NonStop Systems Introduction

Introduction
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The Adaptive Enterprise
changing priorities. As a result, you gain an IT foundation that is an enabler for
business change.
HP’s Adaptive Enterprise ZLE solutions are aimed at supporting business processes in
a real-time manner in order to capitalize on change for a competitive advantage. With
ZLE, an enterprise has immediate access to current information throughout the entire
enterprise, and can respond appropriately to that information.
As you will see later in this section, the NonStop system constitutes the center, or
“hub”, in the HP zero latency enterprise architecture. Subsequent sections explain how
the NonStop hardware and software components combine to fulfill the stringent
requirements of a zero latency enterprise.
The remainder of this section introduces the zero latency enterprise (ZLE) concept and
gives an overview of the components that constitute a zero latency enterprise
architecture. The remaining sections show how NonStop systems provide a unique
software and hardware solution to these requirements:
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Section 2 describes the requirements that a zero latency enterprise imposes on a
computer architecture.
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Sections 3, 4, and 5 describe the NonStop application integration and development
environment and explain the functions of the key products that make up this
environment: the HP application server frameworks, the HP NonStop SQL/MX
database management system, and the HP NonStop Transaction Management
Facility (TMF).
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Sections 6 and 7 describe the software and hardware architecture of NonStop
systems and show how this architecture is especially suited to support the
stringent requirements of a zero latency enterprise.
Note. Although NonStop systems are suited for many other solutions, this manual
focuses on the use of these systems in zero latency enterprise solutions because of
the importance of ZLE in today’s business environment and because, with their
extremely heavy demands, HP ZLE solutions provide an excellent means of
illustrating the benefits and advantages of NonStop systems.