Ramin Sayar, President & CEO of Sumo Logic, sits down with Stu Miniman & Justin Warren for AWS re:Invent 2019 at the Sands Expo & Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV.

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Sumo Logic and AWS CloudTrail wrestle data deluge into usable insights

Success in the digital economy requires smarts, but not the kind of smarts picked up in school. These educated insights come from the high-level continuous intelligence provided by artificial-intelligence and machine-learning tools.

“The challenge is the tsunami of data that’s being generated: how to decipher what is an important aspect and what’s not,” said Ramin Sayar (pictured), president and chief executive officer of Sumo Logic Inc. “It’s a multifaceted problem that we’ve been solving for nearly a decade.”

Sayar spoke with Stu Miniman (@stu) and John Walls (@JohnWalls21), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the AWS re:Invent event in Las Vegas. They discussed the importance of visibility throughout the pipeline for secure and efficient data management in the cloud. (* Disclosure below.)

Sumo Logic monitors cloud workloads
Sumo Logic is one of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s top independent service vendors and has been a part of the company’s ecosystem for almost a decade. The company’s continuous intelligence platform is built on top of AWS CloudTrail, adding AI/ML insights to its activity monitoring capabilities.

DevOps teams are bogged down by the complexities of monitoring dispersed data, according to Sayar. This causes problems with slow response and troubleshooting.

“It’s not just about a siloed monitoring tool. That’s just not enough,” he said. “It’s about understanding all the data, from CloudTrail, from EC2, and non-AWS services so you can appropriately understand these new modern apps that are dependent on these microservices and architectures.”

The benefits are proactive detection of potential issues; fast identification of current issues; security oversight and fast reaction in the event of a security breach; and, most importantly, automation of the resolution process.

“That’s what’s really key for our users, because they’re inundated with false positives all the time whether it’s on the ops side let alone the security side,” Sayar stated.

Everyone is undergoing transformation
Sumo and AWS customers include household names, such as born-in-the-cloud entertainment company Netflix Inc.; financial powerhouses The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. and New York Life Insurance Co.; and innovators like transportation company Paccar Inc., who is designing autonomous big rigs that run on alternative fuels.

“It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in. Everyone is trying to go through digital transformation,” Sayar stated. “What Sumo really helps them do is provide one single intelligence platform across dev, sec and ops. Bringing these teams together to be able to collaborate much more efficiently and effectively through the true multi-tenant SaaS platform that we’ve optimized for 10 years on AWS.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the AWS re:Invent event. (* Disclosure: Sumo Logic Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Sumo Logic nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)