Large enterprises are treating data archiving as an enterprise-wide capability. Not just an application-level solution.

Decades of data now exist across complex technology environments. This creates growing technical debt, rising infrastructure costs, and challenges in managing historical data.

In this episode of The Archivist, Karkavel M Jegadeesan, CTO & Co-Founder at Archon, and Harsha Kotha RajendraPrasad, AVP of Solutions BU & Presales at Archon, discuss the realities of large-scale enterprise archiving.

The discussion also highlights the role of data discovery and metadata in identifying what truly needs to be archived. A structured archival strategy can then help reduce technical debt, modernize infrastructure, and maintain access to historical data.

Data growth, compliance pressure, and hybrid storage have outpaced the limits of legacy Informatica ILM systems. Andrew Marsh breaks down how modernizing your archive helps enterprises regain control unlocking faster access, improved governance, and new analytical value from years of stored information.

SAP archiving has become a critical operational requirement for enterprises running large and long-standing SAP environments. While organizations continue expanding their SAP landscapes, many are also dealing with rapidly growing databases, performance degradation, rising storage costs, and increasing complexity around managing historical data.

In this episode, Karkavel M Jegadeesan, CTO & Co-Founder at Archon, along with Jagadeesh K, AVP SAP Practice at Archon, explores how SAP archiving works, the common challenges enterprises face during archival initiatives, and why archiving should no longer be treated as a secondary IT activity. From rapidly growing transaction tables and unmanaged unstructured data to ADK file dependencies and custom Z table complexities, the discussion highlights the hidden operational issues that impact long-term SAP performance and modernization efforts.

The conversation focuses on the limitations of traditional SAP archiving approaches, the challenges of accessing archived data outside SAP environments, and the growing importance of governance, compliance, and retention management as organizations move toward SAP modernization and legacy system decommissioning.

Technology debt has quietly become one of the biggest barriers to successful AI adoption across enterprises. While organizations continue investing in new AI tools and platforms, many are still operating on years of layered systems, disconnected architectures, and fragmented legacy data that limit AI’s ability to deliver meaningful outcomes at scale.

In this episode, Karkavel M Jegadeesan, along with Aswathy Girijadevi, explores why technology debt is no longer just an IT concern, but a direct business obstacle to AI execution. From inaccessible historical data and siloed systems to rising integration complexity and governance gaps, the discussion highlights the hidden operational challenges that prevent AI initiatives from moving beyond experimentation.

The conversation focuses on where technology debt shows up most inside enterprise environments, why it is often underestimated during AI planning, and what organizations need to rethink if they want AI to generate real operational and business impact.

Many enterprises assume they understand what an ideal archive looks like. In reality, it is rarely defined clearly. In this episode, Karkavel M Jegadeesan – CTO and Co-Founder, Archon joins Abubacker Malik – Products BU Head, Archon to discuss what truly defines a modern enterprise archive.

The conversation explores how archival strategy depends on the nature of the data, where it resides, how it is accessed, how sensitive it is, and what regulations govern it. From certified archives and compliance-ready storage to protecting high-risk information, the episode connects architectural thinking with real-world enterprise decisions.

If your organization is modernizing systems, retiring legacy applications, or navigating regulatory pressure, this discussion offers practical insight into how archival strategy should actually be designed.

Microsoft SharePoint is critical for enterprise collaboration. But as data grows, so do the challenges around visibility, ownership, and control.

Orphaned sites.
Unmanaged content.
Sensitive data spread across folders.

What starts as collaboration quickly becomes a governance problem.

Speakers
Host: Karkavel M Jegadeesan
Guest: Abubacker Malik Shahul Hameed

This episode explores why SharePoint archival is often overlooked until it becomes a risk, and what effective archival should actually enable across enterprise environments.

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India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA) is reshaping how enterprises manage personal data. In this episode, Vasanthika Srinath, Founder & Managing Partner at Arnava Legal, joins Karkavel M Jegadeesan, CTO and Co-Founder of Archon, to discuss what DPDPA compliance means in real enterprise environments.