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Charon emulates your legacy SPARC, Alpha, VAX, PA-RISC, or PDP hardware on modern platforms. Your certified defense & government software run unchanged with better performance and lower costs.
You may have a weapons control system running on a legacy OS. It’s certified, accredited, and tested in multiple use cases. But the legacy hardware it sits on? It’s a silent threat in your data center.
Spare parts are scarce. The experts who know how to fix these servers are retiring in numbers. You are likely spending up to 75% of your IT budget just to maintain the status quo.
Legacy systems often lack modern encryption, and they can’t be patched against new threats. In 2021, the "Hack the Army 3.0" initiative found 238 vulnerabilities in military systems. 102 were critical.
Modern defense requires real-time data. However, your legacy hardware cannot integrate effectively with modern platforms, preventing the application from coordinating with contemporary APIs or cloud services.
End-of-life hardware is more prone to failure. Consequently, your critical manufacturing or defense software could experience downtime for days, delaying public service or risking national security.
Defense organizations often collaborate with other allies for joint operations, making interoperability a crucial factor. Modernization will make communications and operations smoother.
On legacy servers, decades of sensitive government data are at high risk. Public records and defense deals, etc., are too sensitive. So the priority should be to move away from the old servers as soon as possible.
Legacy systems are serious business liabilities. Here’s what real numbers reveal about them:
The U.S. government spends $337 million annually just to maintain 10 critical legacy systems, some over 50 years old.
Federal agencies allocate 80% of their IT budgets to maintain outdated systems, leaving little for innovation.
A single ransomware attack on Baltimore’s legacy systems in 2019 caused $18 million in recovery costs.
Stromasys Charon is purpose-built for the unique challenges of defense and government organizations. It ensures mission-critical legacy applications remain operational without the risks, costs, or delays of rewriting software. Your software gets the same hardware interface it is expecting, but now on a new, more reliable platform (x86 servers or the cloud).
Your applications, operating systems (Solaris, MPE, HP-UX, OpenVMS, Tru64), and databases remain unchanged. What has changed is the hardware beneath them.
Large, outdated servers occupy significant space in data centers, resulting in increased power consumption. With Charon, you can move away from the data center and consolidate legacy servers into one virtual data center.
Move your legacy workloads to Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, or Oracle Cloud. You gain the flexibility and performance of the cloud while keeping the application logic that runs your department.
Forget trying to find a backup tape drive that still works. Once your system is virtualized on Charon, disaster recovery becomes a simple file backup. You can spin up a recovery instance in the cloud in minutes.
That too, without touching what’s already working for them (in a cost-effective manner).
Tested strategies to extend the life of your mission-critical software, such as Defense or Government, scaling operations without replacing legacy OS.
Get the technical details on how Stromasys emulates your legacy hardware on a more modern platform to keep your legacy applications running.
Practical advice for IT leaders tackling legacy hardware headaches, from downtime risks, maintenance hassles, to cloud integration.
Before aging infrastructure halts your critical defense and government applications, fix it!