Catch up on the latest HPE NonStop developments, roadmaps, and innovations over three days of community networking and learning at NonStop TBC.
HPE Technical Breakout Sessions
The following sessions are offered by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
TBC24.TB01 | HPE NonStop Platform Roadmap – A Customer-Centric Strategy
Speaker: TBA
This talk will examine our current platforms, including the HPE NonStop dual fabric system interconnect and the components that make our systems continuously available. We will discuss how the NonStop Clustering Solution enables massive scale-out while maintaining linear scalability. The talk will also include a first look at the future of a fifth-generation NonStop system based upon the Intel® Xeon® x86 architecture.
TBC24.TB02 | HPE NonStop NS8 and NS4 Architectures
Speaker: TBA
This session provides an overview of the HPE NonStop NS4 and NS8 architectures. Topics covered in this session include processor nodes, storage, networking, system interconnect technology and key subsystems.
TBC24.TB03 | HPE Virtualized NonStop Architecture
Speaker: TBA
The session overviews the HPE Virtualized NonStop (vNS) architecture. Topics covered in this session include vNS virtual machine (VM) types, infrastructure hardware and software required to deploy a vNS system, system interconnect technology, storage, networking, availability, security, performance, transparency of application migration from other NonStop platforms, software images, and a high-level overview of deployment and manageability tools.
TBC24.TB04 | Kernel Level Threading – A Performance Changer
Speaker: TBA
Session Description Coming Soon.
TBC24.TB05 | Training the Next Generation of NonStop Engineers
Speaker: TBA
Learn about HPE NonStop’s internship program, which has been running for several years and has proven successful in forming and attracting new talent. Hopefully, the experience we share will prove useful to customers and partners who may be looking at starting their internship program to grow their next generation of NonStop specialists.
TBC24.TB06 | NonStop Software Roadmap
Speaker: TBA
Session Description Coming Soon.
TBC24.TB07 | NonStop Performance Report 2024
Speaker: TBA
Session Description Coming Soon.
TC24.TB08 | Accelerate Your Digital Transformation with NonStop SQL/MX
Speaker: TBA
Evolving into a data-driven enterprise assumes that solid foundations are taken care of, such as availability, scale, data integrity, security, and introducing new and innovative features for real-time analytics or even ML & AI. Come to this session to see how the value-packed SQL/MX product covers all of the above and how we continuously adapt to new industry requirements, such as with our new SQL/MX 3.9 release and future developments that we will announce in this session
TBC24.TB09 | Implement Zero Trust Security with NonStop SQL
Speaker: TBA
Thanks to the most demanding customers in this domain, security is part of the NonStop DNA, just as availability and data integrity from NonStop contribute to ideally fulfilling NIST requirements of Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA). If you don’t know where to start to achieve zero trust security or validate your state-of-the-art security policies, please join this session.
We’ll review the different technologies we use, such as ANSI access control, role-based access control, encryption, and auditing, and how those are implemented in our NonStop SQL offering. We show how our comprehensive offering allows you to implement a zero-trust security approach, your first weapon against data breaches and ransomware scenarios.
TBC24.TB11 | Provide the Mission-critical Advantage to Workloads in Your Cloud with HPE Virtualized NonStop
Speaker: TBA
The NonStop software stack, with its unique architecture and design, has long been the foundation behind highly available and scalable workloads deployed by Fortune 100 Enterprises worldwide. HPE Virtualized NonStop brings these advantages to workloads deployed in industry-standard IT, such as private clouds. Attend this session to learn how this is possible and how HPE can help you achieve your availability and scalability goals in a cloud environment.
TBC24.TB12 | Best Practices for Configuring and Managing HPE Virtualized NonStop Systems for Mission Critical Workloads
Speaker: TBA
This talk shares best practices learned from customers running production workloads on HPE Virtualized NonStop systems, in some cases for four or more years. You will learn about important considerations in configuring production HPE Virtualized NonStop systems and practices commonly used for their upkeep, including L-Series software, VMware vSphere, and firmware upgrades.
TBC24.TB13 | The Art of the Possible 2024
Speaker: TBA
A rapidly changing business landscape with new competitors, new business models, and disintermediation puts enormous pressure on today’s business leaders. CIOs/CTOs and their architects have to translate these business challenges into powerful IT services that meet the demands. Get inspired by learning how NonStop uniquely addresses some of these challenges and meets your demanding business outcomes.
The 2024 version of the talk has numerous updates waiting for you!
TBC24.TB16 | What’s new with HPE XP Storage, the Premier Enterprise Storage Array for HPE NonStop platforms
Speaker: TBA
HPE XP Storage is an external storage solution for many HPE NonStop systems. We will provide an update and insight into the core features, the use cases, and the recently introduced capabilities.
TBC24.TB19 | Digital Resilience – NonStop Infrastructure and Compliance
Speaker: TBA
This presentation positions Digital Resilience on NonStop Infrastructure using the NIST Cyber Security Framework. It explains how this enables us to do a high-level gap analysis process and develop a plan for the future.
We will also discuss compliance and how it maps to the NIST framework, primarily using the Digital Operations Resilience Act, DORA, in the European Union but mentioning other global compliance practices.
This presentation was developed between HPE, vendors, and, crucially, customers’ feedback.
TBC24.TB20 | Standards and Automation – The Key to Velocity in Managing Databases
Speaker: TBA
Cloud computing promises agile and scalable business models, such as the ability to easily provision and de-provision computing resources on demand to meet changing business needs. Standardization and automation are fundamental to successful cloud implementations.
NonStop SQL, the scalable and fault-tolerant database, is a perfect candidate for reliable, persistent data storage regardless of the operating model. NonStop SQL/MX Database Services (DBS) was designed to give the user a cloud experience. Its capabilities include rapid database deployment, resource sharing, and isolation between databases, providing confidentiality and security.
Early users found, “The user guidance via WebDBS is very positive.”
TBC24.TB21 | NonStop Manageability Plugins for TS/MP (NSMPT) to build/manage a NonStop Middleware Elasticity Framework (NSMEF) instanceSpeaker: TBA
NSMEF provides a process management framework similar to what TS/MP provides for classic Pathway applications for starting and stopping dynamic resources (servers) as the workload fluctuates. NonStop Manageability Plugins for TS/MP (NSMPT) simplify the deployment of an NSMEF instance. This talk will review NSMEF and demonstrate the use of NSMPT to configure and deploy an NSMEF instance
TBC24.TB22 | Using OpenTelemetry with NonStop applications.
Speaker: TBA
OpenTelemetry is an observability framework and toolkit for collecting data such as traces, metrics, and logs. It can provide this data to any number of observability backends. This talk will review OpenTelemetry in general and explain how NonStop Java applications can use OpenTelemetry without any changes to the application.
TBC24.TB23 | 50 Years of NonStop
Speaker: TBA
This is a look back over the 50 years of NonStop, overviewing some key products, releases, milestones, strategies, and events. If you are a seasoned NonStopper, see how much you remember. If you’re new, you might be impressed by the many records and achievements.
TBC24.TB24 | How HPE Managed Services help you deploy NonStop as a ServiceSpeaker: TBA
Learn more about deploying NonStop as a Service using HPE Managed Services to deliver an ‘always on’ mission critical operational and service experience. Help Free up your critical resources to focus on higher-value tasks while enjoying predictable and fixed costs for the life of the term. Discuss how HPE can manage everything from the data center to the cloud using skilled resources available 24×7.
TBC24.TB26 | Optimize IT Operations Through NonStop Manageability Suite
Speaker: TBA
This talk will explore how the HPE NonStop manageability Suite can optimize IT operations. Attendees will gain insights into enhancing efficiency and productivity while discovering the latest advancements in OSM and NSC.
Partner Technical Breakout Sessions
The following sessions are offered by HPE Partners
TBC24.CFP1 | Post Quantum Cryptography – Future Proofing your NonStop Security
Speakers: Hugo Bouderlique, Andrew Price – Infrasoft Pty LTD
This session will give a brief update on quantum computing and its impacts on existing cryptographic standards. It will explain the importance of developing a cryptographic approach to protect current communications and sensitive data from advances in this field. Most importantly, it will show that implementing a Post Quantum Computing (PQC) approach need not be too complex.
TBC24.CFP2 | Using Kafka to Solve NonStop Enterprise Integration Challenges – Customer Use Cases
Speakers: Andrew Price, Pil Ly – Infrasoft Pty LTD
This session will show specific examples from named NonStop customers and explain how they have used Kafka to solve a number of enterprise integration challenges. Examples will include exporting NonStop SQL/MP data to Kafka in JSON format and consuming data from Kafka to present to NonStop applications. The presentation will explain the details of how each was achieved and the business benefits of each use case.
TBC24.CFP3 | HPE NonStop Backup Data Immutability & Compliance
Speaker: Mike Mitsch – ETI-NET
This session will delve into the latest ransomware attack vectors and strategies to bolster the security of HPE NonStop backup data against these threats. We’ll provide an overview of backup storage types, define levels of data immutability, and explore how immutability aligns with specific compliance standards like the European Union’s DORA. Additionally, we’ll discuss best practices for implementing immutability on NonStop, including reference architecture, roles and responsibilities (including separation of duties), and an implementation timeline.
TBC24.CFP4 | Golden1 Credit Union’s Zero Downtime Migration to NonStop x86 with HPE Shadowbase Software
Speaker: Sean O’Banion and Carolyn Vaughan at Golden1 Credit Union
Learn about this customer’s journey from the initial environment and main project goals to preserving the business recovery environment on new hardware and achieving the project goals.
Project Goals:
- Driver behind NonStop system upgrade project
- Re-architect Data Replication from one to two environments
- Upgrade BASE24™ XPNET from 3.4 to 4.1
Continue Proven Environment:
HPE Shadowbase Sizzling-Hot-Takeover solution
Three new NonStop NS4 X86 systems
HPE AutoTMF rename features
HPE Shadowbase configuration
TBC24.CFP5 | Usage of uLinga on NonStop at US Foods for Enterprise Integration
Speaker: Dale Hiatt – US Foods
Learn about US Foods’ use of uLinga to allow our NonStop servers to participate with all our other platforms on our Kafka implementation. This session will include a demonstration.
Partner Sessions
The NonStop TBC Partner Community offers the following Presentations.
TBC24.VT01 | Cybersecurity Strategies for Ransomware Protection, Compliance and Digital Resilience
Speaker: Steve Tcherchian – XYPRO
Ransomware attacks target sensitive data, threaten operational continuity, tarnish reputations, and undermine financial stability. Join us for an enlightening session that unpacks the complexities of cybersecurity, focusing on ransomware attacks and the vulnerabilities they exploit. This presentation will cover essential ransomware protection strategies, from adhering to cybersecurity best practices and compliance frameworks to implementing dynamic, real-time threat detection. In this masterclass, you will learn how to craft a cybersecurity strategy to become digitally resilient properly, underscored by rapid incident response and robust disaster recovery planning to help you withstand and quickly recover from ransomware attacks. We will discuss first-hand, real-world insights and practical examples, equipping attendees with the knowledge and solutions necessary to enhance their cybersecurity posture, navigate the regulatory landscape, and safeguard their enterprise’s most critical assets against ransomware and a myriad of digital threats.
TBC24.VT02 and TBC24.VT03 | Introduction to comforte’s new SecurMFA
Speakers: Gustavo Martinez, Edward Adams- comforte AG
comforte will introduce a new NonStop product to implement multi-factor authentication, help our customers meet PCI 4.0 requirements, and provide new options to enhance the security of the HPE NonStop platform.
TBC24.VT04 | iManAIge: AIOps for NonStop and Beyond
Speakers: Khody Khodayari, Vito Shrivastava- Idelji Corporation
Improve your resources’ performance, quality, and availability while substantially lowering your costs. Learn and see how iManAIge can automatically learn about your Servers:
- Anticipate problems in advance.
- Give you specific preventive measures.
- Detect many performance, availability, and security issues immediately and give you specific recovery recommendations.
You will also receive the latest updates on Web ViewPoint Enterprise and Smart Analyst and their integral role in AIOps.
TBC24.VT05 | ETI-NET’s NonStop Product Family and Alliance Update with Latest Use Cases
Speaker: Mike Mitsch – ETI-NET
This session will explore ETI-NET’s NonStop product family roadmap, key new alliances, and the latest use cases. It will provide a feature update on each product (BackBox/QoreStor, MultiBatch, Sentinel, C-Deep, and MQ) and explain how new key alliances are making it easier for NonStop customers to modernize while implementing digital resilience and utilizing ETI-NET’s products in various new use cases.
TBC24.VT06 | Vulnerability Management on NonStop Systems
Speaker: Henry Fonseca, Peter Mehta – CSP
CSP has been an innovator in the field of NonStop security for over three decades and understands the complex security challenges facing the NonStop platform. Organizations must comply with critical security requirements to protect data and satisfy PCI 4.0 and GDPR regulations. CSP has developed a series of easy-to-use solutions to keep your system secure, ensure you remain compliant, and provide the flexibility that a changing NonStop landscape demands. In the presentation, we’ll review some of these tools and show how organizations can improve their security posture by implementing our security applications.
TBC24.VT07 | The Journey to Business Continuity in Retail
Speaker: Sergio Chavez, Mauricio Mier – OmniPayments (Casa Ley)
Sergio Chavez, IT Operations Director at Casa Ley, will share the remarkable journey of how Casa Ley became one of Mexico’s largest privately held supermarket chains. He will discuss the strategic partnership with OmniPayments, which has been crucial in positioning Casa Ley at the forefront of technology and ensuring business continuity. This collaboration has enabled Casa Ley to deliver exceptional service across more than 300 stores in northern Mexico. Sergio will highlight the innovative approaches and technological advancements that have driven Casa Ley’s success in the highly competitive retail market.
TBC24.VT08 | NTI Embraces Resilience: Fueled by Continuous Adaptation; Changing Economics of NonStop
Speaker: Richard Buckle – NTI
This session documents the NTI journey from data replication through business continuity based on sound business resilience aimed at changing the economics of NonStop.
This has been a journey where the competitive landscape has shifted and where tectonic plate movement has elevated value, addressing the need for improved TCO. Listen to how the DRNet®/Unified product portfolio makes modernization through migrations and refreshes that reduce TCO, enabling NonStop to become more competitive.
TBC24.VT09 | DRNet®/Unified delivers: Proven alternative to incumbent data replication product offerings
Speaker: Trevor Hill, Tim Dunne – NTI
Experience gained in migrations from data replication products burdened with the legacy of being overpriced and under-supported is delivering choice.
With no requirement for additional products or the need to learn another middleware offering, out-of-the-box migration with DRNet®/Unified delivers a better-supported, more cost-effective solution that continues to prove itself. Hear from a Subject Matter Expert who, as a Prospect and now with NTI, orchestrated a migration in 2023 for a major European financial institution that was completed in months and not years, saving time and money and with DRNet®/Unified now installed and operational, making a sizable contribution to bringing down the TCO of NonStop.
This has been a journey where the competitive landscape has shifted and where tectonic plate movement has elevated value, addressing the need for improved TCO. Listen to how the DRNet®/Unified product portfolio makes modernization through migrations and refreshes that reduce TCO, enabling NonStop to become more competitive.
TBC24.VT10 | HPE Shadowbase: New Advancements in Data Replication, Integration, Validation, and More
Speaker: Paden R. Holenstein, Shadowbase Business Development Coordinator at Gravic, Inc.
Data is a key aspect of Digital Resilience, and ensuring Continuous Availability has never been more important.
Learn about exciting advancements in HPE Shadowbase solutions that are helping NonStop customers maximize NonStop availability and address emerging business needs like Zero Data Loss, Cloud Integration, Streaming Data Analytics, Virtualization, and heterogenous database comparison. We will also highlight several recent HPE Shadowbase customer successes.
TBC24.VT11 | Digital Resilience for Ransomware Protection and Data Recovery
Speaker: Paul J. Holenstein, EVP and Chief Technologist and Kenneth Scudder,VP, Global Sales and Business Development at Gravic Inc.
With malware and ransomware threats growing rapidly, data reliability and recovery are urgent business concerns. Furthermore, governments in all regions are enacting Digital Resilience related regulation, such as EU DORA, with which companies must comply.
Learn about the HPE Digital Resilience Framework and the solutions that help protect and recover mission critical HPE NonStop server data. We will review new Business Continuity architectures and high availability capabilities specifically designed to address cybersecurity threats. We will discuss advanced HPE Shadowbase functionality that supports the emerging Digital Resilience requirements for immutable storage, air-gapped isolation, data validation, data quarantining, and database roll-forward and rollback. The session will also include an architectural demo of an air-gapped, rapid recovery NonStop system. We will also briefly review a future Gravic technology for Validation Architectures that significantly reduces hacker attack vectors on NonStop servers.
TBC24.VT12 | The changing face of Monitoring, Insights and Automation
Speaker: Jamie Pearson – IR
This session explores the evolving face of monitoring and the increasing need for insights and automation to simplify the monitoring of complex systems. Hear about IR’s latest innovations to provide more insight into the performance of the critical systems that drive the world’s economies.
Special Interest Groups
The following Special Interest Groups will be meeting at NonStop TBC:
TBC24.SIG1 | Special Interest Group
Networking with NonStop Under-40s (not exclusive to under-40s)
Leader: Paden Holenstein, Vedant Shrivastava – Gravic, Inc
This session is for ALL AGES and experience levels with the focus on networking with your colleagues, and some time on a group discussion regarding HPE NonStop, and other events going on in the various participant’s careers.
Common Interest Groups
The following Common Interest Groups will be meeting at NonStop TBC:
TBC24.CIG1 | Common Interest Group
Next-Generation Internet and Network Security
Host: David Finnie, Hugo Bouderlique, Andrew Price – Infrasoft
Protecting sensitive data has many challenges as it’s sent around your corporate network and across the internet. Some of the challenges include:
- Moving critical applications and data to the cloud, which can mean corporate data being sent over public infrastructure
- Certificate handling and secrecy
- Private key management
This session aims to discuss the latest encryption technologies and best practices to keep your data and communications secure. The scope will include (but not be limited to) TLS 1.3—the latest important info—crypto algorithms (including key exchange, symmetric encryption, and secure message authentication)—algorithms and protocols to avoid—quantum-safe encryption.
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