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Predictions! Vision! Schedules! All have been subject to change; impacted by the spread of COVID-19. Read how HPE investments in NonStop have helped NonStop to better pivot into support of core and edge initiatives …   I have to say I am not sure whether we have seen our eleventh snow storm of the season or whether it’s a continuation of the ninth. For the past couple of weeks snow has been falling on most days but perhaps more disturbing for someone who grew up close by to the beaches of Sydney, Australia, was the bitter cold that draped its arms across it all. Living in Colorado you would think we are used to the cold, but not really. We have our days, of course, but watching the thermometer drop below -20 Fahrenheit is always cause for alarm. There were no concerns over whether we had enough food and drink at hand as COVID-19 has made us cautious about our supply chain – trips to the grocery store were all to do with ensuring we always have a month plus of everything we needed...

As familiar as we are with the NonStop systems fault tolerance and their ability to run 24 x 7, are we too destined to work non-stop? Could the new normal break down any separation remaining between weekends and the days in between? I truly cannot count how many times I have read a story about life in the new normal. Ignoring the fact that there’s absolutely nothing normal about the way we work these days, what is perhaps even more galling is the way assumptions are being made about our newfound daily routines. Who really cares about my reduced commute times or who is shocked that I don’t stop by for a Starbucks’ Caffè Latte No, the more I think about normalcy and what I concur has become the new normal, the more I am struck by the thought that well, perhaps we will never see our formal normal times ever again. This week I received an invitation to attend an IT conference, ATMIA US Conference 2021, that will be held in Las Vegas, late June. Surprisingly enough, this wasn’t about a...

  Let’s talk about virtual machines, containers and what’s the attraction for NonStop customers. But first, the big question; with mission critical applications, are they relevant? When it comes to myths and fables there is perhaps none more the subject of speculation than the existence of King Arthur and his fabled magician, Merlin. Modern speculation goes so far as to suggest Merlin was an original “Time Lord” of Dr. Who’s fame. Others suggest he was the model for J.R.R. Tolkien’s Gandalf. As for Harry Potter, well it is not so much a case of speculation so much as it’s a case of dropping into a pure fantasy. Merlin even made an appearance in the movies; Transformers: Last Knight. Myths carry with them the expectation that wondrous things occurred and that without their featured characters, societies would have been lost. When it comes to technology there has always been a sense of fantasy and of the unbelievable and yet, here we are entering the seventh decade of commercial IT...