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  Sydney Harbor in leadup to Sydney to Hobart race of 2018 This time last year I wrote of how it will not be smooth sailing for all of us in IT. More specifically, for the Nonstop community, I ended that post by asking how you will respond to one more question; will you be setting a course that is true and away from treacherous currents that can be avoided? What I did reference though was how, for the coming year 2025, leverage the strength of the wind which, in the case of Nonstop, simply means leveraging the latest Nonstop systems. Recognizing, too, the strength of the partner ecosystem just as we have seen Nonstop executives begin to do this year. Sailing always comes to mind at this time of year as being a Sydney lad at heart, there was always an air of excitement on Sydney Harbor as the big, maxi sailing yachts gathered for a series of contests that ended on Boxing Day with the start of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race. Many years ago, back in 1998, Oracle’s Larry Ellis...

Roadmaps always receive a lot of attention whenever products are being discussed particularly among NonStop community members. However, when was the last time we took stock of the bigger picture for HPE NonStop systems? What began with a simple question ended up involving much more than I had anticipated! Conversations, checking under couch cushions, web searches and even visits to the local gas station. For a very long time now I have been using a yellow Hi-Liter pen to record the many North American highways Margo and I have traversed, but as we make plans for further travels this year and begin to think about packing our bags once again, I couldn’t find the marked map! Somehow our filing and retrieval system let us down – no way would we have thrown away that piece of memorabilia? After the conversations had run their course I thought it best if I just get another map and start over, but where to get a map? What I needed was a simple fold-out map of the US and Canada that included a...