Winter 2024: Executive Vice President’s Letter

 

 

Paul J. Holenstein

Paul J. Holenstein
Executive Vice President

Welcome to our Shadowbase Winter 2024 Newsletter!

We are pleased to announce our latest releases of HPE Shadowbase: HPE NonStop Shadowbase Version 6.801 for both J and L-series systems and HPE Shadowbase Version 6.800 for Other Servers for Windows/SQL Server.

A comprehensive HPE NonStop defense is being developed based on best practices as defined in NIST Cybersecurity Framework. Please visit our new Digital Resilience webpage which describes how HPE Shadowbase software can help you thwart Malware and Ransomware.


Keith B. Evans

Keith B. Evans
Product Management

Focus on Shadowbase Product Management

Enterprises are Racing to Protect Themselves from Malware and Ransomware

Keith Evans summarizes how Malware and Ransomware have become massive and potentially existential threats. A comprehensive defense requires multiple layers of protection, including strong Data Resilience.

Using TMF provides ACID transaction protection, guarantees all database changes are logged, and enables HPE Shadowbase to use the Audit Trail change data for synchronizing a target environment and for data recovery.

Additionally, HPE Shadowbase detects and prevents Man-in-the-Middle attacks between its processes and facilitates adherence to the 3-2-1-1 backup strategy so that companies can replicate data into immutable storage and quickly recover on an air-gapped, isolated (and hence fully protected) system.

We published the article, Ransomware Protection and Data Recovery, in the September/October issue of The Connection, based on our Demo at the HPE booth during the Connect NonStop Technical Boot Camp (TBC). It describes how to use Shadowbase to recover an application on a Ransomware Recovery System (RRS).


Ken Scudder

Ken Scudder
Vice President of Global Sales & Business Development

Shadowbase Business Development & Marketing Updates

Return of the TUGs!

We are very excited with the kickoff of the 2024 TUG events. We plan on attending OzTUG, eGTUG, ATUG, and SunTUG

Please Register for MATUG and NYTUG!

Later in the Spring, two Mid-Atlantic events occur.

MATUG – Mid-Atlantic States Chapter Meeting (May 14)
Location: HPE Office in Reston Town Center
Lobby Level Conference Center
11951 Freedom Drive
Reston, Virginia

Professional Headshot of Susan

Susan Pridham
Shadowbase Marketing Supervisor

NYTUG – New York Chapter Meeting (May 16)
Location: HPE Office in Berkley Heights
200 Connell Drive
Berkeley Heights, NJ

New Use Case Article

Gravic just published a new article, Real-world Use Case: Avoid Data Corruption by Switching from Passive Replication to Automated Failover and Recovery in the January/February issue of The Connection. Please read our article and learn how we helped resolve this customer’s issue, setting them up with a better approach to avoid these fail-over faults in the future.


Shadowbase ITL & Deployment News

Peter E. Schvarcz

Peter Schvarcz
ITL Senior Project Manager

Andrew J. Bauernschmidt

Andrew J. Bauernschmidt
Product Analyst

Many Customers are Migrating to New Hardware and Operating Systems

The ITL Implementation Team is in the final phases of a Major UK Bank Migrating its BASE24™ Application to Active/Active for Continuous Availability.  Our migration projects typically involve upgrading Shadowbase software to the latest and greatest version. We always recommend customers using Shadowbase User Exits involve our Delivery Team to assist with the upgrade procedure, and to ensure existing features and functions remain in-place after the upgrade.

Our Development and QA Teams are quite busy working with the new NSB version 6.801, and the OSB version 6.800 for Windows.  Please Contact Us for upgrade assistance and more information.


Jonathan M. Ziegler

Jonathan Ziegler,
Sr. Manager, Product Development

Shadowbase Development News

We are pleased to announce our two latest releases, available now with a whole host of new functionality:

Be sure to check out Jonathan Ziegler’s newsletter section for all the new features.

Note, our Softdocs can be found at: ShadowbaseSoftware.com/Releases/. Please contact us for more details on our upcoming releases of HPE Shadowbase, and stay tuned for the upcoming release dates!


Shadowbase Delivery News

Chris J. Capitolo

Chris Capitolo, Senior Manager of Product Delivery

New and Improved Method of Replicating SQL/MP Key-sequenced SYSKEY Tables

HPE NonStop Shadowbase Version 6.801 includes a new method for replicating an exact copy of a SQL/MP key-sequenced table that contains a SYSKEY.

Shadowbase software still relies on SQL/MX to insert the exact SYSKEY value into the target table, but it now operates at the Guardian level using a new Shadowbase-managed server process to help coordinate the work.

The Shadowbase configuration can be very similar to the rest of the replication threads going from source to target and provides users with a much easier method to replicate MP SYSKEY tables.


Hewlett Packard Enterprise globally sells and supports Shadowbase solutions under the name HPE Shadowbase

For more information, please contact your local HPE account representative or visit our website. Also, please view our latest Shadowbase product solution videos: Vimeo.com/ShadowbaseSoftware.

For Shadowbase support, HPE Shadowbase customers should contact the GNSC; otherwise, please use your normal support contact information supplied in your customer agreement. Please contact us for all other inquiries.


Thank you for your continued interest in HPE Shadowbase software.

We look forward to a successful 2024 and providing you with announcements of even more exciting features in our next newsletter — until then, thank you for your continued interest in HPE Shadowbase software, and always feel free to reach out to me and my Shadowbase team to discuss whatever is on your mind.

With kind regards,
Paul J. Holenstein
Executive Vice President
Gravic, Inc.


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