analytics

How Do You Get Started With Security Visualization?

Raffael Marty — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:27:32 -0500

Are you in charge of analyzing large amounts of security data? Have you ever wondered whether there is a better way than reading your logs line by line? Here are some starting points on how to visualize your security data.

Financial crisis: The tech innovations at risk

ITworld staff — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:38:21 -0400

Analytics, SOA, storage networking, and cloud computing providers face huge fallouts as financial customers wither.

How IT could have prevented the financial meltdown

ITworld staff — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:24:10 -0400

In the coming weeks the feds and the surviving financial services institutions will have the daunting task of unraveling all the securitized loans and other instruments that are hiding the toxic investments. But does the technology exist to do that? And if so, could it have been used to prevent the bad debt from hitting the fan in the first place?

Infobright releases open-source data warehouse

ITworld staff — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:10:14 -0400

Analytic data warehousing vendor Infobright is releasing an open source data warehousing product under the GPL v2 license, and has gained Sun Microsystems as an investor through a US$10 million round of venture funding, the startup announced Monday.

Toronto company offers analytics as a service

ITworld staff — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:51:48 -0400

A Toronto company is hoping to offer software companies a way to analyze information gathered within business intelligence applications through the so-called cloud computing model and write reports via GoogleApps.