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HP3000 Cloud Services

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By Doug Werth
Director of Technical Support Services, Beechglen Development, Inc.

Introduction

What drives companies to move their computer systems and critical applications to the cloud? The motives are varied, but among many reasons moving HP3000 systems to the cloud is because the cloud increases reliability and security, offers ease of management and high availability, and reduces cost of ownership.

This is especially true for legacy systems like the HP3000. As described in Chapter 1, the risk to continue running on HP3000s increases with every day that passes. Hardware, and in particular disk and tape drives, are failing at an advanced rate. System operation and management staff can be overburdened scheduling critical repairs and hardware maintenance. Hardware failures result in extended downtimes and significant business impact while waiting for hardware support technicians to retrieve the necessary parts and arrive onsite and perform the repairs.

Solution

Host your legacy HP3000 systems with Beechglen. With over 20 years of cloud hosting experience for Production, Archive, and Disaster Recovery HP3000s Beechglen has the experience and expertise to reliably host and manage HP3000s. Reclaim your floor space, reduce costs, reduce risk, and extend the life of your HP3000.

Cloud hosting reduces risk in the following areas:

  • Disk Drive and array failures. All systems are hosted on Beechglen New high performance SSD fiber channel SANs on brand new SATA or SAS HDDs, or SSDs.

  • Tape/Tape Drive Failures. Eliminate operation staff for tape mounts, aging tape drives, and tape libraries. All Beechglen hosted systems are backed up using our TripleStore tape less backups. Increase security with encrypted backups that are saved in multiple locations including the cloud.

  • Mitigate 2028 issues. As described in the following article, all Beechglen hosted HP3000 systems will receive patches to run beyond 12/31/2027.

  • Hardware support. Repair parts inventory and engineers are onsite to service hardware failures with minimal downtime. Entire pre-built servers are kept at the ready to quickly replace servers.

  • Security. Cloud hosted systems are placed on a dedicated VLAN completely isolated from other systems. Firewall rules restrict access to authorized clients and users.



New High Performance SSD Disk Arrays

Introducing 2028 Patches