Since it is a legacy tool, there is a need to change it for flexibility. I think now it has improved because the security is very good. It is very secure for the performance of the machine critical application service, and it is very good. I don't know how to speak more on improvement needed because it's a good enough tool. However, depending on the application, it's limited. Not a lot of applications run on HPE NonStop. It is not flexible because I know that because of the compatibility of Java with HPE NonStop. When we are using Java, the performance is not good.

HPE NonStop could improve by having infrastructure management.

If the initial setup could be more simplified it would be an improvement.

They were not as nice as BladSystems. The architecture is the same, but just the way that they have done some of the things is a bit different.

The products/systems are the best of the breed. But this is diminished by the software vendors who seem to make the solution very expensive.

Maybe HPE should deal with all the software vendors directly and negotiate more customer friendly pricing.

This is very hard to say. How do you improve on perfection?

If pushed, then the only thing I can think of would be utilities provided by the vendor. Nearly all of the utilities are provided by third-party partners. As such, they are pretty expensive. There are also quite a few overlapping features between the products, which makes it quite difficult to select one over the other.

NonStop (formerly known as Tandem) in the Guardian OS could use another, friendlier macro language. The one provided (TACL) is a bit cumbersome - and there are not practical alternatives available.

We have to replace the software because the software is key. In three or four years, we'll completely phase them out. Also, there are no knowledgeable people for this product. They're all in their 50's as no young people are interested in this technology.

I think HP NonStop is a very valuable platform, especially regarding HA of course, but its largest disadvantage is that it's a proprietary platform. That's one if the reasons that we're going to phase it out in due time. I can imagine that companies are and will be using the platform, and we'll use it for many more years as it's certainly a strategic platform for HPE, but on the other hand, I cannot imagine that any company will choose it as a new platform.

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.

Like on any system, hardware speed always could be increased.

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.

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.

More and continued modernization.