Cameron Sturdevant

Splunks namesake Splunk Professional, now at Version 2.2, takes log-file and other time-stamped IT performance and monitoring data and turns it into a searchable body of troubleshooting information. Splunks secret sauce is the ability to look for time stamps in log entries and turn the log information into compressed, indexed metadata that can then be […]

XenSource gets in some licks at VMware, Cisco clarifies virtualization strategy and the dinner table talk turns to power-efficient data centers and server monitoring at an industry get-together. I attended the annual N-Square (Networking/Networking) dinner on Tuesday, March 6, in Palo Alto, run by Internet Research Group (John Katsaros, Peter Christy) and sponsored this year […]

Splunk is a software application that uses a search language and log aggregation techniques to assist IT help desk staff and managers get to the root cause of system, application and infrastructure problems. Splunk 2.2 takes log data from almost any source and parses out the time information in the message in order to execute […]

Reconnex, maker of data monitoring appliances, today made some news for itself today (March 5, 2007) by announcing the findings of a survey that the company sponsored. Unsurprisingly, the survey showed that of the enterprises surveyed, 1/3 acknowledged the loss of sensitive data in the last 12 months, a problem for which Reconnex (and Vontu, […]

StillSecures Safe Access 5.0 is a complete, flexible network access control solution that has the potential to accommodate tomorrows technology advances. Safe Access 5.0, which started shipping in October 2006, is competitively priced at $20 per IP address for a 2,500-user deployment. Safe Access can run on commodity servers, and, in its simplest in-line protection […]

“Cisco Network Admission Control, Volume I: NAC Architecture and Design” Denise Helfrich, Lou Ronnau, Jason Frazier, Paul Forbes, 2006, Cisco Press, 264 pages, $55 “Cisco Network Admission Control, Volume II: NAC Framework Deployment and Troubleshooting” Jazib Frahim, Omar Santos, David White Jr., 2006, Cisco Press, 624 pages, $60 The two volumes of “Cisco Network Admission […]

Februarys RSA Conference included a panel discussion called “Network Access Control: Industry Giants Debate the Future.” And debate they did: Cisco Systems bragged about 1,500 installed NAC clients; Microsoft said IP Security implementation was easy; and the Trusted Computing Group talked about the plodding pace of creating interoperable NAC standards. While this particular debate was […]

Is it spring forward and fall back, or spring back and fall forward? As confusing as the beginning of daylight-saving time can be in general, it will be even more confusing this year to the IT managers who have to make sure that their companies computing systems arent left in the dark by a new […]

It managers who must keep ip network equipment up and running even in hostile environments should consider using Mu Securitys Mu-4000 Security Analyzer. The 2U (3.5-inch) appliance is best suited for organizations that are committed to testing IP equipment but want to reduce the amount of staff time needed to monitor and record test results. […]

IT managers who must keep IP network equipment up and running even in hostile environments should consider using Mu Securitys Mu-4000 Security Analyzer. The 2U (3.5-inch) appliance is best suited for organizations that are committed to testing IP equipment but want to reduce the amount of staff time needed to monitor and record test results. […]

Regulatory compliance completely dominates the tradeshow floor at the RSA Conference 2007. In the recent past compliance products and services were talked about but not implemented. 2007 is clearly the year compliance comes into its own. Unified Threat Management, access control, application security and all manner of authentication products are still going strong too, which […]

Netreos OmniCenter OnDemand provides network, system and application management without using agents or appliances. While OmniCenter OnDemand currently lacks a full-fledged configuration management database, it provides performance monitoring breadth without mandating new IT head count. OmniCenter OnDemand is a subscription-based service. With no hardware or agents to install, the product slipped easily into the network […]