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.