CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark Monitoring with Sumo Logic
The Center for Internet Security (CIS) released version one of the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark in February this year. It’s a fantastic first draft, and represents the minimum security controls that...
View ArticleDevSecOps in the AWS Cloud
Security teams need to change their approach in order to be successful in the AWS Cloud. DevSecOps in the AWS Cloud is key. DevSecOps in the AWS Cloud Sure the controls you’re using are similar but...
View ArticleBuilt for the Cloud or Hosted in the Cloud – So What’s the Difference?
Have you heard of the term, “cloud washing”? It is defined as the purposeful, and sometimes deceptive, attempt by a vendor to rebrand an old product or service by slapping the buzzword “cloud” on it....
View ArticleKorean Short Rib Taco or the Blue Plate Special – Three Reasons to Order Data...
One of the current market shifts getting a lot of attention these days is the transition from traditional monolithic application architectures to microservices, the impact of which can be felt from...
View ArticleA Machine Data Analytics Solution Built for DevOps
DevOps has gone mainstream. The DevOps philosophy of increasing cross-functional collaboration to quickly deploy high quality software releases that address end-customer demands makes good business...
View ArticleKinesis Streams vs Firehose
One question I get is “what is Amazon Kinesis, and what can it do for me?” I also get a lot of questions around Kinesis Streams vs. Firehose? Lets go through the key concepts and show how to get...
View ArticleWhy are you treating your data like corn? Silos are for corn, not data
“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas any more.” Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz We, the software vendors of the world, love to talk about ridding the IT world of silos. So what, may you ask, is a...
View ArticleUsing Sumo on Sumo for Better Customer Insight
I want to start by saying I’ve never worked for a company where most of its employees actually use the product they’ve created to help them do their jobs better; from our DevOps engineers to our...
View ArticleTogether Forever – Logs and Metrics
Together forever and never to part Together forever we two And don’t you know I would move heaven and earth To be together forever with you Rick Astley There are lots of things in this world that...
View ArticleUnified Logs & Metrics Opens a Rich Universe of Opportunities for Our Customers
Two weeks ago, we announced an important and exciting milestone for Sumo Logic: more than a 1,000 customers are receiving instant value from our machine data analytics platform to build, run and secure...
View ArticleCorrelating Logs and Metrics
This week, CEO Ramin Sayar offered insights into Sumo Logic’s Unified Logs and Metrics announcement, noting that Sumo Logic is now the first and foremost cloud-native, machine data analytics SaaS to...
View ArticleSumo Logic CTO Christian Beedgen Talks Unified Logs and Metrics
Sumo Logic CTO Christian Beedgen talks about how to build an architectural platform for unified logs and metrics.
View Article5 Ways to Gain Insights Through Machine Data
The pursuit of data-driven decision making has put tracking, logging, and monitoring forefront in the minds of product, sales, and marketing teams. Engineers are generally familiar with gathering and...
View ArticleTechnical Debt and its Impact on DevOps
“DevOps and technical debt? But isn’t DevOps the cure for technical debt?” Well, yes and no, but largely no. It’s important to understand the ways in which DevOps is not the cure for technical debt —...
View ArticleSumo Logic’s Christian Beedgen Speaks on Docker Logging and Monitoring
Support for Docker logging has evolved over the past two years, and the improvements made from Docker 1.6 to today have greatly simplified both the process and the options for logging. However, DevOps...
View ArticleAre Users the Achilles’ Heel of Security?
Presaging the death of an industry or a path to user activity monitoring (UAM) enlightenment John Chamber, ex-CEO of Cisco, one said that there are two types of companies, those who have been hacked...
View ArticleLocal Optimization – The Divide Between DevOps and IT
The delivery chain battleground is hardly gone. Developers still want IT to back off, and IT wants to make sure developers don’t break things. In many organizations that have embraced DevOps, the...
View ArticleContributing to Open-source Projects
We love open source, and it is taking over the world. In fact, Sumo Logic has contributed code to a number of repositories, many of which are listed on the Open-source at Sumo Logic page. To have a...
View ArticleDocker and DevOps – Enabling DevOps Teams Through Containerization
Software containers are a form of OS virtualization where the running container includes just the minimum operating system resources, memory and services required to run an application or service....
View ArticleHow Companies Can Minimize Their Cloud Security Risk
This cloud security blog was written by Robert Plant,Vice-Chairman, Department of Business Technology at the University of Miami (@drrobertplant). As enterprises move their applications and...
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