Accelerating Aerospace Towards Future Powered by Data Archiving

Overview

With enormous volumes of data growth, the Aerospace sector is anticipated to handle over 5.2 exabytes of data annually by 2030. Can you understand the force of crushing pressure the aerospace industry is in to modernize its data infrastructure? Driven by precision and innovation, the data accumulation of this industry is immense with aircraft sensors, records maintenance, and R&D activities. This dire scenario of your aerospace organization calls for a modernized future-proof data archiving solution while meeting stringent regulatory requirements globally.

Yes! Data Archiving has become a mission-critical solution for your aerospace business more than ever. Despite the readiness of your aviation enterprises for data storage, a critical roadblock impairs the ability of archiving effectively. Here is your surprising catch – the outdated legacy systems are those bottlenecks. Legacy applications like SAP, Oracle E-Business Suite, and homegrown ERPs are still in widespread use and blocking to harness your power of agile innovation and real-time & predictive analytics of the industry.

Data archiving not merely locks data away, but unlocks the aerospace future. As a critical component of modern data management strategy, data archiving enables aerospace enterprises like GE Aviation to modernize their data infrastructure. Their businesses can be fast-paced, comply with regulations such as ITAR & DFARS, and innovate uninterruptedly.

For aerospace enterprises that are ready to pursue modernizing their data management strategy, Archon Data Store (ADS) steps in as a future-ready, secure, compliant, and scalable data management solution. ADS decommissions the legacy systems, archives securely and retains the historical data, and governs efficiently for audit-ready access and compliance demands.

Why use Archon?

Data Migration & Decommissioning Strategies for Aerospace

Explosive data growth and the accountability of maintaining outdated legacy systems are the significant challenges encountered by aerospace industry. This hinders data integration and, thus lacks interoperability and scalability. Archon Suite manages such data siloes and decommissions these legacy systems with its modern, archive environment. With the archival solution of Platform 3 Solutions, GE Aviation decommissioned its Oracle-based ERP and archived past years’ data. This resulted in a 40% IT cost reduction, quick data access, and zero-audit troubles for improved production environment performance.

Benefits

Consolidating data from various disparate systems and centralizing into a data lake
Data inventory capability comprehensively audits legacy systems, identifies data types and formats, and prioritizes critical data
Decommissioning without disrupting critical operations, like flight tracking operations
Centralizing data reduces data silos and enables real-time analytics
AI-driven automated data extraction, transforming into standardized formats (Parquet, JSON), and loading process
Cold archival of historical data reduces IT costs & footprints
Decommissioning with full data access reduces complexity & cost
Metadata-driven storage organizes bigger datasets for easy access & governance

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Security Meets Cost-efficient Archival

Aerospace industry faces 35% higher rate of data breaches than other sectors due to outdated data management systems. Maintenance cost of legacy systems consumes 70% of enterprise’s IT budget. Hence, aerospace organizations are modernizing to manage data volume surging, which in turn cost reduction has become a strategic significance. The purpose-built Archon Data Store transforms legacy data into secure, cost-effective asset to the aerospace industry that should be operated under security & strict regulations.

Benefits

Smart archival with Storage tiering reduces 60% of storage cost
Robust data-compression mechanism offers file size reduction and storage cost with intelligent compression algorithm
IT cost reduction by retiring outdated legacy systems
Immutable storage of archived data
Granular role-based access control enables only authorized users can retrieve sensitive data like flight telemetry
Audit logging to track every action on archived data
End-to-end encryption at rest and in transit

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Compliant Data Retention & Retrieval with ADS

Aerospace is a regulated industry where data archive and retention are not merely about storing data. It must be maintained compliant, auditable, and accessible over extended periods. Data must remain intact, searchable, and retrievable for audits, regulatory compliance, R&D activities, and investigations. Archon Data Store (ADS) meets compliant data retention requirements and ensures quick retrieval for the aerospace industry.

Key Capabilities

Adhering to stringent regulations such as ITAR, DFARS, SOX, FAA & EASA data retention mandates
Policy-driven retention defines retention periods based on data type or regulatory needs with full traceability
Legal holds to prevent deletion of data under investigation
Metadata-driven indexing enables easy retrieval for audits and investigations
Quick retrieval of engine test data, maintenance logs, and compliance documents within subseconds
Supports both structured and unstructured data formats such as test reports, CAD metadata, and invoices
Field-based search including aircraft ID, timestamp, contract number, or project phase
On-demand audit trail reporting shows data access logs: who accessed, when, and where
Auto purge upon expiry—except for data under legal hold

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Product Security Whitepaper: Archon Data Suite

Check out our definitive guide to security & compliance within Archon Data Suite, and learn more about the product architecture, design considerations, our methodology, and our approach to data processing.

Aerospace Industry Use Cases

Aircraft lifecycle Records Maintenance

To archive maintenance logs like service data, parts replacement data, and inspection data
To estimate resale value and safety validation
To retain CAD models and test results
To support engineering & design traceability for certifications
· To recreate legacy components, to upgrade, and to do retrofitting

Telemetry Operations & Environmental Monitoring

To archive telemetry and flight path data
To save pilot logs for performance reviews & investigations
To retain fuel usage and emissions data
To maintain environmental compliance reports for regulation adherence

Secure, Cost-Effective Archival for Long-term Retention

To maintain infrequently accessed data with cold archival
To protect IPR for design blueprints
To meet defense & commercial aviation compliance that requires 30+ years long-term retention

Storage Solution for Data Explosion

To manage data volume generated by flight systems, sensors, and aircraft requires scalable storage solution
To protect critical historical data and access them on demand

Data Migration from Decommissioned System

To migrate and archive data from outdated systems to modern platforms without losing historical data
To archive data from outdated systems before the old system ends its life cycle