Archive: March, 2009
Early Event Detection – A Prototype Implementation
In my earlier post today, A Review of Zabbix – Zabbix Rules! (Part 2) I used the term “event precursor.” Afterwords I thought “this is a nice event processing term, I wonder who used it before me?” So, I did a bit of Googleing around and came up with this excellent paper where the term [...]
Read moreA Review of Zabbix – Zabbix Rules! (Part 2)
In A Review of Zabbix – Zabbix Rules! (Part 1) we provided a brief introduction to Zabbix in the context of network and security management. In this post I will discuss Zabbix as an event processing platform. Zabbix is like most event processing platforms. Zabbix provides both agent-initiated events as well as server-requested events. In [...]
Read moreCommentary on the Floundering CEP Market
In response to Complex Event Processing Vendors Flounder is important to point out that it is a fact that the so called “CEP software” on the market today has made littie progress outside a handful of niche areas in capital markets where there have been no generic event processing platforms available in the past. In [...]
Read moreA Review of Zabbix – Zabbix Rules! (Part 1)
It was 1992, the Internet was still an uncertain “dream technology” by scientists, and I was working at SprintLink. My role was the lead systems engineer to set up the network and security management center for SprintLink and Managed Router Network (MRN) team. We used HP Open View Network Node Manager (NNM) for our core [...]
Read moreGoogle Informs Docs Users Of Security Lapse
This is a quick followup note to my post A New Security Breach in Google Docs Revealed. Information Week has reported that Google Informs Docs Users Of Security Lapse which include this quote: The last such Google Docs security lapse was reported in September, when Tim Bass, posting to the (ISC)² blog, disclosed a caching [...]
Read moreCEP: A Technology Behind The Power Curve
It was almost three years ago when I was introduced to the buzzword “complex event processing” by good friends and colleagues at TIBCO Software. At TIBCO (before and during my time there) we always discussed how “real-time event processing” would be a technology to address “the needle in the haystack” detection problems in the big [...]
Read moreTruely Impressive New Sixth-Sense Technology
Here is an amazing video by Pattie Maes from MIT Media Lab, presented at TED. Pattie presents a wearable device cobbled together for around $350 dollars that consists of a camera, a small projector with a mirror, and a device to communicate with a cell phone. I want to thank Perderabo over at The UNIX [...]
Read moreThe Cyberwar Against Marketing Hype
When discussing CEP and EP, someone recently blogged: “There is even one person who declared a full fledged cyber war on anybody who uses the term “complex event processing” not in what he believes to be the original intent of past DARPA project in the area of security and military operational applications.” Actually, I think [...]
Read moreDiscussion on the Aleri – Coral8 Merger
Penny Crossman of Wall Street and Technology wrote “Critics Give Aleri-Coral8 Merger High Marks, but CEP Bloodbath Continues” which included a nice interview with Aleri CEO Don DeLoach and Coral8 vice-president of product marketing John Morrel. Aleri and Coral8 merged, in my opinion, because both companies are struggling in the current market and combining their [...]
Read more(Yawn) Aleri Buys Coral8 – (Wow) Citigroup Stock Falls Below A Buck!
I think Mark over at Citi has been drinking too much of Aleri’s wine over at Columbus Circle. For some reason (must be the wine and marketing hype), Marc thinks that Aleri absorbing Coral8 is “earth-shattering news” ? Obviously, Aleri and Coral8 would like for us to think it was, in Marc’s words “earth-shattering [...]
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