Situation A large U.S. pharmaceutical chain serving more than 100 million customers operated a critical HPE Nonstop environment consisting of three Nonstop systems running multiple NS applications, including payment processing. The organization’s infrastructure was built around an Active/Passive Disaster Recovery architecture, making high availability and data integrity essential to maintaining uninterrupted service at scale across...
Situation A large Australian bank needed to migrate its CONNEX ATM/POS application from an aging Active/Active HPE Nonstop NS3 environment to new NS4 systems. The bank’s infrastructure team initiated this migration due to hardware refresh needs, expiring replication software licenses, and broader datacenter and cloud transition plans. This project was critical for maintaining business continuity,...
The latest Shadowbase release introduces a variety of enhancements designed to make data replication more flexible, resilient, and easier to manage. From expanded Zero Data Loss (ZDL) capabilities to improved configuration options and queue management, this update helps organizations simplify administration while strengthening business continuity. Here’s a look at what’s new: Smarter Data Replication Configuration...
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...
CTUG 2026 at the HPE Office in Toronto, Canada provided a ton of key knowledge and updates from HPE Nonstop Leadership including Neil Davis (HPE Global Sales Director) and Karen Ramirez (HPE North America Sales Manager), with David Lorenz (HPE Solution Architect) presenting the HPE Nonstop Roadmap which included other key updates. Key topics included...
NYTUG NYTUG26 provided an intimate, yet meaningful day for all who attended. Interestingly enough, almost half the attendees were customers (!). Karen Ramirez (HPE NA Sales Director) gave the Nonstop Business Update with relevant news and recent business trends on everything new with HPE Nonstop. Peter Schvarcz was an excellent emcee and host, taking pictures...
Gravic was excited to take part in N2TUG on May 6th in Dallas, Texas, at the Hurst conference center, which brought together members of the HPE Nonstop community for a day of insights, collaboration, and forward-looking discussion. This show, in particular, had a wealth of HPE Product Roadmap updates, which Roland Lemoine (HPE) did an...
This year’s eGTUG in Munich, Germany, turned out to be an amazing event. The show was stacked with high-energy, enlightening sessions and fantastic networking events. From deep-dive technical talks and trainings to brewery tours and Bavarian music, eGTUG 2026 will be hard to top. Shadowbase Training Session – Staying Ahead with Shadowbase: New Solutions,...
Gravic is pleased to announce that we have published a new article, “Ensuring Enterprise Data Integrity Across Platforms: The Growing Importance of Cross Platform Validation and the Power of Shadowbase Compare Plus”, in the March/April 2026 issue of The Connection. The article explores why validating data across hybrid, cloud, and multi-database environments has become essential...
Gravic was excited to take part in the MexTUG Chapter Meeting on March 19 in Mexico City, bringing together members of the HPE Nonstop community for a day of insights, collaboration, and forward-looking discussion. Representing Gravic, Maria Lusa Mendoza led our session: Shadowbase Solutions: Consistent Data. Continuous Operations., highlighting how organizations can achieve continuous operations and...
On Friday, March 6th, the Shadowbase team had a fantastic time attending SunTUG 2026 in Tampa, Florida. Though the event took place over a single day, it provided a valuable opportunity for members of the HPE Nonstop community to reconnect, share ideas, and explore the latest developments in the ecosystem. We would like to extend...
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.
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...
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...
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)
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!
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 Connection, by Keith B. Evans and Paul J. Holenstein
This article explains how a merchant provider gradually expanded its data replication and integration software...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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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