Resources for Hardware Virtualization

Solaris Virtualization in Cloud and Hybrid Environments: Extending the Life of Legacy SPARC Systems in 2026

Thousands of enterprises are still operating on Solaris operating systems for running their mission-critical workloads, even though the SPARC hardware has reached the end-of-life. This creates a rising challenge like aging hardware, increasing maintenance costs, and shrinking talent resources that are threatening business continuity while limiting growth opportunities.Solaris virtualization is...

Geopolitical Risk Is Rising in 2026: How Emulation Strengthens Disaster Recovery for Legacy Systems

2026 is the era of growing global tensions, which makes the world unstable, and even enterprises are also feeling its tremors. This issue can also result in trade tensions, nation-state cyberattacks, export controls on semiconductors, and sanctions that can be cut off at any time.One such challenge occurred in late...

The Sustainability Impact of Retiring Legacy Hardware: 2026 Challenges & Solutions

The digital landscape is continuously evolving, yet organizations are still struggling with critical challenges. This extends beyond just operational efficiency, i.e., the environmental impact of the legacy hardware. By modernizing the legacy hardware, businesses can not only improve productivity and ROI but also reduce their environmental impact, promoting sustainability.Reports have...

Why Most Digital Transformation Projects Fail and How Legacy Systems Are the Silent Killer?

Did you know? Global investment made for digital transformation is estimated to reach $3.9 trillion by 2027, based on Statista reports. But more than 70% of initiatives for digital transformation end up as failures. (McKinsey, 2022). Enterprises are spending millions on improving their business operations. They are taking initiatives to...

Using Charon-VAX, WorkflowOne Goes Green and Saves Money

Using Charon-VAX, WorkflowOne Goes Green and Saves Money Talk to an Expert Project Highlights See how WorkflowOne minimized VAX maintenance costs by one-tenth and transformed their data center without changing their trusted legacy software.   Challenges WorkflowOne’s merger demanded restructuring upgrading outdated, resource-draining VAX hardware. Due to potential challenges, full system replacement wasn’t a practical option.  ...

A Leading Cement Manufacturer Streamlined Disaster Recovery by Migrating Solaris apps to Charon-SSP on the Cloud

A Leading Cement Manufacturer Streamlined Disaster Recovery by Migrating Solaris Apps to Charon-SSP on the Cloud Talk to an Expert Project Highlights Read the case of how a major cement manufacturing company used Charon-SSP to better disaster recovery and improve performance of their legacy software. Challenges The cement manufacturer utilizing...

Charon-SSP Has Ensured a Smooth Cloud Transition and 3+ Years of ERP Continuity for Orange Business

Charon-SSP Ensured a Smooth Cloud Transition and 3+ Years of ERP Continuity for Orange Business Talk to an Expert Project Highlights Find out how Orange Business smoothed their ERP needs by using Charon-SSP to improve business continuity without hampering their operations.  Challenges Orange Business needed to urgently update their legacy hardware before the Tungsten Markview Supplier...

Revival of Rochester Electronics with Charon SSP: Modernizing Critical Semiconductor IP

Revival of Rochester Electronics with Charon SSP: Modernizing Critical Semiconductor IP Talk to an Expert Project Highlights Learn Rochester Electronics’ measures to lengthen the life of its critical applications and preserve legacy IP for semiconductor replication. Challenges Rochester Electronics had dated hardware that needed replacement without affecting legacy intellectual property from out-of-date SPARC servers in its semiconductor...

Charon Emulation Solutions Datasheet

Charon-SSP Data Sheet

Charon on Oracle Cloud Data Sheet

Charon-AXP Data Sheet

Transforming the Semiconductor Industry: Reliable and Secure Solutions for Legacy System Modernization

Scaling Up Utility Infrastructure: Overcoming Hardware Limitations

Emulation vs Virtualization: An In-Depth Analysis

The Ultimate Step-by-Step Guide to Legacy System Migration in 2026

Transforming the Semiconductor Industry: Reliable and Secure Solutions for Legacy System Modernization

Scaling Up Utility Infrastructure: Overcoming Hardware Limitations

Emulation vs Virtualization: An In-Depth Analysis

The Ultimate Step-by-Step Guide to Legacy System Migration in 2026

How Lift-and-Shift Migration Extends Your SPARC Workload Lifespan? 

Your SPARC infrastructure has been serving your business well for several decades. It means if the hardware fails, it will disrupt the operations, impacting the productivity and ROI. Also, Oracle has announced the end of support for SPARC hardware. The reality is that outdated SPARC hardware, combined with a lack...

AlphaServer Health Check – How Far is Your AlphaServer from Failure

AlphaServers have been operating your business's critical operations for decades now. Before they completely fail and shut down their operations, these legacy systems give you warning signs. When it does, you will have to struggle with concerns like lost revenue, downtime, data risks, lower productivity, and unhappy clients. The problem...

What If Your PA-RISC Hardware Fails Tomorrow? Are You Prepared?

When aging PA-RISC hardware fails, companies find themselves regretting not planning ahead. Because once the system is down, getting things up and running is not easy. In fact, unplanned downtime can cost you millions and weaken customer trust. Is there a way to modernize without changing operating systems or taking...

Modernizing Your Legacy Systems: A Step-by-Step Guide to Successful Cloud Migration

Aging legacy infrastructure is prompting organizations to migrate to the cloud, yet many remain uncertain about how to carry out a successful migration project without exceeding their budgets or deadlines. Here is a step-by-step guide to help you keep track of your migration. Make sure to complete each step before...

Stromasys Dedicated Federal Team

For over 20 years, Stromasys’ Charon classic hardware emulation solutions have been aiding federal government offices virtualize their legacy hardware for modern x86 or cloud platforms. This has allowed the government, and key federal contractors, to continue running their trusted applications without modifications, recertification or retraining at typically a fraction...

Stromasys Solution Partner Program Guide

At Stromasys, we provide a Stromasys Solution Partner program as a way for companies to grow the size of their IT modernization campaigns by including classic systems that would otherwise be off limits. You can preserve your customers’ critical application investments while moving them off legacy hardware onto new x86...

Using Charon-VAX, WorkflowOne Goes Green and Saves Money

Using Charon-VAX, WorkflowOne Goes Green and Saves Money Talk to an Expert Project Highlights See how WorkflowOne minimized VAX maintenance costs by one-tenth and transformed their data center without changing their trusted legacy software.   Challenges WorkflowOne’s merger demanded restructuring upgrading outdated, resource-draining VAX hardware. Due to potential challenges, full system replacement wasn’t a practical option.  ...

A Leading Cement Manufacturer Streamlined Disaster Recovery by Migrating Solaris apps to Charon-SSP on the Cloud

A Leading Cement Manufacturer Streamlined Disaster Recovery by Migrating Solaris Apps to Charon-SSP on the Cloud Talk to an Expert Project Highlights Read the case of how a major cement manufacturing company used Charon-SSP to better disaster recovery and improve performance of their legacy software. Challenges The cement manufacturer utilizing...

Charon-SSP Has Ensured a Smooth Cloud Transition and 3+ Years of ERP Continuity for Orange Business

Charon-SSP Ensured a Smooth Cloud Transition and 3+ Years of ERP Continuity for Orange Business Talk to an Expert Project Highlights Find out how Orange Business smoothed their ERP needs by using Charon-SSP to improve business continuity without hampering their operations.  Challenges Orange Business needed to urgently update their legacy hardware before the Tungsten Markview Supplier...

Revival of Rochester Electronics with Charon SSP: Modernizing Critical Semiconductor IP

Revival of Rochester Electronics with Charon SSP: Modernizing Critical Semiconductor IP Talk to an Expert Project Highlights Learn Rochester Electronics’ measures to lengthen the life of its critical applications and preserve legacy IP for semiconductor replication. Challenges Rochester Electronics had dated hardware that needed replacement without affecting legacy intellectual property from out-of-date SPARC servers in its semiconductor...

Replace PDP-11 Hardware Without Changing Your Legacy Apps

Did you know? Aging servers are silently draining your data center budgets. Reports have shown that the annual maintenance cost for operating on obsolete hardware has increased from 24% to 44%.For businesses that are still running their critical workloads on the PDP-11 systems, it is not just expensive but risky....

Charon-PAR 4.0: Major Performance Boost for MPE & HP-UX Workloads

Stromasys releases Charon-PAR 4.0 with architectural changes to instruction translation. The update introduces a second translation layer that processes workloads differently than previous versions. The video explains how the new PA-RISC emulation works in practice. You’ll see configuration options and deployment scenarios for MPE & HP-UX Workloads. https://youtu.be/h5L8wPG65II?si=0HCp2XnLyDij6Hqa What does...

Charon-VAX: Double Your Legacy VAX Performance in 60 Days

For many manufacturers, aging VAX systems still power critical operations. But hardware constraints are a major cause of production delays. In fact, they can stop entire production lines. This creates significant business risks.Meet Flexi-Coil, a leading farm machinery manufacturer. They relied on old VAX servers to support their essential ERP...

The #1 Legacy System Risk Mitigation Hack for Manufacturers [Video]

Legacy systems lie at the heart of manufacturing. And when the critical software stops working, the entire operation feels the impact.Yes, old hardware is unreliable. Research indicates that as much as 20% of lost productivity is a result of unplanned downtime alone. That’s specifically a legacy hardware problem most of...

What Goes Behind a Successful Legacy Migration Project? [Featuring a Real Case Study]

What Goes Behind a Successful Legacy Migration Project? Stuck with legacy infrastructure but unsure what real transformation looks like? You’re not alone. Even leading organizations struggle with legacy hardware, rising data center costs, and disruptions that hinder business growth.We recently hosted the webinar “What Goes Behind a Successful Legacy Migration...

From Multiple Legacy Environments to One Virtual Data Center: A European Multisector Case Study

From Multiple Legacy Environments to One Virtual Data Center: A European Multisector Case Study Studies have shown that more than 30% of an organization's infrastructure is built on legacy systems. These systems have been the backbone of business for decades. But with technologies evolving, maintaining them is gradually becoming burdensome....

Levelling Up Cloud Performance Future of SPARC Emulation

WEBINAR Levelling Up Cloud Performance: The Future of SPARC Emulation Has Arrived 90% of legacy applications are projected to undergo modernization within the next three years, primarily using cloud technology. While performance concerns have previously limited the migration of Solaris applications to the cloud - but not anymore! We recently...

Migrating Mission-Critical Solaris Workloads to the Cloud: A Practical Roadmap for 2026

Securing Legacy VAX Systems and Applications in a Modern Cloud Environment

Protect OpenVMS & Tru64 Apps Without Coding

SPARC, DEC Alpha, and other legacy systems have powered critical workloads across industries, but aging hardware is now mounting risks. This hardware has reached its end-of-lifecycle while the applications remain functional. Replacing or rewriting these applications is not always a feasible option. Another alternative to modernizing these legacy platforms, like...

Migration Path: From Physical PA-RISC to Virtualized Charon PAR Environment