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 Berlin (DE) Moscow (RU) London (UK) Portland (OR) Boston (MA) Kansas City (MO) Paris (FR) Geneva (CH) Washington DC Tokyo (JP) Milano (IT) Madrid (SP) Shenzhen (CN) Raleigh (NC) Atlanta (GA) New Delhi (IN) Hong-Kong Dallas(TX) Bangalore (IN) Singapore (SG) Sidney (AU) Office / Sales Presence Global Headquarters R&D
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LIFECYCLE DYNAMICS OF IT SYSTEMS Time Applications Software Lifetime Operating systems Lifetime Hardware Lifetime 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 – often 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
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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
SIGNIFICANT SAVINGS 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 Power consumption (watts) Annual Maintenance costs Heat dissipation (BTU/h) 10.000 $120.000 40.000 $100.000 8.000 30.000 $80.000 6.000 $60.000 20.000 4.000 $40.000 10.000 2.000 $20.000 $0 0 0 legacy system Charon™ legacy system Charon™ legacy system Charon™
CURRENT PORTFOLIO CHARON-VAX CHARON-AXP § Largest product line is the VAX replacement; § Found in the same worldwide markets as sold over 3,000+ licenses VAX, but more frequently in administrative systems § VAX emulator market contains three main segments that CHARON-VAX addresses: § More than 1,000 systems have been replaced with a CHARON-AXP version - Standalone systems for process control or administration systems § Alpha replacement is one of the largest - Military and Industrial standalone or market for Stromasys embedded systems - Corporate VAX data centers using high performance cluster systems CHARON-HPA CHARON-SSP § The CHARON-HPA runs the HP3000 MPE § Developed for SUN SPARC architecture operating system and its applications § The emulator currently functions exactly like - Critical for online order processing, the SPARCstation 20 hardware inventory control and general administration § The target market is high volume legacy system consolidation on server farms for § Environment is so unique that application large corporate data centers migration rewriting implies investments of $1 million+ for clients / users
TYPICAL CHARON INSTALLATION PROCESS: • Project Management Prepare • Analysis of existing environment to determine Charon product selection and host system requirements • Creation of Charon configuration files to replicate existing systems to Install be re-hosted • Installation of Charon software on host system Migrate & • Transfer of data from existing systems to Charon environment • Testing of Charon systems outside of production environment Cutover • Integration of Charon systems into production environment
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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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