Guide to IT Search: Managing the Modern Data Center

The Guide to IT SearchIT infrastructures are too complex, virtual, service oriented and mission critical.Search is a scalable, versatile and dynamic way to manage the modern datacenter.
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What is IT Search? Finding and fixing problems, following the trail of an attacker or tracing transactions requires a holistic view across all IT management isn't new. We've been trying to keep complex components. systems under control for a long time. Search isn't new either. Every day millions of people search and navigate billions of web Troubleshooting problems often means correlating web server pages served by computers all over the world. logs, SOA messages, database transactions and configuration changes. IT Search is new. It's the ability to instantly search all the data generated by applications, servers and network devices in your IT Investigating security incidents demands both the analysis of infrastructure. IT Search can help with: security events from server logs, firewalls and IDS scans, in addition to application events, configurations and scripts to . Operations Management: pinpoint and recover from understand what really happened. problems quickly, keep applications, servers and networks up. On one hand, compliance mandates require systematic review . Security: in-depth monitoring and fast incident response. and long term retention of IT data from components all over your . Compliance: meet mandates and requirements for IT data IT infrastructure, but at the same time put up more barriers to management without disrupting operations. accessing IT data for day-to-day operations.
. Application Management: real-time visibility to The fact is IT infrastructures are far more mission critical, far more troubleshoot and identify problems proactively. open to security threats and far more scrutinized for compliance than ever before. They're also far more complicated. IT Search arms your network engineers, system administrators, administrators, security and compliance people to touch security and compliance analysts, developers, customer support, production systems.help desk staff, and even business users with an up to the moment Plays nice with others. IT Search integrates with your existing understanding of what's happening in your IT infrastructure. enterprise management, security and compliance tools right out of How is it di?erent? the box. It's simple to launch searches from other tools and send alerts to any existing consoles. Index the data already collected by IT Search is different from previous approaches to IT management. existing management tools to extend the life of your investments.Here's how. Fast implementation and ROI. How much time have you spent Everything in one place. It used to make sense to manage implementing IT solutions only to find out they don't do what you datacenters in silos. But with today's distributed, scale out need? You never get time to install all the different adapters or computing, and the proliferation of complex web-based generate all the complex rules, and once you build a schema to applications and virtualization this just doesn't work anymore. IT integrate the data sources it becomes stale the moment your Search breaks down these silos, indexing data from every environment changes. IT Search delivers immediate value by component. Search, alert and report on all your IT data from every indexing and letting you search all your data, from any source, right application, server and device - all in one place. Finding and fixing away without investing time interpreting and integrating multiple, problems, following the trail of an attacker and tracing transactions different data sources. is suddenly a whole lot faster and incredibly easy. You'll do more with less. Remember when you just couldn't keep Scales to 100% of IT Data. A typical datacenter can generate more up? With IT Search you and your team will do a lot more in less time than a terabyte of IT data a day including: with fewer resources. You can each add your own knowledge to . logs your IT data as you search. No need to have 20 people in a room or . configurations on a conference call. Find problems faster, investigate security traps and alerts incidents before at... [download for more]