The Connection, by Dr. Bruce Holenstein, Paul J. Holenstein, and Dr. Bill Highleyman
Computer manufacturers often stress performance and availability in their marketing literature. Yet, reliability (R), availability (A), and scalability (S) are the three pillars that support mission-critical applications...
The Connection, by Dr. Bruce D. Holenstein, Dr. Bill Highleyman, and Paul J. Holenstein
The third pillar of mission-critical systems is scalability; reliability and availability are the other two, creating the...
The Connection, by Paden R. Holenstein
Gravic published a use case article, Real-world Use Case: Avoid Data Corruption by Switching from Passive Replication to Automated Failover and Recovery in the January/February issue of The Connection...
The Connection, by Jonathan Ziegler
Gravic’s Senior Manager of Product Development for the Shadowbase Products Group discusses Shadowbase software synchronous data replication for zero data loss...
The Connection, by Paul J. Holenstein
In this article, we look at several technologies that interact to extract valuable business information from “the noise” of big data. Big data offers the opportunity for businesses to obtain real-time business intelligence that they could...
The Connection, by Keith B. Evans and Paul J. Holenstein
This article explains how a merchant provider gradually expanded its data replication and integration software...
The Connection, by Paden Holenstein
Access to Data is Required 24×7. Consequently, so too are the demands placed on real-time data replication solutions. Data is needed everywhere, all the time. With time, requirements change. Solutions that met yesterday’s...
The Connection, by Paden R. Holenstein
Gravic published an article, Data Validation – a Must-have for Mission-Critical Databases, in the March/April issue of The Connection. In Business Continuity architectures, consistency between the production and backup...
The Connection, by Paul J. Holenstein and Keith B. Evans
HPE Shadowbase Streams for Data Integration uses CDC technology to stream data generated by one application...
The Connection, by Keith B. Evans
Whether it be fire, power failure, software error, malfeasance, or some other cause, events occur which can lead to unplanned outages of IT services. If your...
The Connection, by Keith B. Evans and Paul J. Holenstein
This article/case study explains that a large European manufacturer runs its online shop floor operations on an HPE NonStop Server using an Enscribe database, and how it deployed an HPE Shadowbase data integration solution to...
The Connection, by Vuk Petrovic and Paden R. Holenstein
What comes to mind when you hear the word hacker? You most likely imagine an individual, (probably male) with...
The Connection, by Keith B. Evans
Business continuity encompasses activities that an enterprise performs to maintain timeliness, consistency, and availability of its data, operations, and services. Application availability depends upon the ability of IT...
The Connection, by Dr. Bruce D. Holenstein, Dr. Bill Highleyman, and Paul J. Holenstein
The reliability of a redundant system is optimized by minimizing the probability that both systems will fail...
The Connection, by Dr. Bruce D. Holenstein, Dr. Bill Highleyman, and Paul J. Holenstein
One of the three pillars of mission-critical systems is data reliability – a significant concern in datacenters...
Connect Converge, by Paden Holenstein
Several customers recently approached us looking for solutions to their remote data access/connection requirements. HPE Shadowbase software uses a data...
The Connection, by Keith Evans
HPE Shadowbase data replication solutions provide all the capabilities necessary to keep databases replicated and synchronized across multiple systems...
The Connection, by Paul J. Holenstein and Paden R. Holenstein
Real-time data replication products, such as HPE Shadowbase software, are well known for their ability to facilitate IT service availability (Business Continuity) by replicating...
The Connection, by Peter Schvarcz and Andrew Baurenschmidt
Gravic recently published the use case article, "Major UK Bank Migrates its BASE24 Application to Active/Active for Continuous Availability" in the November/December issue of The Connection....
The Connection, by Paden R. Holenstein
This article gives a unique perspective on the HPE NonStop community from an individual under the age of 30. Paden Holenstein reflects on his first two years of experience...
The Connection, by Mark Pollans, HPE Sr. Worldwide Product Manager
This article is based on the excellent and informative presentation that Mr. Pollans gave at the 2017 Connect Technical Boot Camp on how to design and build...
The Connection, by Paden R. Holenstein
Gravic published the article, Ransomware Protection and Data Recovery, in the September/October issue of The Connection, based on our presentation at the recent Connect Technical Boot Camp (TBC). Threats from Malware and...
The Connection, by Keith B. Evans and Paul J. Holenstein
Keeping up with user demand is a significant challenge for IT departments. The traditional scale-up approach suffers from significant limitations and cost issues that prevent...
The Connection, by Paden R. Holenstein
Each “Stepping Stone” (Step) of a Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) requires acceptance before moving onto the next step. We created this infographic to illustrate how to safely cross the “migration river” by eliminating the ...
The Connection, Dr. Bruce D. Holenstein, Paul J. Holenstein, and Dr. Bill Highleyman
Sometimes it is necessary to change or update a data replication engine. A zero downtime migration will...
The Connection, by Paden Holenstein
This article discusses a recent trend we've seen in HPE NonStop industry: IT teams honing their focus on new features while ramping up various business continuity...