Compliance mandates and application complexity have greatly increased the need for organizations to collect, analyze 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 organizations to detect insider abuse and abnormal application behavior and to better understand system usage across complex application chains. This requires IT organizations 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™. "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."

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."