Overview

Protect your data against deletion or modification

Immutable object storage from IBM Cloud® is designed to help clients preserve records and maintain data integrity in a Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM), non-erasable and non-rewritable manner to protect against deletion or modification until the end of retention periods and the removal of any legal holds.

How it’s used

Creating and enforcing retention policies

1. Create a storage bucket

Use IBM Cloud Object Storage to create a storage bucket for your unstructured data.

2. Set a retention policy

Write an object to a bucket with a specific or inherited retention policy.

3. Apply a legal hold

Prevent individual objects from being deleted or overwritten.

Using object-level retention

1. Create a storage bucket

Use IBM Cloud Object Storage to create a storage bucket for your unstructured data.

2. Set a retention policy

Write an object to a bucket with a specific or inherited retention policy.

3. Apply a legal hold

Prevent individual objects from being deleted or overwritten.

Capabilities

Immutable data highlights

Control

Ability to set retention policy on a bucket and specify retention period

Support

Support for variable user-defined retention periods

Options

Object written to a bucket with a retention policy can inherit the default retention period or have a user-defined retention period

Protection

Individual object within a bucket with a retention policy can have legal hold(s) — preventing object from being deleted or overwritten

Settings

Use of API extensions for setting and viewing retention period at a bucket and object level

UI

Ability to efficiently set and manage retention periods by using enhanced UI