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

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 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 associated with the NonStop team, will reveal numerous posts.

Simply put, if you are looking for corroboration on a NonStop feature or an update on a subsystem or even context within which to describe a key NonStop fundamental or attribute, it’s all there and updated for this decade. What follows here is a summation of the posts that I have found most useful and should be bookmarked by all members of the NonStop community. There’s no telling when you might be called upon to support NonStop in front of an audience that isn’t at all familiar with NonStop.

Let’s start by looking at the fundamentals, these being availability scalability and more often of late, database. We will close with looking at an update on the modernizing of development. Would you also want to know more about AI/ML and even Swarm Learning? That’s all covered by the NonStop team as well.   

And to begin, let’s look at the posts by Karen Copeland, Manager, Worldwide HPE NonStop Product Management:

Posted: 05-01-2020

Unplanned downtime and outages can happen. But not with HPE NonStop.

https://community.hpe.com/t5/Servers-Systems-The-Right/Unplanned-downtime-and-outages-can-happen-But-not-with-HPE/ba-p/7086689#.YSZhTohKj5A

The hardware and software that make up an HPE NonStop system have been designed to work together so that no single point of failure can cause an outage. 

The HPE NonStop development team continues to build on these attributes that separate NonStop from any other server offering, running today on industry-standard hardware and software, private cloud and open languages, middleware and utilities.

Posted: 06-23-2021

HPE NonStop: Delivering seamless scale-up and scale-out for years

https://community.hpe.com/t5/Servers-Systems-The-Right/HPE-NonStop-Delivering-seamless-scale-up-and-scale-out-for-years/ba-p/7140210#.YSZg4ohKj5A

For the NonStop community we have understood for many years that availability is what attracts IT professionals to NonStop systems today, but it is the scalability that ensures NonStop keeps meeting performance goals set by the enterprise.

There is no denying the influence that hybrid IT and the cloud experience are having on enterprise data centers, but knowing that part of the hybrid will continue to be NonStop, it is perhaps more newsworthy that at the physical level, the cloud experience already lives and thrives with NonStop. 

 Posted: 03-09-2020

Modernizing the development world of NonStop applications

https://community.hpe.com/t5/Servers-Systems-The-Right/Modernizing-the-development-world-of-NonStop-applications/ba-p/7081933#.YSZf_ohKj5A

What may also surprise CIOs is how DevOps tools like Git and Jenkins can be used to develop applications even as NonStop developers directly interface with products like Ansible. What may surprise IT management even more is that NonStop engineers actively use GitHUB, Jenkins, Ansible and other open source tools for DevOps to deliver many new offerings for the NonStop platform.

And there is more to come. 

Posted: 8-13-2021

Applying swarm learning to challenges created by data at the edge

https://community.hpe.com/t5/Servers-Systems-The-Right/Applying-swarm-learning-to-challenges-created-by-data-at-the/ba-p/7145862#.YSZgV4hKj5A

Swarm behavior may not be the target of discussions today but then again, where insights, models and data intersect, perhaps there are opportunities when it comes to providing a reliable, robust and indeed fault-tolerant server for edge intelligence to register for initial models.

This will be a topic covered in the upcoming NonStop Technical Boot Camp (TBC) October 5-7, 2021 in Denver. HPE Master Technologist Justin Simonds will be providing the NonStop community with further insights into swarm learning and it will surely attract an audience. He says: "The ability to share models without having to share actual information will be a real game changer. Swarm learning will allow companies to benefit from each other without sharing customer or internal information. No risk sharing! Swarm learning is parallel processing for AI."

‎Karen has been supported in her blogging by Vikas Kapoor, MCS Marketing Manager: 

Posted: 01-29-2020

Virtual: For HPE NonStop it’s a reality

https://community.hpe.com/t5/Servers-Systems-The-Right/Virtual-For-HPE-NonStop-it-s-a-reality/ba-p/7077322#.YSZhsIhKj5A

When running Virtualized NonStop, anything associating with the backplane and the fabric is replaced by the hypervisor.

Should there ever be a failure of a hypervisor when running Virtualized NonStop, the system treats this as no different to a failure of a physical server with converged NonStop.

“Due to Virtualized NonStop’s availability architecture, the backup VMs take over and provide continuous availability preventing any outage of the system as a whole,” advised Prashanth Kamath, Senior Product Manager for HPE Virtualized NonStop in the NonStop Enterprise Division.

‎Posted: 12-16-2020 

Answering the modern database challenge: Introducing HPE NonStop SQL Cloud Edition

https://community.hpe.com/t5/Servers-Systems-The-Right/Answering-the-modern-database-challenge-Introducing-HPE-NonStop/ba-p/7114143#.YSZinYhKj5A

HPE NonStop SQL Cloud Edition leverages the SQL/MX Database Services (DBS) one click API that allows you to deploy a new database without any specific NonStop knowledge required, just as you would experience in a public cloud. It leverages SQL/MX DBS multi-tenancy which allows you to deploy a database in a matter of minutes.

The end goal is for customers to use an application without the burden of keeping the database lights on and be charged according to their usage of the service. In return they expect a public cloud-like experience (global, elastic, secure, available). 

‎When it comes to database, SQL/MX and the cloud, Vikas post was just the beginning as he was supported by a more recent post from Roland Lemoine, HPE NonStop Product Manager:

Posted: 04-15-2021 

Welcome to the cloud experience with HPE NonStop SQL

https://community.hpe.com/t5/Servers-Systems-The-Right/Welcome-to-the-cloud-experience-with-HPE-NonStop-SQL/ba-p/7130062#.YSZjuIhKj5A

It is the goal of NonStop SQL Cloud Edition to negate any requirement of those enterprises electing to deploy the database to learn the inner workings of the NonStop system.

With HPE NonStop SQL Cloud Edition, the NonStop team is delivering a turnkey database software bundle that brings the simplicity and agility of the public cloud experience on your premises. It completely abstracts clustering and distributed SQL complexity while combining the highest levels of availability, scalability, data integrity, and performance out of the box. 

You may not have time to read all these posts, and I hear that there are more on the way that will follow upcoming revelations promised for the NonStop Technical Boot Camp (TBC) 2021, but there are sure to be some that arouse just a bit of curiosity even for the most seasoned NonStop professional. Or have you already been reading them all as they were posted?

It is a credit to the NonStop team that they have now found a way to promote NonStop on regular HPE social media channels and all that we can do to encourage them to continue is to go to the HPE Community blog and start reading. Are you and if not, shouldn’t you be doing something similar?




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