Future Trends and Relevance of the Nonstop - Part 2

HP Nonstop Bootcamp there were talks on Blockchain/DistributedLedger

Technology and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) and NonStop. See in the below figure.

Of course the big news was the virtualization of NonStop and the capability of running on almost

any x86 device. NonStop has demonstrated an ability to quickly understand and add value to

industry trends and directions.

Mobile payments, after much hype in previous years saw some uptake in 2016. For example

Apple announced that 1 million Apple Pay users were being added per week. Most of the top retailers rolled out payment capabilities to their mobile apps (CVS, Kohl’s, Walmart, etc.).

As mobile payment options multiply application developers will be interested in creating a simple and unified experiencec for mobile payments

An App That Allows owners of newer Andorid and Iphone to make in store payments.

What can’t be sacrificed is speed, security and accuracy in the transaction. A fast growing frontend mobile payment market will require a solid, reliable backend infrastructure. So NonStop will continue to play a key role in the financial infrastructure while supported new payment methods. As always, behind the scenes. As always, indispensable. See that below figure.

Future Trends and Relevance of the Nonstop - Part 1

2017 and beyond promise a lot of change. This continues from the accelerated pace of change

we’ve been experiencing for quite some time. NonStop strives to find areas in which to contribute as

we march into the ever-changing future.

A brief retrospective of NonStop and change. Those that follow NonStop know that early

capabilities were demonstrated in cloud computing back in 2011 and 2012. See the below figure.

GuardianAngel later released as MaRunga demonstrated NonStop’s ability to both support cloud

burst – now known as hybrid cloud computing and an ability to provide some NonStop attributes

off platform.

By off platform we mean a NonStop capability to watch over and respond to events

occurring on Linux systems or even, as demonstrated, applications running in the Amazon

public cloud.

In Big Data, NonStop was presented in the exciting area of real-time data-in-motion processing

as we teamed up with STRIIM and Network Kinetix to demonstrate real-time analytics on data in

flight. This directed NonStop into the Internet of Things and what will become a massive data-inmotion avalanche of information. See the below figure.

Of course the best place to observe, analyze and react to this information is at the edge, where

the data is created. In 2015 NonStop demonstrated direct connectivity to sensors and an ability

to collect this information using open-source middleware (Mosca and Redis) and an ability to

communicate back to the sensors thanks to our node.js (Bombora) capabilities.

Persistent Cloud Services (PCS) @ HP NONSTOP

An implementation of techniques and software which extends the inherent linear scalability of NonStop systems to a multi-platform environment consisting of NonStop servers as well as commodity Linux/Unix/Windows (LUW) servers.

§NonStop in the Cloud

§NonStop as the Cloud

§Cloud In The Box

§Converged Infrastructure

§Peak Capacity versus Elastic Metering

The primary software components of PCS are: TS/MP 2.4 (aka PATHWAY/PATHMON) TS/MP (Transaction Services / Massively Parallel), aka PATHWAY, is a middleware product for the HP NonStop and provides transaction services, monitoring and management.

1. Application Clustering Services (ACS) ACS works in conjunction with PATHWAY-TS/MP to control communications between requestor and server processes
2. Gateway Server C program provided by HP Consulting Services which runs under PATHWAY to enable PCS functionality
3. Persistent Cloud Services (PCS) library routines Java jar (and C/C++ and COBOL library files) provided by HP Consulting used by applications to interface with the Gateway server.
4. Java application program User written application code to process requests/transactions. 

Persistent Cloud Services (PCS) is an architecture designed to enable the NonStop to be a controller of, and a participant with, a group of commodity servers or Cloud deployments. As such, it allows NonStop to be an important component of a Converged Infrastructure environment.

In general terms, PCS enables the extension of Pathway functionality to commodity servers or virtual servers running in public or private clouds.

Nonstop SQL and ORACLE has lot in common.

ID	Feature	Nonstop Sql and ORACLE
1	Database Type	Both are multipurpose, RDBMS supporting static and dynamic SQL, ACID Transactions, Referential Integrity, Concurrency, Distributed consistency, Access Control, Partitioning, Replication and Online Hackups
2	Application Domain	OLTP, OLAP, Mixed workload, Big Data
3	Other Features	Triggers, Publish/Subscribe, Sequence generators. Multi-Tenancy
4	Connectivity	ODBC, JDBC
5	Programming Languages	C,C++,Cobol, Java, Python, Node.Js*
6	User Environment	Shell, Bash
7	Development IDE	Eclipse Support
8	Built in Functions	60 Functions are same. like aggregate, String or Date Manipulation
9	Schemas	Both Database can name tables as Schema Table