Case Study: In the World of Finance

In the financial industry, rigorous security standards are a must - especially when you are a global provider of asset management services administering $250 billion in assets and processing almost $50 trillion of investment transactions annually.

"Currently, we host more than 320 servers, and this population continues to grow by two servers per week," Scott tells us. "Event Archiver is installed on each server and is configured to backup and clear the event logs nightly. Our housekeeping tasks include the relocation of all server event logs to a repository server. This server provides a web-based virtual directory interface to a six month repository of logs."

Implementing such a solution was especially difficult considering the company's demanding security standards and policies. Their company's server hardening processes prohibited the necessary network access usually required for such a robust event archival solution. Yet, "flexibility in the Event Archiver tool allows us to collect and manage event logs and yet adapt the tool to strict network constraints," Scott explains. He adds that automation to manage the installation and registration process has further eased his implementation and integration concerns.

In short, Scott concludes: "Dorian's Event Archiver is an indispensable tool for our decentralized support model, and they continue to be a valuable business partner."