HPE NonStop Reviews

The most valuable features for us are the security, availability, and hardware support.

Because we're able to get immediate support, this prevents downtime and directly impacts cost savings.

The hardware fails often, and I feel that HP really needs to pay more attention to this issue. We've talked to them about it.

We've been using it since 2000.

We've had no deployment problems.

It's quite a stable solution.

It scales to our needs.

The level of technical support depends on how helpful the first level is. Sometimes they understand our problems pretty well and escalate immediately when necessary. Other times they really don't know how critical something is so they ask a lot of questions and we have to send in log files, taking much more time than I think is necessary.

• 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.

I would like to see better scalability. I would like see them make it easier to port other applications in a plug-and-play manner.

I have used it for eleven years.

There have been no stability issues. These are the most stable servers in the fault-tolerance space.

There were some scalability issues. When we decided to migrate an application or port application, the limitations of these servers didn't help us.

I would give technical support a rating of 8/10.

HPE NonStop is expensive now. However, with a new solution of HPE NonStop on Xeon Processors and vNonStop, I am sure that the cost will come down drastically.

• 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.

Currently the NonStop platform doesn’t support virtualization of servers or CPU’s. Only storage. It would be nice to have virtual cpus or servers for use in test environments for example.

I work for companies that have always been using HPE NonStop systems.

We have not encountered any stability issues.

Good scalability is one of the main features of the NonStop systems.

Technical support is A++. If there is a problem, HPE will fix it.

I am not aware of any previous solutions.

Setup is complex, as payment systems are never simple.

NonStop systems are expensive so make sure you really need them.

There are no other options available for us.

• Fault tolerance 
• 99.9999999% up-time

Very adaptable to modern systems with message-based/queue-based architecture.

More and continued modernization.

I've used it for over 30 years.

This is the standard for reliability and fault-resilience.

This is the standard for scalability.

The NonStop Support Center is very good, with an occasional bump in the road.

• IBM mainframes
• Bull mainframes 
• Unisys mainframes

Straightforward, with detailed installation manuals.

It was done in-house. I would advise you  to have two or three dry runs at implementation, documenting everything.

I would recommend you to perform very firm price negotiations. Also, get the best price point and buy-in from C-level execs ASAP.