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Case Studies

A Bank’s Crisis Migration to a New Data Replication Solution

A Bank’s Crisis Migration to a New Data Replication Solution

As part of a HPE NonStop system upgrade project, a major bank and financial services institution found itself faced with either paying a large increase in license fees for its current data replication engine or having those licenses terminated...

Large Canadian Bank Dramatically Improves its Availability with Shadowbase Solutions

A Large Canadian Bank Dramatically Improves its Availability with HPE Shadowbase Solutions

A large Canadian bank took a major step towards providing improved service to its customers by modernizing its active/backup datacenter architecture and reengineering it into an active/active network...

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A Large Financial Institution Migrates Datacenters with No Downtime Using HPE Shadowbase ZDM

A major financial company offers person-to-person money transfers, money orders, and business payments. The company implemented an active/active system with two HPE NonStop systems located 1,000 miles apart...

A Major ISP Migrates from Sybase to HP NonStop with No Downtime

A Major ISP Migrates from Sybase to HPE NonStop with No Downtime

A major international Internet Service Provider (ISP) offers email services, Internet access, and other functions to tens of millions of active global customers. Several million customer accounts were migrated to a new HPE NonStop system...

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Bank Chooses HPE Shadowbase Solutions for BASE24™ Business Continuity

A regional bank serving a major resort island took a very stale, aged BASE24 system and upgraded both the hardware platform and BASE24 software with no outages except for a brief time during the final cutover...

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Bank Finds that Active/Active is Better than the End of the Rainbow

This island bank is located on the Pacific Rim Ring of Fire and lost its datacenter for several hours during an earthquake. The bank initiated its disaster recovery plan, but could not bring its backup systems into operation and suffered a failover fault...

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Cartu Bank Ensures Continuous Availability of Payment Services for Georgian Businesses

Cartu Bank understands the need for continuous availability with more than 60% of all e-commerce transactions in the Eastern European country of Georgia running through its payment switch. HPE NonStop Servers with HPE Shadowbase software...

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Cellular Provider Achieves Continuous Availability for Prepaid Calls

By implementing the critical PPFE as an active/active system, one of the largest cellular telephone service providers in South Africa ensured continuous availability of subscriber account recharging, calling time transfer, and calling time query services...

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HPE Shadowbase ZDM Achieves Zero Downtime Migration for Large Bank Datacenter

A large bank operates one of the most extensive ATM/POS networks in North America, using ACI BASE24™ and running on HPE NonStop Servers. If this ATM/POS service went down, much of the region’s retail commerce would come to a halt...

Large International Tour Operator Uses HP NonStop to Optimize Look-to-Book Processing

Large International Tour Operator Uses HPE NonStop to Optimize Look-to-Book Processing

This case study is an excellent example of HPE’s move to a converged infrastructure. It demonstrates how one customer took advantage of facilities available to the HPE community to integrate diverse systems into a common application...

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Large Manufacturer Uses Data Replication to Offload Online Host Processing and Enable New Business Applications

Data is valuable. The more current the data is, the more valuable it is. For this reason, the resident data in online transaction processing systems is some of the most valuable. However, if this data is trapped in that system, and not available...

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Large Telco Deploys HPE Shadowbase Continuous Availability Architecture for Scale-Out to Handle Massive Growth in Smart Phone Usage

A large telephone company (telco) switched from providing landline services to mobile phones and began using HPE Shadowbase data replication solutions to keep billing services up-to-date and to prevent cellular fraud...

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Major Bank Uses Active/Active to Avoid Hurricanes

A major U.S. bank serves much of the Eastern and Midwestern sections of the country, providing credit and debit card processing for its merchant customers. The bank uses HPE NonStop Servers in a two-node active/active configuration...

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Major Commodity Producer Uses HPE Shadowbase to Enable Operational Analytics for Big Data

The growers of a major U.S. commodity deliver about eight billion pounds of produce per year to consumers. The produce is cultivated at thousands of independent farms throughout the country, and samples are used for quality analysis and control...

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Major Parts Distributor Utilizes Zero Downtime for Application Modernization and Digital Transformation

The Connection, by Paden Holenstein
Headquartered in the midwest, this multibillion-dollar company has 5,000 employees. Its sales associates service a customer base primarily comprised of original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and maintenance, repair, and...

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One Bank’s March Towards Active/Active

This island bank is located on the Pacific Rim Ring of Fire and lost its datacenter for several hours during an earthquake. The bank initiated its disaster recovery plan, but could not bring its backup systems into operation and suffered a failover fault...

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Payment Authorization — A Journey to Continuous Availability

A merchant services company carefully expanded its use of HPE Shadowbase data replication over the years, from a uni-directional active/passive data recovery capability for its CMA to a continuous availability for its multi-node switch...

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Prescription Drug Fraud Prevention — An HPE Shadowbase Data Integration Case Study

Prescription drug claims fraud is big business, costing billions of dollars. To help a country’s government healthcare agency stem the losses, a centralized claims fraud adjudication and prevention decision support system was implemented...

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Real-Time Credit and Debit Card Fraud Detection

A major provider offers inter-bank transaction-switching services by capturing information during a point-of-sale – at a store terminal or website – or at an ATM. A complex suspicious or fraudulent activity determination is made...

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Stock Exchange and Clearinghouse Accelerate Operations and Improve Availability with HPE Shadowbase Data Replication

The Connection, by Paul J. Holenstein
A South American stock exchange using a trading system built with HPE NonStop Servers faced high data...

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Telecom Italia’s Continuously Available Mobile Services

Telecom Italia is the leading provider of mobile phone services in Italy. Because of the critical nature of the mobile voice, text and data services it provides, Telecom Italia utilizes a pair of HPE NonStop Servers located in different geographical areas...

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Two Merged Retailers Integrate HPE NonStop SQL and Oracle RAC

The Connection, by Paul J. Holenstein
After a merger, a major U.S. retailer had thousands of stores using two different point-of-sale (POS) systems. The retailer wanted to integrate the POS processing for its...

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Vodacom’s One Year Recovery

Vodacom (Pty) Ltd is one of the largest cellular telephone service providers in Africa, currently supplying voice and messaging services to over 55 million customers. Prepaid calling cards are a major Vodacom service, which if unavailable...

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Winning the Battle Against Internet Banking Fraud by Leveraging Real-Time Data and Application Integration

The Connection, by Keith B. Evans
A European bank needed to design and implement its Internet banking application in a very specific way...