~ Paul Simon For over 40 years, the formerly Tandem, now HPE NonStop, user community has advanced the use of these mission-critical systems by promoting the free exchange of information between IT professionals and leveraging this technology to transact business. In the past four decades, this dedicated cadre of users has become a tightly knit …
I remember a conversation with a group of colleagues about 10 or 12 years ago on predicting the company values of Google and Microsoft. While all of us were impressed with Google’s growth in Search power at that time, the common consensus was that Google Search Engine was a “one trick pony”, and just couldn’t …
For Easy Legacy Data Analysis & Distribution – the answer is Cypress Compiling and leveraging legacy data to help your business can be a challenge at times. The disparate document and data types stored, that need to be accessed and integrated into cohesive and comprehensible information, can make this task seem daunting. But fear not, …
III Measuring Modernization Productivity – measuring metrics for tangible benefits Being able to show quantifiable progress and positive results for any undertaking is a good thing. In IT, obtaining data that shows a development project is on the right track to help the business is a great thing. And, when benefits may be measured both …
Application Rationalization 101 Application Rationalization is a managed process that reviews and evaluates applications in the IT Application Portfolio on a rational basis, to determine which should be preserved and enhanced, redeveloped and re-platformed, replaced with alternative solutions, or simply retired. The goal of application rationalization is two fold. To Identify candidate applications for modernization action …
Some people may believe in: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Unfortunately, this saying undermines the importance of investing in strategic options with foresight to avoid pending disasters. A couple of cases in point: I started my first job in the 1970’s with an intelligent terminal company called Sycor , which was eventually acquired …
This Guest Blog is written by Thomas Burg, CTO of comForte, a leading provider of security solutions for HP NonStop systems. This is part of the TIC blog series on A.I.M. (“Assess”, “Innovate”, “Modernize“). This particular article focuses on “Assessing your Security”. How secure is your NonStop? While there is a plethora of publicized stories …
