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Nomios signs a new strategic partnership with Splunk
November 2010 by Marc Jacob
Splunk, the ’’Google of security logs’’ has signed a strategic partnership with Nomios, French integrator specialized in network security and performance optimization. This partnership enables Nomios to offer the Business Intelligence solution to its clients, major accounts from different business sectors. Splunk lets you correlate complex events from multiple data sources across your IT infrastructure so you can uncover more meaningful information.
Splunk collects huge volumes of data and enables searches into millions of events per second. It’s a self-contained software package that runs on all major operating systems. It’s free until 500 Mega Bytes of logs per day and then different licenses exist.
The software offers a high level of visibility and real-time analysis of all the IT data that transit on the network from a unique interface. As a consequence, it’s not necessary to connect to each equipment for diagnostics and analysis. The efficiency of the search engine meets needs from simplifying the resolution of incidents to taking decisions with the help of Business Intelligence. Monitoring your entire infrastructure is a great opportunity to avoid security incidents, service degradation or outages. Splunk is actually a tool perfectly adapted to every kind of business. For instance, it lets you federates all the data you need for accounting , ensuring service availability or collect all business-specific applications data form your entire IT infrastructure.
Splunk’s distributed architecture lets your search span multiple deployments within a datacenter or globally across all your datacenters. With role-based access you can control how far a given user’s search will span. The fine-grained access controls limit the searches, alerts, reports, dashboards and views that different Splunk roles can see.
The built-in engine allows you to visualize any search as a report, to plan searches and place alerts on certain events.
In order to guarantee a perfect integration of Splunk into any network architecture, Nomios provides its client with specific, Taylor-made accompaniment depending on their needs. This means a precise tuning of the solution and sharing the experience gained over the years by developing applications responding exactly to specific needs.
