April 2, 2025 — Gravic Publishes ‘The Connection’ Cover Story: My NonStop Journey with HPE Shadowbase

Gravic Publishes Cover Story on Improving BASE24™ Performance and Resilience with HPE Shadowbase Software and TMF Auditing

Gravic recently published the cover story: My NonStop Journey with HPE Shadowbase in the March/April issue of The Connection. Paden Holenstein, Product Manager, describes his journey into the HPE NonStop world and how his understanding of enterprise IT was transformed over the past decade.

Paden initially believed that all IT systems functioned smoothly but quickly learned that there can be a great disparity in performance and resilience between systems and architectures and the importance of audited database management systems (DBMS). While BASE24^TM is a very popular HPE NonStop app, it uses legacy-style database interaction: non-audited Enscribe files. Best practices have now progressed to provide database consistency and data integrity, which is why many organizations are upgrading to audited Enscribe and SQL databases such as BASE24-eps with HPE Shadowbase to enhance reliability. Paden mentions learning how critical it is for companies to utilize solutions like HPE Shadowbase and TMF auditing to ensure long-term security and success.

Two Successful Customer Stories are Included in the Article

• A major UK bank migrated its BASE24 application to an active/active architecture using HPE Shadowbase, eliminating planned downtime and producing continuous availability.
• A large island bank upgraded to an audited HPE Shadowbase Sizzling-Hot-Takeover environment, allowing it to reduce its recovery time from hours to seconds.

Beyond performance gains, Digital Resilience is now essential due to increasing regulations, such as the Digital Operation Resilience Act (DORA), to defend against cyber threats. Customers are evolving beyond traditional Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery practices; they must also provide application availability that survives malware, ransomware, and cyberattacks.

Gravic Would Like to Hear from You – What about Your Journey?

Do you know about the benefits of switching to an audited database? What challenges are you facing regarding your daily IT operations? And more importantly, how can we help? Please contact us for more information.