Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking with Anton Chuvakin, Director of
Product Management at LogLogic. We had an interesting discussion about log
management and the open source project he's involved in that collects Windows
event logs. Here's an overview of our chat.
Drowning in logs is all too common nowadays when organizations are struggling
with a combination of operational, security, and compliance requirements. A
typical organization will have logs from a wide array of log sources such as
server operating systems (Unix and Windows), desktops, mainframes, network
gear such as routers and switches, web proxies, security gear such as network
IDS, IPS or anti-virus tools, Web, e-mail, and DNS server software as well as
enterprise applications.
Large organizations ty... (more)
Most organizations provide their users with the ability to print, store, and
access files on network servers. Accessing and saving files to network drives
and printing to shared network printers is probably something administrators
don't spend much time thinking about unless it's to help users install print
drivers or assist them in accessing shared network directories.
If your organizati... (more)
Customers have high expectations that their software solutions have been
stress-tested thoroughly in advance for every conceivable combination of
events that might occur in production and that vendors who put out buggy
products are exposed quickly.
Unfortunately, inadequate infrastructure for software testing is said to cost
approximately $59.5 billion annually, according to a 2002 study,... (more)
There's been some interesting debate in the Open Source community regarding
Open Source applications that run both on Linux and Windows. One camp feels
most users select an operating system based on its available applications. If
the applications people want are on Windows, they will tend to stick with
Windows. Conversely, if the applications they want are only on Linux, they
will eventu... (more)
Windows Is Not Linux or Linux Is Not Windows?
Here is a long justification I ran across that argues that the real problem
with Linux adoption is that it is different from Windows. In other words
people coming from Windows to Linux just have the wrong expectations. I don't
quite buy the argument which I feel boils down to "the problem is the users".
Before you start insisting that something a... (more)