MRTUG, NENUG, SCTUG, RMTUG and DUST

XYPRO representatives recently attended MRTUG, NENUG, SCTUG, RMTUG and DUST.  At DUST, we presented “You Cannot Be PCI Compliant without XYGATE”.  Interest in security remains high in the NonStop space, and while presenting at these three user groups, we were fortunate to have interactive discussions with everybody in attendance.  Many open questions and discussions took place, which is the primary intention of user groups.  Overall, attendance has been as expected, i.e., vendors have outnumbered users.  We are happy to see optimism from the users, vendors and HP involving NonStop Blades, based upon the number of customers upgrading. 

We believe it’s vital for the NonStop community to continue to have these types of meetings.  Going to the user gives a broader group of people a chance to participate in learning what is going on in the HP NonStop space.  Furthermore, the Connect meeting next fall should bring a sense to the community that HP still values the NonStop and users.  It will not have the feeling of being shuffled in with everybody else, which is the impression many got when including this event with the HP Technology Forum.   

Unfortunately, SCTUG was not very well attended with a ratio of 5 to 1 vendors vs. customers. We did, however, have some very good side conversations with the customers. We will be presenting at the next SCTUG which sounds like it will be at the end of March.

On the other hand, the RMTUG meeting in Denver had the biggest turnout we have ever seen. There were several current customers as well as some new faces and companies that we have not heard of, which is great to see.

In all of the meetings, we have chatted with folks about the “ITUG” that will be happening in September and it is like a big revival and everyone is excited again that there will be a Non-Stop conference again in San Jose!

Jay Price
Kevin Boham