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Demolishing buildings may be happening all around you and for some enterprises, taking the wrecking ball to their IT data center may be in the cards. But the cloud experience is making sure hybrid IT prospers and with it, NonStop systems as well … During a trip back to Australia with a short stay on the state of Queensland’s famed Gold Coast, it was simply amazing to see the transformation of the skyline of Surfers Paradise. It was my longtime favorite holiday destination as a teenager and with memories of the many multi-story rentals that rarely rose to ten stories, to stay in a recent addition that towered 104 stories above that famous surfing beach was simply amazing! However, back down at street level it was almost as amazing to witness the continuous demolition activities underway as that skyline of my youth was being systematically reduced to rubble. Replaced with skyscrapers lauded for their modernistic approach to design – all glass and shiny chrome girders! However, it’s not...

  HPE is committed to becoming a significant player in edge to core; will we see NonStop contributing to both edge and core? It was just about two years ago that Margo and I spent a week in Munich. It was kind of a rushed trip but we wanted to catch up with former business colleagues from the time when we both worked for the former Nixdorf Computers. That was the time when Nixdorf made a full range of products from key-to-disk data entry systems to retail and banking terminals, including ATMs, a PABX system and yes, even a plug-compatible mainframe. This I covered in the post of March 31, 2019 Living on the edge , a post that was widely read at the time. Not sure if it was the reference to Munich, to wintery conditions, to Nixdorf and IBM or whether it was the reference to edge computing but it included an important reference to quotes of the day by HPE CEO, Antonio Neri that continue to resonate with Margo and me to this day. “Edge computing means that ‘millions of clouds will ...

Roadmaps always receive a lot of attention whenever products are being discussed particularly among NonStop community members. However, when was the last time we took stock of the bigger picture for HPE NonStop systems? What began with a simple question ended up involving much more than I had anticipated! Conversations, checking under couch cushions, web searches and even visits to the local gas station. For a very long time now I have been using a yellow Hi-Liter pen to record the many North American highways Margo and I have traversed, but as we make plans for further travels this year and begin to think about packing our bags once again, I couldn’t find the marked map! Somehow our filing and retrieval system let us down – no way would we have thrown away that piece of memorabilia? After the conversations had run their course I thought it best if I just get another map and start over, but where to get a map? What I needed was a simple fold-out map of the US and Canada that included a...