The two new forces

What's driving Active Archiving in 2026.

Compliance-driven data minimization

GDPR. The wave of new AI regulations. Compliance teams weighing the risk of keeping data longer than legally required.

"Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law."

In the data retention context: any data you retain can and will be used against you in a court of law. That's the Dragnet rule applied to the data estate. Compliance teams are responding by aggressively minimizing retention.

Many enterprises — including some of the world's largest financial institutions and cloud-scale technology companies — are running compliance-driven data minimization on massive OLTP environments today. The pattern is mature; only the scale varies.

Cloud ERP economics

SaaS cloud ERP license costs are directly proportional to data volume. Move from on-prem ERP to cloud SaaS, and every byte of inactive data shows up in your monthly bill.

Minimizing inactive data in the SaaS environment reduces ongoing license cost — often substantially. This dovetails with the broader Cloud ERP Migration story.

The economics that drove Active Archiving 15 years ago are back, but they live in the SaaS ERP line item rather than on-prem infrastructure.

The tension

Two forces pulling in opposite directions.

The Data Preservation playbook says: preserved data is fuel for AI — keep it, govern it, make it queryable.

Compliance-driven minimization says: get rid of older data to reduce risk and cost.

These are opposing forces on the same customer. Most vendors force a binary choice. Solix doesn't.

The Solix reconciliation

Permanent Obfuscation.

Same idea across every data class — permanent obfuscation achieves the compliance outcome of deletion while preserving the structural signal AI still needs. The techniques differ by class:

Destructive Masking — for structured data. Preserves the shape of the data (schema, relationships, value distributions, semantic structure) for AI understanding and model training, while removing every sensitive value.
Redaction — for unstructured content. Removes the sensitive passages from documents, emails, and records while keeping the document structure and contextual signal AI needs.

Sensitive values gone. Structural patterns retained. Compliance teams satisfied. AI value preserved.

Same legal outcome as deletion. Better strategic outcome.

Reference customers

Live at scale today.

Customer · Financial Services

"Solix Active Archiving on our largest OLTP environments. Compliance-driven minimization running at scale."

Global financial services enterprise — at scale on massive OLTP environments
Customer · Technology

"Implementing compliance-driven data minimization across our retail and infrastructure data."

Cloud-scale technology company — compliance-driven minimization deployment
Customer · Various

"Smaller customers are running the same pattern. The economics work at every scale."

Active Solix customer base — broad adoption