Archive News - 2010
As the active/active message spreads and interest begins to build in the commodity server community, active/active technology should be in the position to explode.
CTUG Fall 2010 Conference, October 27, 2010 - Gravic was pleased to attend and present at the CTUG Fall 2010 Conference in Toronto. As usual this was a great conference, well attended, and very professionally run. The attendees seemed to be very positive about the new product introductions presented by HP as well as spending time reviewing the various software vendors solutions. We appreciate the efforts of the folks at CTUG for making this a very worthwhile conference.
September 26-29, 2010 - Connect NonStop Symposium & Expo: We had a successful Connect NonStop show in San Jose! The turnout greatly exceeded expectations and showed the resilience of the HP NonStop market. We don’t have a final count, but the show was sold out and there were at least 300 customers in attendance. It was a great success for meeting with peers, colleagues, and HP management, and had the wonderful feel of ITUGs-gone-by. At the show, HP announced that the HP Technology Forum will once again host the NonStop community (June, 2011 in Las Vegas), so please mark your calendars to attend now.
Determining whether moving to an active/active architecture is worth it, whether the savings to your company in current downtime costs will provide an attractive return on investment.
How to rapidly recover from a node failure in an active/active network using server redirection, in which the nodes themselves monitor faults and control network reconfiguration.
The "Roadmap to the Megaplex" report comprises six steps to NonStop modernization and to the Megaplex. (A collection of server blades acting together as a single system using multiple types of operating systems, databases, and other computer resources.) Each step includes: an introduction, a profile of a major vendor and the technologies that help implement the step, a modernization case study, a simulated return on investment example, a benefit checklist, and alternative vendor product. Step 4: Availability Modernization: The process of changing from the traditional availability and disaster recovery methods to a continuous-readiness program. The vendor/product profiled is Gravic’s Shadowbase, which provides for active/active processing and zero-downtime migration and upgrades.
Gravic was pleased to attend the Mid-Atlantic Tandem User Group (MATUG) Meeting held June 2 at the AOL corporate offices in Sterling, Virginia. The keynote presentation was delivered by Jim Johnson, Chairman of The Standish Group, covering the new Megaplex II paper entitled "Road to the Megaplex." This report will soon be distributed to the IT community. It covers the practical implementation approaches to architecting a Megaplex infrastructure. The Megaplex dovetails with HP’s new converged infrastructure architecture, and Jim’s presentation describes at least six customer success stories depicting how customers are evolving their IT environments to mesh with the new paradigm. In addition to the excellent vendor presentations, Rob Lesan of AOL presented a great overview of AOL’s NonStop systems and applications. The event was well attended by customers from the Virginia, Maryland, and Washington DC areas. The next MATUG Meeting will be held in the Philadelphia area to make the event more accessible to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware customers. These events are an excellent way for customers to learn about new HP products and services as well as interact with fellow HP NonStop users.
Gravic was pleased to attend and make two presentations at the Viking NonStop User Group (VNUG) Conference held from May 25-27 in Stockholm, Sweden. On the first day, a wonderful golf outing was held that allowed both vendors and customers to join in a fun event. The following two days were very intensive and Gravic made a Shadowbase-focused product presentation as well as a more in-depth customer experience presentation that reviewed various approaches now being implemented to increase system availability. (This second presentation is vendor-agnostic. Please contact us if you are interested in having it presented at your local RUG show.) We were pleased that both presentations were well received. The VNUG event is unique and a truly great experience. The location, facilities, attendees, and hosts make this one of the best regional user group events. 2011 will mark the 10th anniversary of VNUG and Gravic will certainly be participating. Our congratulations and appreciation goes out to all the VNUG committee members and HP staff that supported this event. WELL DONE!!!
Speaker: Paul Holenstein, Executive Vice President
Title: State-of-the-Art Asynchronous and Synchronous Replication: Advances in High and Continuous Availability Business Architectures
Abstract: As businesses' needs have driven higher and higher application availability requirements, various high and continuous availability architectures have evolved to meet those needs. We describe the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) model businesses use to quantify their needs, discuss the factors (and trade-offs) that affect each objective, and review various architectures in use today to attain these stringent goals. We also look out over the horizon at the next wave of technological advances in the development pipeline to understand how (hopefully) the technology is evolving to eventually deliver true continuous application availability with zero data loss in the event of a disaster.
Gravic recently attended the EBUG (EMEA BASE24 User Group) Annual Conference in Madrid, Spain. The theme was "Beyond the Sunset" and assisted delegates in choosing their best future strategy in light of the announcement from ACI over the "sunsetting" of some of its products. ACI offered a full set of updates, roadmaps, and opportunities for discussion with senior ACI executives. We were most impressed by the quality and quantity of attendees as well as the super reception we received discussing our implementation of Shadowbase® at a large Canadian bank for continuous availability BASE24™ replication. Our overall lasting impression is that HP NonStop is a very viable and vibrant platform for both BASE24 and BASE24-eps, and the introduction of the HP NonStop Blades platform greatly enhances this marketplace.
How to rapidly recover from a node failure in an active/active network using client redirection and network redirection; failover using these techniques can be automatic and very rapid.
April 15, 2010-NENUG Spring Meeting
Speakers: Paul Holenstein, Executive Vice President and Richard Davis, Shadowbase Product Group Sales Manager
Title: Shadowbase Solutions for Application Modernization and an Update on New Shadowbase Enhancements
Abstract: Many of you are familiar with the Shadowbase data replication and integration solutions for providing high and continuous availability for business continuity projects, real-time data warehouse and business intelligence feeds, and heterogeneous application integration capabilities. This talk will highlight Shadowbase solutions for performing application modernization. Examples include the Shadowbase ability to modernize access to your legacy data by replicating it to open and readily accessible standard SQL environments, the Shadowbase ability to dramatically improve your availability profile by upgrading tape-based or active/passive disaster recovery architectures into active/active disaster tolerant architectures, and the Shadowbase ability to provide continuous access to your application services while the modernization project is implemented. Several case studies of successful application modernization projects are presented, along with an update on the new and exciting enhancements now available with Shadowbase solutions.
Speaker: Dick Davis, Shadowbase Product Group Sales Manager
Title: Shadowbase Data Replication and Synchronization Solutions
Abstract: Shadowbase, Gravic's real-time data integration and synchronization product, is used in homogeneous and heterogeneous replication projects including: ODS's, Data Marts, Data Warehouses, Real-Time Business Intelligence, and Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery. We present Shadowbase solutions for common business problems, and new extensions to the Shadowbase On-line Loading and Real-Time Business Intelligence capabilities.
Speaker: William Holenstein, Shadowbase Product Group Senior Manager, Delivery
Title: Shadowbase Solutions for Application Modernization and an Update on New Shadowbase Enhancements
Abstract: Many of you are familiar with the Shadowbase data replication and integration solutions for providing high and continuous availability for business continuity projects, real-time data warehouse and business intelligence feeds, and heterogeneous application integration capabilities. This talk will highlight Shadowbase solutions for performing application modernization, for example the Shadowbase ability to modernize access to your legacy data by replicating it to open and readily accessible standard SQL environments, the Shadowbase ability to dramatically improve your availability profile by upgrading tape-based or active/passive disaster recovery architectures into active/active disaster tolerant architectures, or the Shadowbase ability to provide continuous access to your application services while the modernization project is implemented. Several case studies of successful application modernization projects will be presented, along with an update on the new and exciting enhancements now available with Shadowbase solutions.
A review of the increased computing density of NonStop Blade Systems, and how active/active systems can be implemented to provide even higher availability, greater capacity, and lower cost of ownership.
January 18, 2010-Press Release: Gravic, Inc., the makers of the award-winning Shadowbase® data replication product line, announces affordable solutions for active/active replication of BASE24™ environments.
A review of the problems that can result when active/active systems achieve their scalability and continuous availability by distributing application and database copies across an application network.
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