Charon-SSP 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

Charon-SSP is a virtualization solution that creates virtual replicas of various SPARC family servers, including the Sun-4mV8, Sun-4uV9, and Sun-4vV9. It runs on Linux on top of physical hardware or a hypervisor. The solution caters to organizations that need to modernize their Sun SPARC Solaris hardware while maintaining the original software environment.

Charon-SSP utilizes Stromasys' dynamic instruction translation (DIT) technology to improve the runtime execution speed of Sun SPARC instructions. This ensures the virtual SPARC systems deliver acceptable performance. The solution supports both hardware license keys and software licenses, giving users flexibility in their preferred protection method. Charon-SSP also eliminates the need for source code alteration or code conversion, allowing for seamless integration with Sun software and maintaining the original system environment.

Charon Manager is an integrated component of Charon-SSP. It provides an easy-to-use and intuitive graphical interface to manage Charon-SSP and virtual SPARC legacy systems, either locally or remotely. This allows organizations to streamline their operations and efficiently maintain their Sun SPARC virt...