Vendor Presentations

All vendor presentations will be held Tuesday, 11 November 2008.

NSK-SSH – Securing your HP NonStop System
Time: 14:45-15:15
Location: Ignaz Holzbauer 3
Speaker: Ronald Bowden, CTO, Bowden Systems Inc.

Learn how you can use the NSK-SSH product to secure your system for telnet access and ftp access. Discover how our software allows you to use your current telnet configuration with no changes.

Integrating NonStop Pathway Servers with SOA Initiatives
Time: 14:00-14:30
Location: Ignaz Holzbauer 4
Speaker: Ralph Stomme, CSL Product Manager, comForte GmbH

If you are struggling to align your HP Pathway servers with your SOA initiatives, attend this session to find out how comForte Client Server Link (CSL) can help. Using CSL, your organization can integrate your Pathway servers into SOA environments with unprecedented flexibility, performance, and security. With CSL, architects can choose to implement to the SOAP standard or use high performance client code stubs.

Enhancing Security on HP NonStop Systems
Time: 14:45-15:15
Location: Ignaz Holzbauer 2
Speaker: Thomas Leeb, Business Development Director EMEA, CSP-Computer Security Products, Inc.

CSP has been developing security software solutions for HP NonStop systems since 1987. Hear a brief introduction to CSP and learn about its product portfolio. Find out how CSP products help to enhance security on your NonStop systems and address your audit requirements. Get the latest news on recent product developments and announcements.

Advances in Active/Active - Asynchronous and Synchronous Replication State-of-the-Art
Time: 14:00-14:30
Location: Ignaz Holzbauer 2
Speaker: Paul Holenstein, Executive Vice President, Gravic

Active/active replication dramatically increases application availability and provides many additional benefits, including using all nodal capacity for productive work, totally masking nodal failures from users, and providing disaster tolerance "for free.” Gravic presents Shadowbase in real-world asynchronous architectures and upcoming advances in synchronous replication for eliminating data loss and avoiding data collisions.

Exploring Opportunities Using Visual Communication
Time: 14:00-14:30
Location: Ignaz Holzbauer 3
Speaker: Allan Bjornstad, CTO EMEA, TANDBERG

Communication is important in today’s fast-moving business and there is much talk around using technology to help people communicate better. This presentation shows how visual communication can help to engage in every business interaction – with colleagues, suppliers, customers, and shareholders – as though it were an intimate, face-to-face discussion.

Storage Solutions for NonStop Servers, Including the BladeServer
Time: 14:00-14:30
Location: Ignaz Holzbauer 1
Speaker: David Greig, Director, HP Partnership, Tributary Systems, Inc.

Tape technology improvements have continued to be available to users through upgraded product offerings and in combination with disk. This presentation describes the portfolio of tape storage solutions available for all the NonStop servers, including the NB5000c BladeServer, and also cover TSI’s recently announced and significantly enhanced ViTALTM 2.0, a storage virtualization solution with integrated business intelligence.

NonStop Compliance Data Integrated into the Enterprise
Time: 14:45-15:15
Location: Ignaz Holzbauer 1
Speaker: Morne Conradie, XYPRO
XYGATE Merged Audit reports and alerts on NonStop data. It also integrates NonStop audit data into Enterprise audit, reporting intrusion detection technology like HP’s Compliance Log Warehouse. XYPRO’s Compliance Wizard automates evaluation of NonStop security and system configuration against corporate, PCI, SOX, and other policies, tracking compliance over time.

Best Practices for Maintaining Availability During Upgrades, Migrations, and Maintenance Windows
Time: 14:45-15:15
Location: Ignaz Holzbauer 4
Speaker: Chris McAllister, GoldenGate

Traditionally, IT departments have to schedule planned outages and maintenance windows to minimize impact to users and the business. Today, with most critical applications running 24x7 globally, any outage negatively affects business operations. Though a number of approaches are taken, most cannot be used for complex migration projects. McAllister discusses achieving uninterrupted and reliable migration, upgrade, and maintenance without impacting business operations.

Multifunction Networking on HP ProLiant Servers with TOE and iSCSI
Time: 14:00-14:30
Location: Ignaz Holzbauer 5
Speaker: Joe Schmidt, Sr. Marketing Manager, Broadcom Corporation

This session covers how Broadcom enables HP Multifunction Gigabit Ethernet on ProLiant servers and adapters by combining accelerated networking and storage networking in a single, high-performance network controller. It supports TOE (TCP/IP Offload Engine) and iSCSI (Internet Small Computer Serial Interface) over a single network connection.

NonStop Data Integration Using Fibre Channel Interfaces
Time: 14:45-15:15
Location: Ignaz Holzbauer 5
Speaker: Phil Menzies, Director of Product Management, ETI-NET

The NonStop Blade system's 4 Gbps Fibre Channel interface enables cross-platform data integration at higher speeds with less overhead than traditional network transfers. ETI-NET's FC-based storage controllers offer new and innovative approaches to data integration and file sharing among dissimilar platforms. Enhancements to ETI-NET's virtual-tape products, offering backup and DR capabilities via software or hardware, are also reviewed.

Broadcom Enables HP In-Band/Out-of-Band Manageability with TruManage Technology
Time: 14:45-15:15
Location: Ignaz Holzbauer 6
Speaker: Simon Assouad, Product Group Manager, Broadcom Corporation

This session introduces Broadcom’s new TruManage technology, which integrates DASH and PMCI open client manageability standards and incorporates advanced power management features that enable HP dc5850 desktops to be fully and securely managed while maintaining compliance with the Environmental Protections Agency’s (EPA) Energy Star program. 

PrimeCode: Software Configuration Management for HP NonStop
Time: 14:00-14:30
Location: Ignaz Holzbauer 6
Speaker: Ronald van Riet, Director, CrossPAC Software B.V.

PrimeCode is the tool of choice for source version control, controlled compilation and release management on NonStop computers. The presentation will show how it can help in a better control over the software development process with extensive auditing functionality. PrimeCode is used by NonStop users all over the world in banking, telecommunications, and other industries.