Winter 2024: Shadowbase Marketing & Business Development Updates — Upcoming Shows and New Articles

Paden R. Holenstein
Business Development Specialist & Marketing Coordinator

See You Soon at OZTUG, eGTUG, SunTUG and ATUG!

It’s always a pleasure to interact face-to-face at these TUG meetings. We always appreciate your questions and comments regarding our material and what is happening in your corner of the world. We will present variations of these talks:

1. Advanced Data Resilience and Recovery with HPE NonStop Shadowbase Software
   Come learn about DORA and the HPE Digital Resilience Framework and how HPE Shadowbase solutions can help protect and recover your HPE NonStop data from Ransomware and Malware attacks. We’ll also be discussing best practices, like air-gapped systems, bare-metal recovery, and data validation to enable rapid data recovery with transactional consistency to a trusted state.
2. HPE Shadowbase Solutions: Maximize NonStop Digital Resilience with Data Replication, Integration, and Validation
   Continuous data availability, integration, and validation have never been more important. In this session, we’ll discuss how HPE Shadowbase solutions can help you maximize Digital Resilience and address business needs like Cloud Integration, Streaming Data, Analytics, and Virtualization. We’ll also highlight new European customer Use Cases, including a Zero Downtime Migration, and an RDF upgrade to HPE Shadowbase in a BASE24-eps™ environment.

Upcoming Shows

• OzTUG HPE NonStop Technology Summit
  We are excited to visit the “land down under” in Sydney on March 5th, and Melbourne on March 7th. If these cities are in your neck of the woods, please stop by the HPE Shadowbase booth and say, “G’day, mate.”
• eGTUG European NonStop HotSpot Conference & Exhibition
  Due to a Holenstein Family Reunion during eGTUG on April 8-10th, Gravic is sending Ken Scudder, Andrew Bauernschmidt, and Peter Schvarcz to Berlin. We hope you have a wonderful show, wish we could be there, and look forward to catching up with you afterwards.
• ATUG Chapter Meeting
  This year, ATUG kicks off the TUGs in North America on April 24th. ATUG is always a popular event, and we look forward to the rich HPE NonStop content and meeting with many of you.
• SunTUG Sunshine Summit
  We always enjoy visiting sunny Tampa, Florida for the SunTUG event, this year on April 26th. We look forward to meeting with you, and some of us (Paden Holenstein and Ken Scudder) plan to play in the Golf Tournament on Saturday after the show.

Please Register for MATUG and NYTUG!

Raúl Toro (left) of CCA won our JBL Flip 4 Prize!

Gravic Presents on HPE Shadowbase Digital Resilience at HPE NonStop FY24 Chile

On January 17th, the Chilean NonStop Community gathered for HPE NonStop FY24 Chile in Santiago. Held in the Madrid Ballroom of the NH Collection Plaza Santiago Hotel, it was an exciting day that encouraged engagement throughout from customers and partners.

Alfredo Gonzalez, Product Deployment Analyst at Gravic, presented HPE Shadowbase – Resiliencia Digital para sistemas HPE NonStop (HPE Shadowbase – Digital Resilience for HPE NonStop Systems). We appreciate the interest and engaged feedback in our presentation.

• The customer replicates data in a uni-directional Active/Passive Post-Disaster Recovery configuration using two HPE NonStop systems.
• Every few months, the customer does failover testing. This architecture requires the customer to manually failover all of the required applications and switch replication in the opposite direction.
• For some reason, one of the customer’s applications was not properly configured to failover and process transactions in the reverse direction.

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.

Gravic Publishes Article on “Stepping Stones for a Successful Migration”

Each “Stepping Stone” (Step) of a Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) requires acceptance before moving onto the next step.

We created this infographic to illustrate how to safely cross the “migration river” by eliminating the risks associated with migrations and following procedures that include best practices.

Best practices include:

• keeping the application online at all times,
• carefully planning and testing the migration before implementation,
• and sequentially completing each step.

Following these best practices should produce a successful, risk-free Shadowbase ZDM.

New Article on “Ransomware Protection and Data Recovery”

Malware and Ransomware Threats are Rapidly Growing Worldwide

With this increase in attacks, reliability and data integrity are now at the forefront of business concerns and a primary challenge for businesses to solve. In this article, we review Ransomware detection and recovery architectures, including immutable backups and air-gapped systems. We also review the HPE Shadowbase Ransomware demonstration architecture that assists businesses with thwarting this expanding set of unique challenges and how the solution is evolving.

In case you missed our presentation at the TBC, then this is a good opportunity for you to learn how to architect a Ransomware Recovery Solution (RRS) system.

Gravic Publishes Article on “Major U.K. Bank Migrates its BASE24™ Application to Active/Active for Continuous Availability”

A large bank in the U.K. 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 did not support automated failover and recovery, nor continuous availability via a more advanced active/active business continuity architecture. The bank decided to explore alternative options and chose HPE Shadowbase as their replacement solution. It also rearchitected the new solution so that its BASE24™ Classic ATM application could leverage the new solution’s dual-site active/active capability. With careful planning, best practices, and extensive testing, the bank migrated to the new solution with only a few minor difficulties during the process.

Learn about the bank’s journey to Continuous Availability, what went well, what could have gone better, and how the bank successfully completed the project with no application downtime.

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.

Susan Pridham
Marketing Supervisor & Newsletter Editor

Thanks for reading this issue of the Shadowbase Winter 2024 Newsletter. We appreciate your support and business partnership!

Best regards,
Susan

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