Caeves Launches AI-powered Deep Storage on Microsoft Azure

Caeves Technology, announced the upcoming availability of Caeves AI-powered Deep Storage, scheduled for release on November 18, 2025. This groundbreaking platform is the industry’s first AI-powered Deep Storage solution built natively for Microsoft Azure.Caeves AI-powered Deep Storage delivers up to 70% lower total cost of ownership (TCO) compared to traditional enterprise archives, while enabling instant, intelligent search and Retrieval-Augmented gen (RAG) across petabyte-scale datasets through its unique integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Since AI demands a future-proof data and infrastructure foundation, legacy storage is hindering progress in both AI and analytics and jeopardizing security, governance and compliance. With Caeves, forward-thinking organizations are shifting their data to the cloud and AI, unlocking unprecedented potential and options for integration and extensibility with AI services, allowing organizations to structure the unstructured, without compromises.

The solution revolutionizes data management by unifying, safeguarding, and modernizing enterprise and archive data while delivering seamless access, end-to-end security, transparent data access, caching, and tiering to Microsoft Azure long-term object storage.

Caeves software-defined platform transparently extends that data to AI services through its Caeves Copilot Connector, a purpose-built Microsoft 365 custom data connector, empowering organizations with a scalable, secure and practical solution to unlock historical information from cold data archives in real-time.

Founded by storage innovators Shirish Phatak, Jaap van Duijvenbode, and Andrew Mullen-the team behind Talon Storage Solutions, Inc., acquired in 2020 by NetApp, Inc., Caeves is redefining Intelligent Deep Storage for the AI era. Its mission: Turn enterprise data and archives into high-value, AI-ready assets.

Why It Matters
Modern enterprises face a critical challenge: over 80% of enterprise data is unstructured, and over 68% of that data is created once and locked away, becoming dark data. These traditional systems reduce cost, but block access to insight. Caeves changes that dynamic by integrating deep storage with Azure’s AI ecosystem, enabling organizations to instantly search, analyze, and utilize data that was once inaccessible.

“Caeves AI-powered Deep Storage is not cold storage, it’s intelligent, connected storage, ready for the future,” said Jaap van Duijvenbode, Co-founder and head of product & customer experience, Caeves Technology, Inc. “We designed Caeves to modernize how organizations store, manage, and future-proof data within their own Microsoft Azure public or hybrid cloud environments: securely, intelligently, and ready for AI extensibility.”

With Caeves, enterprises can easily transform archive and unstructured data through an AI-driven platform: cutting costs, unlocking insights, and connecting enterprise data to their own Microsoft 365 Copilot Search and AI services, while maintaining end-to-end security principles, which solves the Data Democratization challenge.

“In AI, when training models, or creating your own LLM’s, data is typically democratized, which means that these models and the corresponding information become accessible to a wide range of organizations, departments, or users leveraging those models. Caeves delivers simplicity, performance, scale, and instant context across millions of files. Most importantly, Caeves ensures full security, governance, and compliance through Active Directory & Entra ID permissions grounding within our customer’s Microsoft environments,” added Van Duijvenbode.

Key Highlights from Early Deployments

• 70% lower TCO compared to traditional legacy storage, archive and tape systems
• 50x improvement in search speeds over conventional archive systems
• 99.99% data durability across Microsoft Azure’s infrastructure
• Capability for AI-powered indexing to facilitate semantic searches and research-driven workflows
• Elimination of egress fees within Microsoft Azure, enhancing cost efficiency for data retrieval.

“Old-fashioned archives were designed to store data, not to understand it,” said Shirish Phatak, CEO, Caeves Technology, Inc. “Our platform deploys securely within our customer’s environments, uncovers the wealth of intelligence buried within data repositories, empowering businesses to analyze historical information with unprecedented speed and depth.”

Transforming Cost Centers into AI-Enhanced Assets
Caeves is being adopted across industries such as financial services, insurance, engineering, construction, design & manufacturing, healthcare, pharma, energy, utilities, and media where archived data is critical for compliance, discovery, and analytics. Caeves AI-powered Deep Storage allows direct interaction with data in place, eliminating costly migrations or rehydration processes.

“Organizations spend millions maintaining data they can’t even access,” noted Andrew Mullen, SVP, global sales & strategy, Caeves. “With Caeves, not only can those costs be dramatically reduced, but enterprises can also extract real business value from their historical data.”

Availability & Launch Webinar
Caeves will be available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, starting November 18, 2025.
Join the launch webinar at caeves.com/webinar which will be held on November 13, 2025.