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Your 20-Year-Old System Still Runs Your Business. We'll Keep It That Way.

Other IT providers say "just replace it." We understand that your legacy system holds decades of business logic, integrations, and institutional knowledge. We maintain what works, secure what's vulnerable, and modernize gradually — without disrupting operations.

Get a Legacy System AssessmentCall (410) 417-8591

Why Legacy Systems Are Mission-Critical (And Impossible to Replace)

Business Logic That Can't Be Documented

Your system contains decades of undocumented rules, exceptions, and workflows. The people who built it retired years ago. A full rewrite would take 3+ years and cost millions.

Critical Dependencies & Integrations

Your ERP, accounting system, and custom reports all depend on this infrastructure. One wrong move and payroll stops, inventory freezes, or regulatory reporting fails.

Replacement Cost Is Prohibitive

Modern ERP implementations cost $500K - $5M+, require 12-36 months, and fail 50% of the time. Your current system "just works" — why risk it?

Security Vulnerabilities Are Growing

No vendor patches. Unsupported operating systems. Cyber insurance won't cover you. Compliance auditors are flagging your infrastructure as high-risk.

Staff Retention Risk

The last person who understood this system just retired. New hires refuse to learn COBOL, FoxPro, or AS/400. Your institutional knowledge is walking out the door.

Hardware Is Dying

Your server is 15 years old. Replacement parts are unavailable. One hard drive failure and your entire operation stops — potentially forever.

How We Support Legacy Systems (Without Forcing Replacement)

We don't believe in rip-and-replace. We stabilize, secure, and gradually modernize your infrastructure while maintaining 100% business continuity.

1

Stabilize & Document

Before we touch anything, we create a complete system inventory, document dependencies, and establish baseline performance metrics. This becomes your disaster recovery blueprint.

  • Hardware audit: Identify single points of failure, aging components, and EOL equipment
  • Software inventory: Document versions, patches, licensing, and vendor support status
  • Integration mapping: Trace data flows, APIs, file transfers, and custom interfaces
  • Knowledge capture: Interview key staff and document tribal knowledge before it's lost
2

Secure & Harden

Legacy systems are prime targets for ransomware. We implement compensating controls to protect unsupported infrastructure while maintaining compatibility.

  • Network segmentation: Isolate legacy systems from general corporate network
  • Application whitelisting: Prevent unauthorized code execution
  • Immutable backups: Air-gapped backups that ransomware can't encrypt
  • Access control hardening: Remove administrative rights, implement least privilege
  • Monitoring & alerting: Real-time anomaly detection for suspicious activity
3

Virtualize & Protect Hardware

Physical hardware will fail. We virtualize or containerize your legacy applications so they can run on modern, redundant infrastructure with instant failover.

  • P2V conversion: Migrate physical servers to virtual machines without reinstallation
  • Hardware emulation: Create virtual hardware that mimics legacy dongle keys and proprietary cards
  • Hot spare provisioning: Pre-configured backup servers ready to activate in minutes
  • Snapshot scheduling: Point-in-time recovery if updates or changes cause issues
4

Gradual Modernization (Optional)

If you want to eventually migrate, we build modern interfaces and data bridges that gradually shift workload to new systems — one module at a time.

  • API wrappers: Create modern REST APIs around legacy SOAP/XML interfaces
  • Database replication: Real-time sync to modern databases for reporting/analytics
  • Module-by-module migration: Replace individual functions (e.g., reporting, invoicing) without full cutover
  • Parallel operation: Run old and new systems simultaneously for validation

Legacy Technologies We Support

Other IT providers refuse to touch these systems. We specialize in them.

IBM AS/400 / iSeries

COBOL / RPG

FoxPro / dBase

Windows Server 2003-2008

Novell NetWare

Oracle Forms 6i

PowerBuilder

Visual Basic 6

Access Databases

Lotus Notes / Domino

Pervasive SQL

Clipper / XBase

Progress 4GL

Pick / UniData

Informix

DOS-based applications

Don't see your platform? Contact us — we've worked with dozens of niche and proprietary systems.

Real Success Story

"Our 25-year-old FoxPro manufacturing system was running on a Windows XP machine from 2004. Every IT company said we had to replace it — budgets starting at $800K. NVT virtualized the entire system, secured it with network isolation, and set up hot backups. Total cost: $12K. It's been running flawlessly for 3 years."

— Manufacturing Director, 150-employee precision parts manufacturer

$788K
Saved vs. replacement
0 hours
Production downtime
36 months
Runtime with zero issues

Your Legacy System Doesn't Have to Be a Liability

Get a free legacy system assessment. We'll identify risks, recommend security improvements, and show you how to extend the life of your critical infrastructure.

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