the COVID pandemic. Attendees enjoyed HPE NonStop Middleware and Aide along with HPE NonStop Product Roadmap...
New Improvements and Authors’ Note We recently transformed this content from an article into a full-blown white paper. We feel it is critically important to address this topic because we continue to find that considerable misinformation still exists regarding the use of TMF and data auditing in general on HPE NonStop systems. New Diagrams Along...