In a briefing this week, Sumo Logic CEO Vance Loiselle announced the company’s new cloud Log Management, Monitoring and Analytics capabilities in Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) environments. The new features allow organizations to start to collect and analyze information of all types that are in these environments in addition to existing on-premise capabilities. The tools work in a number of cloud environments including Amazon Elastic Beanstalk, EngineYard, Google App Engine, Heroku, and VMware CloudFoundry. The tools further enable log storage in Amazon S3 environments. Sumo Logic also delivers powerful analytics, making it a powerful Big Data tool.

One interesting example involves how one of Sumo Logic’s clients, a gaming company was able to cut down on fraudulent gaming activity using their solution.  Hackers had found out how to cheat their free-to-play gaming system pulling stunts such as advancing without purchasing online currency, bypassing ads, among others.  The impact to revenue and resources wasted having these hackers in the system were real.  With real-time scale analysis of their cloud-based gaming environment, they were able to detect this behavior and cut some serious costs.  Sumo Logic has been enabling insights in a number of cutting-edge tech stories.

Back in September we reviewed how Netflix had chosen Sumo Logic as its net-gen log management system and analytics. Now we’re seeing the same value-add of machine data collection and analytics in a number of environments take hold, with the capacity to crunch and analyze massive amounts of data and deliver elastic scalability as your infrastructure grows as well. That being said, Sumo Logic is on the rise and customers are lined up. It is difficult to talk about any one company in this space without mentioning Splunk, one of the most well-known Big Data related companies in the business, notable in part because they went public just one year ago. Vindication of the growth in this market is clear in that Splunk has doubled in value from its IPO. Sumo Logic is built entirely on cloud-based technology and its elastic petabyte scale platform. It is entirely funded by venture capital to the tune of $50.5 million as of November 2012.

Sumo Logic is one of those Big Data companies that has unique momentum, from big customers, to big partnerships, to big architecture, they have the Big Data thing dialed in all day, every day. As I mentioned more and more customers are ready to take log and analytics on in their cloud environments and as Loiselle has stated, the interest is global. This is just the beginning.

The press release is below –

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – April 18, 2013 – Sumo Logic, the next-generation log management and analytics company, today announced new functionality that allows customers to rapidly analyze logs generated by software, platform and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) environments.  In addition, Sumo Logic now also supports hosted collection for those companies who choose to store their logs directly in their Amazon S3 environment.

These new collection capabilities enable customers to:

• Rapidly search and analyze machine data generated from their SaaS/PaaS/IaaS and other cloud environments such as Amazon Elastic Beanstalk, EngineYard, Google App Engine, Heroku, VMware CloudFoundry, and many others without installing collectors on a local file system.
• Take advantage of the growing trend of storing logs in a public cloud environment with Sumo Logic’s new hosted collector for Amazon S3.
• Instantly discover data patterns from thousands of pages of logs via Sumo Logic’s patented LogReduce™ technology.
• Choose between different modes of log collection – local or hosted – based on specific IT and business requirements.
• Easily correlate their SaaS/PaaS/IaaS logs with other server, network, and virtualization tiers to troubleshoot and perform root cause analysis.

“The cloud reshapes business economics and the speed with which companies get value from their application and infrastructure investments,” noted Sumo Logic CEO Vance Loiselle. “This IT shift is reflected in our new capabilities to collect and analyze machine data from a variety of ‘as-a-service’ environments in conjunction with our proven on-premise collection.”

Sumo Logic, recently named an innovator on CRN’s 2013 Big Data 100: Business Analytics list, helps enterprise IT professionals search, analyze, monitor, and visualize big data in real time, enabling application and infrastructure troubleshooting within data center, cloud and hybrid environments. As a native cloud solution, Sumo Logic eliminates the need for on-premise log management equipment and dedicated personnel, delivering a petabyte-scale platform that gives companies immediate access to valuable operational insights. With Sumo Logic, organizations benefit from rapid time-to-value and do away with expensive professional services and costly deployment models.

Sumo Logic’s new hosted collection capabilities for “as-a-service” environments as well as for Amazon S3 environments are now available. Please visit www.sumologic.com for more information.