De-silo is one of the hottest verbs sounding throughout Silicon Valley lately. Vendors are whipping up tools that break data out of silos for analytics and applications. Businesses using these tools to naturally segue into bringing people out of silos for greater collaboration and intelligence sharing.

Applications and platforms with cross-department utility pull disparate teams together like a magnet, according to Ramin Sayar (pictured), president and chief executive officer of Sumo Logic Inc. These tools can help developers, operations teams, and security pros see a complex, distributed, modern application from end-to-end.

“What we’re helping our customers understand is, as you architect these new workloads, specifically looking at microservices or containers or cloud, put some forethought and insight into what does that mean from not just an operational perspective — how to instrument and collect and log events and metrics — but also from a security perspective,” he said. “When you’re able to leverage one platform to do so, it actually is a connecting mechanism, meaning that it’s bringing these teams together versus isolating … siloing them, like in the past.”

Sayar spoke with spoke with Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the Sumo Logic Illuminate event in San Francisco. They discussed Sumo Logic’s stretchy machine-data analytics software, the company’s platform play, and its special brand of customer research. (* Disclosure below.)

Getting over ‘afterthought’ security

The shortage of qualified security professionals is forcing companies to spread the security imperative out — or rather upstream to teams tinkering with apps in the embryonic phase.

“It can’t be an afterthought,” Sayar said. Sumo Logic’s versatility makes security data viewable to everyone using it, therefore “democratizing” it, he explained.

Sumo Logic takes a handsy approach to customer research, collecting loads of data and serving it back to its base complete with rankings. Its research and tracking resources help customers see how they compare globally on operational key performance indicators, security, etc.

“When you’re staring the reality of that type of data in the face, it forces you to do something, to take action,” Sayar concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Sumo Logic Illuminate event. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Sumo Logic Illuminate. Neither Sumo Logic Inc., the event sponsor, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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