NonStop (server computers)

The original NonStop product line is currently offered by Hewlett Packard Enterprise since Hewlett-Packard Company's split in 2015.

These systems can be used by banks, stock exchanges, payment applications, retail companies, energy and utility services, healthcare organizations, manufacturers, telecommunication providers, transportation, and other enterprises requiring extremely high uptime.

[citation needed] Originally introduced in 1976 by Tandem Computers Inc., the line was later owned by Compaq (from 1997), Hewlett-Packard Company (from 2003)[3] and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (since 2015).

In 2005, the HP Integrity "NonStop i" (or TNS/E) servers, based on Intel Itanium microprocessors, was introduced.

It uses the scripting and job control language TACL (Tandem Advanced Command Language), and is written in TAL and C. The HPE Integrity NonStop computers are a line of fault-tolerant, message-based server computers based on the Intel Xeon processor platform,[4] and optimized for transaction processing.

[7] NonStop systems feature a massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture and provide linear scalability.

[citation needed] Most customers also have a backup server in a remote location for IT disaster recovery.