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There was a lot of information provided at this year’s HPE Discover event. While the event wrapped up some time ago, for the NonStop vendor community there were numerous topics that aroused our interest and of course, as best as we can determine at this time, there were some interesting developments for the NonStop community as the HPE team unveiled a working NonStop system running at the edge on an Edgeline 4000. Whether this demo develops into a product line or not remains to be seen, but initial feedback suggests any go to market plan of HPE will see such a product addressing markets left mostly underserved.
With the focus on security one would think that Shadow IT would be an easy target to eliminate as a threat to the organization, and yet according to a recent industry study the average enterprise is unwittingly exposed to thousands of shadow IT ‘instances’.
It would be hard to ignore just how much attention hybrid cars continue to get whenever there is a car show. At the most recent car show that was held in New York City, it was Toyota’s turn to unveil yet more hybrid cars – this time, attention was being directed to hybrid versions of its venerable Toyota Highlander that is being updated with “smart hybrid tech” joining announcements from other vendors, including Ford with a reference to hybrids for both the Lincoln Aviator and the Ford Escape and Porsche with its updated plug-in Panamera hybrid. While all electric cars still gain a lot of media attention, when it comes to America, many families prefer the hybrid with its backup combustion engine.
“In former times, it was routinely suggested by software vendors that sales may land the initial deal but it is the support team that keeps the deal going and will lead to growth from within. Perhaps a little too glib but it does highlight a basic truth. Whenever successful software vendors sell a product or solution, a bond or partnership quickly forms between the team of users and the vendor. Whether it’s a simple phone inquiry or a request for a full roadmap disclosure, the relationship that develops over time becomes more a partnership than anything close to the adversarial role that permeated much of IT when computing first appeared as a tool for business. Today, these partnerships can be seen at work whenever there are gatherings of the NonStop community at Regional User Group (RUG) meetings or at HPE sponsored big tent events like HPE Discover and the NonStop Technical Boot Camp (TBC).”
All too often it becomes easy to assume data is where you need it and that our commitment to others to provide them with the files they require has been completed as scheduled, on time, with no loss of integrity. And yet, just as often, something in the environment has changed and those long-serving scripts begin to fail – you only find this out when your customer calls you and wants to know where their data is. As the world of IT talks incessantly about data the need to be certain your data is moved to where it’s supposed to be is not only a service to your business partners and clients, but is a reminder that in today’s highly automated world there are still tasks that mandate some level of intervention and where our dependence on scripts and the talents of individuals can leave us terribly exposed.
These are the best of times and well, yes, these are the best of times. From the insights we are gaining here at DataExpress, contrary to this popular saying, there really aren’t any bad times ahead. Of course, we are interested in seeing HPE sell more NonStop systems, an observation which we are sure is shared by other members of the NonStop vendor community. Looking back on all that transpired in 2018 we can see that HPE has done a solid job of equipping all those parties working with NonStop with all the tools that will be needed to succeed with NonStop, but it still begs the question – will HPE sales teams grab the ball and run with it and have focus on NonStop in any meaningful way?
When you look back at all that took place in 2018 the topic that continues to dominate conversations is transformation. While we are cognizant of the central role transformation plays in HPE’s messaging to CIOs, what is now on offer from HPE that carries the NonStop badge is vastly different to what once anchored NonStop – you want traditional NonStop then you have the NonStop X family of systems; you want an off-the-shelf virtualized NonStop product then you have the NS2; you want to take control over your choice of hardware then you can license vNS. Options about that are all driven by the L-Series operating system.
Migrations from one system to another are just like relocating from one city to another. No matter our circumstances, we all have aversions to moving house and yet, for IT professionals, it happens a lot but when we are faced with a system upgrade that can only be described as a migration, while we may not suffer the same aversion (there’s always some excitement about getting a new, faster, bigger, computer) we are often left wondering, “now what?” Point is, no sooner have we completed one migration and settled back into the routine of processing transactions than the work begins on the next migration.
It was an observation made by other individuals presenting at this year’s Regional User Group (RUG) events that caught our attention and set in motion some thinking by those close to DataExpress that perhaps, after all, the references to virtualized NonStop workloads signified more than just a change to NonStop. The comments about everything happily running on a stack of x86 servers somewhere with all the prerequisite components deployed to allow the provisioning of virtualized NonStop (vNS) almost at will, as the need dictates, coexisting as it may with any other workload capable of running atop x86, that illustrated for us just how far convergence has come of late. And by convergence, here at DataExpress we mean how single-architecture systems, racked and stacked ad infinitum, can play host to anything that we care to run – a far cry from when we lived in a world of best-of-breed, silo-ed servers!
