What’s the secret for maintaining market leadership with our high speed archive, index and retrieval solution, Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD)? Modernization and innovation! Today we are excited to announce the release of Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) v10.5, which includes native REST Services to provide a fresh approach for implementing web-based applications as well as enhancements to our storage, security and usability capabilities. As a reminder, in our prior two releases, we also introduced significant capabilities for cloud object storage, designed to support exponential data growth and cloud workloads. Keep reading for more about our latest release!
Object Storage and Immutability
Object storage provides CMOD customers with economical, highly scalable storage that can grow to peta bytes and beyond. By introducing new object storage options, we are providing CMOD customers with an expanded choice of storage devices and additional levels of content protection.
In CMOD v10.5, we are introducing write once read many (WORM) immutable storage for IBM Cloud Object Storage and the Hitachi Content Platform. Regulated industries such as financial services and government sectors require organizations to capture and store content in unalterable formats. For example, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission 17a-4 requires that ‘electronic records must be preserved exclusively in a non-rewriteable and non-erasable format’. Leveraging immutable storage, clients can help protect CMOD content against deletion or modification until the end of a specified retention period.
Additionally with CMOD v10.5, the choice of available object storage is expanded. Azure is a new storage option available for CMOD Multiplatforms and for CMOD z/OS. We have also extended IBM Cloud Object Storage, Hitachi Content Platform and Amazon S3 object storage options, already available with CMOD MP, to CMOD z/OS and CMOD on IBM i.
Centralized management of Encryption keys
Do any of your statements or reports in CMOD contain personally identifiable information (PII)? This could include full name, social security number, driver's license number, bank or credit card account number, and email address.
While CMOD already uses AES-256 encryption to encrypt the content, the ability to store encryption keys in a centralized KMIP key store like IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager can help customers meet privacy laws and other regulations such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), Sarbanes-Oxley and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). In addition, the emergence of recent privacy laws such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) make it more important than ever to protect sensitive personal data.
Encryption keys can now be stored in a centralized key store that supports the OASIS - Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP). IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager has been validated for use with CMOD MP v 10.5.
HTML5 line data viewer
The HTML5 line data viewer, introduced with CMOD v10.1 as a replacement for the Java applet based line data viewer, has now been enhanced to support graphical annotations. The prior applet viewer remains available for Internet Explorer 11 users; however, for all other web browsers that no longer support Java plug-ins, the HTML5 line data viewer is the only way to go. Customers still using the prior Java applet viewer can now upgrade to a modern viewing experience!
Additional information about this blog content and other CMOD enhancements can be found in these announcement letters: