NTI – Clouds, Analytics, Data Lakes and Warehouses; with DRNet® / Vision NonStop users can have it all!

There isn’t a day that passes where there isn’t a reference to clouds in industry publications – whether public or private clouds, managed or otherwise. These almost constant references to clouds are driving the conversation within the IT industry to the point where almost any other model for data processing, as we have known IT for a number of decades, is considered legacy. And yet, for the NonStop community, with its affinity for fault tolerant platforms in support of mission critical applications, the move to support clouds will be at best gradual, with a degree of caution, with many baby steps as the NonStop users come to terms with applications and data moving to a platform that in and of itself is fragile in comparison to NonStop. 

Following on from the introduction of NTI’s key message of PROVisioning: Excellence in Data – ready to deliver data from NonStop to almost any imaginable target – products are now being unveiled. And the conversations concerning clouds are taking place even among the strongest of NonStop proponents and for good reason. Think clouds, then Hybrid IT and then virtualized NonStop – get the picture? NonStop is now in the thick of the cloud conversation and who would have guessed such a development just a few years ago. Acceptance may be gradual with plenty of baby-steps involved but NonStop integration with cloud services is inevitable.  

Under the branding of DRNet® / Vision, NonStop users have seen DRNet® / Vision for Splunk become available and it’s only the beginning. Anticipate seeing more from DRNet® / Vision in support of other technologies that in all likelihood will see DRNet® / Vision expanded to embrace support for Hadoop, Kafka, Elasticsearch and any other application accepting input through JDBC and intermediary databases / servers as well as those that can best be served directly via the just-announced support by DRNet® / Vision for JSON messages!  

DRNet® / Vision is the answer for NonStop users wanting to capitalize on real time data and metadata being created by applications running on NonStop that the enterprise needs to integrate with data from elsewhere in order to gain better insights into end-user behavior. As a tenured, well-respected HPE NonStop solution provider, NTI has designed a lightweight solution using JSON to extend current capabilities or coexist with other replication technologies. This support for JSON messages obviates the need for the presence of any intermediate or staging server so it decreases overall costs of the solution even as it improves the performance of the JSON solution. This topic was covered in the August, 2019 feature article to NonStop Insider: NTI – Delivering on the promise of JSON support, NTI can now deliver a major upgrade to its DRNet® data integration product offering! where Tim Dunne, NTI Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales said:

 “Simply stated, with support for JSON messages we open the doors for the NonStop community to better integrate NonStop data with any data lake, warehouse or analytic process required of them by their organization.

“It takes so little work for the data to begin flowing from NonStop to any of these platforms and in using CDC methods, it also means that we can coexist with any of the traditional data replication products including GoldenGate.”

Whether your data lakes and warehouses and your analytics and even your dashboards are running on-prem in server farms or in private clouds or perhaps even within public clouds, this is not an issue. As HPE continues to drive home its key message of transformation to Hybrid IT, it is important to be aware that this message isn’t being lost on vendors like NTI. As HPE continues to make progress in migrating its enterprises users to Hybrid IT, with DRNet® / Vision enterprises’ NonStop systems in place have the opportunity to participate in enterprises’ key initiatives as they pursue greater competitiveness with their peers.

If you have as yet not had an opportunity to read the article published in the August, 2019 issue of NonStop Insider, as referenced above, simply go to the article by clicking on the hyperlink or cut and paste this link into you browser - https://www.nonstopinsider.com/uncategorised/7821/

Should you want more information about our new product family DRNet® / Vision, whether it’s in support of SPLUNK or perhaps because of its support for JSON don’t hesitate to contact the NTI team as we look forward to discussing all of this with you and to assure you NTI is building the DRNet® / Vision platform that is beneficial to all members of the NonStop community. Should you have plans on attending any of the upcoming RUG events do look for us, as we will be present at all of the following events:

OZTUG Sydney 9/3/2019

http://www.connect-community.org/events/2019/9/4/hpe-nonstop-summit-2019-sydney

OZTUG Melbourne 9/5/2019

http://www.connect-community.org/events/2019/9/4/hpe-nonstop-summit-2019-sydney-hfasj

ATUG 9/18/2019

http://www.connect-community.org/events/2019/9/18/atug-atlanta-tandem-user-group-chapter-meeting

CTUG 9/25/2019

http://www.ctug.ca/

MexTUG 10/3/2019

http://www.connect-community.org/events/2019/7/16/mextug-chapter-meeting

HPE NonStop Technical Boot Camp (TBC) 11/3 – 11/6/2019 http://www.connect-community.org/events/2019/11/3/nonstop-technical-boot-camp-2019