Fault-Tolerant Compute for Enterprise Workloads HPE Nonstop Compute
Power mission‑critical workloads with a unified solution built for continuous uptime, linear scalability, and advanced zero‑trust security.
Continuous performance for mission-critical workloads
Explore how HPE Nonstop delivers continuous availability, fault-tolerant performance and robust security for mission critical workloads. See how the fully integrated platform scales without disruption and protects vital data—empowering enterprises that can't afford downtime.
High availability and reliability
Ensure uninterrupted operations with continuous availability and fault‑tolerant design that keeps mission‑critical workloads running reliably, even during peak demand.
Scalability
Grow confidently with a platform engineered for seamless, linear scalability that adds capacity without disruption while preserving performance, integrity and reliability across expanding workloads.
Robust security
Safeguard critical data with built‑in zero‑trust security, real‑time threat detection and advanced protections that maintain compliance and defend mission‑critical environments from evolving risks.
Our customers
Top 10 reasons to choose HPE for mission-critical computing
HPE Nonstop Compute solutions are engineered to protect mission-critical environments, providing fault tolerance for continuous up time, massive scalability, and high-level security for business resilience.
IDC: Always-on performance for mission-critical systems
According to IDC, HPE Nonstop stands apart with 100% operational continuity through a shared‑nothing architecture and continuous availability—delivering industry‑leading resilience, seamless scalability, and predictable performance for mission‑critical operations across on‑premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.
Engineered for the highest availability level
When continuous operations are essential, downtime isn't an option. HPE Nonstop provides fault tolerant, integrated systems offering exceptional availability, scalable performance and operational efficiency—giving industries the resilient compute foundation they rely on.
HPE Nonstop Compute solutions: Flexible consumption choices for your enterprise needs
The HPE Nonstop Compute family of factory-integrated, tested, turnkey solutions can be deployed on-premises or in a colocation. These solutions include compute, software, storage, networking and additional services for a complete mission-critical experience.
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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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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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