Coming soon. Seven years from now the server is gone, the vendor changed, and a regulator wants the 2026 records. Vault holds them: locked at enrollment, searchable the whole term, and destroyed with a certificate when the term ends.
Backup brings a system back. Retention answers a question years after the system is gone. Using one for the other means paying to store everything and still missing the record you were asked for. Every MSP we talk to is carrying an archive nobody can defend, and quietly hoping the request never comes.
Retention tied to a subscription you might cancel
An archive that dies with the backup contract is not a compliance answer.
Storage that quietly compounds
Keeping everything because deletion feels risky turns into a bill you cannot defend.
Deletion with no proof
When a retention period ends, you need to show the data is gone.
Locked when it goes in
Enrolment is an explicit, audited operation with a stated term. Once enrolled, no console action, administrator, or attacker shortens it.
Standalone by design
Vault accepts records from Microsoft 365 Backup, BCDR, File Backup, or an external source, and holds them under its own subscription. Cancel everything else and the archive still stands until its date.
Search, export, legal hold
Archives stay usable for the whole term. Pull exactly what a request demands, and place a hold that outranks the schedule when litigation arrives.
Certified destruction
When the term ends, destruction is deliberate and documented, closing with a signed certificate your client can file. It outlives the data it certifies.
Prepaid and predictable
Fixed terms bought up front and priced as an archive. You quote the retention obligation once and it stays quoted.
Your region, on the record
A named selection, confirmed before the first record lands. Where you put it is where it stays.
| Source | What can be enrolled | Held as |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft 365 Backup |
| Immutable objects with their manifests, searchable for the term |
| BCDR |
| Immutable objects with verification evidence attached |
| File Backup |
| Immutable objects with their metadata |
| External sources |
| Immutable objects with a stated custody record |
Vault holds, exports, and destruction certificates land in the same reports surface as everything else.
Name the cohort and the obligation behind it: the contracts, the statutory mail, the regulated records, and the years they owe.
Move the records in. The term locks, the region is confirmed, and the operation lands in the audit trail.
Search and export whenever the question comes, then close the term with a certificate when it expires.
Requests for seven-year-old records come during an audit, a lawsuit, or a dispute. The answer is in an archive built for it, or nowhere. Build it once and the request becomes an afternoon.
Vault is coming soon. Tell us what you hold and we will tell you when.
