On Wednesday, Sumo Logic Inc. made a series of announcements designed to showcase what it calls the “Intelligence Economy.” The news included a continuous intelligence solution for Kubernetes, new benchmarking capabilities for AWS GuardDuty, expanded multicloud support for Google Cloud, and the introduction of a credit-based licensing model for customers.

The announcements were in keeping with Sumo Logic’s position as a secure, cloud-native continuous intelligence platform designed to deliver insights from data across the enterprise application stack.

“We need to help our customers become intelligent and collaborate and communicate much more effectively by virtue of what we’ve become,” said Ramin Sayar (pictured), president and chief executive officer of Sumo Logic. “What we’ve become is that trusted partner, the data steward that is sitting on all of these valuable insights that we need to provide continuously to our community of users.”

Sayar spoke with Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the Sumo Logic Illuminate event in Burlingame, California. They discussed findings from the company’s recent report and the role of Kubernetes, a new pricing model, and the evolution of its continuous intelligence strategy (see the full interview with transcript here). (* Disclosure below.)

Response to Kubernetes adoption

The latest Kubernetes and multicloud solutions were fueled by demand identified in the company’s fourth annual “Continuous Intelligence Report,” which referenced explosive adoption of the container orchestration tool.

“We saw container technologies move from development to production last year at north of 2x growth,” Sayar said. “Now we’re seeing orchestration technologies like Kubernetes at more than 2x growth. What’s driving multicloud is that customers want flexibility and choice of where workloads run.”

Sumo Logic’s new credit-based pricing solution is a reflection of the company’s interest in helping enterprises manage data at scale by moving away from server-based licensing models.

“On the surface it seems revolutionary, but it’s not,” Sayar said. “It’s evolutionary for Sumo; it’s something we’ve been doing since we first started. For example, we’ve always provided a service that charges an average for the month, not a penalty for going over a day.”

Sumo Logic’s emphasis on continuous intelligence is part of its strategy to mirror the operational model of cloud computing while closing the “intelligence gap” in today’s data-driven economy.

“We started down this journey before the market was there,” Sayar noted. “What we see going forward is the execution of our strategy that we set out a while ago to build the only continuous intelligence platform.”

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 sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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