Survey: Big Data brings confusion

"Many people don't understand what a big data is, and everyone is confused." "Loglogic company http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/35685.html" > chief Marketing Officer Mandeep Khera said. Recently, loglogic with the IT Security research company Echelon one to complete a large data management survey. The survey found that 49% of companies are more or less concerned about big data management issues, while 38% do not understand what big data is, and another 27% say they have a smattering of big data. In addition, the survey found that 59% of enterprises did not deploy relevant tools to manage the data in IT systems, but instead switched to stand-alone systems and other systems, even using spreadsheets. The survey was targeted at 207 executives from all walks of life or individuals from above.

Large data is a large amount of unstructured data. If properly managed, we can tap into effective information to help businesses address security, operations, and compliance issues. All enterprises are collecting more and more data from various sources within the enterprise, as well as the cloud infrastructure, and many enterprises have not used the right tools and processes to manage the data. If this pattern goes on, we will see that the business of doing so will fall far behind others. Because they can't gain insight into the system. Khera explained.

In the survey, 62% of respondents said they were already managing more than 1TB of data and that more data would be available later. Global data volumes are growing at an insane rate. It is said that 90% of the data currently in existence comes from sensors, transactions, images and videos, social media, journals, etc., from the past two years.

This is the big data. If you use large data correctly, it will provide you with the coveted intelligence and insight. In terms of security, it allows you to see what is happening on your network to protect your enterprise from advanced persistent threats and malware. It also improves operational efficiency by optimizing server and supply chain management. It can even help you deal with compliance issues.

Khera that one of the keys to controlling large data is log management, which consolidates all logs from the enterprise-wide, builds an indexed repository, and displays it in a common user interface. This data requires the ability to normalize and correlate data and to report and send alarms.

in February 2012, Loglogic commissioned Ians to conduct an information security investment analysis for its log data management and compliance products (Isia). After visiting several Loglogic customers with large data management issues, Ians said: "The day of large data log management and general dataThe main difference between records management is how to manage a large scale of log information. Without an Easy-to-use user interface or a fast-access index repository, it is almost impossible to find effective intelligence from a data vortex. Large data management solutions must keep up with the speed at which new information is generated, which is particularly important for alarms. If the index time is too long, critical alert messages are delayed, causing serious problems.

In reality, only 54% per cent of respondents use a log management solution to manage log data, and many enterprises follow system log (syslog) or spreadsheet for log management. Loglogic's survey showed that 33% of respondents did not manage the logs. Big Data management is a long way off.

(editor: Heritage)