disputed . relevant discussion may be found on the talk page . please do not remove this message until conditions to do so are met . december 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message this article appears to contain a large number of buzzwords . specific concerns may be found on the talk page . please help improve this article if you can . april 2015 sumo logic type privately held company industry computer software security management enterprise software founded 2010 founder kumar saurabh christian beedgen headquarters redwood city california usa key people ramin sayar ceo kumar saurabh co founder & vice president of engineering christian beedgen cto co founder bruno kurtic founding vice president of product and strategy services log management and intelligence log analysis number of employees 250 2015 website sumologic.com sumo logic is a cloud based log management and analytics service that leverages machine generated big data to deliver real time it insights . 1 headquartered in redwood city california sumo logic was founded in april 2010 by arcsight veterans kumar saurabh and christian beedgen and has received funding from accel partners dfj growth greylock partners institutional venture partners sequoia capital sutter hill ventures and angel investor shlomo kramer . 2 while sumo logic remained in stealth mode for two years it unveiled its cloud based log management platform with series b funding of 15 million in january 2012 . 1 the round of series e funding announced in june 2015 brings the company s total venture capital backing to 160.5 million . 3 contents 1 technology 2 leadership 3 patents 4 awards and recognition 5 references technology edit sumo logic s architecture features an elastic petabyte scale platform that collects manages and analyzes enterprise log data reducing millions of log lines into operational and security insights in real time . 4 their cloud based approach overcomes the inherent problems of premises based solutions including limits on scalability inefficient or haphazard analysis and uncontrolled costs . 5 sumo logic is built around a globally distributed data retention architecture that keeps all log data available for instant analysis eliminating the need for an enterprise to manage the cost and complexity of data archiving backups and restoration . 5 the service is entirely cloud based and is maintenance free . 6 instead of inelastic security information and event management systems sumo logic employs elastic processing to collect manage and analyze log data regardless of type volume or location . 7 sumo logic modeled its approach on that of google according to christian beedgen the company s cto and one of its co founders . using advanced machine learning algorithms to whittle down mountains of log file data into common groupings sumo logic s platform mirrors google news s categorization of news stories distributed across the web . in doing so sumo logic is able to ease the process for administrators to synthesize and analyze their data . 8 in june 2012 sumo logic announced sumo logic free a freemium full functionality edition of its analytical solution that is deployed on amazon web services 9 and in august 2012 the company announced sumo logic for vmware which allows enterprises to search visualize and analyze all vmware logs in real time so they can monitor and detect events within vmware virtual environments . 10 leadership edit sumo logic was founded in 2010 by a technical leadership team with expertise in log management scalable systems big data and security including kumar saurabh co founder & vice president of engineering formerly of arcsight christian beedgen co founder & cto formerly of arcsight bruno kurtic founding vice president of product and strategy formerly of sensage ramin sayar formerly of vmware is sumo logic s ceo since december 2014 . 11 previously vance loiselle formerly of bladelogic was ceo between may 2012 12 and december 2014 . in april 2012 sumo logic formed a new advisory board bringing in three silicon valley veterans dj patil of greylock partners gerhard eschelbeck of sophos and nir zuk of palo alto networks . 13 patents edit sumo logic s service is powered by patent pending elastic log processing logreduce and push analytics technologies . 1 awards and recognition edit in january 2012 rsa named sumo logic one of its top 10 finalists for the most innovative company at rsa . 14 at the april 2012 under the radar conference sumo logic received the judge s choice and the audience choice awards for performance monitoring . 15 in may 2012 sumo logic was named a red herring americas 2012 top 100 winner . 16 in may 7 2014 sumo logic was named as a cool vendor by gartner in the application performance monitoring apm and it operations analytics itoa categories . 17 references edit a b c taft darryl january 31 2012 . cloud analytics startup sumo logic exits stealth raises 15m . eweek . nicora hope january 31 2012 . sumo logic raises 15m series b round for next generation log management and analytics . market wired . haskins caitlin june 1 2015 . sumo logic secures 80 million investment to support continued customer growth and platform expansion . market wired . rao leena january 31 2012 . log data management and analytics startup sumo logic raises 15m from greylock and others . techcrunch . a b klump bill february 14 2012 . disruptor of the day sumo logic harnessing the power of big data for real time it . daily disruption . mitroff sarah january 31 2012 . sumo logic raises 15m drops its stealthy status . venturebeat . kepes ben february 21 2014 . sumo logic delivers enterprise security analytic product . forbes . kelly jeffrey january 31 2012 . sumo logic emerges from stealth to take on splunk log data analytics . services angle . deutscher maria june 26 2012 . sumo logic goes freemium with data analysis . silicon angle . talbot chris august 24 2012 . sumo logic for vmware digs deep into real time insights . talkincloud . haskins caitlin december 2 2014 . sumo logic surpasses all goals and hires industry veteran ramin sayar as ceo to lead rapid growth phase . market wired . hick melissa may 23 2012 . sumo logic appoints vance loiselle as chief executive officer . market wired . nicole kristen april 12 2012 . sumo logic brings data rock stars to advisory board . silicon angle . fearon mike january 5 2012 . top 10 finalists announced for the most innovative company at rsa conference 2012 contest . business wire . ryan clare april 26 2012 . announcing the winners of under the radar consumerization of it . under the radar . 2012 red herring north america finalists . red herring . 2012 . kowall jonah april 30 2014 . cool vendors in application performance monitoring apm and it operations analytics itoa . gartner blog . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sumo logic & oldid 743579233 categories big data companiescompanies established in 2010companies based in 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