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Our Mission

Bring Decades of Enterprise Data to Life.

At CAEVES, we help organizations securely transform enterprise dark data into accessible, searchable, and AI-ready assets while reducing storage costs and AI investments.

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Our Promise

Every enterprise is sitting on decades of data it can no longer use. Files pile up across file servers, NAS, and archives, written once and rarely touched again, until they become dark data: invisible, unsearchable, and disconnected from the decisions they could inform. Traditional archives make the problem worse, trading cost relief for accessibility and turning history into a graveyard.

Organizations are forced into a false choice: pay premium prices to keep data reachable, or file it away and lose it.

CAEVES was built to end that trade-off. We transform enterprise dark data into a living asset, secured inside your own environment, across four outcomes that matter to the business.

Key Value Pillars

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Accessible & Searchable

Historical data stays instantly reachable and easy to find. Teams search across decades of information using the tools they already know and Microsoft 365 Search, with no restores, no rehydration, and no loss of visibility.

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AI-Ready for Microsoft Copilot

The same data becomes trusted knowledge for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio. Permission-aware indexing delivers grounded, citable answers from your own archive, with no duplicated repositories and no custom RAG pipelines to build or maintain.

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Secure & Governed

Data never leaves your tenant. Existing NTFS and Entra ID permissions are preserved and enforced end to end, with item-level access control, encryption at rest and in transit, and alignment to your governance, compliance, and data residency requirements.

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Cost-Efficient & Sustainable

Inactive data is tiered automatically to the lowest-cost object storage while remaining instantly accessible, cutting storage TCO by up to 70% with no vendor lock-in and a smaller infrastructure footprint.

The result is a storage foundation that turns archives into strategic assets rather than sunk costs. Smarter economics, preserved access, and customer sovereignty, always.

Our Focus

Cost Efficiencies & Streamlined Resources 

Eliminating expensive, complex on-prem infrastructure with a cloud-native, pay-as-you-grow platform that reduces TCO by up to 70%.

Productivity & Intelligence with Microsoft Azure AI

Moving beyond static archives. Enable your teams to search, query, and interact with decades of documents using natural language within Microsoft Copilot and Teams.

Sustainability

Reducing energy and hardware waste with cloud-native storage and intelligent data lifecycle management.

Compliance, Governance, & Data Residency 

Meeting the most rigorous enterprise and industry-specific standards for data retention, auditability, and sovereignty.

Management Team

CAEVES was founded by seasoned executives with decades of combined experience across enterprise storage, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise software. It is a team that has spent its careers solving the data challenges CAEVES exists to address, and has repeatedly brought new platforms to market and scaled them inside large, complex organizations.

Our leadership combines deep technical expertise with proven commercial execution, spanning product engineering and delivery, technology strategy, global sales, and go-to-market leadership. That experience shapes how we build: pragmatic, customer-focused, and grounded in the realities of enterprise IT.

This is reinforced by an advisory board that brings decades of additional perspective across cloud, software, storage, and security, along with a track record of building, scaling, and successfully exiting technology companies. Together, leadership and advisors give CAEVES both the operating discipline to deliver and the strategic insight to grow.

The result is a company that understands the enterprise data problem from the inside, and has the experience to solve it at scale.

Shirish Phatak

Shirish H. Phatak

CEO / CTO

Technology and engineering executive with experience in the areas of product delivery, technology strategy, market analysis from a technology perspective. Substantial expertise in bringing new products to the market and adapting existing products to suit market conditions.

Andrew Mullen

Andrew W. Mullen

SVP Sales & Alliances

Jaap van Duijvenbode

Jaap Van Duijvenbode

VP of Product & Customer Experience

An experienced business leader and technologist, Jaap delivers pragmatic, structured approaches that help customers, partners, and global alliances unlock the full potential of their data estate. His expertise includes product management, building C- and D-level relationships with IT executives, advising on cloud and datacenter transformation strategies.

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Advisory Board

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Charles Foley

Advisor

Charles Foley brings over 40 years’ experience in technology across cloud, software, storage, cyber, and quantum sectors.  His executive roles span public companies including Amdahl, INRANGE Technologies, IPL Systems, and Memorex-Telex, as well as innovative startups such as InfiniCon Systems (acquired by QLogic), Tacit Networks (acquired by Packeteer), Talon Storage (acquired by NetApp), Watchful Software (acquired by Symantec).   He's driven successful IPO and M&A exits across his management and board roles, and serves as a frequent speaker at industry and analyst events.  Mr. Foley currently serves on the Board of Directors for Critical Links, memQ, RunSafe Security, and VIZpin, with past board roles at notable industry players such as Cluster File Systems and NEI.

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Global Office Locations

For any inquiries please contact us at info@caeves.com or fill out the form below

AMERICAS (HQ)

67 High Pond Ln
Bedminster, NJ 07921
United States

info@caeves.com

EMEA

Smederij 3
2211 SM Noordwijkerhout
The Netherlands

APAC

c/o Xoriant India
5th Floor, Amar Paradigm,
Baner Road, Near D-Mart,
Baner, Pune 411045, India

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