Tag: Zero Downtime Migration

Zero Downtime Migration

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A Large Financial Institution Migrates Datacenters with No Downtime Using HPE Shadowbase ZDM

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...

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Zero Downtime Migration for California Credit Union

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...

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Massive Datacenter Migration for Money Transfer Firm

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...

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Manage Massive Data Growth with Online Repartitioning

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 Bank’s Crisis Migration to a New Data Replication Solution

A Bank’s Crisis Migration to a New Data Replication Solution

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...

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Migrate to HPE NonStop for Higher Availability

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 Major ISP Migrates from Sybase to HP NonStop with No Downtime

Major Internet Service Provider (ISP) Migrates to HPE NonStop for Extreme Availability with No Downtime

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...

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Data Replication Solution Migration – Discovery

Access to Data is Required 24×7 Consequently, so too are the demands placed on real-time data replication solutions, as data is needed everywhere and at all times. Requirements Change over Time Solutions that met yesterday’s business needs may not today.  They may require a migration to a new solution with advanced data replication capabilities, such...

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A Large Financial Institution Migrates Datacenters with No Downtime Using HPE Shadowbase ZDM

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...

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Migrate Casino Application Environments with Zero Downtime

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...

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Thinking of Migrating During a Pandemic? You Are Not Alone!

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...

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Major Parts Distributor Utilizes Zero Downtime for Application Modernization and Digital Transformation

Executive Overview Situation What do you do when a reliable but aging HPE NonStop system that has been the IT backbone of your operations begins to lose its glitter? Your employees are frustrated by the green screens that display only limited amounts of data. They are also overwhelmed by excessive data entry into special-coded fields....

A Major ISP Migrates from Sybase to HP NonStop with No Downtime

A Major ISP Migrates from Sybase to HPE NonStop with No Downtime

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...

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HPE Shadowbase Total Replication Solutions for HPE NonStop

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...

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Switching Replication Engines with Zero Downtime and Less Risk

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...

A Bank’s Crisis Migration to a New Data Replication Solution

A Bank’s Crisis Migration to a New Data Replication Solution

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...

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Stepping Stones for a Successful Migration

The Connection, July/August 2023 By Paden R. Holenstein There are numerous approaches to migrations. One HPE NonStop user said, “We fall forward,” meaning, they migrate their application to the new system NO MATTER WHAT, even if there are issues. Risky approaches like this are bound to fail. Would you “skip” across predator-infested waters at full speed?...

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HPE Shadowbase ZDM Achieves Zero Downtime Migration for Large Bank Datacenter

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...

Using Shadowbase to Eliminate Planned Downtime via Zero Downtime Migrations

HPE Shadowbase Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM)

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...

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Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) and Platform Refresh for Island Bank

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...