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Data Quality Is As Important As What You Do With It

Catching-up on a stack of reading this week I came across an interesting piece in DMReview on the importance of data quality and another in Datamation on compliance being threatened buy archiving failures. While neither piece speaks directly to infrastructure data, the principles they advocate are as applicable here as elsewhere.

Homegrown solutions typically change data when capturing, storing and processing it. So do most security event management solutions. All the more reason to run you SIEM or homegrown scripts (not that you’ll really need to use them anymore) on a log management platform. An effective LMI architecture will deliver failover, buffering, encryption, hashing, TCP transport, complete unaltered storage, analysis on a copy of the data (not the original) and such. It will protect the data, whether from networking devices, servers, applications or operating systems.

As Jane says: “The value that can be delivered to the company by improved DQ is enormous. Access to timely, accurate, reliable information provides the same answers to the same questions, no matter where in the company those questions arise. Improved DQ can also lead to enhanced ROI on IT investments, revenue growth fueled by better customer service (thus less churn), and easier regulatory compliance and sustainment. Really, who wouldn't want that kind of value for their money? “

Any effective LMI solution will deliver a single, irrevocable view of the truth.

Posted January 24, 2006 in Log Management & Intelligence | Permalink