This document discusses on-premises vs cloud-based security information and event management (SIEM) solutions. On-premises SIEMs allow for data storage location customization and extended control, but have higher deployment and maintenance costs. Cloud-based SIEMs offer pay-as-you-go pricing and faster implementations, but come with increased security risks and limitations to accessing raw logs. The document also briefly introduces extended detection and response (XDR) solutions and notes they provide unified telemetry analysis and faster threat detection, response, and resolution.