ArcSight Simplifies Log Searches

At the ArcSight Protect ’10 conference, the company rolled out a new edition of ArcSight Logger that not only is easier to search, but is one of the few log management tools to store event data in the Common Event Format (CEF), said Varun Kholi, senior product marketing manager for ArcSight.

CEF not only helps improves performance, it reduces IT costs by giving every device a unified format to store event information, as opposed to requiring log management tools to sort through thousands of log files stored in proprietary formats that consume large amounts of storage.

Kholi said ArcSight is also giving customers the ability to run Logger 5.0 on a virtual appliance, which means customers or IT services companies can now opt to run log management software in the cloud.

Finally, Kholi said ArcSight has decided to make Logger 5.0 available for under $50 to encourage adoption among IT professionals that in today’s economic climate may find it difficult to get approval to purchase log management software no matter how much that software eases their everyday IT tasks.