Bill Roth

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)

Smart Grid: Setting the Stage

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)

Say “Auf Wiedersehen!” to Data Privacy Concerns

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)

Beyond SIEM: IT Data Management - Part 2

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)

LinuxWorld, San Francisco: "We View Cloudscape As Important As Eclipse," Says IBM

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)