OmniPayments was impressed by OzTUG – Sydney and Melbourne

OmniPayments flew the miles and made it “down under.”  Paul Chandler and Vineet Bansal went to the events and came away impressed with what they saw. “There were almost seventy attendees in Sydney and around thirty attendees in Melbourne. And there was a goodly number of HPE personnel on hand to see how well the NonStop community remains fully engaged with NonStop systems, middleware and solutions,” said Chandler. It is a long way to travel and it can be weary but there really isn’t any place on earth quite like Australia.

“OmniPayments took full advantage of the presence of HPE management,” added Chandler. “Our first action item from the event is an impressive one as Suresh Menon, GM Mission Critical Solutions, HPE Asia Pacific, requested we provide a WebEx for him and his regional NonStop sales teams.” As one of the few solution’s vendors participating in OzTUG it is always interesting to observe the interactions between HPE and companies like OmniPayments as HPE sales teams are very cognizant that solutions do drive sales when it comes to NonStop. And we do have to send out a thank you to Neil Davis, NonStop Enterprise Division Director, HPE EMEA, who had previously been in conversations with Suresh about OmniPayments following recent activities in the Middle East.

As for what was presented to the OzTUG community, HPE held center stage providing updates on:

The general availability of the virtualized NonStop (vNS) deployed on VMWare VSphere
The new Converged Virtualized NS2 platform
Mission Critical Distributed Ledger Technology (MC DLT)
SQL/MX 3.6 for NonStop X platforms
… and a Proof of Concept (PoC) Lab accessible on a pay-as-you-go basis

Fortunately, with OmniPayments presence at OzTUG, we were able to provide an update to the HPE folks involved in Blockchain about our own work with R3 Corda and of the successful PoC we have just completed. Hopefully, more interaction between HPE and OmniPayments will be forthcoming in the near term.

Without getting into the specifics, Chandler was pleased that from an opportunity point of view, “It was clear that HPE NonStop growth ‘down under’ is really all about the region. Asia Pacific is absolutely booming with several major new NonStop installations, giving support to OmniPayments plans to direct sales engagement to this region as a number of new banking clients are on board with NonStop.”  As Chandler sees it, “The Webex to Suresh's team, based in Singapore and Indonesia, which has seen the largest growth, is important for OmniPayments.” And isn’t that what RUG events are all about? Networking, promoting, engaging, observing – and in Sydney and Melbourne, the OmniPayments’ team did it all!