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Enterprise managers scrambling to gain control of their log files--searching and archiving massive amounts of data arriving daily--can find the help they desperately need from the SenSage Security Compliance Bundle featuring EMC Centera.

On most networks, log files represent a largely untapped wealth of diagnostic information from a variety of sources: data/device access logs, intrusion warnings, user lockouts, kernel panics, hardware complaints, and application errors. On the largest enterprise networks these log files can grow by hundreds of Gigabytes per day, and regulations such as SOX require it all to be not only archived for years but also digested at a moment's notice.

Figuring out what to look for is hard enough for determined managers, but the sheer immensity of collection, archive, report and investigation compliance mandates is daunting. SenSage Inc. of San Francisco, CA created the solution. SenSage Security Compliance Bundle combines a robust security event information management solution and EMC Corporation's Centera "near-line" content-addressable storage (CAS). We liked the power of the drill-down investigations for real-time correlated alerts, ad hoc queries and batch mode reports, as well as the storage optimization and performance.

What's in the Bundle?

The SenSage Security Compliance Bundle is available now, and ships in multiple configurations to medium to large enterprise customers. The lowest-priced package is designed for managing up to 15 GB daily log volume, stored for greater than 25 months in a solution managing 11.3 TB of compressed raw event data leveraging Centera. A higher-end bundle absorbs up to 50 GB of daily log volume with storage of greater than 13 months managing 23.4 TB compressed raw event data with Centera. Every...

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