Why writable cold storage matters
That cold writable tier could resonate with enterprises seeking to balance data residency, sovereignty, regulatory compliance and the growing operational demands of the agentic era, particularly because competing approaches generally require sacrificing at least one of those objectives.
As enterprises retain growing volumes of historical operational data generated by AI applications for audit and regulatory purposes, they increasingly need the ability to correct, delete or modify records, for example to comply with data protection and privacy laws, even after they have been moved into lower-cost storage, which other rival approaches complicate, said Amit Chandak, chief analytics officer at IT consulting firm Kanerika.
ColdFront can simplify those processes, said Chaturvedi: “In most tiering systems, cold (older) data is read-only, so a GDPR deletion request on archived data means restore-delete-rearchive, which is a half day job. ColdFront’s architecture would allow you to UPDATE and DELETE archived rows through one SQL statement.”
