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  There comes a time when it is not just the seasons that remind you of changes to come. Maybe yellow foliage is a clue. But the seasons are only one instance where change can come with vigor even ferocity; changes in our business and social lives can generate unexpected upheavals. From our earliest age, we are told not to run across the road, don’t dive into a rock pool and perhaps most important of all, don’t take sweets from strangers. There has always been the illustration where puppies are featured; just because someone wants you to see their puppies is not an opportunity to blindly follow someone. And yet, it happens even with adults. Many years ago, stopped at a remote gas station for fuel, after pumping gas and paying the attendant I returned to the car to find Margo missing. Only a short time passed before she returned. A truck driver had liked her Corvette and asked if she would like to see the cars he was transporting. Inside a covered car hauler – go to the back and y...

Have you read about the turn out this year for NonStop user events? Have you had a chance to talk to colleagues who have been among the attendees? Better still, did you avail yourself of an opportunity to be among those who participated? No matter how you have kept yourself informed about all that has been happening of late you must have noticed that there have been more events than usual and that the number of attendees has been significantly better than in past years. It would be so easy to start of this blog recapping how NonStop has been on a journey of late. The message “Data is created on NonStop” appeared prior to the global pandemic as it was often repeated by HPE executives closely associated with NonStop. As important as this remains, more recently it’s been about freedom: Freedom of Choice and it’s not just HPE executives who recognize this message.  By this I mean that the NonStop community now has a choice when it comes to a tech refresh of their NonStop systems. “The ...

With his opening words, “It’s not where we are headed but how fast we will get there,” the boss of all things NonStop, Jeff Kyle, set the tone for the latest NonStop Technical Boot Camp (NonStop TBC 22). “We are a platform and not a server; the platform we are perfecting for mission critical applications. We create the data and we transact the data!” Jeff referenced the ongoing expansion into new markets, including manufacturing, retail and transportation but equally as important for the NonStop community Jeff referenced digital transformation and highlighted how we are all going through this digital transformation on our way to modernization and yes, it’s truly all about the data. “NonStop as a platform is a critical component of digital transformation and the innovation we are bringing to NonStop (is a further illustration) of how NonStop is now a platform.” Among Jeff’s opening slides happened to be one titled, “The Data Realities of Digital Transformation” where the business object...