HPE NonStop pros and cons

Name: HPE NonStop
Brand: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Rating: 4.4 (12 reviews)

Vendor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise

4.4 out of 5

12 reviews
90% willing to recommend

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HPE NonStop Pros review quotes

Roni Wijaya

Vice President of It Operations at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Jun 20, 2023

Feature-wise, the most valuable one is the fact that it has 100 hundred percent uptime every year. Secondly, it is stable.

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Mohamed Said

Bidding and Proposals Manager at Summit Technology Solution

Dec 19, 2022

The stability of HPE NonStop is good.

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reviewer281076

Director of Technology Services at a educational organization with 201-500 employees

Sep 9, 2021

We don't have any issues with the stability of HPE NonStop.

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it_user581838

Senior Technical Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Jul 7, 2017

It helps us to keep the business running 24/7.

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it_user570300

NonStop System Engineer & Administrator at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Dec 12, 2016

The HPE NonStop solution is rated with the highest level of availability in the industry.

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it_user315669

HP NonStop Specialist at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 6, 2016

Technical support is A++. If there is a problem, HPE will fix it.

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it_user531693

Senior HP Nonstop System Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Oct 19, 2016

Implement it. You will never regret it.

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it_user364560

Enterprise Architect at Equens SE, European payment processor

Feb 4, 2016

They've been very reliable since we started using them in 1978, but we're going to replace them in a few years.

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it_user379005

Payments Systems lead engineer (remote) at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feb 2, 2016

If you are contemplating a fault-tolerant, high uptime transaction processing machine with above normal transactions volumes - to act as a transaction server with infrequent changes to code - and you simply must have bulletproof performance - this might be the ticket.

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it_user368025

Global Infrastructure Designer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Jan 11, 2016

Because we're able to get immediate support, this prevents downtime and directly impacts cost savings.

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HPE NonStop Cons review quotes

Roni Wijaya

Vice President of It Operations at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Jun 20, 2023

It is not flexible...Not a lot of applications run on HPE NonStop.

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Mohamed Said

Bidding and Proposals Manager at Summit Technology Solution

Dec 19, 2022

HPE NonStop could improve by having infrastructure management.

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reviewer281076

Director of Technology Services at a educational organization with 201-500 employees

Sep 9, 2021

It would be helpful if they brought the price down.

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it_user581838

Senior Technical Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Jul 7, 2017

There were some scalability issues. When we decided to migrate an application or port application, the limitations of these servers did not help us.

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it_user570300

NonStop System Engineer & Administrator at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Dec 12, 2016

The NonStop system is well priced, but the software that runs on it is quite pricey.

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it_user315669

HP NonStop Specialist at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 6, 2016

Currently the NonStop platform doesn’t support virtualization of servers or CPU’s. Only storage.

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it_user531693

Senior HP Nonstop System Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Oct 19, 2016

If pushed, then the only thing I can think of would be utilities provided by the vendor.

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it_user364560

Enterprise Architect at Equens SE, European payment processor

Feb 4, 2016

I would never advise someone to buy or to implement the new NonStop because it's hard to find skilled people.

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it_user379005

Payments Systems lead engineer (remote) at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feb 2, 2016

NonStop (formerly known as Tandem) in the Guardian OS could use another, friendlier macro language.

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it_user368025

Global Infrastructure Designer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Jan 11, 2016

The hardware fails often, and I feel that HP really needs to pay more attention to this issue.

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