Anomalies in an environment's metrics data are an important indicator of an attack. The Prometheus time series database automatically detects, alerts, and forecasts anomalous behavior with the Fourier and Prophet models of the Prometheus Anomaly Detector.

The relevant sign-in and audit logs in Azure Active Directory can be exported to external data sources to provide not only long-term archiving, but also the freedom to analyze the stored data.

They say data is "the new oil," but all that data you collect is only valuable if it leads to new insights. An open source analysis tool called KNIME lets you analyze data through graphical workflows – without the need for programming or complex spreadsheet manipulation.

As data analytics workloads become more common, HPC administrators need to assess their hardware, software, and processes.

Hadoop 2.x and its associated tools promise to deliver big data solutions not just to the IT-heavy big players, but to anyone with unstructured data and the need for multidimensional data analysis.

The Python Data Analysis Library, or Pandas, is built on top of the fast math library NumPy and makes analysis of large volumes of data an easy and efficient experience.