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In shipbuilding, the complexity of data is easy to underestimate.
This mid-size shipbuilding company runs R&D operations across two major centers, with additional project teams stationed overseas. Every day, engineers move between cloud desktops and office workstations, working with:
This data isn’t just a collection of files — it forms the digital backbone of every ship design.
That scale creates a clear challenge:
What the company needed wasn’t simply backup. It needed a data control framework covering the full data lifecycle.
To address this, the company worked with Info2soft to build a unified data protection foundation spanning endpoints, collaboration platforms, and core business systems.
In R&D environments, risk rarely comes from major system failures. It comes from everyday actions: creating, editing, copying, and caching files.
Engineers continuously generate design files on cloud desktops and office PCs, making this stage of the data lifecycle the most active and the most exposed.
This removes the deployment complexity typically associated with endpoint backup tools.
Shipbuilding R&D depends on close collaboration, but this company’s network follows a strict segmentation model, with clear boundaries between high-security R&D zones and office areas, internal and external networks, and headquarters and branch sites.
Historically, the company had two options: route every file transfer through lengthy approvals, which slowed collaboration, or relax controls and accept the resulting data risk. What the company needed was a way to let data move while keeping that movement fully managed.
With i2Share’s unified file collaboration and cross-network exchange capabilities:
Before this project, the company’s file management relied on several disconnected systems.
Core business systems had their own backup processes, endpoint devices depended on local or scattered tools, and cross-network transfers ran through a separate approval system. Data was protected, but the overall approach was fragmented.
In traditional setups, auditing is often an afterthought and backup runs as a separate system. In this unified framework, both capabilities are built directly into the data flow.
Every file action — including access, sharing, edits, and downloads — is automatically logged, creating a tamper-resistant audit trail.
The system also retains complete version history, allowing recovery to any point in time. Even in the event of accidental deletion or a ransomware attack, the company can quickly roll back to a known-good state.
In practice, this means data is no longer something the company has to search for after it’s lost — it’s something the company can always return to.
Shipbuilding is complex because thousands of components need to come together in the right place, at the right time. Modern data environments face the same challenge.
When R&D data spans multiple locations, systems, and network boundaries, the real question isn’t where the data is stored — it’s whether that data stays controllable, able to move, and recoverable, even as the environment grows more complex.
For this shipbuilding company, the answer wasn’t a set of separate tools. It was one unified data protection system, built from:
The result is a data environment where information no longer sits in isolated systems. Instead, it operates as one manageable, connected whole.
