Legacy data centers pose numerous dangers, the most catastrophic of which is hardware failure, which can result in a $2.3 million loss of data every year. Furthermore, outdated hardware was never planned for the future, which creates issues.
Cloud emerges as a sustainable solution here. According to RightScale, over 94% of enterprises are managing their workloads in the cloud. The transition to cloud solutions highlights the demand for agile, scalable, and cost-effective IT environments.
With Azure-hosted systems becoming more common in corporate environments, Charon on Azure Cloud has become increasingly popular. It effectively addresses these challenges while meeting the evolving needs of modern IT infrastructure.
Continue using your business-critical legacy applications on Azure without rewriting.
Minimize total cost of ownership (TCO) significantly with Azure’s subscription-based model.
Eliminate downtime and improve disaster recovery plans to ensure business continuity.
Leverage Azure’s scalable infrastructure for performance and flexibility.
Manage multiple VMs seamlessly with a user-friendly Azure interface.
Simplify compliance with secure, and cost-effective tape archiving on Azure.
For many organizations, a lift-and-shift migration is a quick and affordable way to begin taking advantage of Azure services.
Charon rehosts your application on Azure and builds a bridge between your on-premises datacenter and the cloud. It creates a virtual legacy hardware layer on Azure-hosted x86-64 systems. Could migration to Azure allows unmodified VMs to run with dedicated networking, secure storage, and seamless management.
By eliminating obsolete hardware, operational and maintenance costs can be reduced dramatically.
Keeping legacy hardware can often be costly and risky, especially if you’re considering a data center exit. A video presentation from Stromasys and the Azure team explains:
Using an example, let’s see how Charon on Azure works. Built on Stromasys and Microsoft’s excellence in emulation and cloud solution, this setup streamlines managing Solaris VMs on Azure, leveraging powerful SPARC emulation.
