Tag: Business Continuity

Business Continuity

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HPE Shadowbase Quick Reference Card (QRC)

HPE Shadowbase software can be broken down into several distinct solution areas: Business Continuity Data and Application Integration Compare, Essentials, and Utilities Please reference this Quick Reference Card when discussing HPE Shadowbase with other members of your IT team. Solution Brief: HPE Shadowbase Quick Reference Card (QRC)

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Load/Copy/Validate OSS (Open System Services) Regular Files with SOLVUTIL

A large and growing U.S. gas and convenience chain has over 3,500 stores, and is rapidly expanding. It uses Verifone (formerly AJB) point of sale and loyalty rewards applications on HPE NonStop systems using SQL/MX. Most of the application runs in the OSS space...

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Active/Active Systems for Master/Subordinate Peers Cell Phone Application

A major U.S. telecommunication (telco) provider offers provisioning and cellular infrastructure services to client companies, which provide their services through various applications to cell phone users...

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Continuous Application Availability for Merchant Services

A major bank provides credit and debit card processing for its merchant customers. Problem: The bank needed to ensure its merchant services were highly reliable, continuously available, and able to survive any system or...

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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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Connection Cover Story: Shadowbase Software Synchronous Replication

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...

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Brokerage Firm Upgrades from Disaster Recovery to Automatic Failover and Recovery with Sizzling-Hot-Takeover (SZT)

A brokerage firm located in the Midwestern U.S. provides trading services and trading suggestions to customers through its brokers. It operates a home-grown application running on a redundant pair of HPE NonStop Servers...

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Protecting Your Vital Applications

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...

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Hardware vs. Software Data Replication for Business Continuity (Disk/Cache Flushing vs. Transactional Replication Engines)

Service Availability and Avoiding Data Loss A business continuity architecture built on software-based transactional data replication is the only viable solution to meet the highest levels of service availability and protection against data loss for mission-critical applications. Data Availability and Data Replication Data availability, a company’s most valuable asset, depends on the existence of up-to-date...

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Data Validation with HPE Shadowbase Compare & Repair Software

Validate that a Source and Target Database Match The HPE Shadowbase Compare & Repair Software Suite compares like-to-like HPE NonStop environments and data sets, such as Enscribe-to-Enscribe SQL/MP-to-SQL/MP SQL/MX to SQL/MX data The suite works across TCP/IP and/or Expand connectivity. Prove Database Data Matches It validates that two database copies are equivalent and helps satisfy...

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Improving Availability via Staggered Systems

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...

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HPE Shadowbase Data Protection Technical Brief

Data is one of a company’s most valuable assets, and cyber thieves want it. Whenever data is moved between systems, a window of opportunity for data theft opens, which opportunistic hackers will be quick to exploit. But whether it is data at rest, or data in motion, the window of opportunity...

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Improving Reliability via Redundant Processing

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...

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Bank Chooses Sizzling-Hot-Takeover Data Replication for its BASE24 Business Continuity Solution

The Connection, by William G. Holenstein and Keith B. Evans
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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Leverage Heterogeneous Data Transformation and Distribution to Create New Business Opportunities

The Connection, March/April 2022 by Paden and Paul Holenstein Business Continuity and Data Integration 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 production data in real-time across multiple systems to create backup database copies. Should one system fail, current,...

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Shadowbase Synchronous Replication — Product Overview

Shadowbase synchronous replication (Shadowbase Zero Data Loss, or Shadowbase ZDL) resolves two key issues of asynchronous replication: data loss on source system failure and data collisions when running an active/active environment. By eliminating data loss...

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Real-Time Fraud Detection and Resolution for Financial Switch

One of the largest U.S. processors of credit card transactions provides transaction authorization and settlement services for thousands of attached devices using a home-grown application on a pair of HPE NonStop systems. The processor recently upgraded its servers and implemented...

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Continuous Application Availability for Cellular Network

A European cellular provider offers short message services (SMS) and unified message services (UMS) to deliver short text messages to cell phone customers, and to notify them of their voicemail or email messages...

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The Best Backup Method for Mission-critical Applications

Physical Tape, Virtual Tape, and the Backup Problem Since there is a growing need for an economic and efficient way to back up very large-scale databases, many companies are returning to physical tape to fill this need. An Online Backup of an Active Database via the Traditional Backup Method is summarized and discussed. However, The...

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HPE Shadowbase Support for BASE24™ Solution Brief

Gravic, a world leader in providing business continuity software enabling high and continuous availability for IT systems, and an inventor of bi-directional data replication, provides BASE24 classic and BASE24-eps support in its patented HPE Shadowbase product line. All of the...

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May 17, 2023 — User Presentation: Major UK Bank Migrates its BASE24™ Application to Active/Active for Continuous Availability

A large bank in the UK provides lending, wealth management, card processing, and many other services for over 48 million customers worldwide. The bank’s original Disaster Recovery solution reached Mature product status and did not support automated failover and recovery, nor continuous availability via a more advanced active/active business continuity architecture. The bank decided to...

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June 20, 2023 — Gravic Publishes EBITUG Presentation: HPE Shadowbase Digital Resilience, Data Integration, & Data Validation

High availability and data integration have never been more important for HPE NonStop customers. This is especially true with new regulations such as DORA (Digital Operations Resilience Act), mandates from the UK Financial Control Authority (FCA), and other regulatory bodies. However, there are new challenges that customers need to address, including Ransomware, Cloud integration, Data...

Achieving Century Uptimes with Shadowbase Active/Active Technology

Achieving Century Uptimes with HPE Shadowbase Active/Active Technology

An HPE Shadowbase active/active system architecture provides disaster tolerance by maintaining a network of independent processing nodes, each having access to a common replicated database. This architecture eliminates the uncertainty and cost that exists with an active/backup...

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HPE NonStop Solutions: Always on and Always Adapting

Many people rely on and interact with HPE NonStop Servers every single day, but do not know it. These servers deliver the highest levels of availability for applications and mission-critical businesses.

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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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Choosing a Business Continuity Solution to Match Your Business Availability Requirements

Business continuity encompasses those activities that an enterprise performs to maintain consistency and recoverability of its operations and services. The availability of application services provided by an enterprise’s IT infrastructure is only one of many facets of...

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What is Your Business Continuity Plan for the Inevitable?

Extended outages happen, and when they do, the cost to your business can be severe. You are at risk if you: have no business continuity plans, are using tape or virtual tape backup for disaster recovery, or have an active/passive disaster recovery plan, which may encounter failover faults...

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It Takes Two to Tango — HPE Shadowbase Solutions and Pathway Domains are Perfect Together!

It takes two to tango! It is of no use having data available on alternate/takeover systems if the applications required to provide the business services are not also available when needed. HPE Shadowbase data replication solutions provide all the capabilities necessary to keep...

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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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May 2, 2023 — Gravic Publishes New White Paper: The Advantages of Transaction Protection

Gravic recently published the white paper, The Advantages of Transaction Protection – Avoid the Dangers of Non-audited Environments for Mission Critical Applications. Myths persist that the use of transaction management (TM) software and audited data comes at considerable cost, which outweighs the benefits. However, far from being an impediment, use of a TM and audited...

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HPE Shadowbase Product News

Audience: All Speaker: Paden R. Holenstein, Marketing Specialist Abstract: Learn how HPE Shadowbase software solves various enterprise use case problems: Business Continuity Data Integration and Synchronization Application...

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HPE Shadowbase Total Replication Solutions for HPE NonStop

For over 40 years, Gravic has lead the industry with HPE Shadowbase Total Replication Solutions for HPE NonStop, providing data replication and data integration solutions for this mission-critical community. The HPE Shadowbase product suite provides the means to meet today’s...

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Vodacom’s One Year Recovery

The Connection, by Brett Dismore and Paul J. Holenstein
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, would cause much of Africa’s cellular traffic...

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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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HP (HPE) NonStop Business Continuity Product Suite: An Introduction

The Connection, by Ajaya Gummadi
Only HPE Integrity NonStop Servers are designed, from the ground up, for continuous application availability – from their native fault-tolerant system architecture, to a...

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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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One Bank’s March Towards Active/Active

The Connection, by Paul J. Holenstein
A major bank, located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, suffered a devastating earthquake causing it to lose much of its data. After the disaster, the bank decided to switch to active/active data replication to prevent this kind of problem in the future. This article discusses in detail the steps the bank...

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HPE Shadowbase Business Continuity Solutions

Businesses with continuous access to real-time online transactional data have a competitive advantage. HPE Shadowbase data replication solutions support low-latency, uni-directional (one-way), and bi-directional...

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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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Avoid Data Corruption by Switching from Passive Replication to Automated Failover and Recovery

The Connection, January/February 2024 By Paden R. Holenstein  Recently, a customer performing data validation identified some missing DR files and contacted Gravic for assistance.  Upon review, the customer identified a misconfigured application as the issue. Application Failover Did Not Include All of the Customer’s Applications The customer replicates data in a uni-directional Active / Passive Post-Disaster...

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Dramatically Reduce Outage Costs with Advanced Business Continuity Solutions

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...

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Major U.K. Bank Migrates its BASE24™ Application to Active/Active for Continuous Availability

The Connection, November/December 2023 By Peter Schvarcz and Andrew Bauernschmidt Major U.K. Bank With about 20 million customers, the bank comprises retail banking operations (including ATM and POS), consumer credit card business, wealth management business, and corporate banking for small, medium, and large-sized businesses in the U.K. Old Architecture and the Need for Action Figure 1...

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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Make Your Business ‘Nonstop’

As the CEO or CIO of your enterprise, you are responsible for delivering continuous business services as well as maintaining audit compliance. The speed of today’s processing systems has moved classical data integration into the realm of real time...

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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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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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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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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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Credit Card Application Availability to Survive Disasters

The largest U.S. processor of credit card transactions provides ATM and point-of-sale (POS) card management services for a variety of financial and commercial firms on HPE NonStop systems. The original configuration was vulnerable to failure and...

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Sizzling-Hot-Takeover (SZT) Availability for Island Bank

An island bank runs BASE24™ for 24x7 point-of-sale (POS) and ATM services on HPE NonStop Servers. The bank relied upon an untested active/passive business continuity solution for Disaster Recovery. The bank needed to...

Using Shadowbase to Eliminate Planned Downtime via Zero Downtime Migrations

HPE Shadowbase Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM)

Continuous availability of online service necessitates the minimization or elimination of planned downtime, such as for an operating system or hardware upgrade, or for installing a new application version. This requirement...