Martin Fink Speech Summary about HP Nonstop

Recently I read the interview of Martin Fink, the CTO of HP Nonstop Systems. Though it was addressed to HP Employees.  Few things, still applicable to all the NONSTOP users.

I was really impressed by his few words and Rules. Here's those :

Rule 1 : Be selfish

Rule 2 : Make a contribution

Rule 3 : Observe the Customer

Rule 4:  Know your Value Proposition
                 - Data Integrity
                 - Scalablity
                 - Fault Tolerance

Rule 5 : Understand the technology at a very DEEP Level.

                 - Nonstop should Transform from Hardware business to Software Business

Rule 6 :  Structure Follows Strategy

Rule 7 :  Know your Business Model

What's the NEXT for NONSTOP ?

We need to take NONSTOP software strategy into Mainstream. The mainstream software world today tends to revolve around 4 things:

- Linux
- Virtualization
- Open Source
- Cloud

In the HP Labs, Nonstop is running in VM on Linux. Soon, It will hit the market.

And also, bring on X86 and using Infiniband interconnects allows to build HYBRID SYSTEMS that combine Linux, Windows with NONSTOP. That will be POWERFUL COMBINATION.

Opensource is a Business choice. Not a Technology Choice.

Cloud aspires to what Nonstop Already is.