Pricing Built for Enterprise Data Reality
DataCyclic is an enterprise‑grade archiving and lifecycle management platform designed for petabyte‑scale, compliance‑heavy environments. Pricing is tailored to your data landscape, not forced into arbitrary tiers.
Run a no‑cost, time‑boxed POC on your own datasets before any commercial commitment.
How DataCyclic Pricing Works
DataCyclic is typically deployed into environments with heterogeneous sources (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, files, cloud data stores) and strict regulatory requirements (GDPR, SOX, WORM, industry‑specific policies). Because of this, we align pricing to data under management, compliance posture, and performance needs, not just raw storage.
Engagements generally start with a free proof of concept where we validate throughput, retention policies, legal hold workflows, and access patterns using a representative slice of your data. From there we size the platform and finalize commercials.
For most enterprises, commercial plans begin once the POC is accepted and a target annual volume and compliance scope are agreed. This keeps incentives aligned: you only move to paid usage after the platform has proven value in your environment.
Typical Entry Point
Most customers start with one or two core sources (e.g., Oracle + file shares) and a well‑defined compliance requirement. We size an initial footprint and commercial model that can then expand as additional sources and regions come online.
What the Free POC Includes
- • Connection to 1–2 primary data sources (e.g., Oracle / SQL Server / PostgreSQL / files).
- • End‑to‑end archival flows into your chosen target (S3, Blob, GCS, on‑prem object, database).
- • Configuration of retention, legal hold, WORM behavior, and metadata preservation.
- • Performance validation on mutually agreed volumes (e.g., TB/hr throughput).
- • Access patterns demo: search, legal queries, and operational retrieval.
Our Pricing Philosophy: No One‑Size‑Fits‑All
Enterprise data is messy: structured, semi‑structured, unstructured, legacy systems, and modern warehouses all co‑exist. A flat “per‑GB” model rarely captures the realities of compliance, retrieval obligations, and migration cost.
Some teams prioritize high‑throughput archival of retiring applications. Others care about policy‑driven retention and auditable access. Some optimize for storage cost, others for discovery speed. Forcing all of these into a rigid tier would either under‑serve or over‑charge you.
Instead, we define a commercial model around your data lifecycle objectives: how quickly you need to ingest, how long you must keep, how often you must retrieve, and what regulatory surfaces must be covered.
What You’re Really Paying For
DataCyclic is not “cheap storage”. You are investing in a governed, queryable, and defensible archive:
- • Cryptographically enforced retention and WORM behavior.
- • Metadata‑rich Parquet optimization for fast analytical and legal access.
- • Proven migration patterns off expensive legacy platforms and databases.
- • Operational guardrails: monitoring, audit trails, and policy enforcement.
Why Flexible Pricing Works Better for Enterprise Data
Our commercial structure is designed to respect budget realities while giving your compliance, security, and architecture teams the confidence they need to standardize on a single archive platform.
Scales With Your Footprint
Align commercial terms to the volume of data under management and number of active sources, not speculative future capacity. Grow from initial apps to enterprise‑wide rollout in controlled phases.
Compliance‑First by Design
Pricing recognizes the additional guarantees required for regulated workloads: WORM enforcement, geo‑controls, encryption standards, legal hold features, and auditability across your retention policies.
Aligned Incentives
We are incentivized to help you retire legacy systems faster, compress storage footprints, and streamline audits. As your legacy stack shrinks and efficiency improves, your total cost of ownership comes down.
How Enterprises Usually Engage
- Discovery & sizing workshop. Architecture, security, compliance, and application owners align on scope, initial sources, and success criteria.
- Free POC on real workloads. We connect to non‑production or carefully scoped production datasets to validate performance, policies, and user experience.
- Commercial structuring. Once value is demonstrated, we agree on data volumes, regions, service levels, and compliance scope to finalize pricing.
- Phased rollout. We expand coverage across applications and regions with clear milestones for decommissioning legacy archives and databases.
What About “Starting Price”?
Because deployments range from a single retiring Oracle instance to global, multi‑region estates spanning many petabytes, publishing a single “from $X/month” number would be misleading. Instead, we share concrete commercial options after the free POC, when both sides have accurate sizing and regulatory clarity.
Budget & Procurement Friendly
Our team is used to working with finance and sourcing to model license vs. consumption blends, multi‑year commitments, and phased ramp‑ups that match your application retirement roadmap.
Ready to Explore a Free POC?
Share your current archive challenges, target systems, and compliance obligations. We’ll propose a no‑cost POC plan and outline how pricing would look as you move from pilot to full rollout.
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