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Our SOC 2 Report: A Matter of Trust
Today we announced that Sumo Logic has successfully completed the Service Organization Controls (SOC) Type 2 examination of the Trust Service Principles; Security, Availability and Confidentiality....
View ArticleWhy I Joined Sumo Logic
Today I joined Sumo Logic, a cloud-based company that transforms Machine Data into new sources of operations, security, and compliance insights. I left NICE Systems, a market leader and successful...
View ArticleThe Oakland A’s, the Enterprise and the Future of Data Innovation
Remember Moneyball? Moneyball is the story of how the performance of the Oakland A’s skyrocketed when they started to vet players based on sabermetrics principles, a data-driven solution that defied...
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“Hosting Software is For Suckers” and Other Customer Observations
It has been an extremely productive start to 2014 at Sumo Logic. Over the past few weeks I’ve talked with a number of customers about their current and planned use of Sumo Logic. From these...
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The New Era of Security – yeah, it’s that serious!
Security is a tricky thing and it means different things to different people. It is truly in the eye of the beholder. There is the checkbox kind, there is the “real” kind, there is the checkbox kind...
View ArticleMachine Data at Strata: “BigData++”
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of hosting the machine data track of talks at Strata Santa Clara. Like “big data”, the phrase “machine data” is associated with multiple (sometimes conflicting)...
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AWS Elastic Load Balancing – New Visibility Into Your AWS Load Balancers
After the successful launch of the Sumo Logic Application for AWS CloudTrail last November and with numerous customers now using this application, we were really excited to work again on a new logging...
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The New Sumo Logic Application Library
Last July we launched our Applications webpage, and have been constantly adding new applications to this list. This week we are excited to announce a major step in delivering a better application user...
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Mitigating the Heartbleed Vulnerability
By now, you have likely read about the security vulnerability known as the Heartbleed bug. It is a vulnerability in the widespread OpenSSL library. It allows stealing the information protected, under...
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Sumo Logic, ServiceNow and the Future of Event Management
Today’s reality is that companies have to deal with disjointed systems when it comes to detecting, investigating and remediating issues in their infrastructure. Compound that with the exponential...
View ArticleWhy You Should Never Catch Throwable In Scala
Scala is a subtle beast and you should heed its warnings. Most Scala and Java programmers have heard that catching Throwable, a superclass of all exceptions, is evil and patterns like the following...
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Building Scala at Scale
The Scala compiler can be brutally slow. The community has a love-hate relationship with it. Love means “Yes, scalac is slow”. Hate means, “Scala — 1★ Would Not Program Again”. It’s hard to go a week...
View ArticleSequoia Joins The Team and Eight Lessons of a First Time CEO
I originally envisioned this blog as a way to discuss our recent $30 million funding, led by our latest investor, Sequoia Capital, with full participation from Greylock, Sutter Hill and Accel. I’ve...
View ArticleDifferentiators
As our growth has accelerated over the past few quarters, we’ve gained additional insights into what customers care about and why they choose us for machine data analytics. In addition, our...
View ArticleOur Help? It’s in the Cloud.
I like to fashion myself as a lower-level Cloud evangelist. I’m amazed at the opportunities the Cloud has afforded me both professionally and personally in the past four or five years. I tend to run...
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The Internet of Things…and by “Things” we mean Cats! [Infographic]
The Internet of Things. The popularity of this topic seems to be growing just about as rapidly as as the amount of machine data generated by these “things” has. A few weeks back, our beloved...
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PCI – So what?
As we release the Sumo Logic App for PCI Compliance, I was reflecting on how tough PCI compliance is. It’s obviously an essential part of any organization’s IT strategy that handles credit cardholder...
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Pushing AWS RDS Logs to Sumo Logic
Collecting log data from Amazon RDS instances can be done through a hosted HTTP collector. There is some configuration required to make this happen, but once the foundation is built, this can be a...
View ArticleBuilding Stable Products Through Testing
Software systems today contain hundreds of thousands to millions of lines of code written from anywhere between a few developers at a start up to thousands at today’s software giants. Working with...
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No Magic: Regular Expressions
The code for this post, as well as the post itself, are on github. Until recently, regular expressions seemed magical to me. I never understood how you could determine if a string matched a given...
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