Three years ago, we started Expanso with a stubborn belief: data shouldn’t cost more to move than to use.
We’d watched teams drown in their own success - more edge devices, more cloud regions, more data sources - each creating floods that had to ship to centralized platforms. Costs exploded. Pipelines broke. Data quality cratered. Engineers stopped innovating and started firefighting.
We were done waiting for a better way. So we built one.
Expanso processes and filters data where it lives - at the edge, on-prem, or in any cloud - cutting volume 50-70% before it hits downstream systems. We don’t replace your stack; we make it work better.
Today we’re launching this blog to share what we’ve learned about upstream data control.
Why We Started Expanso
The problem is data is HEAVY.
Most enterprise data is now created at the edge. Yet platforms still assume a centralized world - move everything first, figure it out later. That model breaks when egress fees spike and data volume doubles every year.
We saw it firsthand:
- Large enterprises spending millions to move telemetry, then discarding 60% as noise.
- Data teams waiting months to onboard new sources due to brittle pipelines.
- Security teams losing sleep over unmasked PII drifting across systems.
You can’t fix an upstream problem downstream. So we flipped the model.
Instead of hauling data to your centralized datacenter, we bring your jobs to the data. Filter, transform, and govern at the source - then send only clean, high-value data downstream.
The results: 58% cost reduction for one retail organization. 88% lower egress costs. 50% faster onboarding. 16× faster queries.
What Problems We Solve
If you’re managing distributed data, you’re managing pain. These are the problems Expanso exists to eliminate:
- The Bill Shock - Platform bills growing faster than budgets. You’re paying to move, store, and process noise.
- 3 AM Pipeline Pages - Brittle connectors, manual configs, endless firefighting.
- Garbage In, Garbage Out - Poor-quality data undermines AI and ML accuracy.
- “Where’s Our PII?” Panic - Fragmented visibility makes compliance a nightmare.
- Petabyte Paralysis - Centralized architectures choke under data gravity.
Our Manifesto: Control Belongs at the Source
- Don’t Rip and Replace. We integrate with your existing stack - 100+ connectors, zero architecture overhaul.
- Stop Paying to Move Noise. Filter, transform, and compress at the source. Less data = lower costs, faster queries, better AI.
- End 3 AM Pages. Define governance once, deploy everywhere. Self-healing pipelines mean fewer alerts, zero data loss.
- Prove Compliance. Enforce policies at ingestion with full lineage and automated governance.
What’s Next
As we enter year four, we’re launching Expanso Cloud - our managed platform for distributed data control. This blog will explore distributed computing, governance automation, observability optimization, and edge ML. And, we should stress, EVERY SINGLE BYTE OF YOUR DATA STAYS WITH YOU. WE SEE NOTHING.
But this isn’t a broadcast - it’s a conversation. If there’s a challenge you’re facing, tell us.
You shouldn’t have to choose between data volume and data value. You shouldn’t need an army of engineers just to keep the lights on.
Welcome to the Expanso blog. Let’s make data gravity not so heavy.