Expensive
Keeping years of inactive data in production systems increases infrastructure, database, backup, licensing, and maintenance costs.
Purpose-built data archiving & lifecycle management
Archive the data. Retire the cost. Keep the access.
Datacyclic helps enterprises move historical data out of expensive applications and databases while keeping it accessible, governed, auditable, and ready when business, legal, or regulatory teams need it.
Customer-controlled deployment
Cloud, on-prem & hybrid
Metadata-driven archives
DATACYCLIC ARCHITECTURE
Lifecycle active
SOURCE SYSTEMS
Enterprise databases Historical production data
Legacy applications Business history
Enterprise storage Files and archived objects
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Datacyclic
Archive lifecycle control plane
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ARCHIVE TARGET
Customer-controlled archive Parquet · Object storage · Long-term retention
Lower-cost storage Governed access Portable data
THE PROBLEM
Your production systems were built to run the business. Not to store history forever.
Risky
Deleting historical data without the right controls can create audit, legal, compliance, and business risk.
Complex
Retiring an application becomes difficult when historical information must remain available long after daily operations stop.
APPLICATION RETIREMENT
Stop paying to run applications you only need for their history.
When a legacy application is no longer needed for daily operations, enterprises often continue paying for licenses, infrastructure, support, databases, and security simply because the historical data cannot disappear.
Datacyclic separates the data from the application.
WITHOUT DATACYCLIC
Keep the entire application alive.
Historical data remains trapped inside infrastructure designed for active business operations.
Legacy application Application runtime remains active
Expensive database Production-grade storage and maintenance
Ongoing cost Licenses · infrastructure · support
Historical data Still required, but trapped in the application
ARCHIVE RETIRE
Move history out.
Shut cost down.
Shut cost down.
WITH DATACYCLIC
Retire the application. Keep the history.
Move historical information into a governed archive designed for long-term preservation and access.
ARCHIVED Legacy application data Historical information extracted
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Datacyclic Metadata · policies · lifecycle control
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PRESERVED Customer-controlled archive Efficient storage with governed access
✓ Accessible ✓ Searchable ✓ Governed ✓ Auditable ✓ Policy-managed
Reduce infrastructure costs
Move inactive history out of expensive production systems.
Avoid unnecessary renewals
Reduce dependency on software and infrastructure needed only for historical access.
Preserve historical access
Keep information available without keeping the original application running.
Retire confidently
Maintain the controls needed to manage historical data after the application is gone.
THE PLATFORM
One platform for the entire archive lifecycle.
From the moment data leaves production until its retention obligation ends.
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CONNECT
Connect to the systems where history lives.
Connect to enterprise databases and supported storage systems while capturing the metadata required to understand archived information.
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RULES
RETENTION POLICY HISTORY CLASSIFY & DEFINE
Decide what moves and how long it must remain.
Identify historical information and define archive, retention, and lifecycle rules around the data being preserved.
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PARQUET
PARQUET
PARQUET
ARCHIVE
ARCHIVE
Preserve history in efficient, portable formats.
Extract historical data and store it in efficient archive formats such as Parquet in customer-controlled storage.
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DATA
AUDIT ACCESS LINEAGE RETENTION GOVERN & PROVE
Keep historical data understandable and manageable.
Maintain metadata, lineage, retention policies, access controls, audit history, and lifecycle information around archived data.
HOW IT WORKS
From live data to governed history.
Datacyclic orchestrates the journey from production data to long-term archive and eventual policy-driven disposal.
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Connect
Connect to enterprise databases and supported storage systems while capturing the metadata required to understand archived information.
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Select
Choose tables, records, business objects, or historical data that should move out of production.
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Define
Configure archive rules, retention requirements, and lifecycle policies for the data being preserved.
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Archive
Extract historical data and store it in efficient, portable archive formats such as Parquet.
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Catalog
Register metadata, schema information, lineage, archive location, and other information required to understand the archive.
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Access
Browse archived datasets and make historical information available when authorized users need it.
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Govern
Manage retention policies, access controls, audit history, and preservation requirements throughout the lifecycle.
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Dispose
Purge data when its retention obligation has ended and policy allows disposal.
ARCHIVE ACCESS
Archived doesn't mean inaccessible.
Historical data can remain available without keeping the original production application running.
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The application can disappear.
The data doesn't have to.
DATACYCLIC ARCHIVE ACCESS Historical data explorer
Archive connected
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Search archived data Locate archived datasets and metadata
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Browse datasets Navigate available archive collections
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Inspect metadata & schema Understand archived structure and lineage
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Preview records Review archived information when authorized
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Export when authorized Support approved business and audit requirements
↗ GOVERNANCE
Built for the moment someone asks: “Can you prove it?”
Archiving is not complete when data leaves production. Historical information still needs context, controls, traceability, and a lifecycle that can be understood later.
Datacyclic Governance layer Retention
Access control
Audit trail
Lineage
Archive metadata
Purge history
Reports
Policy controls
DEPLOYMENT
Your data. Your infrastructure. Your control.
Datacyclic gives enterprises the flexibility to deploy where their data needs to live — without forcing critical archive data into a SaaS-only platform.
CLOUD
Customer cloud
Deploy Datacyclic inside your organization's cloud environment and archive data directly into storage you own and manage.
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Your cloud account
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Customer-managed storage
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Your security controls
ON-PREM
Inside your environment
Run Datacyclic within your own data center, private cloud, or enterprise infrastructure while keeping archive operations internal.
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Private infrastructure
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Internal networks
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Enterprise-grade control
HYBRID
Cloud + on-premise
Connect cloud and on-premise environments while managing the entire archive lifecycle through one governed Datacyclic platform.
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Multi-environment support
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Flexible architecture
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Unified governance
OPERATIONAL CONTROLS
Enterprise controls without enterprise complexity.
Datacyclic is built to help teams manage the operational side of data archiving and lifecycle management from a single control plane.
Explore the documentation →SSO & RBAC
Integrate with enterprise identity systems and manage role-based access to platform capabilities and archived data.
High-speed archival
Run archival workloads designed to move historical data out of expensive production environments.
Retention management
Define lifecycle policies that govern how long archived information must be retained.
Audit & reporting
Maintain traceability around archive activity, policy actions, and lifecycle operations.
Portable archives
Use efficient archive formats and customer-controlled storage designed for long-term accessibility.
DATACYCLIC
Stop paying premium prices to keep old data alive.
Move historical data out of expensive production systems while keeping it accessible, governed, and ready when you need it.
Built for enterprise data. Designed for long-term access. Deployed on your terms.