Reduce Storage Costs
SharePoint storage costs add up quickly, especially from old and inactive content. Igloo keeps your organisation’s documents accessible in lower-cost storage, so you don’t have to choose between cost and access.
Smart, Low Cost SharePoint Storage Alternative
Igloo automatically archives inactive tagged SharePoint documents to lower-cost storage while keeping everything searchable and accessible.
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What Makes Igloo Different?
Control storage growth without disrupting operations. Igloo automatically moves inactive documents to cold storage on your terms, no manual clean-up projects, no disruption to how people work day to day. Admins set the rules once and storage stays under control from there.
Sustainable, transparent storage costs. Untouched files sitting in premium SharePoint storage are an unpredictable, invisible cost. By shifting inactive content to lower-cost storage automatically, Igloo turns that open-ended spend into something you have control over.
Compliance teams have confidence that document categorisation is carried across to alternative storage locations. Documents retain a copy of their metadata when archived, so enhanced searchability is retained.
Uninterrupted access to what matters. Migration happens in the background, files stay fully searchable through global search or the browser, and employees can open or retrieve an archived document themselves. Nothing disappears; it just moves somewhere cheaper to store.
HUDDLER IglooCatalogue of Features
Catalogue of Features
Automatic archiving
Moves tagged documents to archive automatically
Automatic archiving
Once a document is tagged (via a Purview label), Igloo takes it from there. No one has to remember to move it, and no one has to manually sort through folders looking for what's no longer needed.
The document is relocated to the archive location automatically, based on rules set once and applied consistently from then on, keeping active storage clean without adding to anyone's workload.
Find archived files by keyword or metadata
Find archived files by keyword or metadata
Global Search
Archiving a document doesn't mean losing track of it. Through Microsoft Global Search, archived files stay fully findable by keyword.
People searching for something don't need to know it's been archived, or where — it simply turns up in the results the same way any current document would.
Permission-controlled
Security carries over to the archive
Permission Preserved
Moving to the archive doesn't loosen the rules around who can see what.
Each migration rule has its own permissions, so tagged ‘Expired Finance’ documents are only accessible to Finance team members, and so on.
One-click retrieval
Open or restore archived documents without IT
One-click retrieval
If someone needs an archived document back, they don't have to raise a ticket and wait on IT. It can be opened or retrieved directly, the same way they'd access any other file.
This keeps day-to-day work moving and means archiving never feels like a one-way trip for the people who actually use the documents.
Archive browse
Navigate a familiar replica of your original folder structure
Archive Browse
The archive isn't a flat, disorganised dumping ground — it mirrors the original folder structure documents came from, so browsing it feels familiar rather than like starting from scratch.
Anyone looking for something can navigate the way they normally would, even without knowing the exact file name or tag.
HUDDLER IglooArchiving Solution Comparison
Archiving Solution Comparison
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| Feature | Native Microsoft 365 | Huddler Igloo Best Value |
|---|---|---|
| Automated whole site archiving | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automated individual document archiving | ✗ | ✓ |
| Stays searchable | ✓ | ✓ |
| Counts toward SharePoint storage limit | Yes | No |
| Licensing | M365 E5 + SharePoint Advanced Management OR Copilot add-on | M365 E5 + Huddler Igloo |
| Storage cost | ~5c/GB/month | ~2c/GB/month |