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A Leading Cement Manufacturer Streamlined Disaster Recovery by Migrating Solaris apps to Charon-SSP on the Cloud

Imagine relying on a single physical host to support mission-critical production activities. That’s exactly where a leading Saudi Arabian cement manufacturer found itself. Their on-premises setup had no backup disaster recovery site, creating a single point of failure. High maintenance costs and limited expert support made it harder to handle...

Charon-SSP Has Ensured a Smooth Cloud Transition and 3+ Years of ERP Continuity for Orange Business

ERP systems are crucial for the success of any business. However, running these systems on outdated SPARC hardware can lead to significant operational challenges. One of our clients, Orange Business, faced this exact issue. They needed to act quickly to ensure their business-critical processes remained operational. During this urgent situation,...

Revival of Rochester Electronics with Charon SSP: Modernizing Critical Semiconductor IP

The Challenge Legacy infrastructures are very popular among aging data centers. One of the big semiconductor giants, Rochester Electronics, relied on the circa 1996 Sun SPARC servers in their data centers. This native Sun hardware is obsolete and is no longer supported by the manufacturer. As this legacy SPARC hardware...

Charon-AXP helps EIS Wire & Cable reduce MRP time from 15 minutes to under 1 minute.

The Challenge The challenge faced by EIS Wire & Cable revolved around their heavy reliance on the AlphaServer ES40, which was launched in the late nighties. The were running a fully integrated business system, including proprietary Software and Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) software connecting to Record Management Systems (RMS) databases,...

ABB Minden extends the lifespan of its power plant technology with Charon-VAX

The Challenge The Minden plant plays an important role within ABB. Although the company has long outsourced the bulk of its IT systems to IBM Global Services, “there are still production environments that we cannot outsource,” said Horst Krückemeier, head of system integration, IT support, and logistics for Energietechnik-Systeme at...

Using Charon-VAX, WorkflowOne goes green and saves money

The Challenge WorkflowOne’s acquisition of the Relizon Company in late 2005 created one of North America’s largest end-to-end supply chain and logistics powerhouses. The plan was to launch new, innovative IT services and software that could support and manage the entire business document life cycle. However, the merger also imposed...

With Charon-VAX, Trend Windows saves millions and increases capacity by 30%

The Challenge All of Trend Windows & Doors’ critical operating systems, including product design, manufacturing, and sales, relied on an aging VAX 7840 VMS server released in the mid-1970s. It had reached capacity, and since the cost of rewriting all the company’s operational systems would have run into millions of...

Using Charon-VAX, Flexi-Coil saves time and doubles performance running MANMAN ERP

The Challenge Flexi-Coil began as a family-owned business in Saskatoon in 1952; their first product was a coil packer used in the seeding process. Since then, Flexi-Coil has established itself as an industry leader in seeding, tillage, and spraying equipment, employing more than 1,200 workers. As Canada’s largest farm machinery...

Charon sweetens sugar manufacturing operation

The Challenge Victorias Milling Company is committed to providing the highest quality products and services for all its stakeholders, from planters to millers, sugar traders and consumers. Consequently, its operations are highly developed, highly mechanized, and highly computerized. An efficient, stable, and reliable IT system is critical for the mill...

Charon-AXP ensures continuity of business critical applications for Shri Dinesh Mills

The Challenge Shri Dinesh Mills’ Information Technology Department is responsible for two major aspects of the company’s operations: production control and electronic data processing. The latter unit, with a team of 20, runs a business-critical application that tracks order bookings by agents, order-based production planning, sales invoicing, and associated forecasting...

Charon-AXP ensures long-term availability of compliance data for Harz-Klinikum

The Challenge Harz-Klinikum Wernigerode-Blankenburg was created in 2004 by the merger of two hospitals. Both hospitals operated distinct hospital information systems (HIS) and accounting applications on one OpenVMS AlphaServer each. The new hospital created by the merger faced a choice: either combine the two existing systems, which would have necessitated...

Fidelity ensures continuity for their data center with Charon-VAX

The Challenge As a leading provider of technology services to the financial sector, and one of the largest title insurance companies in the US, Fidelity prides itself on having the most innovative technologies. Its system relied heavily on about 60 VAXes used for production, as well as several others used...

Raffles Medical expands its IT systems virtually thanks to Charon-AXP

The Challenge As a leading regional integrated private healthcare provider, Raffles Medical Group, headquartered in Singapore, constantly strives to provide the highest standard in medical and health care. An efficient, stable, and reliable IT system is essential to ensure its round-the-clock operations run smoothly. The group’s IT system relied on...

Charon-VAX streamlines operations for the European Transonic Windtunnel

The Challenge Guided by a philosophy of excellence, ETW has grown into one of the world’s most important aerodynamics research and development facilities for the aviation industry. Since 1995, the organization has helped aircraft manufacturers from all over the world to optimize their aircraft designs. The wind tunnel provides realistic...

Renesas Reduces Risk and Improves Sun SPARC Performance with Charon-SSP

The Challenge Renesas relies on mission-critical Sun SPARC systems at their Palm Bay, Florida location to control furnaces and support semiconductor production. As the systems aged, downtime caused by hardware failure became increasingly frequent and problematic. Craig Stevens, Principal Systems Analyst at Renesas, was responsible for the development and support...

Hannover Life Re of Australasia moves forward with confidence using Charon-PAR

The Challenge Hannover Re, the third-largest reinsurer in the world, was running some of their operations on PA-RISC systems that were increasingly hard to maintain. As these systems aged, it became more and more difficult to find replacement parts, and the system failed more often. A planned migration to a...

Racine Water regains access to records thanks to Charon-PAR

The Challenge Since the 1980s, Racine Water & Wastewater Utilities relied on an PA-RISC A-400 with MPE/iX 6.5 as their primary billing system. When they moved to a new platform in 2008, only four years of history carried over to the new system. The PA-RISC still held more than 25...

Double virtualization with Charon and VMware improves performance for Kraus & Naimer

The Challenge With sales centers and factories distributed around the globe, Kraus & Naimer has to be able to rely on fast and reliable data processing capacity. Until a few years ago, each of the company's six plants was equipped with a VAX system dedicated to production control. Additionally, each...

Unplanned downtime with a customized business-critical system: How emulation was the answer

The Challenge For over 162 years, the end user, has designed and supplied machines, process equipment, and production lines for the world’s largest industrial players. Operating with 250 employees, they serve various sectors such as Aerospace, Agriculture, Automotive, Construction, Job Shops, Mining, Oil & Gas, Power Generation, Rail, and Wind....

Local (on-prem) Solaris shifts to the cloud and reaps the advantages

The Challenge A software company who provides event log management for financial and banking institutions wanted to move its solution from on-prem servers to a cloud solution to offer greater scalability and accessibility, and simpler R&D management. The software development team was tasked to find a solution; to streamline global...

Charon-VAX, Support service on a Saturday

The Background A global company, with over 1,500 employees, provides customer relationship service programs to help businesses retain and grow their consumer base. For four decades, the company has been trusted by its clients, including nine Fortune 100 companies. Within the Northern European operations, a mission-critical OpenVMS application served as...

Increased performance and modernization for a business-critical university system

The Challenge Established in 1949, Gujarat University is a public state university in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, and serves as an undergraduate education but also a teaching university at the post-graduate level. The university had a customized and proprietary software application for its examination management system. The system also serviced payroll...

Wheeler Manufacturing diminishes risk and improves performance with Charon-AXP

The Challenge In 2014, one of the drives in the business-critical AlphaServer at Wheeler Manufacturing failed. This was not the first time a drive had failed, but it was the first time it had happened during business hours. Wheeler lost a day of production in addition to everything on the...

Charon-VAX helps reduce failover recovery time and update legacy VAX system

The Challenge A large financial services company in New Zealand had been running key life insurance applications on an OpenVMS system since its inception in 1989, but the rapid growth of the company was challenging the capacity of their legacy VAX system. Another concern was that the system was not...

HP revives the city of Hammond’s aging AlphaServer using Charon-AXP

The Challenge The City of Hammond relied on an AlphaServer 2100 to issue business licenses and property taxes, but the age and reliability of the hardware was becoming a serious concern. After running smoothly for years, the Alpha was starting to deteriorate rapidly: back-ups had to be performed manually, complicating system administration,...

GMS and Stromasys collaborate to achieve data-performance goals for Navigant client

The Challenge Navigant Consulting is a leading global consulting firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with more than 2,500 employees worldwide. Navigant provides customized services and support to address critical business issues and enhance stakeholder value. PACE, a unit of Navigant Consulting, is the market leader in mass tort claims administration....

Stromasys increases efficiency for MediSolution using Charon-AXP

The Challenge MediSolution is a leading information technology company headquartered in Montreal, Canada. More than 300 healthcare, public, and service-sector organizations rely on MediSolution’s systems to maximize their operational efficiencies, lower their costs, and improve service delivery. However, in order to maximize the efficiency of their own operations, the IT...

University maintains Alpha and saves on maintenance with Charon-AXP

The Challenge A private university was running their student record system on a DS25 Alpha system, and due to student information laws, they were required to maintain old records for a certain number of years. The college’s IT needed a solution to keep the Alpha running and accessible, as many options they...

Tomago saves millions without sacrificing functionality or security by using Charon-AXP

The Challenge Tomago Aluminium had been running one of their key production systems on an aging AlphaServer for the past eight years. While the software running on the OpenVMS-based system was a good functional fit, the age and reliability of the platform was a cause for concern. For Tomago, the...

With Charon-AXP, Thuraya tackles its failing hardware and preserves its mission critical applications

The Challenge Thuraya had been running mission-critical applications on Compaq DS20 Alpha servers and XP1000 workstations hosting the legacy operating system Tru64. The hardware was becoming obsolete and the need for a solution was critical: these aging systems were causing outages and disturbances to the business’s daily operations. Since the...

Charon-AXP provides safe harbor for Linnenbecker’s business-critical ERP system

The Challenge Harz-Klinikum Wernigerode-Blankenburg was created in 2004 by the merger of two hospitals. Both hospitals operated distinct hospital information systems (HIS) and accounting applications on one OpenVMS AlphaServer each. The new hospital created by the merger faced a choice: either combine the two existing systems, which would have necessitated...

Charon-AXP saves nuclear power plant systems

The Challenge In a nuclear power plant, DEC Alpha computers play a major role in the key monitoring system, Power Plant Control Robust System (PPCRS). As the eyes of the nuclear power plant, PPCRS collects data from all subsystems and displays the information in a graphical format for system administration. The entire...

Thales Alenia Space Finds Secure and Cost-Effective Solution in Charon-SSP

The Challenge Thales Alenia Space was running a SPARC Sun Fire 480R with two network boards and 4 GB of RAM on Solaris 5.8. They were using the system to support their final customer, the Centre National des Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the French space agency much like NASA. The SPARC was used...

Charon provides cost-effective solution for Wellington City Council’s VAX and Alpha systems

The Challenge Most of Wellington City Council’s IT system ran in a modern Windows environment except for rate payments, an important customer-facing service, which relied on 20-year-old VAX and Alpha systems that were reaching the end of their useful lives. As the economic downturn had forced cuts to the city budget, the council’s IT...

PTM migrates DEC Alpha-hosted OpenVMS apps to OCI for Business Continuity

A large database, which is mission-critical to Professional Target Marketing (PTM), holds information that is one of PTM’s major assets and protecting it is paramount to keeping operations going. PTM is a marketing firm primarily servicing the pharmaceutical industry and targeting health care professionals (HCPs). With a dedicated team of...

Migrating MPE and HP-UX workloads to AWS

Getting the technology integration right during mergers and acquisitions can be challenging. This challenge becomes exponentially complicated when dealing with multiple legacy hardware platforms and data crucial to the functioning the business. One multi-national Stromasys customer that manufactures various products across all sectors, including consumer, healthcare, manufacturing, and defense, had...

Global Manufacturer migrates Tru64 Unix workloads to AWS

Businesses are managing more data and IT systems today than ever before. So, it’s no surprise that during mergers and acquisitions, getting the technology integration right can be an issue. A Stromasys customer that produces over 60,000 products used in homes, businesses, schools, hospitals, and other industries had been successfully...

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