Industry: U.S. Electricity & Gas Utility
Region: Western United States
Business Driver: Defensible retention and disposition strategy
Overview
A highly regulated U.S. utility providing coal, nuclear, wind, and solar generation, along with electricity and natural gas transmission and delivery services to approximately 5 million customers across the Western United States.
The utility sought to retire its Informatica ILM environment and establish a modern archive platform capable of supporting long-term governance, compliance, retention, and defensible disposition requirements across approximately 70 TB of archived enterprise data.
Challenges
- Strict FERC and NERC security and compliance requirements.
- Complex deployment considerations involving on-premises versus SaaS architectures.
- Extensive review processes involving security, legal, compliance, and product teams.
- Migration and reassessment of existing retention and disposition policies.
- Coordination across multiple stakeholders and implementation partners.
- End-user archive access requirements, not addressed earlier.
Business Requirements
- Replace Informatica ILM with a modern enterprise archive platform.
- Preserve and govern approximately 70 TB of archived data.
- Support comprehensive retention and defensible disposition policies.
- Meet regulatory, security, and audit requirements.
- Enable secure, controlled end-user access to archived information.
- Reduce reliance on legacy archive infrastructure.
Solution
The organization implemented Archon Data Store to modernize its archive environment and replace Informatica ILM.
Archon provided:
- Migration and governance of approximately 70 TB of archived enterprise data.
- Centralized archive management and compliance controls.
- Modernized retention and disposition policy support.
- Secure deployment aligned with organizational and regulatory requirements.
- Established stronger controls for retention management, compliance, and defensible disposition.
- Role-based access to archived information for business and compliance users.
- A scalable platform for future archive modernization initiatives.
Archon implemented a forward-looking framework for retention and disposition aligned with evolving business and regulatory requirements.
