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
Using object-level retention
Using object-level retention
Enforce retention at an object level using default retention periods or custom bucket levels.
Apply legal holds to single or multiple objects.
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