Logblog: BriefingsDirect Transcripts: Systems Log Analytics Offers Operators Valued Performance Insights While Setting Stage for IT Transformation Benefits

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BriefingsDirect Transcripts: Systems Log Analytics Offers Operators Valued Performance Insights While Setting Stage for IT Transformation Benefits

Despite growing complexity, IT organizations need to reduce operations costs, increase security and provide more insight, clarity, and transparency across multiple IT systems -- even virtualized systems. A number of new tools and approaches are available for gaining contextual information and visibility into what goes on within IT infrastructure.

IT systems information gushes forth from an increasing variety of devices, as well as networks, databases, and lots of physical and virtual servers and blades. Putting this information all in one place, to be analyzed and exploited, far outweighs manual, often paper-based examination. The automated log forensics solutions that capture all the available systems information and aggregate and centralize that information are becoming essential to efficient IT management.

To learn more about systems logs analytics, Dana Gardner recently moderated a sponsored BriefingsDirect panel discussion podcast with Pat Sueltz, the CEO at LogLogic; Jian Zhen, senior director of product management at LogLogic, and Pete Boergermann, technical support manager at Citizens & Northern Bank.

Listen to the podcast. Download the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod.

Read a full transcript of the discussion.

Posted September 14, 2008 in Log Management & Intelligence , Project Lasso | Permalink