Infosecurity caught up with Guy Churchward, LogLogic's CEO, to learn about the new technology, which is billed as preparing the way for a massive increase in audit log data collection which LogLogic says it is now seeing.
According to Churchward, the surge in data requiring logging is such that as much as 30% of data flowing across a company IT resources now needs to be recorded.
And says the LogLogic CEO, at that level - and the volumes seen on enterprise systems - the data logging technology has to be up to the task otherwise audit data can often disappear.
So why is the volume of data increasing so much? According to LogLogic, as well as a growing range of regulatory compliance issues, there is also a rising need for data forensics within many major companies, as well as checking on outsourcing providers.
"The real issue is how to handle the vast volumes of data that are being generated in many large organisations - you are talking about as many as 75 000 records a second, and at these volumes, the challenge is how to handle these kind of data feeds," he said.
Churchward added that the new appliance software that LogLogic has developed - version 4.9 - can handle these data stream volumes, using faster processors, faster hard drives, more storage space and enhanced networking capabilities.
Installed on the firm's LX appliance, the new software has gone from handling a maximum of 4 000 records a second to a steady flow of 10 000 records a second, with a peak of 130 000 under certain conditions.
The higher-end ST appliances, meanwhile have increased handling a maximum of 75 000 log records per second, to an average of 150 000, peaking at 250 000 records a second.
Churchward says that a growing number of enterprises are seeing the value of having an open log management platform and centralised log data warehouse as a key infrastructure component of their IT system.
"Powered by our latest v4.9 software, this new line of appliances has raised the bar for log management performance and features", he said.
"With higher message throughput, faster data retrieval, search and reporting, and longer-term archival of log information, this latest platform offers an unmatched enterprise-grade log management solution", he added.
The launch of the new quad core audit logging appliance technology comes in the wake of a good fourth quarter for LogLogic, with 57% rise in revenue over the the third quarter, driven partly by signing 50 new customers around the world.
In addition, the firms' new log management technology has been granted a patent by the US copyright and patents office (patent 7599939).
New customers in the fourth quarter just gone include Hard Rock Cafe International, the US Army, the US Customs & Border Patrol, the US Navy and Xerox.