Solix at Defense Contractor BAE Systems

Solix Technologies, Inc., a provider of Enterprise Data Management (EDM) solutions, announced that multinational defense, security and aerospace company BAE Systems plc has selected the Solix Big Data Suite for enterprise archiving.

BAE Systems partnered with Solix to retire its legacy applications and data, which will help the company reduce costs and meet compliance requirements.

According to Forrester Research, Inc., nearly 80% of enterprise data is unstructured, and 60% of this subset is stale or non-business related. Gartner, Inc. named data growth as the top infrastructure challenge for data centers. As Forrester’s Noel Yuhanna wrote: “In the era of big data, archiving is a no-brainer investment.” Legacy applications require similar action, Capgemini found in its Application Landscape Report that up to 25% of applications in a typical enterprise computing portfolio are candidates to retire.

Archiving and/or retiring inactive data and applications into Apache Hadoop using Solix Big Data Suite allows companies to reduce the cost of enterprise data management. For enterprise-grade companies, Apache Hadoop is a good platform for Information Lifecycle Management (ILM).

“In a world where users produce 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day, enterprise archiving has become a critical tool for businesses,” said Sai Gundavelli, founder and CEO, Solix. “We welcome BAE Systems to our growing list of Solix Big Data Suite clients.“