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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 However, running these systems on outdated SPARC hardware can lead to significant operational challenges.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 This native Sun hardware is obsolete and is no longer supported by the manufacturer.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,...

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...

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,...

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...

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 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...

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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