Enterprise Users & Applications
SMB / NFS
INTELLIGENT DEEP STORAGE™
Modernize & Activate your data in
Microsoft Azure
CAEVES brings together intelligent data management and secure AI connectivity to keep enterprise information accessible throughout its lifecycle and make the knowledge within it available to Microsoft 365 Search, Copilot, and Copilot Studio.
CAEVES Intelligent Deep Storage™ combines the economics of cloud object storage, the usability of modern file systems, and the requirements of AI-ready data access into a single platform that operates within the customer’s own Microsoft Azure tenant.
CAEVES Copilot Connector™ indexes and activates that data, while ensuring real-time search, accessibility, discovery and AI reasoning with end-to-end security and authorization.
As a result, data flows seamlessly from file system to object storage to search and AI, without duplicating repositories or introducing separate archive workflows.
Accessible · Searchable · AI-ready
01 / Bring data online
Archive Values
Root Path
\\Archive\Folder\
Email Archive
96.8 GB
HYDRIX Project
1.3 TB
Site Surveys
2.1 TB
Closed Projects (Archive)
236 TB
Contractor Correspondence
12.4 GB
CAD & Drawings
84.6 GB
CAEVES Intelligent Deep Storage™
No restores. No rehydration.
Data is Stored & AI-Ready
Instantly Accessible
Permissions Preserved
AI-Ready for Microsoft Copilot
HYDRIX Project
02 / Find it instantly
Microsoft 365 Search
From CAEVES Intelligent Deep Storage™
PDF
Contractor_Correspondence.pdfCAEVES · HYDRIX Project › Correspondence
PDF
HYDRIX_Site_Survey_Summary.pdfCAEVES · Closed Projects › HYDRIX
DOC
Original_Survey_Report.docxCAEVES · HYDRIX Project › Surveys
DOC
Warranty_Review_Notes.docxCAEVES · HYDRIX Project › Correspondence
● NTFS item-level access and Entra ID are preserved.
THE PLATFORM
Two phases. One data foundation.
Modernize Data & Storage to Azure
1Ingested
Data is ingested
2Stored
Cached & stored
3Indexed
Data is indexed
4AI-ready
Becomes AI-ready
Permission-aware · Secure · Enterprise-ready
Intelligent Deep Storage™
CAEVES Intelligent Deep Storage™ delivers a high-performance software-defined storage platform, allowing organizations to reduce storage and data management TCO through data caching, tiering, and lifecycle management policies, while preserving multiprotocol file access, continuous accessibility, security, and data governance.
Copilot Connector™
The CAEVES Copilot Connector™ indexes Intelligent Deep Storage™ stored data and brings AI to your private data sets, securely within your own (hybrid) cloud environment.
Get instant, traceable answers from your historical data using Microsoft 365 Search & Copilot, Teams, or other Microsoft applications, always referencing to the source origin files.
Platform Highlights
Multiprotocol File Access (SMB/NFS) providing real-time data access
Users connect to a high-performance, NTFS-compliant virtual file share over SMB, with NFS for Linux and cross-platform clients for data ingest, migration and retrieval.
Caching & Data Tiering from Premium SSD to Azure Object Storage
Active data is cached locally on Premium SSD for full performance, while inactive file contents are stubbed and tiered to object storage. Metadata stays on the instance and payloads move to object storage, giving you object-storage economics without sacrificing file-system responsiveness.
Automatic Data Tiering to Hot, Cool, Cold and Archive blob access tiers
A policy engine built on Azure Data Lifecycle Management classifies file activity and moves content across Hot, Cool, Cold, and Archive tiers automatically. Every threshold is configurable, so retention follows your project lifecycles.
Public, Hybrid & Edge Cloud Deployment
CAEVES runs entirely inside your own Azure environment in whichever topology fits: public cloud with instance and storage in your tenant, hybrid with the instance on-premises and object storage in Azure, or edge-to-cloud with distributed agents feeding a centralized or regional Azure storage account.
Copilot Connector™ securely indexes your privately managed data to M365
The Copilot Connector™ indexes your stored objects into Microsoft Graph, in place, with inherited ACLs intact. Decades of archived files become answerable through Microsoft 365 Search and Copilot, with no duplicate store and no custom retrieval pipeline to build.
Create role-specific agents, integrate with Copilot or Copilot Studio
Deploy dedicated Copilot Studio agents with their own data scopes, personas, and governance instructions. Each agent reasons over CAEVES-indexed content within the user's own permissions, so different teams get purpose-built assistants grounded in the same governed archive.
Multilayer Security model with Active Directory and Entra ID federation
Access rights are defined with standard NTFS ACLs at ingest and federated through Active Directory or Microsoft Entra ID. Permissions are enforced at every tier, embedded in the search index, and trimmed by Microsoft Graph at query time, so users only ever see what they are authorized to access.
FUNDAMENTALS - INTELLIGENT DEEP STORAGE™
Built for Microsoft Azure
CAEVES Intelligent Deep Storage™ provides high-performance file access while automatically tiering inactive data to cost-optimized Azure Blob Storage. Deployed within the customer's own Azure environment, it preserves familiar file access, security, governance, and continuous visibility while reducing the cost and complexity of retaining historical enterprise data .
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CUSTOMER AZURE SUBSCRIPTION
CAEVES INSTANCE
Metadata Volume
Cache Volume
Snapshot Volume
Windows Server 2025Hardened Appliance
AZURE BLOB STORAGE
Hot
Cool
Cold
Archive
AZURE TABLE & QUEUE
Metadata / Process / Config
CAEVES Copilot
ConnectorTM
Azure Container Instance(s)MICROSOFT GRAPH
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft 365 Search
Microsoft Entra ID / Active Directory — NTFS ACLs & Permissions Fully Preserved
Microsoft Entra ID
| Component | Azure service | Role |
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| 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. |
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. |
Get Started with CAEVES Intelligent Deep Storage™ in your own Microsoft Azure environment today.
FUNDAMENTALS - COPILOT CONNECTOR™
CAEVES Copilot Connector™
CAEVES Copilot Connector securely makes enterprise information available to Microsoft 365 Search, Copilot, and Copilot Studio. It indexes and enriches content while preserving existing identities and permissions, enabling users and AI to discover and retrieve relevant information with grounded, permission-aware results.
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Claim |
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Extract |
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Enrich |
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Ground |
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Serve |
| A claims-based processing model over Azure Table storage tracks pending, claimed, completed, failed, and expired jobs. The connector scales horizontally as volume grows. | Docling-based document parsing, OCR for scanned documents and images, Markdown normalization, and optional GPU-accelerated image, audio, and video indexing. | Structural metadata from ingest joins extracted content in the metadata process table. Custom fields support controlled vocabulary and classification taxonomies. | Content and inherited ACLs are ingested into Microsoft Graph as external items, in a partition owned by this connector alone. | Copilot, Copilot Studio agents, and Microsoft 365 Search retrieve from the index, cite the source document, and enforce permissions at query time. |
Key Benefits
Cross-document reasoning,
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Scoped, staged, and governedPersistent filtering rules in the config table define which file types, source locations, and departments are indexed, and can be changed without redeploying. Staged rollout in the Microsoft 365 admin center releases the connector to pilot groups before full activation. Multiple agents can be deployed with distinct permission boundaries. |
Operational transparencyA health endpoint confirms environment configuration and Microsoft Graph SDK connectivity. A queue statistics endpoint reports pending, claimed, completed, failed, and expired indexing jobs in real time. A run-now endpoint triggers indexing on demand. Log Analytics captures the full audit trail. |
Legal integrity under AIAll AI processing occurs within the customer's own Azure tenant and Microsoft 365 environment, subject to the customer's own Microsoft data processing agreements. Responses are grounded in the unmodified archival record, protected by WORM immutability, snapshot sealing, and soft delete. |
WHAT'S NEXT
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