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SOFTWARE | REVITALIZED STROMASYS 2.0 YOUR GATEWAY TO BUSINESS CONTINUITY

Dirk Lobo Gines

THE STROMASYS WAY From engineering labs with outstanding technology to a worldwide sales and support presence, Stromasys preserves your software investment across hardware generations. Stromasys: your gateway to business continuity

COMPANY BACKGROUND

• Founded in 1998 through a management buyout of Digital

Equipment Corporation's (DEC) European Migration and Porting Center

• Globally headquartered in Geneva (CH), with regional headquarters

in Raleigh, North Carolina (USA) and Hong-Kong

• Test Labs, R&D, and sales offices across the world, as well as in-

house engineering

• Over 5,500 licenses in over 50 countries
• Technological alliances:

WORLDWIDE PRESENCE

Portland (OR) Washington DC Dallas(TX) Raleigh (NC) Kansas City (MO) Paris (FR) Geneva (CH) Milano (IT) New Delhi (IN) Moscow (RU) Singapore (SG) Hong-Kong Sidney (AU) Shenzhen (CN) Boston (MA) London (UK) Berlin (DE) Bangalore (IN) Office / Sales Presence Global Headquarters R&D Tokyo (JP) Madrid (SP) Atlanta (GA)

CHARON SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

LIFECYCLE DYNAMICS OF IT SYSTEMS

Applications Software Lifetime Operating systems Lifetime Hardware Lifetime Time

Charon™ from Stromasys preserves your software investment across hardware generations.

WHAT TO DO WITH LEGACY HARDWARE

1. Refurbish?

– Buying used parts and paying for support that becomes more expensive and more difficult to find all the time – This is a short term solution that postpones the hard decisions

2. Replace, but rewrite the application software?

– rarely stays on-budget or on-time and the outcome has substantial risk; may necessitate downtime for company’s critical systems –

• ften requires re-certification (banks, traffic controllers, government…)

3. Replace and use binary translation?

– this works for simple applications, but is time-consuming and laden with risks – Performance is impacted since the binary translation adds a layer to the application

4. Replace and use native translation?

– This works for relatively simple applications (again, some parts must be rewritten), but the source code must be available, and this is often not the case – Depending on the difference between the original system’s OS and the new OS, system APIs may require rewriting or redesign

THE CHARON™ SOLUTION: VIRTUALIZING LEGACY HARDWARE

• Run legacy applications on new, modern, and cost-

effective industry-standard servers

• Applications run unmodified; engineers interact with the

systems as before

• Job done at a fraction of cost, time, risk, and effort

CHARON™ SOLUTIONS

THE BENEFITS OF VIRTUALIZATION

• Lower costs

– Maintenance, power consumption

• Protect investment

– Preserve your applications

• Reduce risk

– Prevent unplanned downtime

• Improve performance

– Charon™ often brings a performance boost

Metric

VAX 6600 (3 units) CHARON-VAX Solution

Annual Maintenance costs $110,000 $12,000 Power consumption 9,360 watts 600 watts Heat dissipation 31,937 BTU/h 2,038 BTU/h Footprint 48 square feet 4 rack units (9 inches) Full backup time 12 hours 33 minutes 1 hour 41 minutes End of month sales processing 8 hours 33 minutes 1 hour 8 minutes

$0 $20.000 $40.000 $60.000 $80.000 $100.000 $120.000

Annual Maintenance costs

2.000 4.000 6.000 8.000 10.000

Power consumption (watts)

10.000 20.000 30.000 40.000

Heat dissipation (BTU/h)

SIGNIFICANT SAVINGS

legacy system legacy system legacy system Charon™ Charon™ Charon™

CURRENT PORTFOLIO

§ Largest product line is the VAX replacement; sold over 3,000+ licenses § VAX emulator market contains three main segments that CHARON-VAX addresses:

• Standalone systems for process control or

administration systems

• Military and Industrial standalone or

embedded systems

• Corporate VAX data centers using high

performance cluster systems

CHARON-AXP CHARON-VAX

§ Found in the same worldwide markets as VAX, but more frequently in administrative systems § More than 1,000 systems have been replaced with a CHARON-AXP version § Alpha replacement is one of the largest market for Stromasys

CHARON-SSP

§ Developed for SUN SPARC architecture § The emulator currently functions exactly like the SPARCstation 20 hardware § The target market is high volume legacy system consolidation on server farms for large corporate data centers

CHARON-HPA

§ The CHARON-HPA runs the HP3000 MPE

• perating system and its applications
• Critical for online order processing,

inventory control and general administration § Environment is so unique that application migration rewriting implies investments of $1 million+ for clients / users

TYPICAL CHARON INSTALLATION PROCESS:

• Project Management
• Analysis of existing environment to determine Charon product

selection and host system requirements

Prepare

• Creation of Charon configuration files to replicate existing systems to

be re-hosted

• Installation of Charon software on host system

Install

• Transfer of data from existing systems to Charon environment
• Testing of Charon systems outside of production environment
• Integration of Charon systems into production environment

Migrate & Cutover

EMEA SALES PARTNERS

CASE STUDY: CHARON-VAX

• Challenge

– 20-year-old VAX hardware had become unstable – Frequent unplanned downtime & data loss – Regular data corruption – Slow performance – Too expensive, risky, and time consuming to port

• Stromasys Solution

– Charon emulator installed – Software stack migrated to modern Windows NT hardware within days – Legacy hardware became redundant (was retired)

• Benefits

– No unplanned downtime since Charon was deployed – No data corruption – 95% reduction in electricity consumption

CASE STUDY: CHARON-AXP

• Challenge

– Hard to find parts for aging ES40 – Increasing impact of downtime – High maintenance costs – Data center floor space at a premium

• Stromasys Solution

– Charon emulator installed – Software stack migrated to modern HP ProLiant Servers and Windows – Server hardware implemented within days – Legacy hardware became redundant (was retired)

• Benefits

– 90% less annual maintenance costs: $10K vs $100k – Over 95% savings in dedicated floor space – 94% decrease in power consumption – 94% decrease in heat dissipation

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