SOLUTIONS - MICROSOFT AZURE
Bring your data into the light of Microsoft AI.
Connect enterprise knowledge across your data estate to Microsoft AI. Modernize historical file storage in Azure or index information where it lives, delivering governed context to Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI agents.
Built for your Microsoft Environment
Get more value from your Microsoft investments. Activate enterprise knowledge for AI, extend Copilot's reach, modernize data infrastructure, and put eligible Azure Marketplace purchases toward your existing cloud commitments.
ENTERPRISE KNOWLEDGE
Activate enterprise knowledge for AI
Connect and activate enterprise knowledge across your entire data estate, from Microsoft Azure to on-premises and other cloud repositories, delivering unified, permission-aware context to AI assistants and agents.
MICROSOFT 365
Extend Microsoft 365 Copilot's reach
Connect historical enterprise knowledge to Microsoft 365 Search and Copilot so relevant information can be discovered with source permissions preserved.
STORAGE MODERNIZATION
Modernize your data infrastructure
Move historical enterprise data to cost-efficient Azure object storage while preserving familiar file access and reducing storage costs.
MICROSOFT AZURE INVESTMENT
Maximize your Azure investment
Eligible CAEVES Microsoft Marketplace purchases can count toward your Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC), helping fulfill existing commitments while advancing storage and AI initiatives.
Maximize your Azure investment
Eligible CAEVES Microsoft Marketplace purchases can count toward your Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC), helping fulfill existing commitments while advancing storage and AI initiatives.
THE CAEVES AI DATA PLATFORM ON MICROSOFT AZURE
Move it to Azure, or index your data where it lives
Choose how your enterprise information is activated: modernize historical storage, connect to existing repositories in place, or combine both approaches.
| Component | Azure service | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Software Subscription | Microsoft Marketplace Offer | Subscription activation, capacity metering, billing. First 5 TB free, excluding Microsoft Azure infrastructure cost. |
| CAEVES Instance | Windows Server Virtual Machine | Hardened virtual appliance. SMB / NFS file share, caching, tiering engine, snapshot orchestration, migration engine. |
| Object Storage | Azure Blob Storage | Authoritative payload store for all tiered file data and snapshots. Hot, Cool, Cold, and Archive access tiers. |
| Metadata | Azure Table Storage | File-to-object mapping, NTFS security descriptors, connector process queue, persistent configuration. |
| CAEVES Copilot Connector™ | Azure Container Instance | Indexes object content and ACLs into Microsoft Graph for Microsoft 365 Search & Copilot, Copilot Studio. |
| Identity & Access Management | Microsoft Entra ID / Active Directory | Entra ID, Active Directory, Kerberos, NTFS ACL preservation, managed identity issuance. |
MODERNIZE & ACTIVATE
Intelligent Deep Storage™ + Copilot Connector
Choose how your enterprise information is activated: modernize historical storage, connect to existing repositories in place, or combine both approaches.
CONNECT, INDEX & ACTIVATE
Context LAKE™
Index enterprise information where it lives and deliver governed, permission-aware context to supported AI assistants and agents, without wholesale migration.
BETTER TOGETHER
Intelligent Deep Storage™ + Context LAKE™
Modernize historical storage while connecting knowledge across your entire data estate. Combine Intelligent Deep Storage and Context LAKE™ to reduce infrastructure costs and deliver governed enterprise context to AI assistants and agents.
DATA PROTECTION AND RECOVERY
Backup, versioning, and immutability are part of the platform.
Snapshots and self-service restoreHourly VSS file snapshots give users Windows Previous Versions recovery with no IT ticket. Daily, weekly, and monthly full-volume snapshots run on a USN basis with tiered retention. Snapshots are sealed and read-only after creation. |
Control-plane recoveryMetadata snapshots to cold object storage, act as an independent recovery anchor. A full instance rebuild is possible without data loss because the metadata encodes the namespace and its binding to immutable objects. |
Ransomware postureWORM immutability can be applied to monthly and annual snapshot containers. Soft delete defaults to 30 days. Rapid rollback to a known-good snapshot avoids traditional archive restore workflows and supports aggressive RTO targets. |
Redundancy by recovery objectiveLRS for lowest cost and highest migration throughput. ZRS for in-region datacenter resilience. GRS and RA-GRS for regional-outage protection. Selected deliberately at provisioning, per workload. |
ARCHITECTURE
From enterprise data to trusted Microsoft AI
Connect existing enterprise information to Microsoft AI through the CAEVES platform, with identity, permissions, classification, and governance applied throughout.
| Component | Azure service | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Software Subscription | Microsoft Marketplace Offer | Subscription activation, capacity metering, billing. First 5 TB free, excluding Microsoft Azure infrastructure cost. |
| CAEVES Instance | Windows Server Virtual Machine | Hardened virtual appliance. SMB / NFS file share, caching, tiering engine, snapshot orchestration, migration engine. |
| Object Storage | Azure Blob Storage | Authoritative payload store for all tiered file data and snapshots. Hot, Cool, Cold, and Archive access tiers. |
| Metadata | Azure Table Storage | File-to-object mapping, NTFS security descriptors, connector process queue, persistent configuration. |
| CAEVES Copilot Connector™ | Azure Container Instance | Indexes object content and ACLs into Microsoft Graph for Microsoft 365 Search & Copilot, Copilot Studio. |
| Identity & Access Management | Microsoft Entra ID / Active Directory | Entra ID, Active Directory, Kerberos, NTFS ACL preservation, managed identity issuance. |
MICROSOFT AI SERVICES
One governed index across Microsoft AI services
Connect governed enterprise knowledge to supported Microsoft AI experiences, using the integration path appropriate to each service.
| Component | Azure service | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Software Subscription | Microsoft Marketplace Offer | Subscription activation, capacity metering, billing. First 5 TB free, excluding Microsoft Azure infrastructure cost. |
| CAEVES Instance | Windows Server Virtual Machine | Hardened virtual appliance. SMB / NFS file share, caching, tiering engine, snapshot orchestration, migration engine. |
| Object Storage | Azure Blob Storage | Authoritative payload store for all tiered file data and snapshots. Hot, Cool, Cold, and Archive access tiers. |
| Metadata | Azure Table Storage | File-to-object mapping, NTFS security descriptors, connector process queue, persistent configuration. |
| CAEVES Copilot Connector™ | Azure Container Instance | Indexes object content and ACLs into Microsoft Graph for Microsoft 365 Search & Copilot, Copilot Studio. |
| Identity & Access Management | Microsoft Entra ID / Active Directory | Entra ID, Active Directory, Kerberos, NTFS ACL preservation, managed identity issuance. |
Microsoft Service |
WHAT IT GETS FROM CAEVES |
THROUGH |
STATUS |
| Copilot Studio | Agents grounded in decades of project files, contracts and drawings, through a governed MCP tool. | Context LAKE™ MCP · Copilot Connector | Available* |
| Microsoft Foundry | Agents call Context LAKE™ as a governed MCP tool, including over private, internal-only endpoints. | Context LAKE™ MCP | Available* |
| Foundry Local on Azure Local | Large models on customer hardware, including disconnected sites, grounded with zero egress. | Context LAKE™ | Available* |
| Azure SQL, Synapse, Microsoft Fabric | Assistants answer questions requiring both documents and structured data, with the warehouse queried live. | Context LAKE™ data warehouse connection | Available* |
| Microsoft Scout (Preview) | Agents work across Microsoft 365, including external file content indexed by CAEVES. | Copilot Connector · Context LAKE™ | Preview · Validated* |
MICROSOFT AI SERVICES
Get started in Microsoft Azure in four steps
Start with the approach that fits your data and AI goals, then expand as needed.
1. Find CAEVES on Microsoft Marketplace
Intelligent Deep Storage™ and Context LAKE™ are listed and transactable
2. Deploy in your Microsoft Azure tenant
Intelligent Deep Storage™ in under 30 minutes. Context LAKE™ as a cloud-native application bundle on Azure Kubernetes Services
3. Connect or Migrate your Azure Storage
Register sources read-only and run the first crawl, or migrate, cache and tier file data to Azure Blob.
4. Connect your AI assistants
Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio or Foundry agents, signed in as the user.
MICROSOFT MARKETPLACE AVAILABILITY
Intelligent Deep Storage™
Microsoft Marketplace offer PAYGO and Private Offer, first 5TB free for life*.
Context LAKE™
Microsoft Marketplace offer, Annual Subscription. 30-day free trial.
Combined Offer
Intelligent Deep Storage™ and Context LAKE™ combined offers available.
WHAT'S NEXT
Ready to unlock the power of your data?
Get started with CAEVES in the Microsoft Marketplace in minutes. Migrate your first 5TB for free *.
* Limited Offer, consult the Microsoft Marketplace for terms & conditions