StreamInsight

Something I've been following for a few years is the evolution of CEP, Complex Event Processing.  CEP in a nutshell is a process for identifying patterns in data in a real time manner (as opposed to more like mining that is on long term trends).  A classic example that comes up in my circles often is with fraud detection in financial systems such as identifying someone trying to hack your financial web site.  A CEP system would be able to identify the patterns of failed login attempts and then be able notify the appropriate parties of the issue.

Microsoft has released a CTP of their CEP tool, which they are calling StreamInsight.  I haven't worked with it yet, but thought for now I'd drop links to various resources on it.  I'll also check out the sessions at the PDC in a few weeks and blog what I see.

http://blogs.msdn.com/streaminsight/

http://www.microsoft.com/global/sqlserver/2008/en/us/PublishingImages/CEP-Runtime.jpg

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a3faa562-b6dc-4702-90c6-bf8e08df3b8b&displaylang=en

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