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Sumo Logic processes over 800,000 daily queries across four petabytes

Vance Loiselle · Vance Loiselle, Sumo Logic // Data Driven #29 // Sep 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) · Sep 22, 2014 · at 12:53

Vance Loiselle, CEO of Sumo Logic, shares customer usage and query volume metrics at Data Driven NYC in September 2014.

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“We do over 800,000 queries a day in our platform. So any given day, we have basically over four petabytes of data that's scanned in the platform and over 15 trillion records that people are going through.”

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