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Learn how Shri Dinesh Mills migrated to Charon-AXP for surefire business continuity and performance.
For Shri Dinesh Mills, running their business was becoming a challenge with aging hardware. Frequent downtime and difficult-to-find support for their AlphaServer was their constant headache.
With a 30-day window, Stromasys showed its IT department how Charon-AXP could move its software from legacy hardware to modern systems, saving costs and ensuring continuity.
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 and reporting. This application covers close to 30,000 invoice transactions per year, generating revenues of 750 million INR (approximately 17 million USD). The unit also runs a critical payroll application for more than 1,200 employees.
For over 10 years, these two business-critical applications were run on an AlphaServer 800. However, the AlphaServer was growing old, and when it failed, which was happening more and more often, it was hard to get support. Consequently, the IT department began exploring different options to address the challenge of ensuring continuity for the mill’s critical applications.
Shri Dinesh Mills’ IT department evaluated various options for migrating its critical applications. The first option was to continue using the current application environment on a stable, vendor-independent platform. The second was to develop new applications in-house while migrating the existing applications to a new system in a limited timeframe. Hardware system failures and lack of continued support services were critical factors in the decision.
Stromasys suggested that Shri Dinesh Mills evaluate the CHARON-AXP/SMA Plus virtualization software for 30 days to determine whether it could provide a complete, lasting solution to their AXP problems. CHARON-AXP enables customers to replace legacy Alpha hardware with industry-standard hardware without modifying the functionality of their system. Using CHARON AXP virtualization software on modern hardware allows the original operating system, layered software, and valuable applications to continue running without changes.
Since Shri Dinesh Mills also wanted a cost-effective solution, Stromasys advised them to evaluate the CHARON-AXP software on an i3 Quad Core CPU running at 3.00 GHZ with 4 GB of memory and two 500-GB network operating systems.
CHARON-AXP was installed, applications and data were transferred, and the new server was up and running. At the end of the 30-day period, Shri Dinesh Mills decided that CHARON-AXP was just what they were looking for.
System configuration, loading of applications, data transfer, and total implementation took only a couple of days. CHARON-AXP smoothly took over the control of the system, its peripherals, and all related applications at performance levels more than 10 times faster than the original AXP server.