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Who knew? Computers will be watching and learning more about us in order to satisfy themselves that yes, it really is us initiating a transaction and for HPE and NonStop, this is heralding the age of analytics and AI! Back on land, after a short voyage back and forth between Long Beach and Hawaii, despite all the steps we took to mitigate interaction with fellow passengers, I managed to catch the dreadful flu that was going around and not only did I catch it, but passed it on to Margo. If you haven’t been keeping up with my Facebook, twitter and blog posts this may be news to you, but even as I am now close to good again, Margo still has a few days to go. Of course, we avoided the buffet lines, rarely ventured into the public eat-anytime dining rooms and essentially, ate at the specialty restaurants even as we stuck to one café and one bar. All good, but no matter what steps we took clearly they weren’t enough! On the other hand, none of this proved to be a distraction to s...

Revisiting the topic of scalability reminds us about just how flexible NonStop systems continue to be and with enterprises preparing for ever increasing data volumes, having an out of the box system that readily scales will prove to be a big bonus ... After  two plus months on the road, meeting with many members of the NonStop community as we drove almost 6,000 miles in the company command center, it’s a good feeling to once again be able to say you have a permanent address. At least, as permanent as anything can be these days, given the nature of the business we are in – content generation can be done almost anywhere but even so, having a residence that best could only be considered temporary certainly came with many distractions. On the other hand, we did stop in at N2TUG as well as 2017 HPE Discover and we did get to meet with clients in southern California.  To directly answer questions I have received of late our new residence is just a little north of the N...

When we think of virtualization and the coming of clouds and as we consider all that may be involved in transforming to these hybrid combinations incorporating the traditional with the very new, how often does the testing of our applications come to mind? There have been times these past few days where events have reminded me of practices and disciplines that dominated our discussions in former times. I had the misfortune of breaking things and working with insurance companies and I was left without access to more modern methods of communications to the point where I was asked if I could possible find a fax machine so I could receive a fax. It was in the early 1980s when the vendor who employed me back in Sydney, Australia, installed a fax machine in my office and I no longer had to take the long walk over to the telex machine where I would have then spend hours preparing a paper tape for transmission back to my head office in Richmond, Virginia. In many ways it was a sad occasi...