AUSTRALIA, Sydney - 9 February
2007 - SenSage, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise
event data management solutions, today announced the availability
and tight integration of SenSage event data collection, processing
and analysis systems with NetApp® enterprise storage and
compliance solutions. The new offerings provide customers with the
ability to unlock the value of inaccessible and underutilised
system event data to improve the efficiency of security
investigations, compliance auditing and systems management from a
single, integrated solution.
Compliance mandates and application complexity have greatly
increased the need for organisations to collect, analyse and retain
massive volumes of system event data in the form of system logs,
transactions records and audit data. The ability to effectively
mine this sea of data for valuable usage patterns enables
organisations to detect insider abuse and abnormal application
behaviour and to better understand system usage across complex
application chains. This requires IT organisations to retain this
data over months and years in an online, fully queryable event data
mart. The NetApp and SenSage solution will significantly reduce the
cost and time-to-value when addressing these business
challenges.
"As the complexity and sheer number of applications used in
enterprises continues to grow at record levels, event data is
increasingly becoming one of the largest datasets in the
enterprise," said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Products and
Alliances at Network Appliance
TM. "NetApp and SenSage
have teamed to offer a comprehensive solution to allow customers to
leverage this data for core security, compliance and systems
management purposes - more easily and affordably than ever
before."
The combination of SenSage's pre-integrated event data mart
capability and NetApp's unified storage solutions allows
organisations to maintain this data on cost-appropriate storage
environments without giving up extremely rapid search and
retrieval. By pre-tuning and automating traditional database and
storage management tasks, the joint offerings also significantly
reduce the total cost of ownership of the solution. This allows
organisations, especially in the financial, telecommunications and
healthcare sectors, to more effectively meet compliance mandates -
including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), PCI Data Security Standard,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and
European Union Data Retention - to better manage and address
security issues and successfully perform indexing and query
analysis.
Since much of this data is compliance-oriented, SenSage has also
integrated its software with NetApp SnapLock® to keep stored
compliance data unalterable for the appropriate retention period,
based on corporate policies and relevant regulations. SenSage's
integration with NetApp SnapLock provides a complete solution that
captures logs, stores them in WORM storage for specified retention
periods, and provides superior resilience and data protection
capabilities that are part of NetApp storage.
"Network Appliance is a clear market leader in the enterprise
storage space," said Frank Bien, vice president of product
marketing and business development, SenSage. "The integration with
SenSage addresses key pain points for IT managers around the world
and will provide new sales opportunities for both companies."
About Network Appliance
Network Appliance is a world leader in unified storage solutions
for today's data-intensive enterprise. Since its inception in 1992,
Network Appliance has delivered technology, product and partner
firsts in simplifying data management. Information about Network
Appliance solutions and services is available at
www.netapp.com.
About SenSage
SenSage, Inc. offers the only patented solution for enterprise
event management for log management, compliance auditing and
security information management applications. Over 200 customers
have deployed SenSage solutions to reduce the risks associated with
insider threats, system downtime and failed audits by providing
faster, more granular analysis of privileged user behaviour and
analysing anomalies across network, system and application
activity. Based in San Francisco, the company markets its solutions
directly and through partners, including Cerner, EMC,
Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intec Billing Systems, Lockheed Martin,
Network Appliance, Sendmail and Tokyo Electron. For more
information, please visit
www.sensage.com.
NetApp and SnapLock are registered trademarks and Network Appliance
is a trademark of Network Appliance, Inc. in the U.S. and other
countries. All other brands or products are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be
treated as such.
Contact:
Mark Heers
Network Appliance, Inc.
+61 2 9779 5623
Mark.heers@netapp.com
Rachel York
Max Australia
+61 2 9954 3492
Rachel.york@maxaustralia.com.au