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In this TechStrong TV interview Christian Beedgen, CTO and co-founder at Sumo Logic, joins Alan Shimel to discuss all the hard work that lead to this major accomplishment.

And the thing to overcome really was the idea that we could do it as a service, this incredibly large scale data processing, which now in the light of cloud-based, cloud-delivered data lakes and so forth it’s now much more commonplace, but 10 years ago it wasn’t and that was not an easy sell necessarily and for people to even take you seriously

I think, as you mentioned, Splunk kind of touched on this, some of the others, but you also were able to ride what we call the DevOps, this whole wave of DevOps and now we’re calling observability and monitoring and so forth to capture data, not just pure security feed, but all kinds of data that people are interested in, doing it in an uber scalable way by using the cloud and SaaS which really brought down the cost versus your average ArcSight investment was a couple hundred thousand dollars, right?

There’s a lot that kind of goes in that there’s this sort of – there is a sense of release when this finally happens, and we always thought that this was a company that had – you know, given the market was pretty well figured out and we always thought that if we managed to execute properly then this was a company that from the beginning would stand a chance to actually go to this level, and so a lot of this kind of like coming through, kind of proving itself today.

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