Resources

Glossary of archiving terms, guides on archiving in your own Azure subscription and data sovereignty, help centre and API documentation.

Help centre
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API documentation
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Guides

  • Archiving in your own Azure subscriptionRoger Vial, CTO
  • Data sovereignty and document archivingRoger Vial, CTO

Glossary

TermDefinition
Retention classA category of documents with a defined retention period and what happens at its end.
Legal holdA block on deletion for specific documents while a legal or regulatory matter is open. It overrides retention until released.
Audit trailThe chronological record of actions on a document or in the system, with user and time.
Data planeWhere your data lives: documents, metadata and search index, in your Azure subscription.
Application planeThe software that works on the data: interface, logic, updates and monitoring, run by CumulusPro as a service.
Encryption at restEncryption of stored data. In Azure Storage it applies automatically to everything in the storage account.
Customer-managed keyAn encryption key created and held by the customer in Azure Key Vault and used by Azure Storage on the customer's behalf.
Archive-ready dataDocuments that arrive in the archive already classified, with checked metadata and a retention class.