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 This native Sun hardware is obsolete and is no longer supported by the manufacturer.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 still drives valuable intellectual property (IP), it was at significant risk of being lost due to the aging hardware factor and the inability to repair from the Sun systems.
Rochester is one of the world’s largest sources of semiconductors and focuses on semiconductor lifecycle management. It offers licensed manufacturing and product replication support. As part of a fully authorized semiconductor replication process, Rochester heavily relies on legacy IP to support customers with the challenges of semiconductor obsolescence. Preserving IP was crucial for Rochester’s business.
With the seamless collaboration with Stromasys Charon SSP, the design technology team could migrate the 1996 Sun SPARC servers out of its data center efficiently and cost-effectively. This legacy emulation of Sun SPARC hardware with Charon SSP has enhanced the overall performance and significantly minimized the duration of CPU-intensive tasks. Earlier, their tasks would take hours to complete, but now they are being executed in just minutes. The performance of the disk has also increased, and it is no longer reliant on SCSI disks, which spin at low speeds. Rochester Electronics has significantly improved its overall performance and extended the life of its mission-critical applications through Charon SSP. Download the full success story to know more about how they achieved this.