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Stromasys

Sofware partner

Stromasys is the original and leading provider of enterprise-class cross-platform virtualization solutions for PDP-11, Digital VAX and Alpha, PA-RISC, and SPARC servers. The company extends the life cycle of business and mission-critical applications through virtualization, modernization, and system enhancement.

Address
Asia/Pacific
Hong Kong SAR of the People's Republic of China
Website
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Charon-PDP

PDP-11 Virtualized Hardware
Charon-PDP creates a virtual PDP environment on a standard Windows based host system. Stromasys customers can quickly, easily, and safely phase out aging and increasingly expensive DEC hardware, and replace it with an enterprise-grade virtual PDP environment on an industry-standard x86 platform.

No risky migration projects are required, and no changes to the original software (operating system, layered products, or applications) procedures, or handling have to be applied. Your end users would not even notice that the hardware platform had been replaced!

For almost every PDP that was ever manufactured, Stromasys offers a Charon-PDP equivalent.

HP recognizes Charon-PDP as a valid PDP replacement platform to run RSX-11M, RT11, RSTS. No application source code or conversion is required, no matter which PDP hardware platform your software was running.

Charon-VAX

VAX Hardware Virtualization
Charon-VAX creates a virtual VAX environment on a standard Windows-based host system. With a virtual VAX, companies can quickly, easily and safely phase out aging and increasingly expensive DEC hardware, and replace it with an enterprise-grade virtual VAX environment on an industry-standard Windows platform. No risky migration projects are required, and no changes to the original software (operating system, layered products, or applications) procedures, or handling have to be applied. Your end users will not even notice that the hardware platform has been replaced!

Charon-VAX creates a virtualized replica of the original VAX hardware, allowing the VAX/VMS operating system and software to remain working in their existing binary form. No changes to the original operating system, layered products or applications, procedures or handling have to be applied

Charon-AXP

Alpha Emulation
Charon-AXP creates a virtual Alpha environment on a standard Windows or Linux based host system.

With this emulator, Stromasys customers can quickly, easily, and safely phase out aging and increasingly expensive DEC hardware, and replace it with an enterprise-grade virtual Alpha environment on an industry-standard x86 platform.

With Alpha emulation from Stromasys, no risky migration projects are required, no changes to the original software (operating system, layered products or applications), its procedures or handling have to be applied. Your end users will not even notice that the hardware platform has been replaced!

For almost every Alpha that was ever manufactured, Stromasys offers a Charon-AXP equivalent. HP recognizes Charon-AXP as a valid Alpha replacement platform to run OpenVMS or Tru64.

No application source code or conversion is required, no matter which Alpha hardware platform your software was running.

Charon-PAR

The Virtual PA-RISC
Charon-PAR is a software solution that creates a virtual PA-RISC system environment running a 100% unmodified copy of MPE/iX 7.5. This is accomplished on industry standard Intel x64 servers running one of two supported Linux distributions: Red Hat 7.x and CentOS 7.x or under VMware running one of the two supported Linux distributions as a guest operating system.

With the Charon-PAR solution, you can securely transfer your PA-RISC to a state of the art environment. Stromasys’ solution enables third party applications and user-developed software to run without any modification whatsoever.

HP recognizes Charon-PAR software as a valid platform to run MPE, and Charon-PAR passes the original MPE hardware qualification tests.

Charon-SSP

Charon-SSP, THE LEGACY SPARC EMULATOR
Charon-SSP/4M/4U/4V are members of the Charon cross-platform hardware virtualization product family. Charon-SSP creates the virtual replica of the original SPARC hardware inside a standard 64-bit x86 compatible computer system. It will run the original SPARC binary code, including operating systems like SunOS / Solaris, their layered products, and applications.

Charon-SSP/4M/4U/4V is designed to replace the following SPARC computer systems with their virtual equivalents running on a Linux host platform:

Charon-SSP/4M – Sun-4m/V8 1/4
Charon-SSP/4U – Sun-4u/V9 1/24
Charon-SSP/4V – Sun-4v/V9 1/64
Original Sun-4m/V8, Sun-4u/V9, and Sun-4v/V9 hardware is virtualized, allowing the SunOS or Solaris operating system and all software that is running in that environment to remain working as always. Very few changes to the original software (operating system, layered products, or applications) are required, and their management routines remain the same.

Charon on the Cloud

Charon on the Cloud

Charon, the first solution to emulate legacy SPARC, Alpha, VAX, and PA-RISC critical systems, is available for Cloud subscription on all major cloud providers (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, Rackspace Cloud-VMware based).

With Charon on the Cloud, your original applications, databases, and operating systems remain unchanged. There is no modification or re-certification required. The original hardware is eliminated, and the applications run as usual on the Cloud with our Charon solution as the translation layer that makes it possible. Download our “Charon in the Cloud” solutions flyer or read our latest press release, “Announcing a new product version with Charon-SSP 5.0, Stromasys expands its offering to migrate legacy applications from aging SPARC hardware to the cloud”.

Charon Legacy System Emulation Solutions

Companies still rely on mission-critical applications running on their legacy VAX, Alpha, PA-RISC and SunSPARC systems. As time goes on, the maintenance costs for these systems go up, and due to their age, reliability declines. Further, these systems introduce risk to your business as they don’t fit within modern disaster recovery paradigms and are at risk of data loss in the case of an outage. But full migration is an expensive and risky proposition for these applications.

That’s where Stromasys comes in. With our Cross-Platform Server Virtualization solutions, you simply swap out the aging hardware with a virtualized environment and move the software stack to increase performance, lower cost and reduce risk – all at once, and in a matter of days.

There is no expensive migration process, no software re-engineering or conversion, no training for system managers or users required, and no painful conversion of normal business practices.

The Tru64, VMS, MPE and Solaris operating systems remain the same. The applications continue to run unchanged on Windows or Linux. Business processes are kept intact.
Lower cost
Not only are Stromasys solutions lower in cost than full migration, but they are often less than the cost of a single year’s support of the legacy hardware. At Stromasys, we know our customers work within tight budgets. We prioritize cost-efficiency so your money can go further.

Improve performance
Stromasys solutions run on modern architecture, bringing your applications into the 21st century. Customers marvel at the dramatic speed improvements when running commands on Charon compared to the original hardware – accomplishing tasks in a fraction of the time!

Reduce risk
We know that downtime is not an option for your mission-critical systems. By removing the aging hardware from the equation, Charon solutions eliminate the risk of unplanned downtime.

Save energy
Reduce your organization’s environmental footprint by trading out your legacy hardware and replacing it with Charon solutions, which run on industry standard servers. The substantial reduction in power usage decreases your company’s environmental impact – not to mention the utility bill.

Protect investment
Extend the life cycle of your critical applications. The legacy hardware may be end-of-life, but the applications running on that hardware are not. With Stromasys, those applications will continue to run, unchanged, on a modern platform – thus ensuring business continuity.