A large and growing U.S. gas and convenience chain has over 3,500 stores, and is rapidly expanding. They use Verifone (formerly AJB) POS and loyalty rewards applications on HPE NonStop Systems using SQL/MX...
Situation A major U.S. telecommunication (telco) provider offers provisioning and cellular infrastructure services to client companies, which provide their services through various applications to end cell phone users. Problem The telco needed to provide a continuously available, active/active application platform for its client companies. It needed to offer the HPE OpenCall INS cell phone application...
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...
The largest processor of credit card transactions in the U.S. had to provide both ATM and POS services to a variety of financial and commercial firms. One of these services, the card management application (CMA), needed to implement a disaster recovery system to provide business continuity services in case of a disaster...
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. The bank also replaced a costly data replication product with HPE...
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 whenever an unplanned outage of an IT service occurs. Enhancing asynchronous replication, Shadowbase ZDL uses a...
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 advanced business continuity (BC) architectures, a...
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, HPE Shadowbase...
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...
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 and effectively setting the Recovery Point Objective, or RPO, to zero, Shadowbase ZDL protects...
One of the largest U.S. processors of credit card transactions provides transaction authorization and settlement services on a pair of HPE NonStop systems. The processor is running in an active/active HPE...
A cellular provider services a large and growing population of cell phone customers. All traffic for a given subscriber is routed to only one system at a time. Problem: The provider needed to improve cell phone services and...
The Connection, by Paul J. Holenstein, Dr. Bruce D. Holenstein, and Dr. Bill Highleyman
This article discusses strategies for improving database recovery times after catastrophic failure for companies that use the “tried-and-true” backup and restore approach for data recovery. This method...
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...
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...
Today’s requirement for the continuous availability of online services necessitates the minimization or elimination of planned downtime, such as that needed for an operating system or hardware upgrade, or for installation of new application versions. This requirement is solved by...
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 while leveraging the inherent strengths of...
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...
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...
The Connection, by Keith B. Evans and Paul J. Holenstein
It takes two to tango! It is of no use having data available on alternate/takeover systems if the applications required to provide the business services are not also available when needed. Shadowbase...
The award-winning Gravic Shadowbase Business Continuity solutions achieve high and continuous availability to prevent prolonged periods of downtime and data loss, which can be extremely costly to a business.
A European telecommunication service provider was required to use its Short Message Service (SMS) and Unified Messaging Service (UMS) to deliver short text messages to cell phone customers, and to also notify them of their voicemail or email messages. The application...
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 services to survive any fault, whether it is a server failure, a network...
It takes two to tango! It is of no use having data available on alternate/takeover systems if the applications required to provide the business services are not also available when needed. HPE Shadowbase data replication solutions provide all the capabilities necessary to keep...
For over 35 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 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 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...
HPE NonStop Pathway is an application framework that is a mainstay of today's mission-critical OLTP systems It supports a requester (client) server model, and delivers application scalability by distributing requester workloads across dynamic pools of application server processes...
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 to come to a halt as subscribers exhaust their cellular minutes...
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 technologies are “more equal” than others. Even though you may already have a business continuity plan in place, it may not be adequate, well-tested, or well-supported. Worse...
A South American stock exchange that used a trading system built with HPE NonStop servers faced high data entry error rates and the resulting manual reconciliation process required to correct these errors prevented it from complying with its same-day or next-day clearing...
The Connection, by Ajaya Gummadi
Only HP Integrity NonStop servers are designed, from the ground up, for continuous application availability – from their native fault-tolerant system architecture, to a complete set of integrated and...
Cartu Bank understands the need for continuous availability with more than 60% of all e-commerce transactions in the Eastern European country of Georgia going through its payment switch. Read this HPE case study to learn how HPE NonStop servers with HPE Shadowbase software run...
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 fact that the many events...
A major U.S. telecommunication service provider needed to offer the HPE OpenCall INS cell phone application with considerable extensions to its customers. One of its customers had nine total nodes in its architecture; and the system had to survive the loss of one or more...
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 Paul J. Holenstein
A South American stock exchange using a trading system built with HP (HPE) NonStop servers faced high data entry error rates. The resulting manual reconciliation process required to correct these errors...
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...
This island bank is located on the Pacific Rim Ring of Fire and lost its data center 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 most critical outages were...
A brokerage firm located in the Midwestern U.S. needed to implement data replication to provide a redundant active/backup HPE NonStop system for a sizzling-hot-takeover (SZT) in the event of a primary node failure. HPE Shadowbase Solution: Active/Almost Active Backup...
A large U.S. bank implemented a service bureau in order for its regional banks to process securities and financial information. The service bureau required an active/active architecture that would provide load-balancing and high availability. Due to electrical outages during...
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 business is relying on an active/passive or...
A large Canadian bank took a major step towards providing improved service to its customers by modernizing its active/backup data center architecture and reengineering it into an active/active network. The HPE Shadowbase product suite was selected to provide the data replication...
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. Business transactions and events must be propagated across your enterprise as they occur, driving action, enabling new business services, and giving you competitive advantage.
This island bank is located on the Pacific Rim Ring of Fire and lost its data center 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 most critical outages were its online banking services and its ATM/POS network, which were further...
A merchant services company carefully expanded its use of Shadowbase data replication over the years. The company initially used data replication to provide a uni-directional active/passive data recovery capability for its CMA. After feeling comfortable with this use of data...
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 and running in an active/active configuration. In this way, both servers can be used concurrently...
By implementing the critical Prepaid Front End (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 to its subscribers. It...
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 always-on, never-stop world we live in, it often doesn’t make sense. Unfortunately, some businesses are using this...
A major United States bank serves much of the Eastern and Midwestern sections of the country, providing credit and debit card processing for its merchant customers. It uses HPE NonStop servers in a two-node active/active configuration with geographical separation, ensuring that no system failure or environmental or manmade disaster will take down...
A large processor of credit card transactions provides card management services for its customers on HPE NonStop systems. The original configuration was vulnerable to failure and needed an easy to implement and reliable...
A major financial firm operated the largest message switch in the U.S., with hundreds of thousands of attached devices. It needed to comprise multiple HPE NonStop Server nodes in an active/active configuration. These nodes were distributed around the U.S. for...
An island bank runs BASE24™ for 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...
HPE Shadowbase Compare is a suite of utility products that compares two HPE NonStop databases (Enscribe and/or SQL), and reports all found discrepancies between them. Discrepancies may occur, for example, if a disaster corrupts one of the databases, or the user accidentally...