Yesterday I spoke with Mike Schmitt and Jeff Aliber, corporate leaders at LogMatrix. This is the SIEM vendor formerly known as OpenService. They have rebranded their company and their marketing approach is to work with existing customers, leverage relationships and work for organic growth. They have always been in the SIEM space (EventCenter), but now have a Log Management solution (LogCenter). They also have a correlation engine at this point (NerveCenter).  I am assuming these are separately priced.  They say their largest customer is up to 1.5B events/day and headed for 2B events. They are not certain how many collectors are required, but estimate 10 – 12.  Hopefully they will leave a comment with a researched answer.

One of the latest additions to the product mix is compliance reporting.  They have PCI, SOX, HIPAA, NERC, GLBA and FISMA, and these are included in the price.  LogMatrix claims they can generate a report across six months of data in a few minutes.

I asked them who they compete with and they said for SIEM deployments, they tend to see ARCSIGHT and EMC and for Log Management LogLogic and LogRhythm.

They were very excited about the Cisco MARS announcement about no additional 3rd party support.  And have jumped onto the Gartner Magic Quadrant bashing with a press release.