Modernizations is a dedicated business area within BEUMER Group, ensuring that your system is enhanced with the latest technologies and upgraded to meet your current and future needs.
BEUMER Group HLC software is running on an enterprise grade hardware platform designed to provide a redundant, highly reliable, and secure execution environment for your mission critical HLC software. Though reliability and high availability are at the centre of the hardware design, even the best hardware deteriorates with time.
Hardware stability and reliability
Most servers and other equipment are designed with around 5 years lifespan in mind. While some equipment may run flawlessly for longer than 5 years, inevitable wear and tear make the hardware less efficient, costlier to run and introduce an increasing risk of failure. A hardware breakdown, at the least convenient and expected time, may cause disruption to your operations with possibly significant loss of revenue and negative impact to your customer satisfaction.
The risk for hardware failure is not the only reason why BEUMER Group recommends upgrading the hardware platform every 5-6 years.
Hardware Support
Hardware support by the hardware vendors is another good reason for planning and implementing scheduled upgrade in good time. Most hardware vendors normally announce End of Sale (EOS) of a product around 5 years after introducing it to the market and End Of Life Support (ELOS) will normally follow 5 years after EOS. Following EOLS extending support contracts become very expensive if at all possible and spare parts availability is also problematic and expensive. Hardware failure after the EOLS could leave you with little options and while redundancy may keep the operation going, restoring redundancy may take time due to spare parts being scarce.
Operating System Support
Operating system support is a third factor to consider. Operating System support in the form of service packs is essential in order to address bugs and especially security vulnerabilities in the operating system. Addressing security issues is becoming critical with the increase of cyber-attacks in recent years.
Mainstream support for the Operating Systems is normally provided for 5 years followed by Extended Support period during which only security vulnerabilities will be addressed.
Once the operating system reached the end of the extended support period it is no longer possible to address security vulnerabilities. BEUMER Group strongly recommends upgrading the HLC software to a supported operating system good time before the end of the extended support period. An operating System upgrade may force also upgrading the hardware as the new operating system is normally not certified with older hardware models.
