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Have you read NonStop posts to the HPE Community blog of late?

  The NonStop community is truly blessed with multiple blog sites and digital publications all focused on NonStop systems; have you visited the HPE Community blog and checked out the posts focused on NonStop? Whenever I need information and Margo throws a question my way to which I have no answer, I go to multiple web sites. Whether I start with a simply Google search or go directly to a vendor’s web page, it turns out there is very little I cannot find once I begin the search. However, there is so much information being posted to the web that sometimes we may miss an important post, or two, simply because promotion of the post slides on by. It has only been in the last year and a half that I have become fully aware of the HPE Community blog. In case you were unaware of this resource close to your typing fingers, it’s gradually building a library of posts in support of NonStop. At times, they may not be easy to find but typing in the names of product managers and marketing managers ass

Disappearing horizons?

A brief encounter with an IT legend of the 1970s changed the course of my professional life. It marked my departure from the user community with a move to the vendor side and much more … Are we still enjoying working from home? Is our home office looking more like it’s permanent? Are we in any hurry to return to the normalcy we once knew? Do we truly miss social interactions around the water cooler or coffee pot? Have the changes we have experienced firsthand become our new normal? I have posted about this more than once over the course of the past year and a half. Or is that more like two years? It is strange to look back and recall the times when the pace of life was fast, almost thrilling for some, but now that the wheels have well and truly fallen off, do we want to return to that ride? Do we really look forward to changing our ways yet again? When it comes to technology, if you don’t like change then perhaps you should have chosen a different calling. IT is all about change. I