Fault-tolerant systems for mission-critical workloads HPE Nonstop Compute
Keep essential operations moving with a unified solution built for continuous availability, linear scalability, and advanced zero trust security.
Always-on innovation with HPE Nonstop
See HPE Nonstop in action across the full stack—from the operating system and real-time database engine, to integrated management, security, and development tools built for continuous operations.
Benefits of HPE Nonstop Compute
High availability and reliability
Support continuous operations during peak demand and unexpected disruption with fault-tolerant design.
Scalability
Add capacity without disruption while preserving performance, data integrity, and reliability across expanding workloads.
Robust security
Protect critical data with built-in zero trust security, real-time threat detection, and advanced protections for evolving risks.
Our customers
Quantify the business impact of always-on operations
See outcomes from a Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ study showing how continuous availability can help reduce downtime, protect revenue, strengthen security, and support scalable growth for workloads that cannot go dark.
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Explore HPE Nonstop options
Choose the right foundation for your business with HPE Nonstop systems, deployment models, and software capabilities designed for continuous availability, security, and scalable performance.
- Fully integrated systems
- Deployment models
- Software capabilities
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HPE Nonstop Compute NS9 X5
The HPE Nonstop Compute NS9 X5 delivers continuous availability with an upgraded x86 architecture, increased memory and bandwidth, and massive scalability—enabling fast, reliable, high‑volume transaction processing (OLTP) for today's mission‑critical business applications.
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HPE Nonstop Compute NS5 X5
The HPE Nonstop Compute NS5 X5 brings 100% fault tolerance and continuous availability to smaller enterprises, with upgraded x86 performance, expanded memory, and reliable Nonstop software—delivering fast, dependable OLTP processing for distributed computing and development environments.
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HPE Virtualized Nonstop Software
HPE Virtualized Nonstop Software enables mission-critical applications to benefit from the unique scalability and availability advantages offered by the HPE Nonstop platform within an enterprise private cloud. Built on customers' infrastructure of choice, the solution is backward compatible with applications running on x86-based HPE Nonstop Compute solutions, simplifying migration.
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GreenLake Flex Solution built for high availability compute
This solution offers an integrated, cloud-like experience for HPE Nonstop platform via GreenLake, facilitating customer modernization with a pay-as-you-go, consumption-based model that avoids large capital expenditures.
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HPE Nonstop Security
Choose from a comprehensive set of security capabilities spanning platform, data, users, and applications with zero trust security design and AI/ML based monitoring, complemented with a robust ecosystem of partner solutions and demonstrate security compliance with regulations.
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Scalable database
Deploy a multi-tenant, self-provisioning database that is fault tolerant, enables low risk, provides cost-effective [KJ1.1]ports from other clustered database platforms for use by new applications and customers, and actively supports existing SQL-based customers.
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Business continuity
Protect your business from disasters with sophisticated solutions that enable real‑time failover, allowing a geographically distant system to seamlessly take over processing. Replicate and integrate data from your HPE Nonstop database into heterogeneous databases across other server platforms to ensure continuous operations and resilience.
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Application development
Work in an integrated development environment (IDE) based on Eclipse™, a popular GUI-based IDE having integrated set of tools and facilities to develop, build, deploy, and debug applications—improving productivity and enhancing your experience with HPE Nonstop application development.
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IT management tools
Leverage a range of operations management products including configuration, workload management, performance management, availability monitoring, capacity planning, security, SNMP, and web-based manageability software for your HPE Nonstop Compute environment.
FAQs
What is a Nonstop server and why would you use one?
A nonstop server is a fault-tolerant computing system designed to operate continuously without interruption, even during hardware or software failures. It achieves this through redundant components, parallel processing, and automatic failover mechanisms that instantly shift workloads if a failure occurs. Organizations use nonstop servers for mission-critical applications such as banking transactions, telecom networks, stock exchanges, and payment systems, where downtime can cause financial or reputation loss, service disruption, or data inconsistency.
What are the benefits of a Nonstop server system?
Nonstop servers deliver exceptional benefits for mission-critical operations, including continuous availability with 99.999%+ uptime via fault-tolerant design and automatic failover, eliminating single points of failure. They offer linear scalability for growing workloads without disruption, low total cost of ownership through reduced downtime and simple management, and robust data integrity for high-volume transactions. Additional advantages encompass real-time threat detection, zero-trust security for compliance, and self-healing capabilities that maintain performance during failures or peaks. These make them ideal for finance, telecom, and logistics where downtime is unacceptable.
How do Nonstop servers work to prevent downtime?
Nonstop servers prevent downtime through a fault-tolerant, shared-nothing architecture with fully redundant hardware and software components. The operating system continuously monitors all elements—like processors, disks, and networks—via periodic "alive" heartbeat messages, enabling rapid failure detection within seconds. Upon detecting a fault, it automatically triggers a seamless failover: primary processes pair with hot-standby backups that receive real-time checkpoints of state and data, allowing the backup to instantly resume without interruption or data loss. This process-pairing eliminates single points of failure, while mirrored disks and no-spare design ensure linear scalability and self-healing operations.
HPE Nonstop vs other fault tolerant systems
HPE Nonstop systems differ from other fault-tolerant platforms primarily in architectural design, availability model, and workload focus.
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HPE Education Services
Get the most from your HPE Nonstop Compute solution with training designed around your unique business needs. HPE Education Services offers courses designed to empower your IT teams with the skills needed to run your HPE Nonstop Compute solution with our expert-led training.
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BrochureHPE Nonstop Services
Mission-critical environments require special expertise to help drive business continuity, high availability, massive scalability, and operational efficiency that your enterprise demands. Leverage the specialized expertise of HPE Nonstop Services and discover how to positively transform your IT operating model and business outcomes.
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