Bite-Sized eBITUG 2021

With the ongoing uncertainties around the COVID Pandemic, the BITUG Committee has decided to cancel the face-to-face BIG SIG event we usually host in December.

Instead, we have decided to host a virtual event which we are calling “Bite Sized eBITUG”. We are aiming this towards the European NonStop community.

This will consist of approx. 3 hours of Presentations spread across 3 x afternoons (in UK) in December.

The dates are: Thursday 2nd Dec, Tuesday 7th Dec and Thursday 9th Dec

It is FREE FOR ALL to attend and will be run using Zoom sessions.

We are fortunate to have a number of HPE Corporate presentations for our European colleagues who perhaps never caught some of the latest updates from TBC, as well as presentations from our Vendor members. We also have a couple of Customer presentations in the agenda, so something for everyone we hope.  

Other user Group partners will hold own updates during our AGM on Thursday 2nd December. e.g. GTUG

You NEED to register in order for the Zoom invite to be emailed to you.

You MUST also register for each afternoon session that you would like to join - so if you want to attend all 3 x afternoons, you need 3 x registrations!

The following is the latest Agenda (as at 16/11/21):

 

 PRESENTATION INFORMATION

Title: HPE – State of the Nation

Presenter: Neil Davis, HPE

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Title: uLinga for Kafka – A new Approach

Presenter: Andrew Price, InfraSoft

Synopsis: This presentation and demonstration will introduce the newest addition to the uLinga product suite, uLinga for Kafka. uLinga for Kafka takes a different approach to Kafka integration, providing the best performance and highest reliability for applications to stream their NonStop data into Kafka. Come along to see how it works firsthand.

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Title: Unified for HPE Customers

Presenter: Craig Lawrance, NTI

Synopsis: NTI recently announced an expanded partnership with TANDsoft captioned as "DRNet ®/Unifed for HPE Customers".    Our collaboration offers the NonStop community a single source, directly supported business continuity alternative to competitor decreed strategic directions for NonStop data replication and file support.   The objective of this new initiative is to ensure NonStop users have uninterrupted line-of-sight with NTI for direct sales and direct support.

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Title: Zero Trust and data-centric security

Presenter: Trevor J Morgan, Comforte

Synopsis: Zero Trust (ZT) is on everyone's minds these days. It's not just a buzz word but a methodology for a better cybersecurity posture. We cover what ZT is (and isn't), its basic principles and assumptions, and why data-centric security is so important for a ZT approach.

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Title: OmiPayments On Premise and On Cloud

Presenter: Craig Lawrance, OmniPayments

Synopsis: All about OmniPayments

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Title: Platform futures

Presenter: Mark Pollans, HPE

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Title: OS, vNS, Security and Manageability Futures

Presenter:  Prasanth Kamath, HPE

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Title: HPE NonStop NSGit  

Presenter: Randall Becker, Nextbridge

Synopsis: How to make your development and deployment more resilient

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Title: Enscribe to SQL/MX and Block Technology Fuels TANDsoft Solutions

Presenter: Jack Di Giacomo, TANDsoft

Synopsis: TANDsoft’s next generation E-2-S 4.0 enables Enscribe to SQL migration and is the most cost-efficient and secure solution for your applications. Taking advantage of our experience as interception specialists, E-2-S permits easy conversion of Enscribe calls to SQL/MP and SQL/MX statements. No changes to Enscribe applications are necessary.

TANDsoft Block technology incorporates Blazing Fast reading and Block Hashing of Enscribe, OSS, SQL/MP and SQL/MX data blocks and is used in the TANDsoft FS family of products;  FS Compare and Repair, FS Backup and Restore and FileSync.

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Title: NonStop Systems Management Demo

Presenter: TBC, NETS

Synopsis:

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Title: Active/Active Migration

Presenter: Michel Slender & Mikel van Son, ING Bank

Synopsis:

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Title: Future Investigations for NonStop

Presenter: Teresa Sorg, HPE

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Title: Middleware, Database and DevOps futures

Presenter: Sridhar Neelakantan, HPE

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Title: HPE Shadowbase News

Presenter: Paul J. Holenstein, Gravic

Synopsis: We will discuss HPE Shadowbase Zero Downtime Migration architectures and techniques along with data problems that can be fixed with HPE Shadowbase Compare and Repair. We will also provide a short review of new HPE Shadowbase features, releases, and discuss new features on the horizon.

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Title: Discover and Monitor – New Solutions from HPE

Presenter: Sean Bicknell, 4Tech

Synopsis: 4tech Software have been in the HPE NonStop security space for over ten years. Our data discovery and file and subsystem integrity monitoring products have been leaders in the market during that time. Concise, well thought out solutions that have been developed through the eyes of the end user. They bring all of the functionality you need, with none of the headache or complexity that you absolutely don’t. Come and have a look, you might like what you see.

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Title: IBM MQ for NonStop Update

Presenter: David Ward, IBM

Synopsis: This presentation covers the evolution of the IBM MQ product for HPE NonStop, since it was released in 2017, and some of the important security and integrity improvements that have been added in recent updates.

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Title: Securing Cloud-Native Applications and Multi-Factor Authentication

Presenter: Henry Fonseca, CSP

Synopsis: General Manager, Henry Fonseca, will show you how to effectively secure cloud native applications using multi-factor Authentication. He will also be presenting CSP's new Cloud-Native Application for Multi-factor authentication, which now supports High availability, Kubernetes Deployments, and additional features.

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Title: SecurityOne Suite for Zero Trust Security

Presenter: Steve Tcherchian, XYPRO

Synopsis: What is “Zero Trust” Security, anyway?

Traditional security relies on a “trust but verify” model. Once authenticated and granted access, users are trusted within the enterprise network. This “trust” leaves the network vulnerable to malicious insiders and compromised accounts.

Zero trust is a “never trust, always verify” strategy, rather than a technology. Instead of assuming connections within the corporate network are trusted and secure, zero trust verifies every request to every asset, no matter where it originates from. All access is constantly monitored, authenticated, and authorized, regardless of if the connection attempt is from within the enterprise or outside.

Steve Tcherchian , Chief Product Officer at XYPRO Technology explains what the Zero Trust model is and how you can use it to reduce your organization’s vulnerability footprint.

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Title: Backup Catalogs – Making Backups Useful

Presenter: Budd Matlock, QSA

Synopsis: This presentation looks at the options available for backup catalogs on HPE NonStop to easily recover lost or broken files because, after all, that’s why we run backups in the first place.  What catalogs are available, how do they work and what they do to expedite file recovery?

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