HPE NonStop Reviews

I have been using the solution switching apps. In our company, we are using it as a form of not payment system but as a switching system for Visa and Master.

Feature-wise, the most valuable one is the fact that it has 100 hundred percent uptime every year. Secondly, it is stable. When working, it is fairly stable, and performance is very good.

HPE NonStop could improve by having infrastructure management.

I have been using HPE NonStop for more than 20 years.

We use this solution to power the rest of the servers that we have.

There are no specific features that stand out, it was just a migration path.

• Fault-Tolerance
• Availability
• Performance

It helps us to keep the business running 24/7. Our client is a bank and we need to run the show continuously. Availability is the key factor along with fault-tolerance. The system/application should be fault proof to withstand software/hardware failures and run 24/7 without downtime. Along with this performance, the current market situation demands that customers are not kept waiting.

These factors are pretty important for me while making a decision or designing the architecture.

Availability (AL4) is key. We are a 24/7 shop and we have customers all over the world who require 24/7 transaction access. They need to pay, process, or make transactions for whatever service they need. The HPE NonStop solution is rated with the highest level of availability in the industry.

We are a 24/7 shop, so availability is very important.

• Reliability which is important because we’re a bank and we want 100% uptime. So we need a system that doesn’t fail.
• Scalability is important because when the system load increases we want to be able to add power without downtime.

I work for a bank, and payment systems almost always run on HPE NonStop systems. So the organization doesn’t function without it.

Fault tolerance is the heart of what a NonStop is. The high availability of NonStop systems comes from close cooperation between the hardware and software. Every component in an HPE NonStop server is duplicated. If one component fails, there is instantaneous failover to a backup. This includes not only hardware components, such as processors, memory, I/O channels, and power supplies; but also all software components, such as system and application processes. As a consequence, a NonStop server is self-healing in the presence of any single fault and many multiple faults. If a component fails, no one notices except for the IT staff that must correct the fault.

Scalability is important to me. I might need a performance boost at certain times of the year, especially around the Christmas period. In a company I previously worked for, we payed particular attention to the number of POS and ATM transactions around the Christmas period because this was known to be the busiest period of the year. It would have been nice not to have to worry about the transaction rate and CPU/DISK performance, but to simply turn on a CPU core for that particular time of year. Since upgrading the hardware, this worry is a thing of the past.

Security is always important, and the NonStop is no different. Many security layers make it very difficult for hackers to access information you don’t own or don’t need to see, even if you know what you are doing.

There is never any downtime due to the way the hardware and software interact. They are both fault tolerant and, therefore, give a robust service.

They've been very reliable since we started using them in 1978, but we're going to replace them in a few years.

They're innovative, proprietary servers with a strategic position in the marketplace. We're still going to phase them out.