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?
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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