why aren't all 17 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Opinion
Sumo Logic is 'taking down Splunk hard'
“So, you know, we have one competitor out there. I'll name them. They're called Splunk. So if you're familiar with Splunk, we're taking them down, and we're taking them down hard, and they know it.”
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Global unstructured data generation will hit 20 million petabytes annually by 2016
“Within the next two years, the amount of unstructured data that will be generated is somewhere in the twenty million petabytes a year figure.”
Insight
Log data holds most of its actionable value within 15 minutes
“The majority of this data, the value is within 15 minutes of it being generated.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Majority of mission-critical enterprise data is already cloud-hosted
“The majority of mission critical data that's out there today is in the cloud and people don't realize it.”
Disclosure
Sumo Logic anomaly detection engine achieves 70% accuracy out of the box
“It's probably realistically out of the box, 70% accurate right now, but as you apply relevance to your data in your organization, it learns over time.”
Assertion Supported
Sumo Logic has 150 employees and backing from Greylock, Sequoia, Accel
“Just real background, you can see where some of us came from are about a 150 people. We're backed out of the gate by Greylock, and then we just added, ah, Sequoia recently, and Excel, and Sutter Hill, and some other companies as investors.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Netflix generates 10 to 30 terabytes of log data daily
“Netflix is spitting out anywhere from 10 to 20 or 30 terabytes a day”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
A twin-engine airplane generates 40 terabytes of log data hourly
“One airplane, two engines is generating 40 terabytes of log data an hour.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
One terabyte of log data equals roughly two billion events
“One terabyte is roughly about two billion events. It's two billion unique records.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Midsize enterprises generate over two billion log records daily
“So even a midsize enterprise every day is generating over two billion records.”
Disclosure
Sumo Logic runs a 2,000-node AWS cluster
“We run about a 2000 node cluster right now in AWS.”
Disclosure
Sumo Logic scaled to 400 customers in four years via AWS
“Having an idea and going a gray lock to now having 400 customers in four years was not possible. You know, even 10 years ago without companies like AWS and software and so on.”
Disclosure
A third of Sumo Logic's engineering team are data scientists
“About a third of our engineering team are data science folks who basically build algorithms to figure out what is common about this data across hundreds of customers”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sumo Logic manages roughly 60,000 data collectors
“We probably have about 60,000 collectors under management today.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sumo Logic ingests 15 terabytes of compressed data daily
“So we're about, we're at about 15 terabytes of compressed data per day that comes into the system.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sumo Logic processes over 800,000 daily queries across four petabytes
“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.”
Disclosure
Sumo Logic's buyer split is 70% DevOps and 30% CISOs
“Today our business, 70% of our business comes from mission critical application buyers. Either a business owner or a DevOps person that has to make sure their mission critical app is running, and then 30% of our buyers come from the CISO”