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Clouds go offline; data centers are compromised; critical infrastructure is held to ransom. Thank goodness for today’s modern HPE NonStop systems that we can run any which way we like! “Crash your car?” “What?” “Would you like me to crash your car?” You can imagine the look on my face as this dialogue continued. True, my hearing may not be as good as it once was and true, the cars I drive are low and working any sort of credit card reader through a car’s window can be problematic but seriously, crash my car? As it so happened to be on this occasion the attendant at the car wash was only asking me whether he could “cash my card?” He happily took my credit card, inserted it into the machine and we were on our way. For any member of the NonStop community, the above exchange might arouse a wry smile or two but it continues to be crashes of another type that only create a shaking of the head. In this day and age, surely systems shouldn’t be crashing for any reason especially those we in...

You move house and it’s traumatic; you migrate systems and it is less so – with NonStop system migrations, what to consider next? When we moved into our home in Windsor, Colorado, a small village to the east of Ft Collins, we focused on the actual move itself. Our primary goal was to transition furnishings from one home to the next whether they were right for the new space or not. Perhaps even more fundamentally, did the furnishing even worked with the new home’s layout? Looking back such a migration that focused on just the home and keeping all else the same ultimately saved us a lot of headaches. When it comes to migrating systems, much the same can be said about such a move. As the first stage in any planning session, keeping the current operating environment intact always seems to be the smart move. Get it all across to the new system then step back and see what is needed and what really contributes to the day-to-day operations. Trying to juggle a move to new hardware together wi...