Accelerating Aerospace Towards Future Powered by Data Archiving
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.
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 Here is your surprising catch – the outdated legacy systems are those bottlenecks.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Explosive data growth and the accountability of maintaining outdated legacy systems are the significant challenges encountered by aerospace industry.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
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
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
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
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