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Did you know? Aging servers are silently draining your data center budgets. Reports have shown that the annual maintenance cost for operating on obsolete hardware has increased from 24% to 44%.
For businesses that are still running their critical workloads on the PDP-11 systems, it is not just expensive but risky. Once the hardware reaches its end-of-life, keeping it alive can be catastrophic. The hardware failure can not only halt the operations, but finding the replacement parts with limited expertise is going to threaten business continuity while impacting the overall annual budget.
So, here is an example of one such organization that migrated from its outdated PDP-11 hardware without making any changes to the existing critical applications while leveraging the benefits of a modern platform.
Business-critical applications built on RT-11, RSX-11, and RSTS perform unique tasks that power your daily operations. These critical systems contain millions of lines that have been thoroughly tested over decades.
Rewriting these codes or traditional modernization methods can be highly risky, expensive, and time-consuming. They will also require massive resource investment, while there will be no guarantee of success.
So, now the question arises: how to keep these irreplaceable legacy applications alive while escaping the astronomical maintenance costs and risks of aging PDP-11 hardware?
Charon-PDP is an emulator from Stromasys that was the right answer they were looking for. It is one of the proven ways to modernize outdated PDP-11 hardware without touching any single line of code of the existing applications.
The Charon-PDP emulator uses the lift and shift migration approach to move the critical workloads like RT-11, RSX-11, RSTS, and other custom legacy applications on modern x86 servers or in the cloud. It creates a virtual replica of your original PDP-11 environment so that these legacy workloads can operate seamlessly without any changes in the original source code.
Delaying the transformation of your outdated PDP-11 hardware will not only increase the overall maintenance costs but will also impact your business continuity and leave your infrastructure vulnerable to cyber-attacks. Charon PDP helps in preserving your legacy applications while eliminating risky hardware issues and minimizing operational costs without disruption.
Discover how Charon-PDP can transform your legacy hardware without any changes in source code with zero migration risk.