We’re excited to announce that our team will be attending eGTUG 2026, the European Nonstop user group conference, taking place April 14–16, 2026, in Munich, Germany. This annual event brings together HPE Nonstop professionals, partners, and customers from around the world to share knowledge, explore new solutions, and connect with the community. If you’re planning...
The Connection, by Paden R. Holenstein
Our new article explores why fast, reliable data replication is essential as enterprises adopt cloud and hybrid environments, and how Shadowbase version 6.820 builds on existing capabilities...
Version 6.820 for Other Server Software is now available. Features include:• Array-based “SET” processing enabled for all supported Other Server platforms and databases (except Solaris SPARC and HP-UX)• Bi-directional “SET” array-based processing support for Oracle environments• Optimizations for initial target database loads• Improved performance for long-distance, high-latency environments, including on-premise to cloud integrations• Digitally signed...
Welcome to our Shadowbase Fall 2025 Newsletter! As the last of the regional events draws to a close and we wrap up the year through the upcoming holidays, we want to thank you all for an amazing set of achievements in 2025! This has been a year of great growth and excitement as we have...
Gravic presented "HPE Shadowbase Digital Resilience for Ransomware Protection and Data Recovery" at the BITUG Little SIG event in London. With Malware and Ransomware threats growing rapidly, data reliability and recovery are urgent business concerns.
HPE NonStop TBC 2025 was such a fantastic experience! As the event comes to a close, we’re grateful for the positive energy and momentum it created. The gathering was both close-knit and lively, leaving us with meaningful ins...
The Connection, by Paden R. Holenstein
Gravic recently published the article Unleash the Power of Your Trapped Data Across the Enterprise, to the Cloud, and Beyond in the September/October issue of The Connection. The piece explores how organizations can unlock th...
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 R. Holenstein
Gravic recently published the article: Follow The 3-2-1-1 Rule to Protect Your Mission-Critical Data from Ransomware in the July/August issue of The Connection. Gravic describes the growing need for robust data protection....
This year’s eBITUG at the Clayton Hotel on Burlington Road turned out to be one of the most epic shows in a long time: Several incredible tours happened in historic Dublin The Keynotes were downright inspiring The community developed as people networked and collaborated Familiar faces and industry peers were reunited in significant ways HPE...
The Spring season brings a positive aura of growth, fresh perspectives, and newness. The plants are finally budding, we are starting to see the fruits of our labor in several key areas that we are excited to share with you, ...
This year’s CTUG at the HPE Office in Mississauga turned out to be a tremendous event in terms of interaction, networking, and quality sessions: It was a pleasure to reconnect with longtime customers and discuss how we are doing, what their plans are, and how we can help; We were quite pleased with the engaging...
The 2025 NYTUG event, held on May 13th in Berkeley Heights, NJ, was a fantastic success, bringing together multiple customers for a day of insightful presentations, valuable networking, and engaging discussions. It was a pleasure to reconnect with longtime customers. Many expressed how meaningful it was to reunite with familiar faces and industry peers. This year’s...
Many great talks were presented at the N2TUG Meeting at Hilton's Hurst Conference Center near Dallas. N2TUG was well-attended with excellent opportunities for networking and conversation with customers and other vendors! We provided an HPE Shadowbase overview and update on our developing Data Recovery solution for Digital Resilience.
Gravic Presented at the MexTUG Chapter Meeting Held in Mexico City on April 10. Our presentation, HPE Shadowbase: Alta Disponibilidad e integración de Datos para Sistemas HPE NonStop (High Availability and Data Integration for HPE NonStop Systems), was given by Kenneth Scudder, VP, Global Sales and Business Development, and María Luisa Mendoza Topete, Gerente de Desarrollo de Negocios, LATAM.
Gravic presented at the SunTUG Sunshine Summit held in Tampa last week. Karen Ramirez (HPE) provided a NonStop Business Update and John Vollers (HPE) presented the NonStop Product Roadmap, followed by several vendor presentations, including Paden Holenstein presenting on HPE Shadowbase Digital Resilience for NonStop Systems.
The Connection, by Paden R. Holenstein
In the March/April issue of The Connection, Gravic published the cover story: "My NonStop Journey with HPE Shadowbase" on improving BASE24™ performance and resilience with HPE Shadowbase software and TMF auditing. ...
Gravic presented on High Availability and Digital Resilience at the inaugural ChileTUG NonStop user group event held in Santiago last week.
HPE NonStop Virtual Webinar: Unlock the Future of Innovation with NuWave, TCM, and Gravic! NuWave Technologies, TCM Solutions, and Gravic unveiled our latest innovations, cutting-edge solutions, and exciting new product releases. Watch this webinar here.
The OZTUG NonStop Technology Summit 2025 was held on March 4 (Sydney) and 6 (Melbourne). This year’s theme was NonStop – the Next Gen Reloaded. Paden Holenstein and Ken Scudder presented on HPE Shadowbase, where they laid out an exciting roadmap for HPE Shadowbase innovations including Digital Resilience, Zero Data Loss, and Heterogeneous Compare.
Philip J. Nye writes how to enable improved performance and Disaster Recovery for BASE24 applications using standard HPE NonStop Products such as the Transaction Management Facility (TMF) and NonStop AutoTMF.
The Connection, by Paden R. Holenstein
In the January/February issue of The Connection we announced two new synchronization facilities: HPE Shadowbase Zero Data Loss and HPE Shadowbase DoLockStep Synchronization Facility. Our Development Team has been hard at wor...
Gravic, Inc. is pleased to announce the General Availability of HPE Shadowbase software version 6.810 for Other Servers.
Gravic publishes its Shadowbase Fall Newsletter, announcing the HPE NonStop Shadowbase Zero Data Loss (ZDL) Technology with Version 7.000!
Gravic, Inc. is pleased to announce the General Availability of HPE Shadowbase software version 7.000 for HPE NonStop Servers (SPR ID: T1122L70).
We hope that you enjoy our article in the November/December Connection: How HPE Shadowbase is Helping Customers Around the World. Customers around the world improved their businesses using HPE Shadowbase solutions.
Gravic presented "HPE Shadowbase Digital Resilience for Ransomware Protection and Data Recovery" at the BITUG Little SIG event in London. With Malware and Ransomware threats growing rapidly, data reliability and recovery are urgent business concerns.
“They were such a great help.” -Credit Union Application Technologist Audience: All Abstract: Golden 1 Credit Union’s customer presentation on the journey from the initial environment to preserving the business recovery environment on new hardware and achieving the project goals: Driver behind NonStop system upgrade project Re-architect Data Replication from one to two environments Upgrade BASE24™...
Gravic is pleased to present the 2024 HPE Shadowbase Hall of Fame Awards to Amy Sochipun Vajropala (DataOne Asia CEO) and Darshan Mandrekar (HPE Mission Critical Solutions Sales) and Peter Ow (HPE Solution Architect) for Outs...
It was enlightening to hear the Executive Keynote with Casey Taylor, Kristi Elizondo (Connect Worldwide CEO), Mark Pollans (HPE Principal Product Manager), Arun Fernandes (HPE Director of NonStop Engineering), and Ian Inglis (Manager Product Management. All provided an excellent reminder of HPE’s commitment to HPE NonStop.
Gravic published an article, Announcing HPE Shadowbase Zero Data Loss – Synchronous Replication Technology in the July/August issue of The Connection.
Gravic publishes its Shadowbase Spring Newsletter, with articles covering the Executive Vice President’s Letter; Focus on Product Management; Business Development News; Development News; ITL & Deployment News; Delivery News; and Market Update.
Last week, HPE Discover was held at the Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada. HPE Atmosphere was combined with HPE Discover, making for a much larger attendance than previous years. Antonio Neri, HPE CEO, provided the Keynote Address in the Sphere, the first keynote to happen in this venue. Antonio said, “Data is your most valuable asset.”
This year, the BITUG Big SIG was held at the beautiful Trinity House in London. Early in the day, the volume of lively discussion was noticeable as the attendees quickly were reconnecting. It was great to see some new customer personnel at the event.
The CTUG (Canadian Tandem User Group) event was held this week at the Mississauga HPE Office near Toronto, Canada. Paul Holenstein, Kenneth Scudder, and Paden Holenstein jointly presented to an engaged group on "HPE Shadowbase Digital Resilience for HPE NonStop Systems."
The Connection, by Gravic, Inc.
Gravic published an article, "Gravic, Inc. Celebrates its 45th Anniversary – Then vs. Now," in the May/June issue of The Connection. It shares stories from our origins and history, while expressing our gratitude for everyone...
The NYTUG event this year, held in Berkeley Heights, NJ, was a resounding success, with15 customers attending! The feedback from partners and customers alike was positive. It was great to reconnect with customers who we had not seen in some time.
MexTUG 2024 was held at the Sofitel Hotel in Mexico City and was a blast for everyone who attended. Similar to last year, presentations started later than planned because everyone was very much enjoying reconnecting. Speakers...
The MATUG meeting went smoothly at the HPE office in the Reston Town Center, Virginia. The presentations began and ended with two interesting HPE presentations: John Vollers presented HPE Strategy and NonStop Roadmap, and John Zimsky presented Deploying REST Applications to NonStop.
Gravic attended N2TUG held at the Hurst Conference Center in Hurst, Texas. It was a full day of networking and presentations, followed by a cocktail gathering that allowed for more one-on-one and small group networking. Karen Ramirez (HPE Director of NonStop North America Sales) presented a NonStop Business Update and Richard Conine (HPE Solutions Architect) presented on Digital Resilience.
Digital Resilience and Ransomware were a major focus at this year’s premier European NonStop event, eGTUG 2024, held in April in Berlin. There was a lot of energy at the conference with nearly 200 customers, partners, and HPE team members coming together to get the latest information on the NonStop platform and to learn about new developments in a wide range of solution areas.
Dr. Bruce Holenstein, President and CEO, and Paul J. Holenstein, EVP and Chief Technologist, formed our first company, Compucon Services Corp., soon after Tandem started, and we are celebrating our 45th year working in the HPE NonStop world! In 2001, we renamed our company “Gravic,” based on the word “gravity.”
Please watch the podcast or read the cover article, where Paul J. Holenstein, Executive Vice President and Chief Technologist, and his son and colleague, Paden Holenstein, Business Development and Marketing Coordinator, interview each other on a variety of topics, including:
Last week, the Gravic team traveled to Sydney and Melbourne to present, HPE Shadowbase Solutions: Maximize NonStop Digital Resilience with Data Replication, Integration, and Validation. In this session, they discussed how HPE Shadowbase solutions can help maximize Digital Resilience and address business needs.
The Connection, by Paden R. Holenstein
Gravic published a use case 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...
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......
We announce HPE NonStop Shadowbase Compare for SQL 6.802 with simplified syntax, a new parallel thread limit, and additional output and reporting settings.
Please check out our new web page on HPE Shadowbase Digital Resilience Solutions and learn how to recover critical applications and data after a Malware or Ransomware attack.
Gravic presented on HPE Shadowbase Digital Resilience and Data Recovery at the BITUG Little SIG held in London. Data is a key aspect of digital resilience, and ensuring its continuous availability has never been more...
Gravic presented on HPE Shadowbase Digital Resilience and Data Recovery at the BITUG Little SIG held in London. Data is a key aspect of digital resilience, and ensuring its continuous availability has never been more...
The Connection, by Peter Schvarcz and Andrew Baurenschmidt
Gravic recently published the use case article, "Major UK Bank Migrates its BASE24 Application to Active/Active for Continuous Availability" in the November/December issue of The Connection....
HPE NonStop Shadowbase Version 6.801 (T1122^ABF) is a full release that includes a large number of new and improved features, including SQL/MP exact SYSKEY replication, Entry-sequenced SQL/MP tables, and STATS Command...
Gravic and HPE Present on HPE Shadowbase Solutions at VNUG (Viking NonStop User Group). Paul Denzinger (HPE Master Architect) presented on various topics including Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI & ML), ChatGPT...
The Connection, by Paden R. Holenstein
Gravic published the article, Ransomware Protection and Data Recovery, in the September/October issue of The Connection, based on our presentation at the recent Connect Technical Boot Camp (TBC). Threats from Malware and...
The NonStop TBC 2023 was held at the Hilton Denver City on September 12-14. We greatly appreciate everyone who made the journey to attend this event and are sorry to hear that some folks had to cancel their travel plans and...
Gravic is pleased to recognize the HPE Asia Pacific Team for its rapid return to in-person, country-specific, bootcamp, roadshow, and User Group events in 2023. Over the first six months of the year, they arranged and execute...
The Connection, by Paden R. Holenstein
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 ...
HPE Discover 2023 provided a good opportunity to network with peers, and experience anything and everything going on in HPE. The show was held at the Venetian in Las Vegas, which provided good food and drink and plenty of...
Mission critical computing requires three pillars: Reliability, Availability, and Scalability – “RAS” for short. Availability and Scalability are well-known and served by Active/Active data replication architectures...
High availability and data integration have never been more important for HPE NonStop customers. This is especially true with new regulations such as DORA (Digital Operations Resilience Act), mandates from the UK Financial...
After a four-year hiatus, N2TUG turned out to be a content-heavy, yet interactive show. The show was held at the Hilton Garden Inn Dallas Hurst Center. Several attendees commented that they were pleasantly delighted with the ...
HPE Discover 2023 provided a good opportunity to network with peers, and experience anything and everything going on in HPE. The show was held at the Venetian in Las Vegas, which provided good food and drink and plenty of...
The Mexican NonStop community had the opportunity to gather once more for the MexTUG 2023 event, which took place in the beautiful Versailles Ballroom, at the Sofitel Hotel. The venue, located on the 40th floor, provided...
During the week of May 22 Gravic joined the three-cities-in-four-days OzTUG tour events in Auckland, New Zealand, Sydney, and Melbourne, Australia. It was a whirlwind week full of customer and partner engagement,...
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...
In a world that never stops, many enterprises absolutely cannot afford to be unavailable—for any reason. HPE NonStop Servers offer a unique value...
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.
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...
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...
Physical Tape, Virtual Tape, and the Backup Problem Since there is a growing need for an economic and efficient way to back up very large-scale databases, many companies are returning to physical tape to fill this need. An Online Backup of an Active Database via the Traditional Backup Method is summarized and discussed. However, The...
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...
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...
A large European steel tube manufacturer runs shop floor control applications on a pair of HPE NonStop systems. The manufacturer periodically runs reporting applications on remote Linux servers, and these reports remotely...
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...
HPE Shadowbase software can be broken down into several distinct solution areas: Business Continuity Data and Application Integration Compare, Essentials, and Utilities Please reference this Quick Reference Card when discussing HPE Shadowbase with other members of your IT team. Solution Brief: HPE Shadowbase Quick Reference Card (QRC)
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...
In this talk, Paul J. Holenstein, Gravic Executive Vice President, along with Peter O'Hara, a Programmer, and Vuk Petrovic, a Programmer Analyst discuss and demo HPE Shadowbase Compare software. HPE Shadowbase Compare software, one of our hottest products, is the number one data validation product in the NonStop space!
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...
Gravic published an article, Use HPE Shadowbase Compare and Repair Software for Data Validation and Verification, in the May/June issue of The Connection. Data replication is at the center of the HPE Shadowbase product portfolio. It is important to monitor and correct data in order to detect and resolve improper behavior, ensure continuation of proper...
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...
At the recent virtual German NonStop User Group (GTUG) event, there were several presentations of interest. ING presented Active/Active Migration, which contained insights into this customer’s journey and progress in pursuing its active/active application availability goals. HPE Product Management attended, with Mark Pollans presenting NonStop Platforms, Ideas, and Concepts, and Prashanth Kamath U presenting The...
The Connection, by Paul J. Holenstein and Paden R. Holenstein
Real-time data replication products, such as HPE Shadowbase software, are well known for their ability to facilitate IT service availability (Business Continuity) by replicating...
Gravic published Leverage Heterogeneous Data Transformation and Distribution to Create New Business Opportunities in the March/April issue of The Connection. This article highlights some interesting developments in how data replication engines are not only useful for business continuity architectures, but also in providing data integration for value-add solutions. The article discusses the industry’s shift and focus...
We presented on HPE Shadowbase Product News at the in-person 2022 SunTUG Sunshine Summit, held for the Florida NonStop community in Tampa. A number of HPE corporate presentations were given, including an Update on the HPE NonStop Product Line by Kevin Shabow (Director of Sales for HPE NonStop North America), and Middleware and AIDE: Partner...
Customers recently approached us several times as they searched for a replacement product for their Attunity Connect and Attunity Replicate products that are reaching end-of-service-life (EOSL). HPE Shadowbase uses a data replication/data integration architecture to replace these Attunity products and has experience successfully replacing Attunity at a number of customer sites. The two most popular...
We are pleased to release a Spanish version of our article, “Easily Modernize and Expose Valuable Enscribe Data – Eliminate Data Silos with HPE Shadowbase.” La traducción al español se puede encontrar aquí. (A Spanish translation is available here.) If there is another article or publication that you would like to read in a different...
Gravic released Shadowbase for Other Servers Version 6.700 (T1123^AAI, T1124^AAE, T1125^AAG, T1126^AAF, T1127^AAE, T1128^AAE, T1129^AAF, T1130^AAE). This is a full release that includes one mature feature, four deprecated features, fourteen special notes, and nine new features, several corrected problems, and other changes. WARNING: A new license file is required to install and run HPE Shadowbase...
We presented on HPE Shadowbase Zero Downtime Migration and Compare/Repair Solutions at the virtual 2021 Bite-Sized eBITUG (British Isles Tandem User Group), held for the European NonStop community. A number of HPE corporate presentations (on the latest updates from the TBC), as well as presentations from vendors and customers, were given. We would like to...
Gravic released Shadowbase for HPE NonStop Version 6.611 (T1122^AAU). This is a patch release that includes several corrected problems and a new feature for J and L series Guardian NonStop operating system versions. Problems corrected: Shadowbase Consumer error 580, which occurred when opening target files in 32-bit mode when applying PURGEDATA events to it Shadowbase...
Gravic published its Shadowbase Fall Newsletter with the Executive Vice President’s Letter, and informative sections with Focus on Product Management, Delivery & Integration Team Lead (ITL), and a Recap of Recent Fall Shows.
Gravic published two articles in the November/December issue of The Connection. The first article, New Data Integrity Architectures for Mission Critical Systems, highlights some interesting work from Gravic Labs, Gravic’s Research and Development group, in the area of increasing the data integrity of mission critical systems. The article expands on our talk on Validation Architecture...
At the virtual HPE Asia Pacific Mission Critical Server Technical Bootcamp (HPE APAC MCS TBC) show, we presented on HPE Shadowbase Zero Downtime Migration and Compare/Repair Solutions. A few of the other presentations were given by customers from their perspectives via testimonials, which are always enjoyable to see. We would like to thank Gelin Cheng,...
At the recurring German Tandem User Group (GTUG) event, Alfio Rapisarda of SIX Group, presented “Anwenderprasentation: ‘Replikation mit Shadowbase’ Erfahrungen.” Alfio discussed various business factors and events, how the team learned more about HPE Shadowbase software, and their experiences using it. Alfio received and fielded numerous questions regarding his customer experience. We hope that the...
At the CTUG Virtual Session held at the end of October, Gravic presented on HPE Shadowbase – New Features and Product Solutions. We discussed HPE Shadowbase Zero Downtime Migration architectures and techniques along with data integrity problems that can be fixed with HPE Shadowbase Compare and Repair. We also provided a short review of new HPE...
In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) TBC21-DV4 – Developer Chat: Business Continuity – HPE Shadowbase and RDF In this Developer Chat, Mark Pollans, HPE NonStop Senior Worldwide Product Manager, Paul J. Holenstein, Gravic Executive Vice President, and Jonathan Ziegler, Gravic Senior Manager of Product Development discussing: Recent HPE product developments That RDF is in the...
In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) In this talk, Paul J. Holenstein, Gravic Executive Vice President, along with Peter O’Hara, a Programmer, and Vuk Petrovic, a Programmer Analyst discuss and demo HPE Shadowbase Compare software. HPE Shadowbase Compare software, one of our hottest products, is the number one data validation product in the NonStop space!...
Gravic recently published a new technical brief on HPE Shadowbase Mapping Facility (SBMAP), which is a SQL-like scripting facility for transforming large data sets...
Shadowbase User Exits have long been a feature to embed custom logic into the replication engine. Prior to SBMAP, all data mapping logic had to be manually programmed as a User Exit. Now, SBMAP automatically...
Gravic presented on HPE Shadowbase Updates (by Paden Holenstein – YouTube) at this virtual event in June. We reviewed HPE Shadowbase product updates and new...
A database must first be loaded before it is of any use (for example, when installing a new backup system for business continuity, or when performing a...
A database must first be loaded before it is of any use (for example, when installing a new backup system for business continuity, or when performing a system/software upgrade or migration)...
Prescription drug claims fraud is big business, costing billions of dollars. To help a country’s government healthcare agency stem the losses, a centralized claims fraud adjudication and prevention decision support system was implemented...
Continuous availability of online service necessitates the minimization or elimination of planned downtime, such as for an operating system or hardware upgrade, or for installing a new application version. This requirement...
This brief explains how Gravic dramatically improved the support of HPE Shadowbase for Db2 as a source in data replication environments. With the latest release, HPE Shadowbase software makes it easy and cost effective to integrate your Db2 databases into the rest of your data...
HPE Shadowbase Streams for application integration and for data integration provide the facilities for integrating existing applications, services, and/or database...
The HPE Shadowbase Online Loader (SOLV) and the HPE Shadowbase Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) Toolkit are utility products designed to perform initial database......
The Connection, by Paul J. Holenstein
A South American stock exchange using a trading system built with HPE NonStop Servers faced high data...
HPE Shadowbase Data Recovery Software products can safely restore corrupted databases with a minimum of downtime and a maximum of confidence, quickly and reliably eliminating the potential costs and risks associated with...
The Connection, by Keith B. Evans
Business continuity encompasses activities that an enterprise performs to maintain timeliness, consistency, and availability of its data, operations, and services. Application availability depends upon the ability of IT...
The Connection, by Keith B. Evans
A European bank needed to design and implement its Internet banking application in a very specific way...
The Connection, by Paul J. Holenstein
After a merger, a major U.S. retailer had thousands of stores using two different point-of-sale (POS) systems. The retailer wanted to integrate the POS processing for its...
Validate that a Source and Target Database Match HPE Shadowbase Compare software is a suite of utility products that validates a target database matches its source, and helps satisfy regulatory requirements for...
Gravic published its Shadowbase Spring Newsletter, with articles covering the Executive Vice President’s Letter; Focus on Product Management; Development News; Deployment News; Delivery & Support Tips; and a New Shadowbase Video and Four Articles.
Connect Converge, by Paden Holenstein
Several customers recently approached us looking for solutions to their remote data access/connection requirements. HPE Shadowbase software uses a data...
The Connection, by Paden Holenstein
Headquartered in the midwest, this multibillion-dollar company has 5,000 employees. Its sales associates service a customer base primarily comprised of original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and maintenance, repair, and...
Please enjoy our newly released video on Shadowbase Compare and Repair Software for Data Validation. We hope that you find it interesting and informative! Please share it with your colleagues!
Considerable Misinformation Regarding TMF In this article, Only the Truth: Debunking TMF NonStop Data Protection Myths, we address considerable misinformation regarding the use of TMF and data auditing in general on HPE NonStop systems...
The Connection, by Keith B. Evans
Perceptions remain that the use of TMF is superfluous, costly, or has bad performance issues, as well as a lack of understanding or disregard for the data integrity protection benefits offered by TMF. Debunking these myths...
A brokerage firm located in the Midwestern U.S. provides trading services and trading suggestions to customers through its brokers. It operates a home-grown application running on a redundant pair of HPE NonStop Servers...
A large telecommunications (telco) company based in Africa is servicing a growing user base, providing cell services, call detail record (CDR) billing, an online game show, and card recharging (talk minute reloading) on various applications with an existing replication engine on HPE NonStop systems...
A large U.S. telecommunication (telco) company provides various cellular services for its end users on HPE NonStop databases in two main call datacenters...
A European railroad provides transportation and digital ticketing services for a large portion of the continent. The business unit manually sets prices based on historical purchases. Fare pricing was unresponsive to consumer shifts in demand...
An energy provider manages the work and materials flow for its nuclear power plants on various plant systems. Over the past few years, database querying and reporting, along with operational activity, grew across multiple, distributed systems...
A paper manufacturer runs complex plant analysis and data queries on an HPE NonStop Server. The manufacturer needed to offload some of these applications from the HPE NonStop Server to a Windows SQL Server in order to distribute these analytical tools and incorporate them...
A brokerage service bureau provides trading services to financial services firms on HPE NonStop systems. The financial services firms act as a "middleman," providing portfolio management with online access to the service bureau's NonStop trading application...
Please note that Shadowbase supports BASE24™ full or partial CAF and PBF Refreshes. In fact, there is a guide for doing so: Reference: HPE NonStop Shadowbase Installation and Planning Manual (Appendix B)
At the virtual Connect HPE Technical Boot Camp, Gravic announced that Japanese reseller, High Availability Systems (HAS) and HPE solution architect, David Jones, are the 2020 recipients of the HPE Shadowbase Hall of Fame Project Award. Each were vital this past year in their role of implementing HPE Shadowbase at various customer sites. The HAS...
Gravic recently published the article, Thinking of Migrating During a Pandemic? You Are Not Alone! in the November/December issue of The Connection.
Please enjoy our newly released video on Shadowbase Zero Downtime Migration solutions. We hope that you find it interesting and informative! Please share it with your colleagues!
The Connection, by Paden Holenstein
This article discusses a recent trend we've seen in HPE NonStop industry: IT teams honing their focus on new features while ramping up various business continuity...
Gravic publishes its Shadowbase Fall Newsletter, with articles covering the Executive Vice President’s Letter; Focus on Product Management; Development News; Deployment News; Presentations for the virtual Connect HPE NonStop TBC; and a Shadowbase Marketing Update — New Shadowbase Video, White Paper, Article, Briefs, and Infographic.
We are very humbled to be featured in this beautiful infographic posted by Cloud28+ on Twitter. If you have not had the chance, take a look at their tweets. Cloud28+ is a worldwide community that exists to "foster collaboration to increase knowledge sharing, create new business alliances, and accelerate business outcomes."
A major U.S. telecommunication (telco) provider offers provisioning and cellular infrastructure services to client companies, which provide their services through various applications to cell phone users...
This week, the HPE Shadowbase Total Replication Solutions for HPE NonStop white paper is featured on the Cloud28+ North America home web page. We are honored to be featured, and take this moment to acknowledge our Development Team for their extensive hard work on HPE Shadowbase solutions over recent years.
Version 6.610 is Now Available Features Include The Consumer directly processes Enscribe and SQL/MP CREATE, PURGE, PURGEDATA, and ALTER events to allow for more efficient processing Enscribe Compare supports comparison processing over TCP/IP HPE Shadowbase for NonStop Gateway product enables SOLVNV to compare Enscribe files over TCP/IP connections and SOLV and SOLVNV to work between...
Extract Database Changes or Initial Load Data The HPE Shadowbase ETL Toolkit is used to extract database changes or initial load data into flat files for subsequent ETL loading into a target environment using comma-separated value (CSV), fixed-position, variable length, and tab-delimited formats. It can feed high-volume data quantities into a data warehouse, and row-based...
Managing Latency One of the most critical aspects of data replication performance is latency. The two most important types are replication latency and application latency. Replication latency is the time period when the change data is in the replication pipeline and is affected by system utilization, process priorities, and network bandwidth. Application latency occurs when...
Managing Latency is One of the Most Critical Aspects of Data Replication Performance The two most important types of latency are replication latency and application latency. Replication Latency Replication latency is the elapsed time between when a data change (e.g., insert, update, delete) is committed to the source system database, and when it is applied...
This article/case study explains how a large European manufacturer runs its online shop floor operations on an HPE NonStop Server and uses HPE Shadowbase data replication to exploit the currency and value of this online, trapped, and siloed data. Data Replication is not Only Used for Providing Backups for Business Continuity It is also used for moving isolated data in real-time in order to leverage its value for competitive advantage and building new business solutions...
Shadowbase Zero Data Loss (ZDL) Shadowbase ZDL business continuity and data integration replication is for those applications where no data loss can be tolerated. Using unique and patented synchronous replication...
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...
Using unique and patented synchronous replication technology, Shadowbase ZDL ensures that all database changes made on a source system are successfully replicated to the target system before the source application is allowed to commit (make permanent) those changes. If the source system fails...
The Connection, by Keith B. Evans and Paul J. Holenstein
This article/case study explains that a large European manufacturer runs its online shop floor operations on an HPE NonStop Server using an Enscribe database, and how it deployed an HPE Shadowbase data integration solution to...
Gravic published the white paper, The Benefits of Switching from Scale-up to Scale-out Architectures, which explains how the traditional scale-up approach suffers from significant limitations and cost issues that prevent it from satisfying the ever-increasing workloads of a 24×7 online society. It also discusses massive parallel processing (MPP), along with other related topics.
Keeping up with user demand and managing a service outage or brownout is a significant challenge for IT departments. The traditional scale-up approach suffers from significant limitations and cost issues that prevent it from satisfying the ever-increasing workloads of a 24×7 online society...
The Shadowbase Team presented Surviving Uncertain Times during Connect Worldwide’s first-ever VIRTU-NUG meeting. We discussed recent macro environmental shifts due to COVID-19, how companies are reacting, and new HPE Shadowbase data replication releases.
Gravic publishes its Shadowbase Spring/Summer Newsletter, with articles covering the Executive Vice President’s Letter; Focus on Product Management; Development News; ITL and Deployment News; and a Shadowbase Marketing Update — Video, White Paper, Articles, and Web Pages.
Gravic published the article, Data Replication and Integration – Applications in Financial Services in the May/June edition of The Connection. This article/case study explains how a merchant provider gradually expanded its data replication and integration software to add new capabilities and features to its financial switch. The company used HPE Shadowbase data replication to provide active/passive...
The Connection, by Keith B. Evans and Paul J. Holenstein
This article explains how a merchant provider gradually expanded its data replication and integration software...
Version 6.600 for Other Servers is Now Available Features Include Support for SAP Hana as a target Improved replication into SAP ASE and Db2® target databases (utilizing the Shadowbase statement caching ODBC engine) Enhanced Db2 source replication (including z/OS environments) with new configuration options supporting MQCONNX security features New SBFILE command options for displaying transaction...
Several customers recently approached us looking for solutions to their remote data access/connection requirements. HPE Shadowbase uses a data replication/data integration architecture to meet these needs, and has experience successfully deploying these solutions at a number of customer sites. The following HPE Shadowbase architectures are popular and have significant advantages over alternative architectures. • HPE...
You may say: Trust, but verify! We say: Replicate, but compare! HPE Shadowbase Compare is designed to provide you with accurate information describing the consistency between two copies of your HPE NonStop data, regardless of the block or file/table structure, partitioning, index or alternate key layouts, etc. The data being compared does not require the...
TIC Software As a Gravic partner, TIC Software specializes in providing consulting services and add-on products to ensure that Shadowbase users get the most out of User Exits. We focus on helping customers implement special custom logic in data transformation, as well as optimizing the performance of their User Exit code. As many of you...
Gravic recently published the web page, Switch Your Data Replication Engine to HPE Shadowbase Solutions. Data replication is critical in today’s IT landscape. It is also imperative that enterprise IT teams are able to manage data replication in order to fully recognize its benefits. Periodically, companies replace their existing replication engine with HPE Shadowbase solutions...
Gravic published the cover story, Shadowbase Software: Synchronous Replication, in the March/April edition of The Connection. Jonathan Ziegler, Gravic’s Senior Manager of Product Development for the Shadowbase Products Group, discusses Shadowbase software synchronous data replication for Zero Data Loss (ZDL), as well as the business continuity continuum. Data loss is one of the main issues...
We recently created a Performance FAQ web page with Shadowbase performance-related questions and answers for our customers and partners. We expect this information to evolve over time and encourage users to continue submitting questions.
During this COVID-19 Pandemic, Gravic and the Shadowbase Products Group is open and operating with remote support and access. To reach Shadowbase Support, please use your normal Support contact information or use Support. Please use Contact Us for all other inquiries. We hope for the best for you and your family, Gravic and the Shadowbase...
Many people rely on and interact with HPE NonStop Servers every single day, but do not know it. These servers deliver the highest levels of availability for applications and mission-critical businesses.
Please enjoy our newly released video on Shadowbase Data and Application Integration. We soon will be adding subtitles. We hope that you find it interesting and informative! Please share it with your colleagues!
Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Gravic collaborate to bring increased value to customers like you. We know that acquiring technology is only the first step in achieving a business goal. The technology pieces need to work together...
Gravic recently published the white paper, HPE Shadowbase Compare – Validate that a Source and Target Database Match. HPE Shadowbase Compare validates that two HPE NonStop databases match, and highlights any differences found by creating a summary or detailed report. Shadowbase Compare works with: SQL/MP, SQL/MX, Enscribe, and OSS Regular files, and is recommended for...
At the annual HPE Global Partner Summit, Gravic graciously accepted the Momentum Technology Partner of the Year 2019 Award from Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
A large Japanese e-commerce company provides 24x7 shopping on a high-volume Java* cell phone application hosted by a four-node Oracle RAC in a Linux cluster. Oracle was used for the authorization system of a new digital money service with 300 tables...
A large European financial service provider offers trading and payment services for over 100 member banks on HPE NonStop systems. The provider’s development team follows agile procedures in releasing new core application functionality...
A U.S.-based financial services firm provides 24/7 global money transfer services, including money orders online and at thousands of retail locations with a home-grown application. It also provides money orders, business payments, and commercial services...
One of the world’s largest financial services firms provides investment services, transaction processing, and asset management on HPE NonStop systems. The institution is required to meet regulatory requirements, including validating...
A major Internet Service Provider (ISP) is providing 24x7 email, Internet, instant messaging, and other services for millions of international customers. The ISP originally had a primary and disaster recovery farm of servers running Sybase database managers on Linux...
A large and growing U.S. gas and convenience chain has over 3,500 stores, and is rapidly expanding. It uses Verifone (formerly AJB) point of sale and loyalty rewards applications on HPE NonStop systems using SQL/MX. Most of the application runs in the OSS space...
A European bank provides online account access to its customers for a banking application that runs on an IBM z/OS mainframe system. Fraud occurs and is difficult to identify and prosecute. Conspiracy is not sufficient grounds for prosecution in this country...
One of the largest U.S. processor of credit card transactions provides 24x7 card management services on HPE NonStop Systems with HPE Shadowbase software in an active/active (partitioned) business continuity architecture (data collisions are not possible)...
A large U.S. (California) credit union services its members on a BASE24™ application running on a pair of HPE NonStop systems. The NonStop systems are running in an active/passive business continuity architecture using an existing data replication engine...
Version 6.600 for HPE NonStop is now available. Features include: HPE Shadowbase DDL Command Replication (DCR) Shadowbase Online Loading and Verification Utility for OSS Regular Files (SOLVUTIL) Improved Shadowbase Compare, Repair, and SBDDLUTL features Additional enhancements and bug fixes For more detailed information on this release, please see our SPRs (Shadowbase Product Releases).
At the Partner Technical Update held at the annual HPE Technical Boot Camp, Gravic announced that HPE solution architects, Clive Abrahams, Grant Adonis, and Praveen Gupta are the 2019 recipients of the HPE Shadowbase Hall of Fame Project Award.
Please enjoy our newly released video on Shadowbase Business Continuity, which is also available with Japanese subtitles. We will be soon be adding more subtitles. We hope that you find it interesting and informative! Please share it with your colleagues!
At the MexTUG Meeting, held in Mexico City, we enjoyed catching up with the customers, meeting new faces, and hearing Arturo Camargo’s talk on HPE’s humble beginnings to its big vision for the future, as well as Mercedes Fabila’s talk about HPE’s product portfolio and hardware. We also experienced authentic local Mexican cuisine and the...
Gravic recently published, Discover Meaningful Patterns Using Data Integration in the September/October issue of The Connection. HPE Shadowbase Streams for Data Integration uses CDC technology to stream data generated by one application to target database and application environments, eliminating data silos and providing the facilities for integrating existing applications at the data or event-driven level...
The Connection, by Paul J. Holenstein and Keith B. Evans
HPE Shadowbase Streams for Data Integration uses CDC technology to stream data generated by one application...
Gravic recently published the white paper, HPE Shadowbase SOLV Product Suite — Online Database Loading, Copying, Synchronizing, and Unloading. SOLV loading utilizes special patented features that allow it to properly merge the data being loaded with the data being replicated. However, note that SOLV loading can also occur without HPE Shadowbase replication being active/in-use. In...
Dr. Wilbur H. (Bill) Highleyman brings more than 40 years' experience in the design and implementation of mission-critical computer systems. Dr. Bruce D. Holenstein is President and CEO of Gravic, Inc. Paul J. Holenstein is Executive Vice President of Gravic, Inc., the makers of the Shadowbase line of data replication products.
Breaking the Availability Barrier: Volume I, "Survivable Systems for Enterprise Computing," describes the techniques that can be used today for extending the time between system failures from years to centuries, often at little or no additional cost.
Breaking the Availability Barrier: Volume II, "Achieving Century Uptimes with Active/Active Systems," covers significant issues and technologies related to active/active architectures, including availability calculations, redundant reliable networks, distributed databases, total cost of ownership, and node failures.
Breaking the Availability Barrier: Volume III, "Active/Active Systems in Practice," contains practical examples and case studies for actually building active/active systems based upon the principles covered in Volumes I and II.
Audience: All Abstract: Data is valuable, and the more current the data is, the more valuable it is. For this reason, the resident data in online transaction processing systems is some of the most valuable. Trapped Data However, if this data is trapped in that system, and not available to enable other real-time business intelligence processes,...
This past week, Paul and Paden Holenstein attended the HPE NonStop Innovation Summit 2019 in Seoul and the HPE NonStop & MCS Technology Day in Taipei. They flew into Incheon International airport, took a shuttle to the Conrad Seoul, arriving late at night. They enjoyed a smorgasbord of food at the hotel breakfast buffet and...
Please enjoy our newly released Shadowbase Overview Video, which is also available with Korean and Chinese Simplified subtitles. We hope that you find it interesting and informative, and will share it with your colleagues!
This past week, Gravic’s HPE Shadowbase team attended HPE Discover at the Venetian/Palazzo and the Sands Expo in Las Vegas. Gravic was awarded the HPE Momentum Technology Partner of the Year 2019 Award and Paul J. Holenstein was interviewed about the award. He was also recognized (pictured) for his HPE MASE (Master Accredited Solution Expert)...
This past week, we participated in the HPE NonStop Customer Event held in Santiago, Chile. On Wednesday, attendees enjoyed an official welcoming by Orlando Riquelme and various presentations, including two given by Alfredo Villarroel: NonStop Present and Future and HPE Shadowbase Use Case Solutions and Product Updates. On Thursday, attendees viewed a short NonStop video...
Sometimes things just don’t add up. Use HPE Shadowbase Compare and HPE Shadowbase Repair to make sense of your data. HPE Shadowbase Compare and Repair
Gravic recently published the article, A Modern Look at Reliability, Availability, and Scalability, in the May/June issue of The Connection. Availability and reliability are complimentary measures, and they each deserve equal consideration for mission-critical applications. Enterprises want both 100% availability and 100% reliability but can never achieve 100% for either. Availability is the proportion of...
Gravic recently published the article, From Hacker to Hackathon – History in the Making! in the May/June issue of The Connection. The article includes highlights from planning, scheduling, coordinating, and hosting our first-ever hackathon, which has now become a highly anticipated annual event. Our employees enjoyed a tremendous team-building experience, were exposed to new ways...
The Connection, by Vuk Petrovic and Paden R. Holenstein
What comes to mind when you hear the word hacker? You most likely imagine an individual, (probably male) with...
The Connection, by Dr. Bruce Holenstein, Paul J. Holenstein, and Dr. Bill Highleyman
Computer manufacturers often stress performance and availability in their marketing literature. Yet, reliability (R), availability (A), and scalability (S) are the three pillars that support mission-critical applications...
This past week at the ETBC, we participated in a Partner Technical Update and also presented a new case study, Using Data Replication to Offload Online Host Processing and Enable New Business Applications. Attendees enjoyed our other presentation, HPE Shadowbase Product Update and Enterprise Use Cases. During this event, we reconvened with customers and HPE...
At the NYTUG Meeting, Paul Holenstein and Gary Strickler visited the HPE office in Berkeley Heights, NJ. Gary enjoyed reconnecting with old faces, while Paul enjoyed chatting with our HPE colleagues and customers. Several of the presentations were particularly appropriate. For example, Paul Densinger discussed how to effectively modernize data and “open it” by migrating...
In 2019, our 40th year of business, we take time to reflect on the past and look forward to the future. Over the past forty years, we overcame economic cycles, Section 1702 and the inception of GDPR and other regulation changes, and the rise and fall of IT analyst fads as opportunities. Some may ask:...
One of the largest U.S. processors of credit card transactions provides transaction authorization and settlement services for thousands of attached devices using a home-grown application on a pair of HPE NonStop systems. The processor recently upgraded its servers and implemented...
An island bank uses a legacy replication product in an active/passive business continuity architecture for its BASE24™ application environment on HPE NonStop Servers. The bank purchased new platform hardware, new BASE24 software...
A brokerage service bureau provides outsource services (Figure 1) for security account balance and trade history to its banking customers’ end users on two NonStop systems connected via RDF. The service bureau needs to provide 24x7 access to the customers’ end users on a variety of...
A national healthcare agency processes all prescription insurance claims for the country’s healthcare market with a set of applications on HPE NonStop systems. The agency is facing exponential growth in the number of prescriptions due to an aging population along with prescription fraud and abuse...
Connect Converge, by Paul J. Holenstein and Keith B. Evans
Data is valuable. And the more current the data is, the more valuable it is. For this reason, the resident data in online transaction processing systems is some of the most valuable. However, if this data is...
Data is valuable. The more current the data is, the more valuable it is. For this reason, the resident data in online transaction processing systems is some of the most valuable. However, if this data is trapped in that system, and not available...
Gravic recently published an article in the Spring issue of Connect Converge: Using Data Replication to Offload Online Host Processing and Enable New Business Applications. The current data in online transaction processing systems is some of the most valuable. If this data is trapped in that system, and not available to enable other real-time business...
At this event in Tampa, we enjoyed talking with the local HPE NonStop users, presenting HPE Shadowbase Use Cases, meeting with HPE personnel, and learning what updates the other vendors are talking about. Karen Copeland opened the show with HPE NonStop Strategy and the Migration to x86. Each vendor ran out of give-a-ways in the...
IT Systems Come in Many Colors. HPE Shadowbase Data and Application Integration Adapts to them All! HPE Shadowbase Data and Application Integration
During this event in Thailand, we enjoyed meeting with local HPE MCS personnel, HPE corporate, and several customers in the region. We presented HPE Shadowbase Data Replication Solutions to Solve Business Challenges and HPE Shadowbase Enterprise Use Cases and Product Update to attendees, reviewing our latest feature and solution enhancements, along with discussing our future product...
As the CEO or CIO of your enterprise, you are responsible for delivering continuous business services as well as maintaining audit compliance. The speed of today’s processing systems has moved classical data integration into the realm of real time...
Real-time Data Replication and Integration for a Nonstop World
Competitive advantage requires continuous access to real-time transactional data across the enterprise while avoiding the significant costs of service and data unavailability. HPE Shadowbase solutions...
The Connection, by Paden R. Holenstein
This article gives a unique perspective on the HPE NonStop community from an individual under the age of 30. Paden Holenstein reflects on his first two years of experience...
The HPE Shadowbase Data Definition Language Utility (SBDDLUTL) provides a powerful interface to convert and map the Enscribe DDL data structures (records, fields) into SQL equivalents (tables, columns). SBDDLUTL supports a variety of target SQL databases, including...
The Connection, by Keith B. Evans and Paul J. Holenstein
Keeping up with user demand is a significant challenge for IT departments. The traditional scale-up approach suffers from significant limitations and cost issues that prevent...
The Connection, by Mark Pollans, HPE Sr. Worldwide Product Manager
This article is based on the excellent and informative presentation that Mr. Pollans gave at the 2017 Connect Technical Boot Camp on how to design and build...
A large international tour operator (the "operator") provides 24-hour services to its travel agents and Internet shoppers on HPE NonStop Servers. Utilizing the Internet, the tour operator’s business grew and look-to-book ratios increased several-hundred fold...
Due to recent merger activity, an online retailer maintains multiple data silos for its operational systems. The retailer offers a basic online shopping experience for items viewed or added to the shopping cart...
A European bank provides online account access to its customers for a banking application that runs on HPE NonStop systems. Fraud occurs and is difficult to identify and prosecute. The intent to commit a crime is not sufficient; the crime must actually be attempted for prosecution...
A major U.S. commodity provider delivers eight billion pounds of produce per year to customers from thousands of independent farms throughout the country. Major commodity producers are shifting towards precision agriculture...
An insurance company provides claim processing services for its client companies, which then service their insurance policy holders (the end users). As claims are made on an HPE NonStop Server, they entered a claims processing application...
Healthcare medical dosing processes, stock trading systems, money center/bank electronic funds transfer applications, etc., cannot tolerate any data loss when failures occur. All asynchronous data replication engines...
A casino manages all aspects of its business (gaming, hotel and hospitality operations, restaurants, etc.) on HPE NonStop systems. As part of a major upgrade, the casino developed several new applications, restructured its databases, and changed the schema of the Enscribe files and SQL tables...
A European cellular provider offers short message services (SMS) and unified message services (UMS) to deliver short text messages to cell phone customers, and to notify them of their voicemail or email messages...
A major bank provides credit and debit card processing for its merchant customers. Problem: The bank needed to ensure its merchant services were highly reliable, continuously available, and able to survive any system or...
An island bank runs BASE24™ for 24x7 point-of-sale (POS) and ATM services on HPE NonStop Servers. The bank relied upon an untested active/passive business continuity solution for Disaster Recovery. The bank needed to...
The largest U.S. processor of credit card transactions provides ATM and point-of-sale (POS) card management services for a variety of financial and commercial firms on HPE NonStop systems. The original configuration was vulnerable to failure and...
The Connection, Dr. Bruce D. Holenstein, Paul J. Holenstein, and Dr. Bill Highleyman
Sometimes it is necessary to change or update a data replication engine. A zero downtime migration will...
The Connection, by Paul J. Holenstein
Prescription drug claims fraud is big business, costing billions of dollars. To help a country’s government healthcare agency stem the losses, a centralized claims fraud adjudication and prevention decision support...
Shadowbase synchronous replication (Shadowbase Zero Data Loss, or Shadowbase ZDL) resolves two key issues of asynchronous replication: data loss on source system failure and data collisions when running an active/active environment. By eliminating data loss...
The Connection, by Keith B. Evans
HPE Shadowbase software plays a key role in a quality control system for a major U.S. commodity market by integrating applications to extract meaningful data from a mass of test and product quality data, or...
The Connection, by Dr. Bruce D. Holenstein, Dr. Bill Highleyman, and Paul J. Holenstein
The third pillar of mission-critical systems is scalability; reliability and availability are the other two, creating the...
The growers of a major U.S. commodity deliver about eight billion pounds of produce per year to consumers. The produce is cultivated at thousands of independent farms throughout the country, and samples are used for quality analysis and control...
The Connection, by Keith B. Evans
Whether it be fire, power failure, software error, malfeasance, or some other cause, events occur which can lead to unplanned outages of IT services. If your...
Cartu Bank understands the need for continuous availability with more than 60% of all e-commerce transactions in the Eastern European country of Georgia running through its payment switch. HPE NonStop Servers with HPE Shadowbase software...
The Connection, by Dr. Bruce D. Holenstein, Dr. Bill Highleyman, and Paul J. Holenstein
One of the three pillars of mission-critical systems is data reliability – a significant concern in datacenters...
The Connection, by Keith B. Evans and Paul J. Holenstein
A major financial company offers person-to-person money transfers, money orders, and business payments. The company implemented an active/active system with two NonStop systems located 1,000 miles...
A major financial company offers person-to-person money transfers, money orders, and business payments. The company implemented an active/active system with two HPE NonStop systems located 1,000 miles apart...
The Connection, by Dr. Bruce D. Holenstein, Dr. Bill Highleyman, and Paul J. Holenstein
The reliability of a redundant system is optimized by minimizing the probability that both systems will fail...
Data is one of a company’s most valuable assets, and cyber thieves want it. Whenever data is moved between systems, a window of opportunity for data theft opens, which opportunistic hackers will be quick to exploit. But whether it is data at rest, or data in motion, the window of opportunity...
Connect Converge, by Keith B. Evans and Paul J. Holenstein
In this article, we look at several technologies that cooperate to extract valuable business information from the noise of big data, enabling businesses to obtain real-time business intelligence. A big data...
The Connection, by William G. Holenstein and Keith B. Evans
A regional bank serving a major resort island took a very stale, aged BASE24 system and upgraded both the hardware platform and BASE24 software with no outages except for a brief time during the final cutover...
A regional bank serving a major resort island took a very stale, aged BASE24 system and upgraded both the hardware platform and BASE24 software with no outages except for a brief time during the final cutover...
This datasheet provides comprehensive introductory information about the entire HPE Shadowbase Total Replication Solutions product suite. Gravic, Inc. is a world leader in providing innovative data collection, transformation, and distribution solutions for business continuity and...
A major U.S. bank serves much of the Eastern and Midwestern sections of the country, providing credit and debit card processing for its merchant customers. The bank uses HPE NonStop Servers in a two-node active/active configuration...
By implementing the critical PPFE as an active/active system, one of the largest cellular telephone service providers in South Africa ensured continuous availability of subscriber account recharging, calling time transfer, and calling time query services...
Telecom Italia is the leading provider of mobile phone services in Italy. Because of the critical nature of the mobile voice, text and data services it provides, Telecom Italia utilizes a pair of HPE NonStop Servers located in different geographical areas...
A merchant services company carefully expanded its use of HPE Shadowbase data replication over the years, from a uni-directional active/passive data recovery capability for its CMA to a continuous availability for its multi-node switch...
Gravic, a world leader in providing business continuity software enabling high and continuous availability for IT systems, and an inventor of bi-directional data replication, provides BASE24 classic and BASE24-eps support in its patented HPE Shadowbase product line. All of the...
Audit compliance has become an increasingly important part of most businesses. Failure to meet compliance requirements can result in heavy fines, or even suspension of operations. Fraudulent activity can result in significant costs if left unchecked. It is imperative that you know what...
Gravic's HPE Shadowbase Products Group leads the market in providing database replication and integration solutions ever since the 1984 release of the TMF Auditor product, the first online replication product of its kind. Today, Gravic continues to push the technological evolution of...
The Connection, by Ajaya Gummadi
Only HPE Integrity NonStop Servers are designed, from the ground up, for continuous application availability – from their native fault-tolerant system architecture, to a...
The Connection, by Keith B. Evans
Tape or virtual tape backup/restore for periodic backups is prudent (after all, it is easy to sometimes purge the ‘wrong’ file). However, when used for disaster recovery, in the...
This island bank is located on the Pacific Rim Ring of Fire and lost its datacenter for several hours during an earthquake. The bank initiated its disaster recovery plan, but could not bring its backup systems into operation and suffered a failover fault...
The Connection, by Paul J. Holenstein
In this article, we look at several technologies that interact to extract valuable business information from “the noise” of big data. Big data offers the opportunity for businesses to obtain real-time business intelligence that they could...
The Connection, by Paul J. Holenstein
A major bank, located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, suffered a devastating earthquake causing it to lose much of its data. After the disaster, the bank decided to switch to active/active data replication to prevent this kind of problem in the future. This article discusses in detail the steps the bank...
The Connection, by Keith B. Evans and Paul J. Holenstein
Disaster recovery is not business continuity, and business continuity technologies are not all equal – some...
As part of a HPE 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...
The Connection, by Keith B. Evans
The costs of prolonged downtime of critical business IT systems are significant (potentially to the point of closing the company). These potential costs are compounded by...
The Connection, by Paul J. Holenstein
In this article, we discuss the role that data replication solutions can play in public, private, and hybrid-cloud computing for critical applications and how it can lower your IT costs, improve fault tolerance of your...
In this white paper, we discuss cloud integration, hybrid cloud architectures and the role that HPE Shadowbase replication solutions can play in hybrid cloud computing for critical applications, showing how they can lower your IT costs, improve fault tolerance of your applications, and increase flexibility. With the advent of cloud computing...
A big data analytics system typically requires a large network of tens, hundreds, or even thousands of heterogeneous, purpose-built servers, each performing its own portion of the task. All of these systems must intercommunicate with each other in real-time, and integrate with...
A large Canadian bank took a major step towards providing improved service to its customers by modernizing its active/backup datacenter architecture and reengineering it into an active/active network...
A large bank operates one of the most extensive ATM/POS networks in North America, using ACI BASE24™ and running on HPE NonStop Servers. If this ATM/POS service went down, much of the region’s retail commerce would come to a halt...
The Connection, by Paul J. Holenstein
As part of an HP (HPE) 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...
This island bank is located on the Pacific Rim Ring of Fire and lost its datacenter for several hours during an earthquake. The bank initiated its disaster recovery plan, but could not bring its backup systems into operation and suffered a failover fault...
A major international Internet Service Provider (ISP) offers email services, Internet access, and other functions to tens of millions of active global customers. Several million customer accounts were migrated to a new HPE NonStop system...
This case study is an excellent example of HPE’s move to a converged infrastructure. It demonstrates how one customer took advantage of facilities available to the HPE community to integrate diverse systems into a common application...
A major provider offers inter-bank transaction-switching services by capturing information during a point-of-sale – at a store terminal or website – or at an ATM. A complex suspicious or fraudulent activity determination is made...
The Connection, by John R. Hoffmann
Concurrent replication has many efficiency advantages over serial replication, which are described in this article. The highly efficient technique of concurrent replication...
HPE Shadowbase Total Replication Solutions for Other Servers is a highly efficient, extremely flexible, robust replication solution based on Gravic’s patented data replication and integration technology, and more than 40 years of experience designing and developing low-latency real-time...
Business continuity encompasses those activities that an enterprise performs to maintain consistency and recoverability of its operations and services. The availability of application services provided by an enterprise’s IT infrastructure is only one of many facets of...
An HPE Shadowbase active/active system architecture provides disaster tolerance by maintaining a network of independent processing nodes, each having access to a common replicated database. This architecture eliminates the uncertainty and cost that exists with an active/backup...
Extended outages happen, and when they do, the cost to your business can be severe. You are at risk if you: have no business continuity plans, are using tape or virtual tape backup for disaster recovery, or have an active/passive disaster recovery plan, which may encounter failover faults...
A large telephone company (telco) switched from providing landline services to mobile phones and began using HPE Shadowbase data replication solutions to keep billing services up-to-date and to prevent cellular fraud...
Vodacom (Pty) Ltd is one of the largest cellular telephone service providers in Africa, currently supplying voice and messaging services to over 55 million customers. Prepaid calling cards are a major Vodacom service, which if unavailable...
The Connection, by Brett Dismore and Paul J. Holenstein
Vodacom (Pty) Ltd is one of the largest cellular telephone service providers in Africa, currently supplying voice and messaging services to over 55 million customers. Prepaid calling cards are a major Vodacom service, which if unavailable, would cause much of Africa’s cellular traffic...
For over 40 years, Gravic has lead the industry with HPE Shadowbase Total Replication Solutions for HPE NonStop, providing data replication and data integration solutions for this mission-critical community. The HPE Shadowbase product suite provides the means to meet today’s...
The speed of today’s processing systems has moved classical data warehousing into the realm of real-time. The result is real-time business intelligence (RTBI), also known as real-time data insight and business insight. Business transactions are fed as they occur to an RTBI system...
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