Category: Business Optimization
An Event Cloud Generator for CEP Testing
Alexander Widder (Centrum für Informations-Technologie Transfer GmbH, Germany), and I have been discussing the need for an event cloud generator that could be used for generating CEP scenarios for testing and evaluation purposes. For example, integrating flat files from UNIX/Linux syslog generators (if one exists, need to check) with an open source ESB like Mule (from [...]
Read moreGetting Started in CEP: How to Build an Event Processing Application (Part 1)
Complex event processing (CEP) is a promising new technology that aims to enable businesses to quickly identify and respond to both threats and opportunities. Many companies are interested in the promise of CEP but they are unsure where to begin. We are fortunate that our friends at Gartner are hosting their first event processing summit, [...]
Read moreMaking the Complex Simple with CEP
Many agree that the one of the most important aspects of complex event processing is making the power and flexibility of CEP analytics readily accessible to non-programmers. This important cornerstone of CEP is discussed in this excellent GCN article, Stream of Consciousness, mentioning StreamBase, Coral8, Progress Apama, and a new vendor in the CEP field, Truviso. [...]
Read moreSecurity Event Management (SEM) with CEP (Part 4) – The 5 Principles of SEM
Security Event Management (SEM) with CEP (Part 4) – The 5 Principles of SEM In Part 2 and Part 3 of Security Event Management (SEM) with CEP, we reviewed trends in cybersecurity and the motivation for SEM and CEP. That introduction leads us to a brief post on the high-level functional requirements of SEM. In [...]
Read moreNASA’s SHINE – 30 or 200 Million Rules Per Second?
There has been ongoing, and often controversial, discussions in the event processing community about standardized benchmarks for event processing. Experts tend to agree on at least one point – benchmarks should not be designed by commercial software vendors, but should be independently developed by a neutral third party. Opher Etzion and I were discussing this [...]
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