Data Archiving Software

Data Archiving

What is Data Archiving Software?

Data archiving is the long term securing and storage of data, usually onto less expensive media that is designed for long term storage with minimal degradation (in the right conditions).

Common Features

  • External Storage Connectivity
  • Data Compression
  • Data Encryption
  • Data Deletion Control and Space Gain
  • Long Term Data Retention
  • Multiple Format Support
  • Restore to Current Format
  • Granularity
  • Platform Support
  • Storage Optimization
  • Data Format Native Generic
  • Ediscovery Audit Trail

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Products: 7
Next Award: Sep 2025

Top Data Archiving Software 2025

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

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8.8 /10
CX Score
9.1 /10

Manage, retain, search and export your organization’s email and on-the-record chats.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Respectful
  • Acts with Integrity
  • Enables Productivity
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Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.5 /10

Cloud-connected message archiving for efficiency and e-discovery Reduce your storage requirements, and comply with regulatory and e-discoveryrequirements easily and effectively. Get secure, long-term storage and backup inthe cloud, and boost user productivity with easy archive access from any device. An Outlook add-in enables combined search across mailboxes and archives. message Archiver automatically finds and imports all your PST files, eliminating the risk of loss.

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Pros

  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
  • Respectful
  • Fair
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Bloomberg L.P.

Bloomberg Vault

Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.4 /10

Bloomberg Vault is an integrated compliance and surveillance solution designed to help global financial services firms meet their regulatory obligations and business standards. Vault enables firms to capture, control, archive, reconstruct, and analyze their e-communication, trade, and voice data across the entire trading life cycle on a real time or historic basis.

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Pros

  • Client Friendly Policies
  • Helps Innovate
  • Includes Product Enhancements
  • Inspires Innovation
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Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.3 /10

Solve archiving, compliance, regulatory, and eDiscovery challenges. Hosted on Microsoft globally redundant servers, with IT-level phone support 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Exchange Online Archiving is compatible with Exchange Server 2019, 2016, 2013, and 2010. It’s also available as an add-on service for mailboxes that are hosted online.

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Pros

  • Enables Productivity
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Trustworthy
  • Security Protects
Composite Score
8.0 /10
CX Score
8.4 /10

Dell EMC Data Protection Suite for Archive enables organizations to efficiently capture, index, store, manage, retrieve and dispose both structured and unstructured data to meet enterprise needs. It provides seamless access to archive content from email, file, and Microsoft SharePoint. It ultimately helps companies reduce IT, operational, and labor costs, as well as meet both corporate management and regulatory requirements needs.

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  • Security Protects
  • Helps Innovate
  • Trustworthy
  • Efficient Service
Composite Score
7.9 /10
CX Score
8.3 /10

Legal and compliance pressures are evolving in the face of today’s data growth. That’s why you need a new approach to your data archiving challenges. Enterprise Archive is a proven, next-generation data archive solution that leverages cloud intelligence for deep insight into your data to reduce cost, complexity, and risk.

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Pros

  • Performance Enhancing
  • Effective Service
  • Fair
  • Transparent
Microsoft Corporation

Azure Blob Storage

Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
8.1 /10

With exabytes of capacity and massive scalability, Blob Storage stores from hundreds to billions of objects in hot, cool, or archive tiers, depending on how often data access is needed. Store any type of unstructured data—images, videos, audio, documents, and more—easily and cost-effectively.

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Acts with Integrity
  • Security Protects
Mimecast Services

Mimecast Cloud Archive

Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
8.1 /10

Mimecast Cloud Archive has long set the industry standard for enterprise information archiving, helping to keep corporate knowledge available, protecting and preserving it, all while simplifying management and administration.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Acts with Integrity
  • Client's Interest First
  • Performance Enhancing
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Composite Score
7.6 /10
CX Score
7.7 /10

Control data growth in production databases and retire legacy applications, while managing retention, ensuring compliance, and retaining access to business data.

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
Composite Score
7.3 /10
CX Score
7.5 /10

Arctera Insight Archiving empowers your organization with seamless, secure data management across all platforms. By leveraging AI-powered capabilities to streamline compliance and eDiscovery, it enables you to effortlessly scale in the cloud while ensuring automated, intelligent data retention. Protect your critical data and optimize efficiency with the proven capabilities of Arctera Insight Archiving.

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Pros

  • Acts with Integrity
  • Respectful
  • Transparent
  • Security Protects