Things to Do in L.A. Seen through a magazine, Christin Evans is photographed at her bookstore, the Booksmith, in San Francisco. Evans says health insurance costs have leaped 17% this year, forcing her to cut staff hours. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search.

Data centers store a tremendous -- some would say, ridiculous -- amount of logs. There is too much data for the smartest administrator to make immediate sense of. For analytics to continue to be helpful, it needs to be smarter than it is now. If this much logging on a granular scale is to be of use to anyone -- before, during, or after a network event -- logic needs to be capable of ascertaining causes and effects as they happen. Machine learning could be one thing that could provide such an intelligence.