Uncover the future of SPARC Emulation with Charon SSP.
Download DatasheetThe PA-RISC hardware may be reaching the end of its life, but MPE/iX 7.5 and HP-UX software & applications that run on top of it tend to have substantially longer lifetimes.
You may already be encountering hardware failure, searched for replacement parts or begun to investigate alternatives. And if you haven’t yet had hardware difficulties, you are aware that it’s only a matter of time. Given the revenue and liabilities at stake, waiting for hardware to fail and then take action is not a smart practice.
What if you could run your MPE/iX 7.5 and HP-UX applications without relying on outdated hardware – and at a fraction of your current maintenance costs?
Charon-PAR offers a proven hardware virtualization solution to make that a reality.
Minimize migration disruption by keeping apps, data, and middleware unchanged.
Ensure business continuity by eliminating the risk of unplanned downtime.
Boost your ROI by replacing classic hardware with affordable virtualization.
Improve performance through faster execution on modern hardware or cloud.
Reduce power usage and environmental impact, lowering overall operational costs.
Simplify data center management with enterprise-level consolidation under VMware.
Charon-PAR emulates the PA-RISC hardware for HP-UX and MPE/iX 7.5. The virtual system operates as if you’re using the original hardware. This approach, known as lift and shift, preserves the key functionalities of your mission-critical applications without requiring costly rewriting, porting, migrating, or retraining.
It’s so seamless that your end users will remain unaware that the hardware has been changed. Likewise, there is no need to retrain in-house employees as the existing systems and processes remain unaltered.
Steinway & Sons faced the challenge of obsolete HP 3000 hardware. But keeping their data accessible and ensuring mission-critical applications were running remained non-negotiable.
With help from a Stromasys partner, they easily virtualized their HP 3000 servers. This solution reduced hardware risks, minimized physical infrastructure, and cut costs on space, power, and maintenance – all while preserving key processes, systems, and data.
Want to see similar results for your enterprise?
Charon-PAR is a hardware emulation layer running under Linux-based industry-standard servers. It emulates a range of historic PA-RISC hardware including HP-3000 and HP-9000 running the MPE/iX 7.5 and HP-UX operating system. This enables existing users of such systems to move to modern Intel-based server hardware.
The Charon-PAR product family offers virtualized PA-RISC emulators designed to run on industry-standard Intel x64 servers (Core i7 and Xeon). Leveraging next-generation virtualization, Charon-PAR optimizes PA-RISC instructions for modern Intel CPUs.
Charon-PAR provides several virtual hardware families of the PA-RISC that support the following guest operating systems:
For more than two decades, Stromasys has been a leading player in the legacy modernization space. Charon-PAR virtualizes PA-RISC hardware on cutting-edge Intel servers and offers boosted performance.
It streamlines operations, lowers total ownership costs, and eliminates administrative burdens, empowering you to focus on innovation instead of being held back by vintage hardware.
“Moving to AWS with the help of Stromasys provided cost savings of utilizing scalable hardware and economies of scale. The cloud allows the customer to be nimble: making their M&A activities go more smoothly and be more cost effective.”
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