Splunking SAP

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Armadillo v 4.0 today. Armadillo is a Virtual Appliance that allows you to collect machine data from your SAP landscape and feed it to Splunk. Essentially it's Splunk for SAP. Initially conceived in 2008, it has primarily been an internal project, however we've decided to make it available. Armadillo can collect logs, traces, config parameters, alerts and much more. If you are interested in evaluating Armadillo for your organisation you can contact us via email. Let us know what you think.

Update 26/02/2014 Armadillo v 4.2 download, check sums.

ISSA 09

I spoke this morning about secuirty non innovation at the ISSA 2009 conference. The purpose of the presentation was to position security architecture as a support for business innovation. You know that SOA and BPM initiatived didn't ship with security included in the box, right? For those interested in the introduction video you can grab it from here.

DiscussIT Podcast

Stephan Buys and myself were recently invited to come and chat about Splunk on the DiscussIT Security Pubcast. Stephan has some really solid delivery experience and works for Exponant, the local Splunk partner in South Africa. I got to share a little about our forth coming SAP application. The podcast can be found here.

I noticed that they posted the wrong link for the mp3, you can grab the mp3 from here.

See you at Splunk live in Johannesburg.

Virtualization CIO round table

I see the CIO round table for April is now online. The usual fun was had, just a pity that there's not enough space to capture all good talking points.

Risk CIO round table

I participated in a CIO risk round table last year, I see the article is now online. Hat tip to Maverick for hosting yet another fun event.