Virtualize HP-UX & PA-RISC systems with Charon-PAR. Eliminate hardware risks, boost performance, and cut costs without changing code or data.
Vendor
Stromasys
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Charon-PAR emulates PA-RISC hardware, allowing you to run MPE/iX 7.5 and HP-UX applications without relying on outdated hardware. This hardware virtualization solution helps avoid hardware failures and high maintenance costs. Charon-PAR virtualizes PA-RISC hardware on industry-standard Intel servers, boosting performance and streamlining operations. It preserves the key functionalities of your mission-critical applications without requiring costly rewriting, porting, migrating, or retraining. End users remain unaware of the hardware change, and there's no need to retrain in-house employees as existing systems and processes remain unaltered. Charon-PAR offers flexible configurations for modernizing PA-RISC systems, designed to run on industry-standard Intel x64 servers (Core i7 and Xeon), optimizing PA-RISC instructions for modern Intel CPUs.
Features:
- Minimize migration disruption: Keep apps, data, and middleware unchanged.
- Ensure business continuity: Eliminate the risk of unplanned downtime.
- Boost your ROI: Replace 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.