Archive Microsoft 365. Own your data.
Purpose-built archiving for SharePoint Online and Microsoft 365. Cut storage spend, stay compliant, and keep every byte in yourAzure subscription — not someone else's cloud.
Trusted by IT leaders archiving Microsoft 365 at scale
Products
One archiving stack for Microsoft 365.
Three focused tools that work together. Deploy what you need, run it in your own Azure subscription, take control of your Microsoft 365 storage.
Why SmiKar
Archiving without the lock-in tax.
Most archiving vendors take custody of your data — hosting it on infrastructure you don't control, charging you to access your own information. We took the opposite approach.
Squirrel and Chipmunk write directly into your Azure Blob Storage account. Encrypted, compressed, and restorable on demand — but always sitting in your tenant, under your governance, not ours.
Your tenant, your data
Archives land in your Azure Storage account. We never hold a copy. Compliance, sovereignty and exit strategy by design.
Encrypted and compressed
Archives are encrypted at rest and compressed to shrink your footprint. Restored on demand through Squirrel and Chipmunk's self-service tooling.
Cut storage spend
Push cold SharePoint content into Hot, Cool or Archive tier blob storage and slash per-GB costs by up to 90%.
Compliance-friendly
Retention rules, audit trails and immutability that fit Microsoft Purview, GDPR and industry-specific requirements.
Reduction in SharePoint storage spend, typical
Your archive lives in your own Azure subscription
Encryption at rest, compressed before upload
Built for enterprise IT
Specialist software. Trusted by enterprise IT teams.
Six things every Microsoft 365 customer can count on with SmiKar — backed by Microsoft Partner status, Azure Marketplace verification and customer-tenant data sovereignty.
Registered Microsoft Partner
Listed in the Azure Marketplace as a registered Microsoft Partner. Specialist independent software vendor (ISV) for the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
Azure Marketplace verified
Chipmunk deploys directly from the Azure Marketplace into your own subscription — procurement via your existing Microsoft enterprise agreement, no separate ISV contract required.
Customer data never leaves your tenant
Squirrel and Chipmunk write archives directly into your own Azure Blob Storage account. SmiKar never holds a copy of customer data, ever.
Encrypted, auditable, compliant
AES encryption at rest. Compression before upload. Per-job audit trail. Aligned with Microsoft Purview, GDPR and industry-specific retention requirements out of the box.
Engineering-led support
Direct access to the product engineers when you need them. Replies within one business day, often the same day. Built for IT teams that don't have time for support-ticket queues.
Purpose-built for Microsoft 365
Years of focused work on the SharePoint and Microsoft 365 archiving problem — not a feature inside a broad platform trying to do everything. Specialists, doing what specialists do.
From the blog
Field notes for IT leaders.
Ready to take control of your Microsoft 365 archive?
Book a 30-minute walkthrough. We'll plug into a test SharePoint site and show you exactly how much storage you can move into your own Azure account this quarter.