TRUSTED DATA ARCHIVE
Legal Hold
Implement and manage defensible legal holds across your entire data estate with Smart Data Archive's immutable preservation and governance capabilities.
Defensible Preservation for Litigation and Compliance
Trusted Data Archive is responsible for governance, including retention enforcement, legal hold, chain of custody, immutability, and defensibility. When litigation or regulatory matters arise, Trusted Data Archive (EAS, HPCA, Z Cloud, and Arcivium for Azure) ensures that relevant data is preserved, protected, and accessible.
The Legal Hold Imperative
When litigation is reasonably anticipated, organizations have a duty to preserve relevant evidence. Failure to implement effective legal holds can result in sanctions, adverse inferences, and case-damaging spoliation findings. In the age of massive unstructured data, implementing comprehensive holds is increasingly challenging.
Immutable Preservation
Trusted Data Archive provides WORM (Write Once Read Many) or audit-trail retention, ensuring held data remains safe and unchanged throughout the hold period. EAS, Arcivium for Azure, HPCA, and Z Cloud all deliver tamper-proof, ransomware-proof storage with complete chain of custody documentation for legal defensibility.
Journal Envelope Preservation
Unlike standard Microsoft 365 archiving, Trusted Data Archive retains the original journal envelope, including BCC recipients, expanded distribution lists, and routing details. This complete metadata preservation is essential for comprehensive legal and compliance investigations — information often lost in native M365 tools.
Azure-Native Compliance with Arcivium
Arcivium for Azure is the first truly Azure-native compliant journaling framework. It runs entirely inside the customer's Azure tenant using native services such as Blob Storage, Azure SQL, and Azure Web Apps. Every message is captured in real time and preserved with full journal integrity, supporting geo-dispersion for data sovereignty requirements.
The Archive Suite for Legal Hold
Four solutions for every legal hold scenario:
EAS: Active control after archiving through STORM storage management framework.
Arcivium for Azure: Azure-native preservation with geo-dispersion.
HPCA: Reliability and simplicity for on-premises environments.
Z Cloud: Fully managed SaaS with browser-based discovery.
Key Benefits
- Immutable Storage: WORM retention protects held data from alteration.
- Full Metadata: Journal envelope preserves BCC, distribution lists, and routing.
- Chain of Custody: Complete documentation for legal defensibility.
- Multiple Deployments: On-prem, hybrid, Azure-native, or fully managed options.
Conclusion
Defensible legal holds require knowing what data you have and preserving it immutably. Trusted Data Archive provides the compliance foundation organizations require.
