Novell announces the availability of Sentinel Log Manager 1.1

Novell recently revealed the provision of Novell Sentinel Log Boss 1.1, making the new management solution available as a software appliance. Novell has long been a proponent of software appliances and which are essentially pre-configured combinations of an application, middleware and OS integrated into one image and tailored for a physical, virtual or cloud environment.

In a blog post describing software appliances, Nat Friedman, founder of Ximain which is now part of Novell and previous Chief Technology and System Officer for Linux at Novell, recounted, ” One of our main objectives in creating SUSE Studio was to make it ridiculously easy for software developers to distribute their applications as software appliances.”

Friedman described a software appliance a full application stack containing the operating system, the application software and any required dependencies, and the configuration and information files needed to operate. Everything is preinstalled, pre-integrated, and prepared to run.

Further, Friedman announced said that, “Instead of asking their customers to assemble applications, operating systems, and middleware together themselves, software vendors can just distribute as a ready-to-run stack that boots into a setup wizard. The stack is assembled by the developer, so it’s the expert who’s doing all of the installation and integration, not a beginner reading a manual or a high-priced consultant making a living off his voodoo expertise.”

Meanwhile, an important element of Novell's security management portfolio, Novell Sentinel Log Manager simplifies agreement with regulatory necessities and improves an organization's security posture, the company announced. Built using SUSE Studio, Novell's internet-based appliance building solution, Sentinel Log Manager helps clients reduce deployment cost and installation difficulty in the highly distributed and virtualized IT environments of today.

Moreover, by employing Novell Sentinel Log Manager as a software appliance, consumers can start in seconds and eliminate upkeep processes with the appliance's self-updating features. Novell officers expounded Sentinel Log Manager 1.1 offers a cost efficient, scalable and multi-tenant log managing tool with visibility into IT substructure activities to boost security as well as strip down regulatory compliance wants.

"The Novell Sentinel Log Manager appliance, powered by SUSE Linux Enterprise, is a cost effective and robust enterprise log management tool that helps customers quickly and efficiently scale their security and regulatory compliance efforts," recounted Jim Ebzery, senior VP and general manager of Security, Management and Operating Platforms at Novell. "The Sentinel Log Manager appliance is yet another proof point that Novell is executing on its strategy to lead the rapidly growing intelligent workload management market. Customers are looking for solutions that integrate operating systems, middleware and applications in a single form factor that solves a critical business problem. Log management is one of the most pressing issues facing CISOs today, and this new appliance will help them resolve those challenges with a solution that is easy to install and manage."

"Software appliances are the next evolutionary step for software delivery, allowing hardware to be decoupled from the software creating adaptable mechanisms for deployment and management", announced Charles Kolodgy, research vice chairman at IDC. "To quickly address the threat environment, enterprises must have flexibility in deploying security applications. This form factor can directly leverage the increasingly virtualized infrastructure within data centers, and it is capable of deploying to cloud computing environments to expand the potential utilization of security information and event management."

Novell officers asserted the Sentinel Log Manager 1.1 is the newest product to ship from Novell's product map for the workload management market. Product enhancements include distributed search capacities that cut through the intricacy of accessing event information by enabling customers to search events from one or two on or off-premise servers for compliance management and forensics inquiries, the company asserted. Loads of pre-configured templates help buyers efficiently generate compliance attestation reports. Novell Sentinel Log Manager also uses non-proprietary storage technology to supply unrivalled information integrity and larger storage pliability leading to overall reduced cost and complexity.

"Delivering log management as a software appliance is a revolutionary approach that allows our customers to immediately derive value from their log management solution," announced Prasad Jayaraman, Boss of Qubera Solutions, in an announcement. "Sentinel Log Manager 1.1 delivers immediate functionality in minutes without requiring expensive proprietary hardware appliances. It also enables our customers to optimize their virtual infrastructure investments."

Novell Sentinel Log Manager integrates easily with Novell Sentinel and the Novell Identity Management suite providing organizations a simple trail to identity-aware security event and information management, Novell said. Real time monitoring and remediation of network events permit clients to correlate identities, systems and information to supply a centralized view of business operations, so setups can steadily enforce security and access-related policies, making it simple to control risk and prove compliance, the company said.