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ArcSight Announces Industry-Leading Universal Log Management Solution, Logger 5.0

WASHINGTON (BUSINESS WIRE) ArcSight, Inc., a leading global provider of cybersecurity and compliance solutions, today announced an industry-leading Universal Log Management solution, Logger 5.0, for security, compliance and IT operations. The solution enables organizations to capture, store and search on any type of information, anytime.

ArcSight Logger is already in use at leading global organizations. Leading private firms and public agencies use ArcSight Logger to cut the time, cost and effort of IT troubleshooting, compliance reporting and security audits. ArcSight Logger 5.0 is available today as downloadable software for a starting price of $49, bringing true enterprise-class log management functionality to everyone. For customers who wish to operate within a cloud or virtualized environment, ArcSight Logger 5.0 can be deployed within the cloud, such as Amazon Web Services or via virtual machine.

"Logger is a cost effective and comprehensive log management solution for both small-medium enterprises and large scale organizations," said Joe Bonnell, CEO, Alchemy Security. "Our holistic approach to compliance, security intelligence and business imperative initiatives delivers the flexibility clients need to address an ever shifting compliance and security intelligence landscape. Logger fits perfectly into our strategy because it's easy to deploy, highly scalable, and has market-leading search functions."

In addition to new the price point and form factors that support universal availability, ArcSight Logger 5.0 brings new Universal Log Management functionality to customers outside of traditional security and compliance job roles. ArcSight Logger 5.0 includes the ability to create reports against both structured and unstructured data, as well as unified search across data types. ArcSight Logger 5.0 also brings a new simplified search language for users who prefer iterative searches. For example, an IT help desk employee might use multiple commands to troubleshoot a failing server, then pipe the results to a live graph or chart. These results can also be saved as reports for future use. Logger 5.0 includes new IT operations analysis functions, such as:
    * Application build-error tracking
    * Application runtime stack trace reporting
    * Failed login analysis
    * System CPU utilization analysis

"The new software form factor, easy installation and surprisingly accessible price enables IT staff to rapidly evaluate the benefits of log management and IT search capabilities in a variety of use-cases," said Jasmine Noel, Partner at Ptak, Noel and Associates, an IT management research and analysis group. "Logger 5.0 allows IT professionals to solve immediate problems, while building the business case for a cross-domain search, analysis and reporting solution."

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