This session describes the new MQ V8.0 architecture and presents the both the functional and performance arguments for migrating your business to MQ V8.0. It will also demonstrate how to configure a highly-available, fault-tolerant system for your applications running on both NonStop i & NonStop x. Finally, it will look forward to the future of MQ on the platform covering topics such as MQ Advanced(esp. AMS) and support for vNonStop.
John Kinchen is the manager responsible for IBM MQ Delivery & Future Strategy on HPE NonStop. He has over 30 years IBM experience in development & support and has worked on the platform for the last 5 years.
Dave Ward is IBM's subject matter expert (SME) on the HPE NonStop platform and is also the IBM architect on the MQ V8.0 project. Dave has worked for many years on IBM MQ on the platform, starting with MQ V5.1. Previous to his career in IBM, Dave worked for the Candle Corporation.
This session describes the implementation of MQ in an integrated steel plant and especially in the blast furnace area. Along the material flow it will be shown just how the flow of information is guaranteed and when, among other data exchange mechanisms, MQ is used. Furthermore, measure counters such as CPU consumption of the MQ processes are both examined and presented.
Ingo Weyck is the thyssenkrupp manager responsible for operational IT in the Steel Europe Business Unit Slabs/Hot Metal. He possesses more than 38 years of ThyssenKrupp and NONSTOP experience in development & support of operational software.
Bank-Verlag is doing card authorization with the oldest known active-active application.
In 2017 Bank-Verlag decided to replace the existing I-systems with new X-systems. There were 2 reasons: The disk- and cpu-capacity of the I-systems was not future-proof and, worse, the maintenance for 2 of the I-systems was running out in 2018. The biggest part of the projectwas the migration of the authorization application including copying all the data from I to X. A complete outage of the application was not possible. In addition we had to get Bank-Verlag’s home-grown monitoring tool to the new systems including our previously presented web-application.
The presentation will show the planning, a completely unexpected delay and some application problems during the migration.
Wolfgang has more than 40 years IT industry experience, spent in a variety of roles. Wolfgang joined Bank-Verlag in 1985, he was deeply involved in setting up the company’s IT infrastructure and migrating the Bank-Verlag from a publishing house to an IT service provider. He was responsible for setting up the DR concept of Bank-Verlag. He has set up two DR sites and has been responsible for the HP Integrity NonStop early adopter program in 2005 and and the migration to Integrity NonStop immediately afterwards.
Since 2009 he has designed and developed Bank-Verlag’s own NonStop monitoring tool because Bank-Verlag decided to use Nagios (today CheckMK) as the central monitoring server.
In 2017/2018 he carried out the replacement of Bank-Verlag’s systems from I to X without any outage visible to the customers. End of March 2018 Wolfgang has officially retired and is now working part time as a consultant for Bank-Verlag.
Mark Pollans will present an update on what is new in NonStop software. He will present on the recent updates in areas including Database, NonStop OS, Business Continuity and more.
Mark is Hewlett Packard Enterprise's (HPE) Senior Worldwide Product Manager responsible for the HPE NonStop systems portfolio, including the HPE Integrity NonStop X (Xeon® based) and NonStop i (Itanium® based) systems, drive storage (SSD, HDD and SAN), and Business Continuity. Since 2007, he has orchestrated the release of multiple generations of NonStop systems. Mark has years of experience at HPE, largely in systems architecture, enterprise computing, and networking. Additionally, during his tenure at Hewlett-Packard Co., he has held various management and engineering positions in R&D and marketing for hardware and software projects.
Upgrading our Production environment in 4 days from Dual-Core to Quad-core and simultaneously rebalancing MQ to solve our major production incident the day after Easter.
This talk will describe the latest directions and updates around HPE NonStop Education. The session is intended to allow partners and customers an opportunity to provide direct input to the process and discuss any type of training programs you need to competently operate and manage your NonStop systems and application environments.
Ron’s organization has centuries of experience working with NonStop systems. Ron and his team work directly with the NonStop business unit and development organizations ensuring those who need to know are ready even before products are released and teaching people brand new to the system how to handle any aspect of the platform. Continuous is THE official development, delivery and driving force for HPE NonStop Training and Education services across the globe. HPE scheduled NonStop classes are where you get the most up to date, plugged-in content surrounding the very latest HPE NonStop innovations and release information.