For years, Security Information Event Management (SIEM) has been an effective
tool for optimizing the identification of security threats. However,
because it rarely leverages all IT information, SIEM is unable to
comprehensively scale to address the other two cornerstones of the modern,
intelligence-driven enterprise: comprehensive IT data for compliance and
enterprise-wide operational intelligence.
Market research indicates that today more than 30 percent of enterprise data
is IT data - i.e., data about the enterprise's IT. Managing this
information is a challenge for a number of reasons. It's typically
scattered across multiple locations both on- and off-premises and in the
cloud. Multiple, incompatible interfaces make it difficult to access this
data. And it's difficult to correlate IT data without putting it into a
larger context.
An interesting report pu... (more)
Although many in the tech world have read the recent stories about erstwhile
Cleantech darling Solyndra and its near-overnight shuttering, the overall
Clean- and Greentech industries are doing well. LogLogic works closely with
many brand leaders across industries, including more than 1 in 3 Utilities
companies in the Fortune 500, which is the area we’d like to explore in
this post.
We wanted to share a case study that shares details of LogLogic’s work in
the Smart Grid space.
Setting the Stage
Smart Grid technology has been at the forefront of global news about energy
transmiss... (more)
The buzz around “big data” raises concerns about the privacy of the
massive amounts of data collected. One of our customers, a telecom company in
the U.S. uses our software to collect more than 60 billion messages per day
from over 40 different devices.
Where does this data go? How do companies ensure that personal information
contained in these messages does not fall into the wrong hands?
In Europe, these questions are of heightened importance. Germany and
Switzerland (and soon the rest of the E.U.) legally require organizations to
have strict data privacy modes on IT data they ... (more)
In our last post we discussed the emergence of IT data management, or ITDM,
how it differs from Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), and the
need go beyond SIEM to address managing IT data for compliance and
enterprise-wide operational intelligence. IT systems are generating an
increasing amount of data, and there is hidden meaning that can be extracted
from them. Until now, however, there has been no efficient way for IT
departments to collect, manage and analyze this disparate data from across
the enterprise. Today, ITDM is emerging as a solution that can collec... (more)
IBM and the Apache Foundation announced that IBM is contributing the
Cloudscape product it acquired from Informix to the Apache open source
program. The project name for the effort will be "Derby." The contribution
amounts to more than 500,000 lines of Java code. In related news IBM also
clarified its Linux distribution strategy.
An IBM press release said that Derby will be "a Java-based relational
database with a two megabyte footprint that is fully embeddable and requires
zero administration support." In conversations with IBM executives, they
repeatedly emphasized that Cloudsc... (more)