Data Analytics, log management, tele-metrics

Been watching a while this space where data, big data, analytics, log management, search all sits very close.

Usually networks like ISP , enterprise ,financials, and any type of data center produce huge amount of traffic and huge sets of complicated provisioning happens.

There are human brains involved to get these moving in healthy operational state, usually the four 9 rule (99.99%) SLA MUST be guaranteed.

ISP and telcos are the most watched in this space.

Analytics in the Cloud Goes Big - "Tableau" has $4Billion market cap.

Some familiar newer technology companies are

•     Accelops
•     ArcSight
•     LogLogic
•     Sematext
•     Splunk ( data analyzer, cloud
•     Sumo Logic ( proprietary log analyzing engine sits in AWS - amazon cloud )

 Here is a simple comparison between sumo logic cloud based solution vs on premise solution

Category	Sumo Logic	On Premise
Total Cost of Ownership	Single service fee (includes software license, maintenance, hardware, storage, and ongoing management) Little to no professional services Ongoing management provided Automatic upgrades	Customer purchases software license Customer purchases maintenance Customer purchases hardware Customer purchases storage Customer purchases any required professional services Customer staff responsible for all management Customer responsible for migrations and upgrades
Scalability and Reliability	Scales automatically with volume of data High Availability out of the box Built-in data redundancy across multiple locations	Customer scales system manually to overcome capacity/performance constraints Customer responsible for ensuring High Availability Customer responsible for data redundancy