>> Narrator: From Burlingame, California, it's theCUBE. Covering Sumo Logic Illuminate 2019. Brought to you by Sumo Logic. >> Hey, welcome back, everybody, Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. We're at Sumo Logic Illuminate 2019. It's at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport. We're excited to be back. It's our second year, so third year of the show, and really, one of the key tenants of this whole event is the report. It's the fourth year of the report. It's The Continuous Intelligence Report, and here to tell us all about it is the VP of Product Marketing, Kalyan Ramanathan. He's, like I said, VP, Product Management of Sumo Logic. Great to see you again. >> All right, thank you, Jeff. >> What a beautiful report. >> Absolutely, I love the cover and I love the data in the report even more. >> Yeah, but you cheat, you cheat. >> How come? >> 'Cause it's not a survey. You guys actually take real data. >> Ah, that's exactly right, exactly right. >> No, I love them, let's jump into it. No, it's a pretty interesting fact, though, and it came out in the keynote that this is not a survey. Tell us how you get the data. >> Yeah, I mean, so as you already know, Sumo Logic is a continuous intelligence platform. And what we do is to help our customers manage the operations and security of the mission critical application. And the way we do that is by collecting machine data from our customers, and many of our customers, we have two thousand, our customers, they're all running modern applications in the cloud, and when we collect this machine data, we can grade insights into how are these customers building their applications, how are these customers running and securing their application, and that insight is what is reflected in this report. And so, you're exactly right, this is not a survey. This is data from our customers that we bring into our system and then what we do is really treat things once we get this data into our system. First and foremost, we completely anonymize this data. So, we don't-- >> I was going to say Let's make sure we have to get that out. >> Yes, absolutely, so we don't have any customer references in this data. Two, we genericize this data. So, we're not looking for anomalies. We are looking for broad patterns, broad trends that we can apply across all of our customers and all of these enterprises that are running modern mission critical applications in the cloud. And then three, we analyze ten weeks to Sunday. We look at these datas, we look at what stands out in terms of good sample sizes, and that's what we reflect in this report. >> Okay, and just to close a loop on that, are there some applications that you don't include? 'Cause they're just legacy applications that're running on the cloud that doesn't give you good information, or you're basically taking them all in? >> Yeah, it's a good point, I mean we collect all data and we collect all applications, so we don't opt-in applications or out applications for that matter because we don't care about it. But what we do look for is significant sample size because we want to make sure that we're not talking about onesie-twosie applications here or there. We're looking for applications that have significant eruption in the cloud and that's what gets reflected in this report. >> Okay, well, let's jump into it. We don't have time to go through the whole thing here now, but people can get it online. They can download their own version and go through it at their leisure. Biggest change from last year as the fourth year of the report. >> Yeah, I mean, look, there are three big insights that we see in this report. The first one is, while we continue to see AWS rule in the cloud and that's not surprising at all, we're starting to see pretty dramatic adoption of multi-cloud technologies. So, two years ago, we saw a smidgen of multi-cloud in this report. Now, we have seen almost a 50% growth year over year in terms of multi-cloud adoption amongst enterprises who are in the cloud, and that's a substantial jump albeit from a smaller baseline. >> Do you have visibility if those are new applications or are those existing ones that are migrating to different platforms? Are they splitting? Do you have any kind of visibility into that? >> Yeah, I mean, it's an interesting point, and part of this is very related to the growth of Kubernetes that we also see in this report. What ypu've seen is that, in AWS itself, Kubernetes adoption has gone up significantly, what's even more interesting is that, as you think about multi-cloud adoption, we see a lot of Kubernetes, Kubernetes as the platform that is driving this multi-cloud adoption. There is a very interesting chart in this report on page nine. Obviously, I think you guys can see this if they want to download the report. If you're looking at AWS only, we see one in five customers are adopting Kubernetes. If you're looking at AWS and GCP, Google Cloud Platform, we see almost 60% of our customers are adopting Kubernetes. Now, when you put in AWS-- >> One in five at AWS, 60% we got Google, so that means four out of five at GCP are using Kubernetes and bring that average up. >> And then, if you look at AWS, Azure, and GCP, now you're talking about the creme de la creme customers who want to adopt all three clouds, it's almost 80% adoption of Kubernetes, so what it tells you is that Kubernetes has almost become this new Linux in the cloud world. If I want to deploy my application across multiple clouds, guess what, Kubernetes is that platform that enables me to deploy my application and then port it and re-target it to any other cloud or, for that matter, even an on-prem environment. >> Now, I mean, you don't see motivation behind action, but I'm just curious how much of it is now that I have Kubernetes. I can do multi-cloud or I've been wanting to do multi-cloud, and now that I have Kubernetes, I have an avenue. >> Yeah, it started another question. What's the chicken and what's the egg right here? My general sense, and we've debated this endlessly in our company, our general sense has been that the initiative to go multi-cloud typically comes top down in an organization. It's usually the CIO or the CSO who says, you know what, we need to go multi-cloud. And there are various reasons to go multi-cloud, some of which you heard in our keynote today. It could be for more reliability, it could be for more choice that you may want, it could be because you don't want to get logged into any one cloud render, so that decision usually comes top down. But then, now, the engineering teams, the ops teams have to support that decision, and what these engineering teams and these ops teams have realized is that, if they deploy Kubernetes, they have a very good option available now to port their applications very easily across these various cloud platforms. So, Kubernetes, in some sense, is supporting the top down decision to go multi-cloud which is something that is shown in spades as a result of this report. >> So, another thing that jumped out at me, or is there another top trend you want to make sure we cover before we get in some of those specifics? >> I mean we can talk to-- >> Yeah, one of them, one of them that jumped out at me was Docker. The Docker adoption. So, Docker was the hottest thing since sliced bread about four years ago, and is the shade of Kubernetes, not that they're replacements for one another specifically, but it definitely put a little bit of appall in the buzz that was the Docker, yet here, the Docker utilization, Docker use is growing year over year. 30%! >> I'll be the first one to tell you that Docker adoption has not stalled at all. This is shown in the report. It's shown in customers that we talk to. I mean, everyone is down the path of containerizing their application. The value of Docker is indisputable. That I get better agility, that I get better portability with Docker cannot be questioned. Now, what is indeed happening is that everyone who is deploying Docker today is choosing a orchestration technology and that orchestration technology happens to be Kubernetes. Again, Kubernetes is the king of the hill. If I'm deploying Docker, I'm deploying Kubernetes along with it. >> Okay, another one that jumped out at me, which shouldn't be a big surprise, but I'm a huge fan of Andy Jassy, we do all the AWS shows, and one of always the shining moments is he throws up the slide, he's got the Customer slide. >> There you go. >> It's the Services slide which is, in like, 2.6 font across a 100-foot screen that fills Las Vegas, and yet, your guys' findings is that it's really: the top ten applications are the vast majority of the AWS offerings that are being consumed. >> Yep, not just that. It's that the top services in AWS are the infrastructure-as-a-service services. These are the core services that you need if you have to build an application in AWS. You need ECDO, I need Esri, I need identity access management. Otherwise, I can't even log into AWS. So, this again goes back to that first point that I was making was that multi-cloud adoption is top of mind for many, many customers right now. It's something that many enterprises think of, and so, if I want to indeed be able to port my application from AWS to any other environment, guess what I should be doing? I shouldn't be adopting every AWS service out there because if I frankly adopted all these AWS services, the tentacles of the cloud render are just so that I will not be able to port away from my cloud render to any other cloud service out there. So, to a certain extent, many of the data points that we have in this report support the story that enterprises are becoming more conscious of the cloud platform choices that they are making. They want to at least keep an option of adopting the second or the third cloud out there, and they're consciously, therefore choosing the services that they are building their applications with. >> So, another hot topic, right? Computer 101 is databases. We're just up the road from Oracle. Oracle OpenWorld's next week. A lot of verbal jabs between Oracle and some of the cloud providers on the databases, et cetera. So, what do the database findings come back as? >> I mean, look at the top four databases: Redis, MySQL, Postgres, Mongo. You know what's common across them? They're all open-source. They're all open-source database, so if you're building your application, find standard components that you can then build your application on, whether it's a community that you can then take and move to any other cloud that you want to. That's takeaway number one. Takeaway number two, look at where Oracle is in this report. I think they're the eighth database in the cloud. I actually talked to a few customers of ours today. >> Now, are you sampling from Oracle's cloud? Is that a dataset? >> No, this is-- >> Yes, right, okay. So, I thought I want to make sure. >> And, if AWS is almost the universe of cloud today, we can debate at some bids, but it is close enough, I'd say, it tells you where Oracle is in this cloud universe, so our friends at Redwood City may talk about cloud day in and day out, but it's very clear that they're not making much of intent in the cloud at this point. >> And then, is this the first year the rollup of the type of database that NoSQL exceeded relational database? >> No, I mean, we've been doing this for the last two years, and it's very clear that NoSQL is ahead of SQL in the cloud, and I think the way we think about it is primarily because, when you are re-architecting your applications in the cloud, the cloud gives you a timeline, it gives you an opportunity to reconsider how you build out your data layer, and many of our customers are saying NoSQL is the way to go. The scalability demands, the reliability demands, so if my application was such that I now have the opportunity to rethink and redo my data layer, and frankly, NoSQL is winning the game. >> Right, it's winning big time. Another big one: serverless, Lambda. Actually, I'm kind of surprised it took so long to get to Lambda 'cause we've been going to smaller atomic units of compute, store, and networking for so, so long, but it sounds like, looks like we're starting to hit some critical mass here. >> Yeah, I mean, look, Lambda's ready for primetime. I mean we have seen that tipping point out here. Almost one in three customers of ours are using Lambda in production environments. And then, if you cast a wider net, go beyond production and even look at dev tests, what we see is that almost 60% of Sumo Logic's customers, and if you look at 2,000 customers, that's a pretty big sample size. Almost 60% of enterprises are using Lambda in some way, shape, or form. So, I think it's not surprising that Lambda is getting used quite well in the enterprise. The question really is: what are these people doing with Lambda? What's the intent behind the use of Lambda? And that's where I think we have to do some more research. My general sense, and I think it's shared widely within Sumo Logic, is that Lambda's still at the edges of the application. It's not at the core of the application. People are not building your mission critical application on Lambda yet because I think that that paradigm of thinking about event-driven application is still a little foreign to many organizations, so I think it'll take a few more years for an entire application to be built on Lambda. >> But you would think, if it's variable demand applications, whether that's a marketing promotion around the Super Bowl or running the books at the end of the month, I guess it's easy enough to just fire up the servers versus doing a pure Lambda at this point in time, but it seems like a natural fit. >> If you're doing the utility type application and you want to start it and you want to kill it and not use it after an event has come and gone, absolutely, Lambda's the way to go. The economics of Lambda. Lambda absolutely makes sense. Having said that, I mean, if you're to build a true mission critical application that you're going to be keeping on for a while to come, I'm not seeing a lot of that in Lambda yet, but it's definitely getting there. I mean we have lots of customers who are building some serious stuff on Lambda. >> Well, a lot of great information. It's nice to have the longitudinal aspect as you do this year over year, and again, we're glad you're cheating 'cause you're getting good data. >> (chuckles) >> (laughs) You're not asking people questions. >> Yeah, I mean, I'd like to finish out by saying this is a report that Sumo Logic builds every year, not because we want to sell Sumo Logic. It's because we want to give back to our community. We want our community to build great apps. We want them to understand how their peers are building some amazing mission critical apps in the cloud and so, please download this report, learn from how your peers are doing things, and that's our only intent and goal from this report. >> Great, well, thanks for sharing the information and a great catch-up, nice event. >> All right, thank you very much, Jeff. >> All right, he's Kalyan, I'm Jeff. You're watching theCUBE. We're at Sumo Logic Illuminate 2019. Thanks for watching, we'll see you next time. (upbeat electronic music)