Software Transforms Security and Operations for Customers with Big Data IT, Network and Cloud Infrastructures

"MetaGrid" Leverages Grid Computing and Artificial Intelligence to Increase the Scale, Speed and Efficacy of Security

(17.10.11) - Red Lambda, a software company transforming security and operational intelligence for "Big Data" IT environments, announced an Early Release Program for "MetaGrid" - security and operational intelligence software powered by the company’s "AppIron Grid Platform". MetaGrid is designed to address the Big Data dichotomy faced by providers of IT, network and cloud infrastructures that generate up to petabytes per day of operational data: Big Data can obscure security and operational threats and, at the same time, it can reveal opportunities to increase operational efficiency and unlock enormous business potential.

Red Lambda is the first to combine leading-edge Big Data technologies to create an ultra-scalable, purpose-built software platform designed to keep pace with the increasing volume, variety, and velocity of IT operational data and find the threats and opportunities buried within it.

IDC’s 2011 Digital Universe Study forecasts that data creation and storage will reach 1.8 zettabytes (trillion gigabytes) in 2011 and grow to an astounding 35 zettabytes by the end of the decade. Moreover, 80 percent of data will traverse enterprise IT systems at some point during its lifecycle. In the wake will be an unprecedented amount of operational data - structured and unstructured data that emanates from or affects IT infrastructure. Operational data sources can include telemetry, traffic, device, sensor, events, and transient application data from IT systems as well as external contextual data such as news, closed caption, weather, social, geographical, and global threat feeds.

MetaGrid is a new software application that runs on the company’s AppIron Grid Platform and is designed to unify operational silos and situational awareness, visualize and analyse network security and operational anomalies, and automate IT operations. (Red Lambda: ra)