Case Study: Hannover Re achieves 9x database performance and reduced downtime with Stromasys CHARON-HPA

Hannover Life Re of Australasia moves forward with confidence using CHARON-HPA

Hannover Life Re of Australasia, a subsidiary of global reinsurer Hannover Re, faced increasing risk and maintenance difficulty as key operations ran on aging HP3000 hardware with scarce parts and frequent failures. A planned migration to a new SQL system was slow and complicated, so the team evaluated the Stromasys CHARON‑HPA HP3000 emulator, running live backup data in parallel with the legacy system to validate functionality and performance.

The company migrated to CHARON‑HPA outside business hours and completed full backup/restore and month‑end processing with identical reports. The virtualized environment delivered dramatic gains — the main database ran nine times faster, virtual tapes simplified backups and enabled overnight processing, user response improved with fewer lockouts, and the expanded memory, disk and CPU capacity reduced downtime risk and freed capacity for new projects.

Hannover Re

Warren Dawson

Hannover Re