No details have yet been made public. Senior executives from neither company made the customary self-congratulatory statements on TIBCO’s brief announcement. Nevertheless, the logic of the acquisition is clear. TIBCO analyzes a company’s business data. It claims it “provides companies the two-second advantage™ [a phrase it has trademarked] – the ability to capture the right information at the right time and act on it preemptively for a competitive advantage.”
LogLogic does similar for ‘security’ data. It was one of the earliest and most successful log management companies. “As the originator of LSIP,” the company claims, “LogLogic is the only provider to give enterprises the benefits of both Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Log Management in a single, highly scalable architecture.”
The problem is that just as log management (the automated analysis of the huge logs created by all computer networks) has been overtaken by SIEM (an automated response to the results of log management), so SIEM is in danger of being overtaken by ‘big data analytics’. Big data analytics is the automated analysis of everything captured, and is relevant to both business and security. It includes both log management and SIEM but beyond the confines of security.
“Enterprises must be able to analyze Big Data, including machine data generated from across their various systems, to gain comprehensive, real-time insights into critical business questions relating to compliance, security and operations,” says TIBCO’s announcement. “LogLogic will build upon TIBCO’s proven capabilities in event processing and in-memory analytics.” The combination of TIBCO and LogLogic provides a clear potential evolution into big data analytics.