BILLERICA, Massachusetts, May 26 /PRNewswire/ --

Businesses are drowning in a sea of audit log data from their IT systems,
which must be tracked to mitigate the risks of security threats, legal
exposure and regulatory compliance. Vertica is working with Italian IT
security specialist, Integra, to offer these businesses the world's fastest
log warehouse for managing never-ending volumes of audit data.

Integra has integrated the Vertica Analytic Database into its iknoplex
Log Manager (ILM). The technology enables businesses to create a specialized
data warehouse to instantly drill down through all log data and analyze it
insightfully. Until now, businesses could only analyze a smaller subset of
log data because their databases couldn't handle the massive data volumes
that their systems generated.

ILM solves this performance and scalability problem using Vertica's
column-oriented, MPP database to handle the massive analytic workloads. With
its strong data compression and unique parallel processing architecture, the
Vertica Analytic Database has enabled Integra to deliver the fastest data
warehouse infrastructure for high-volume log data currently on the market.

The Vertica-based solution from Integra is particularly critical for
banks and institutions that face regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, Basel
II, PCI DSS, FISMA, HIPAA, GLBA and European privacy laws. They must
consolidate audit log data for long retention periods, and make it instantly
available to compliance, fraud management, threat management and incident
response applications.

According to Yann Bongiovanni, Integra's CTO, aggregating, monitoring and
analyzing the overwhelming amount of audit logs is an enormous problem for
risk-averse companies. "They can't analyze what they can't see, and they
can't see sufficient data with traditional technologies. The problem could
only be solved with modern data center innovations such as grid-based
computing, parallel processing and columnar databases. After evaluating a
number of offerings, such as Sensage, we decided to embed Vertica because it
is generations ahead in product development, and far outperformed the
competition," he said.

How it works

ILM collects, normalizes, enriches and archives all the log and audit
data, making it available to a variety of business intelligence and reporting
applications. To manage the extraordinarily large data volumes while
delivering blazingly fast query performance, the Vertica-enabled ILM data
warehouse operates in a cluster of small industry-standard servers,
delivering supercomputing performance at an affordable cost.

Data acquisition, processing, loading and querying utilize parallel
processing to exploit the power of the multiprocessor cluster hardware, which
is critical since a single cluster can acquire hundreds of terabytes per
month of uncompressed log data. Vertica's pioneering data compression reduces
storage requirements by as much as 90 percent while delivering query results
from the data 50 to 200 times faster than other databases.

"Audit log data provides a complete record of access, activity and
configuration changes to IT systems and applications. But the exponential
growth of this data is outpacing organizations' ability to make use of it,
putting them at risk of security breaches, network downtime or regulatory
non-compliance. So it's no surprise that Integra's customers include some of
Europe's largest banks. ILM's high performance, scalability and modern data
center innovation is critical to keeping their organization safe and
operational," said David Menninger, Vertica's vice president of product
management and marketing.

About Integra

Integra is a well-known Italian company specializing in IT security with
a 15-year operating history, a blue chip customer base in Italy and a strong
team of technical experts. The company provides consulting and turnkey
solutions with a strong focus on threat management, regulatory compliance,
application security, vulnerability research and assessment. Leveraging the
experience gathered creating several enterprise-scale security information
management systems for its customers, Integra has developed iknoplex Log
Manager, a product that consolidates events and audit trail data from
virtually any type of source to enable the creation of large-scale
centralized log warehouses. Integra is headquartered in Milan and Rome,
Italy. For more information, visit the company's Web site at
http://www.integra-group.it.

About Vertica

Vertica Systems is the market innovator for high-performance analytic
database management systems that run on industry-standard hardware.
Co-founded by database pioneer Dr. Michael Stonebraker, Vertica has developed
column-oriented analytic database technology with an MPP architecture that
lets companies of any size store and query very large databases orders of
magnitude faster and more affordably than other solutions. The Vertica
Analytic Database is available as software only, as a hardware based
appliance, as a virtual appliance on VMware or online as a cloud computing
solution. The technology's unmatched speed, scalability, flexibility and ease
of use helps customers like JP Morgan Chase, Verizon, Mozilla, Comcast,
Level(3) Communications and Vonage capitalize on business opportunities in
real time. Vertica is headquartered in Billerica, Mass. For more information,
visit the company's Web site at http://www.vertica.com.