Today we are releasing the first Release Candidate of Graylog v3.1. This release brings a whole new alerting and event system that provides more flexible alert conditions and event correlation based on the new search APIs that also power the views. In addition, some extended search capabilities introduced in Graylog Enterprise v3.0 are now available in the open source edition in preparation for unifying the various search features.

In our recent webinar on what it takes to build time series anomaly detection, industry experts Arun Kejariwal, Ira Cohen and Ben Lorica shared valuable advice for ways to successfully implement and execute anomaly detection systems in today’s increasingly complex corporate world.

There’s never a dull moment in the world of anomaly detection. These are the glitches that the world’s largest organizations battled in the month of July.

The recent disclosure of yet another cloud security misconfiguration leading to the loss of sensitive personal information made the headlines this past week. This particular incident came with a bit more information from the indictment of the accused party, allowing us to piece together the revealed data and take an educated guess as to what may have transpired leading up to the loss of over 100 million credit card applications and 100 thousand social security numbers.

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we explore how cyber threat intelligence can aid organizations. Enterprises often end up spending a great deal of money on monitoring and wiring their perimeter with defensive security solutions. But is merely incorporating security solutions like firewalls, antivirus software, intrusion detection systems, web filtering, and encryption enough?

ServiceDesk Plus’ latest recognition comes from Gartner’s Capterra, which has awarded ServiceDesk Plus a position in its Top 20 IT Asset Management Software report. This recognition affirms ServiceDesk Plus’ commitment to providing all that a business needs as a full-fledged IT service desk tool with a robust built-in IT asset management (ITAM) module.

LogicMonitor’s current monitoring coverage for VMware’s vCenter is best-in-class: from a single device in your portal, you can see every component of your virtual environment and their respective performance metrics: hosts, clusters, virtual machines, resource pools, datastores, virtual switches, networks, snapshots, and more.

If you ever need to duplicate or clone your Azure VMs or perhaps even migrate your Azure VMs from Azure Service Manager (ASM) to Azure Resource Manager (ARM) you can use one of our Azure Management Tools, Azure VM Cloner (AVMC) to quickly and easily do this for you.

What is edge computing? Do you really want to know? The story of edge computing reminds us how things used to be and how they will be in the future, similar but different. Would you like to know more? This is not a story of passions or revenge, but of common sense. In the IT world, it is all about looking for the practical side of life. But before we start, we should get to know where we are now, don’t you think?

Time-sensitive situations require immediate action, ensuring that a goal or task is achieved within a restrictive deadline. This is the case for Search and Rescue Dogs of Colorado (SARDOC), a non-profit organization dedicated to finding missing persons in mountainous and wilderness regions.