An organization has decided to fully transition its inactive data management to the cloud.

The organization's stated objective is explicitly a full transition of inactive data management to the cloud, which requires an archiving approach that places all archived, inactive data exclusively within cloud storage rather than splitting it between on-premises and cloud locations. Cloud-only archiving practices directly match this objective, moving fixed content entirely into cloud-based archive tiers and eliminating dependency on on-premises archive infrastructure, achieving the 'complete cloud integration' the organization is seeking. Utilizing distributed storage options (A) is vague and does not specifically commit to a cloud-exclusive model; distributed storage could just as easily span multiple on-premises locations without involving the cloud at all, failing to guarantee complete cloud integration. Initiating partial cloud archiving (C) describes a hybrid approach, retaining some archived data on-premises while moving only a portion to the cloud, which directly contradicts the stated goal of a full transition, since some inactive data would remain outside the cloud. Archiving data on physical disks (D) implies retaining on-premises, local physical media as the archive destination, which is the opposite of a cloud transition and does not satisfy the requirement at all. Cloud-only archiving correctly and completely satisfies the organization's stated objective.

Reference topic: Cloud-based Data Protection - Cloud-Only vs. Hybrid Archiving Strategies.