XYPRO Welcomes an Already Exciting 2015!

Lisa Partridge, CEO

2014 was an eventful year for XYPRO. It was a year of changes in leadership and infrastructure improvements driven by our belief that our customers’ requirements and experience are at the center of everything we do. The management buy-out announced at the end of April was a significant moment in XYPRO’s evolution and generated lots of energy and excitement on our team. As a pioneer in the HP NonStop server space since 1983, and as specialists in mission critical security since 1990, XYPRO is strongly positioned to continue to innovate and grow with HP, the industry and our customers.

We are particularly thrilled to be extending the security capabilities of the flagship XYGATE suite of security and encryption solutions to the new HP NonStop X platform. We partnered with HP to port and test the XYGATE software that is part of the NonStop Security Bundle shipped on the new platform, as well as the entire XYGATE suite. XYGATE is ready for generation NonStop X!

I’m also pleased to be able to report another year of record growth for XYPRO. Not only have we increased both XYGATE and partner product sales but we’ve also made great strides in our human resourcing, adding great new talent to the XYPRO team. We’ve welcomed people to XYPRO that bring new skills, enthusiasm and experience to our engineering, finance, services and sales organizations. Additionally, our intern program burst forth in 2014, with nearly a dozen young people contributing to our cultural innovation and operational improvements across all departments.

2014 was also a year where cyber-crime and data breaches were too frequently headline news. XYPRO implemented processes and incident management procedures that allowed us to be agile and respond rapidly to multiple public vulnerability announcements and the concerns and questions from our customers quickly, thoroughly and efficiently.

One of our most important core values is “Care Enough”. Quality is the result when you care enough to make sure it’s right. This core value, implemented company-wide is a cornerstone of the XYPRO culture. Another one of our tenets is striving for “Operational Excellence”. As XYPRO continues to grow and support more customers than we ever have before, we are making sure to focus on the fundamental building blocks of process and procedure, continually fine-tuning them to improve the quality and predictability of our releases. The new team members have specific experience in this area and the metrics we gather during and following a release are analyzed for areas of improvement. The significance of these processes get communicated regularly to the entire company, reinforcing everyone’s role in operational excellence and acknowledgment of everyone’s contribution to the end result.

XYPRO is committed to continuing to strive for excellence in everything we do, to always maintain open communication channels, and to keep our customers’ experience our central focus. When you make the effort to ensure you’ve done all you can to answer that question, fulfill that request, meet that deadline, or discover the solution – we all win.

At XYPRO, one of our top priorities for 2015, is bringing Data-Centric Security to the HP NonStop community. XYGATE Data Protection (XDP), in partnership with Voltage Security, provides enterprise-wide, Format Preserving Encryption (FPE), Secure Stateless Tokenization (SST) and Key Management. No keys to manage, store or distribute. https://www.xypro.com/xypro/products/xygate_data_protection

Also, as we move into high gear for 2015, I’d like to point you to the summary of a very informative blog series published over the course of last year: XYPRO’s Top 10 HP NonStop Security Fundamentals: http://blog.xypro.com/?p=534 Protecting mission-critical systems has many aspects and can seem overwhelming at times; XYPRO’s Top 10 security blog outlines the most important security considerations for the HP NonStop to ensure that those systems have strong security, in addition to high-availability and fault-tolerance.

Finally, we recognize you run your most important business applications and processes on the HP NonStop server and keeping it safe from data loss, tampering or even inadvertent harm is mission critical. We appreciate the trust our customers place in XYPRO solutions and services to help them protect those systems. We’re looking forward to 2015, and another successful year serving the HP NonStop community.