Migrating Petabytes Under Regulatory Watch
How we moved a global enterprise off legacy archives and onto cloud-native platforms — with zero downtime and full audit compliance.
The Challenge
Legacy archives, live auditors, zero tolerance for downtime
A global enterprise needed to retire costly on-premise archives while keeping petabytes of regulated content available for auditors and operations teams at all times. The migration had to maintain chain-of-custody tracking, role-based permissions, and compatibility with existing eDiscovery workflows.
Migration windows were measured in weeks using the incumbent tooling, infrastructure costs were climbing, and every regulatory review (SEC, FINRA, GDPR) demanded proof that data integrity was never compromised during transit. Manual effort wasn’t an option at this scale.
The Solution
Automated pipelines with built-in compliance reporting
We engineered microservices that ingest, normalize, and route data through secure pipelines. React and Angular applications give compliance and customer teams live insight into migration status, exception handling, and SLA performance.
- Azure & AWS storage tiers — encryption, immutability policies, and retention rules enforced at every layer
- Auditing dashboards & exportable reports — satisfying SEC, FINRA, and GDPR oversight with chain-of-custody proof at every step
- Parallel processing with throttling — automated controls that maximize throughput without impacting production systems
- Continuous delivery — automated testing and deployment pipelines keep new integrations rolling out safely
The Result
Faster migrations, lower costs, audit-ready on day one
Migration window
From weeks to hours with parallel processing and automated throttling.
Infrastructure cost
After decommissioning the legacy on-premise archive systems.
Audit readiness
Live compliance dashboards replaced manual audit prep.
Regulatory reviews
- SEC
- FINRA
- GDPR
Zero data integrity issues across the post-migration reviews.
95%
shorter migration windows — from weeks to hours with parallel processing and automated throttling
Zero
data integrity issues across SEC, FINRA, and GDPR regulatory reviews post-migration
50%+
infrastructure cost reduction after decommissioning legacy on-premise archive systems
Live
compliance dashboards replaced manual audit prep — stakeholders see migration status and chain-of-custody in real time
The enterprise decommissioned costly on-prem systems, improved audit readiness from a quarterly scramble to an always-on posture, and gained a scalable foundation for future data initiatives.
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