Petabyte archives. Sovereign by design.
Research data spans grant compliance, residency requirements, large-file transfer, inter-institutional sharing, and increasingly AI-driven analysis. SkyeConnex handles all of it in one envelope.
Why this sector is rethinking cloud now.
Funder residency mandates
Tri-Council, Horizon Europe, NIH funding increasingly require data residency or cross-border restrictions. Single-provider regions don't reliably satisfy them.
Large-file transfer reliability
Multi-TB datasets fail on transport-layer optimisations alone. Reliability needs to be an application-layer protocol — resume, cancel, async scatter.
AI-grounded research without IP exposure
RAG over sensitive research corpora can't go to OpenAI without breaching IP and grant terms.
What SkyeConnex actually does here.
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USE 01
Long-tail research archive
Petabyte archives distributed across jurisdiction-allowed providers, with per-file SkyeMap evidence — the funder audit trail is built in.
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USE 02
Inter-institutional dataset exchange
Audited share links with external identity capture for collaborator access. Every download in the audit log.
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USE 03
Sovereign research AI
Run SkyeGXU on your own GPU cluster. RAG and semantic search over the corpus without records leaving your network.
Regulatory deep-dive for research & education
Tri-Council Policy Statement and data residency
TCPS2 governs research involving humans in Canadian institutions. Data residency is increasingly part of REB review, especially for international collaborations and federally-funded research. SkyeConnex's allow-list policy can be configured per study to satisfy specific TCPS2 risk-mitigation commitments.
Horizon Europe and EU residency
Horizon Europe funding terms increasingly include data-handling clauses that require EU residency or comparable protection. Schrems II implications affect cross-border data transfers to non-EU jurisdictions. SkyeConnex's geo-policy makes Horizon Europe-compliant residency a configuration.
Sovereign AI for research
RAG over sensitive research corpora — patient cohorts, proprietary methods, unpublished results — can't go to OpenAI without breaching IP and grant terms. SkyeGXU on-prem embeddings let research institutions deploy AI-grounded research tools without external exposure.
What good looks like
For organisations in research & education that are serious about sovereignty, the architectural baseline includes:
- Petabyte archives distributed across jurisdiction-allowed providers with per-file residency evidence.
- Resumable chunked uploads that survive intermittent network conditions — field-grade reliability.
- Audited inter-institutional dataset sharing with external identity capture for collaborators.
- Sovereign RAG via SkyeGXU on customer GPUs — research data never leaves the network.
- Multi-tenant model supporting per-project compliance overlays.
- Cryptographic data preservation that survives institutional transitions.
SkyeConnex delivers all of the above by default — see the architecture and the cryptographic posture.
Regulatory frameworks SkyeConnex addresses for this sector
PIPEDA · GDPR · Tri-Council policy · Horizon Europe data terms
The five-endpoint chunked upload protocol — Init, Put, Status, Complete, Cancel — handles multi-TB transfers across intermittent network conditions.
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Read →Common questions in research & education
Can SkyeConnex handle multi-TB research datasets?
Yes. The Stream Pipeline is memory-flat regardless of file size, and the five-endpoint chunked upload protocol handles network interruptions. Resume works across days; mobile clients persist in-flight upload IDs to local storage. We've validated multi-TB transfers across field-conditions network links.
How do we share datasets with external collaborators?
Via revocable share links with expiry and external identity capture. Every access — including by external recipients — is identity-captured into the audit log. For sensitive data, you can require the recipient to authenticate before access.
Can SkyeConnex satisfy TCPS2 / REB data-handling expectations?
Yes, with per-project compliance preset packs. Documentation aligned with TCPS2 risk-mitigation patterns is available. The audit log provides REB-quality access evidence.
Does SkyeConnex support sovereign RAG for research corpora?
Yes, on the Sovereign tier via SkyeGXU. Embeddings run on customer GPUs; documents and queries never leave the network. The Barrista in-app assistant grounds answers in your own corpus.
See it on your data.
Book a sector-specific briefing. We'll bring the relevant compliance packs pre-configured.