The Business Critical Systems (BCS) Education is comprised of users in the Connect Community that are interested in enhancing their professional development through attendance at seminars, chapter meetings and through networking.

Join this SIG if you are interested in networking with other users concerned business continuity and begin sharing best practices.

The goal of the Enterprise Storage SIG is to bring users of HP Storage products together to discuss user experiences, best practices and industry trends. If you interested in Storage and want to meet other users with similar interests.

The Unix SIG leadership is pleased to announce plans for a series of Unix oriented webcasts and online discussions. If you are currently using HP-UX or Tru64 UNIX and are interested in networking with other users, we encourage you to get involved today.

The Connect Java Special Interest Group (SIG) is a network of Java professionals who target HP systems including, but not limited to, HP-UX, NonStop, Linux, OpenVMS and Windows servers. The mission of this User group is to promote successful use of Java on HP Platforms.

This group is for all linux users and administrators to blog and discuss the Linux Operating System and Open Source Software on various HP hardware platforms.

The NonStop Integrity Migration SIG is comprised of users in the Connect Community that are interested in enhancing their professional development through attendance at seminars, chapter meetings and through networking. Members get the opportunity to network with fellow professionals who may become friends, advisors, or that crucial business contact.

Connect is excited to offer this SIG which will discuss issues and solutions concerning the increasingly Open nature of NonStop development.

The purpose of the operations management SIG is to help NonStop users find ways to achieve:
* Quality operations with a minimum amount of human intervention.
* Reduced operation costs while striving for the goal of lights-out operations.
* Tools that contribute to Automated Operations includ ASAP, Prognosis, TACL, ViewPoint,
etc.

This Group will provide NonStop partners, vendors and users with on-demand access to vendor news and to improve the planning, administration and execution of international, national and regional conferences. Although the group will advocate primarily for NonStop partners and vendors, users are also encouraged to utilize the SIG as a single point of access to all HP NonStop partners and vendors and to submit suggestions. HP Solutions Analyst may also benefit from such centralized access.

The NonStop Performance SIG provides a forum for users and third parties to exchange experiences and concerns about system performance. By default the customer perception of performance is how long it takes to get an answer back from the application. This typically entails a multi-platform infrastructure that includes many different vendors. Issues range form system and network configuration for performance measurement tools to performance parameters.

The NonStop Security and Audit SIG's mission is three-fold:

1. To Exchange knowledge and experiences relative to securing NonStop systems.
2. To encourage and organize presentations and papers on securing NonStop systems.
3. To provide NonStop and NonStop alliance partners with direction and input for future enhancements to HP NonStop products.

A Service Oriented Architecture can be used to build interoperability between all systems in an enterprise by integrating NonStop systems, data warehouse systems, Linux and Unix systems. This can be achieved by deploying a combination of Web Services, message-oriented services or distributed object solutions.

The NonStop SQL SIG was developed to provide a forum to discuss SQL appreciation, present successful solutions, request advice and/or assistance from our peers and serve as a focus group and liason between the user community (Connect) and HP.

To connect users of Telco Solutions worldwide creating a network of interested parties sharing ideas and technical know-how. Topics may cover performance, configuration, tools used, latest technologies, benchmarks, industry direction or what's hot/what's not.

OpenVMS is a multi-user, multiprocessing virtual memory-based operating system (OS) designed for use in time sharing, batch processing, real time (process priorities can be set higher than OS kernel jobs) and transaction processing. It offers high system availability through clustering, or the ability to distribute the system over multiple physical machines.

This group was created to blog and discuss various OpenVMS vendors and service organizations.

DEFINITION - Virtualization is the creation of a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, such as an operating system, a server, a storage device or network resources.
You probably know a little about virtualization if you have ever divided your hard drive into different partitions. A partition is the logical division of a hard disk drive to create, in effect, two separate hard drives.