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Yes, legacy hardware is the problem. Replacing the software built on top of it isn’t realistic. Stromasys emulates aging servers on modern x86 or cloud without any operational disruptions.
When legacy hardware actually fails, enterprises often regret not planning earlier. The entire operation feels the impact, from dispatch to delivery.
SPARC, VAX, PA-RISC, and Alpha servers that support fleet control platforms are no longer supported by vendors. This makes it difficult to repair these old servers or find spare parts in case of a breakdown.
Enterprise downtime in transport averages over $300,000 per hour. This can freeze freight assignment, take dispatch offline, and cut visibility across the entire network.
Transport is the second most targeted sector in Europe, with attacks often hitting aging infrastructure running older patches. Legacy hardware cannot support modern security controls.
The Port of Seattle was offline for three weeks. Ward Transport lost 574GB of data, and its customer portal went down mid-operation. These incidents show how serious the risk has become.
Warehouse management, customs, freight routing, and partner integrations are tightly coupled. A single legacy server going down doesn't stay contained. It cascades until something stops it.
Changing mission-critical applications isn’t always possible. Re-certification and re-integration can take years and become multi-million-dollar projects.
The numbers tell a compelling story about the risks and true costs of legacy systems in the transport & logistics industry:
Supply chain directors reported that their old transportation management system (TMS) led to on-time delivery falling to 73%.
The Port of Seattle was offline for three weeks after a single ransomware attack in August 2024, long enough to take down baggage systems, ticketing, and flight displays.
At $4.18 million per incident, the average breach cost in transport covers ransom, recovery, downtime, and customer fallout combined.
Transport IT teams don’t need a rewriting project. They need a way to take hardware risk off the table without touching the operational software their business runs on. The Charon emulation platform does that. It emulates the physical server. The original OS and application binaries run unchanged on modern x86 infrastructure or in the cloud. Nothing changes for operations teams. The hardware risk disappears.
Charon creates a virtual replica of your legacy server on a modern x86 host. An aging physical server is no longer a single point of failure for the entire operation.
Once legacy workloads run on modern hardware, IT teams can apply current security tooling: encrypted storage, network segmentation, tested backup, and disaster recovery.
With Stromasys Charon, workloads consolidate onto fewer modern hosts. Cloud deployment removes data center overhead for organizations ready to move.
Modern infrastructure supports high-availability configurations and audit-ready documentation. Compliance teams get the evidence they need without asking operations to change anything.
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