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...
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 ...
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...
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...
The Connection, by Paul J. Holenstein
A South American stock exchange using a trading system built with HPE NonStop Servers faced high data...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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