>> From San Francisco, It's theCUBE. Covering Sumo Logic Illuminate 2018. Now here's Jeff Frick. >> Hey welcome back everybody. Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. We are at Sumo Logic Illuminate 2018: about 600 people. I think its three times as big as it was last year here at the Hyatt San Francisco Airport in Burlingame, and on of the big topics of today is the release of this new report. It's called The State of Modern Applications in DevOps Security, and to talk all about it and the results and kind of the process we are excited to have Kalyan Ramanathan, excuse me, VP of Product Marketing at Sumo Logic. Welcome. >> Thank you, Jeff. >> So you've been doing this report for a while, correct? >> Yeah, exactly, I think this is the third version of this report, and from what we know the first and only report that looks at how, you know, leading edge customers actually build, run, manage, and secure their applications in public cloud environments. >> Right, so just a little history for people that aren't familiar: Sumo launched in the cloud natively, right, and I think you guys launched on AWS. >> Absolutely. >> Way back when, I think, one of our very first AWS shows we went to in 2013, Summit San Francisco, I remember it well, we had you guys on, and so you guys have really grown along with AWS, but obviously you have expanded well beyond just simply inside of AWS. >> That's right. So, the company was founded in 2010, and we were one of the first big data services to run on AWS. I think our founders, you know, ran into one of the AWS architects who describe this new thing called a cloud, and they were completely smitten by it. They thought that this was the next new wave of how services are going to be delivered, so it just made a lot of sense to build this machine data analytics platform, that we were building, or that we were planning to build on AWS. >> Right. >> The scalability, the agility, the, ya know, the flexibility that AWS offered was exactly what our platform needed, and so this was a marriage made in heaven. But we can support applications that run just about anywhere. We obviously support applications running on AWS extremely well; that's our DNA. We get those applications, because we build and run those applications ourselves, but we also support Azure. We support GCP. We support hybrid environments. Many of our customers, ya know, are either, ya know, built in the cloud, and they know only cloud, but a few of them are also making the transition to the cloud, are migrating their applications to the cloud, and you know, we believe that we live in an age where flexibility is extremely important, and we support our customers where ever their applications are today. >> Right, so let's look at some of the findings, so. >> Absolutely. >> Just from a process point of view, you interviewed your customer data base, right? Your, your numbers here? >> Yeah, yeah, I think, yeah. We looked at our 16 hundred customers. >> Sixteen hundred customers, okay. >> And an important point to make out here is that we don't interview our customers. What we do is to, essentially, collect data from our customers, which is what we do when we are doing machine data analytics, we anonymize those data, and we represent as to what is happening in terms of these applications. How do our customers build these applications, you know, manage them, and secure them? >> Right. >> So this is not a >> It's the real data, though. >> It's real data. >> This is not, this is not what they think they know, and they're going to answer the survey. >> Absolutely. Exactly. Right. >> And all the survey biases that can come up. >> You are very right, I mean, you know, that's what makes this report unique, right? >> Right, right. >> It's the first report where we're actually reflecting what customers actually do. It's not a survey. It's not an aggregation of, you know, data from ten other sources. This is as close to truth as you can get in terms of running and building and securing applications. >> Right. >> In the cloud environment. >> So, I was happy to see that the data supports a number of the hypotheses that we derive at a lot of the shows. >> Absolutely. >> That we go through. You know, right of the top: Docker and the adoption of Kubernetes in orchestration is growing rapidly. >> Absolutely, I mean, ya know, everywhere you go you hear containers: container this, container that, so, ya know, we see a similar adoption. Docker has grown from 14 percent to about 28 percent in this, as we see in this report, but what's interesting is also the growth of Kubernetes and orchestration, right? If you were to ask anyone, even in this conference, you know, about orchestration, let's say two or three years ago, and even the word Kubernetes, ya know, I'm sure you'd have gotten blank stares. >> Right, right. >> Here we are, two years into Kubernetes becoming, you know, somewhat mainstream, and we are already starting to see 30 per cent adoption of orchestration within AWS, and out of that 30 per cent, we almost see fifteen per cent of those folks using Kubernetes as a native technology. AWS has just announced their own Kubernetes service. I am sure if, when we have this conversation next year, >> Right. >> Kubernetes, you know, will become a household name. You will see 30 per cent adoption of Kubernetes alone, >> Right. >> Ya know, in a report of this kind. >> Well it's funny: when we were at VMworld a couple weeks ago, and Kubernetes was both in Pat's, Pat Gelsinger's keynote. >> Uh-huh. >> As well as Sonjay's, you know, so it's just, it really shows how fast in this type of a world a new technology adoption can just be put into place. >> Yeah, I mean, if you bring the right capabilities, if you have the right support, which is what Kubernetes does, and, obviously, if you have the right backing, you know, in the form of Google, obviously, incubating this project and then, you know, promoting it as an open source standard, and everybody is now falling behind it. Ya know, we support it. We hear it from our customers, and, you know, the data also bears this out. >> Right, so what about on the database side? What did you find on the database side? >> Yeah, I mean, the database results are always interesting for us, right? You know, I think the most important thing that we learned is that, you know, as customers are building apps in their public cloud environments, they really have a choice, ya know? If you were to build an on-prem, you know, application, once upon a time, I mean, you are usually stuck with Oracle or, ya know, MySQL or SQL Silver or some of those standard database fares everyone has heard about. >> Right. >> But when you, now, go to the cloud, when you migrate to the cloud, or when you are, you know, incubating your applications in the cloud to begin with, you want to re-think your database layer. This is the core layer that powers your application, and there are lots more, ya know, opportunities to, and options out there. >> Right. >> So, what we are seeing is, one, the growth of no-SQL databases: they are way more scalable, ya know, they handle big data way better that, ya know, traditional SQL databases, so we're definitely seeing a growth of that, of no-SQL databases. >> Right. >> What's also interesting is that, ya know, is customers have the choice. They are looking at other forms of databases. Ya know, I could look at Redis, I could look at MongoDB, I could look at Posgres, and, right, I'm not stuck going back to, ya know, our favorite Oracle or SQL Silver anymore. >> Right. What strikes me is that the definition of the requirement has been flipped upside-down. Before it was, "What infrastructure do we have? What's available that IT can deliver to me? What do we have licenses for, and what can I build on top of?" Now the application has taken center stage, so now it's "This is what I want to do with my application. What is it that I need underneath the covers to deliver that capability?" So it really flipped the whole thing on its head. >> Ya know, this also goes back to that, you know, sort of the democratization of decisions where, you know, developers, now, can make these choices. You know, once upon a time, right, I mean, someone, a muckity-muck in your organization says Oracle is the way to go, and everybody follows suite, follows suit. That's not the case any more, right? >> Right. >> I mean, the engineer, they're a developer who is building their application, especially in the microservices world, they can make choices in terms of what is a data server that they may choose to build into that microservcie? And that doesn't have to be Oracle every time. It doesn't have to be SQL Silver every time. You know, if Redis makes sense, if MongoDB makes sense, let's go build that into our into our platform. >> Right, so, another one, you know, serverless is all the hot buzz, and clearly that is supported here with some of the data around Lambda adoption. >> Yeah, I mean, Lambda growth, you know, continues to astound us. We are seeing Lambda grow from twelve per cent two years ago, which is when we did our first report, to now, you know, almost 30 per cent, you know? So, imagine that, right: one in three enterprises today are using Lambda, and this is a technology that is very easy to use, but architecture-wise, you need to re-think how you are putting your applications together with Lambda, and we are starting to see, you know, some wide-spread Lambda adoption, you know, within enterprises. >> Right, but isn't that the ultimate goal, I mean, as we get closer and closer to, you know, atomic versions of store, compute, & networking, I mean, shouldn't it all, ultimately, get there. >> Yeah. >> I mean, there's requirements, and, you know, there's reality I don't deal, you know, luckily I don't have to go turn the stuff on and run it, but, you know, that is the vision, right? Atomic units of compute, atomic units of store, atomic units of network. >> Yeah, I mean, look, serverless is the ultimate Nirvana when it comes to the cloud, right? I mean, the notion of the cloud is that, you know, I have an application. It needs to run. I don't worry about the infrastructure, and to a certain extent, I don't even worry about the management. So, serverless and Lambda is the manifestation of that. >> Right. >> Right, and what we are starting to see is that many customers are, at least dabbling with Lambda. Now, I won't say that customers are building their core application with Lambda yet, because that requires a re-think of their application itself, but what we are starting to see is that Lambda is used in DevOps, Lambda is used in integration, Lambda is a glue-ware that sort of ties all of these applications together. >> Right. >> In fact, you know, this report that we put together, a lot of it has actually been put together on the back of Lambda. We use Lambda extensively to collect this kind of data, and create a report of this kind. >> (chuckles) That's great! Another piece I wanted to make sure that we talked about is really, kind of, the break-down of the clouds. >> Uh-huh. >> Obviously you guys have a huge percentage of your business is, you know, you ask customers, you guys were born in AWS. >> That's right. >> That seems pretty logical, but what's interesting is a lot of multi-cloud, so, you know, I don't know if you distinguish between multi-cloud, hyper-cloud, but at the end of the day, as I think Ramin talked about in the keynote, right, there's going to be different places for different workloads. >> Absolutely. You know, look, as you rightfully pointed out, we are born in AWS, so we have an affinity to AWS, and so AWS customers also have an affinity to Sumo Logic, so it's not wonder that a big swath of our customers are built in AWS. Now, having said that, what we are also seeing is actually an acceleration of our customers, you know, adopting more and more AWS. I mean, they are the leaders in the space. I mean, I think nobody can, nobody can question that statistics. What is interesting, though, is that we are starting to see increased adoption of multi-cloud. We saw about five per cent of our customers dabble in multi-cloud last year. We are at close to ten per cent this year. We are also seeing increased adoption of Azure. We had a, you know, about five per cent of our customers use Azure last year. We are starting to see almost, I should say about eight per cent of our customers used Azure last year. We saw, we're seeing about fifteen per cent of our customers use Azure this year. >> Right, right. >> Right, so Azure is a, you know, has definitely become a very credible second cloud alternative for many of our customers. >> Sure. >> Now, we do see interest in GCP. It's not translated into lots of GCP adoption in production environments yet, but we're definitely seeing that increased interest, and I'm sure, you know, when we put this report together next year, you'll see some very credible and statistically relevant GCP data in this report. >> Right, right, so, Kalyan, there's a lot here, and we could go on for (chuckles) and on and on. So, people can go to the website. They can download the report, but... It's so great, but what I like most about this report is you lay out the facts, right, you lay out your findings, people can question your data source or this or that, but you lay out your methodology, but then you have very specific instructions for the IT buyer about what they should consider, and I think that is so powerful, because I think from the position of an IT purchaser today, >> Right. >> They've got to just be getting creamed with, you know, like, with things we're talkin' about, like, with serverless and Lambda and security and DevOps and >> Right. >> And the pace of change for them keeps going faster, so where do they even begin when they're doin' this kind of analysis? It's not just putting it out for an RFP anymore, right? >> Yeah, I mean, that was the intent of this report, right? I mean, at the, you know, when we started this report our goal was to provide accurate, real-time information about, you know, where are these modern apps in the public cloud going? You know, our leading-edge customers, like Airbnb and the Twitters and the Salesforce and the Adobes, know how to do this well, but there is a huge swath of our community that is, in some sense, perplexed, right? I mean, they see this cloud adoption happening. They see this cloud wave coming. They have cut their teeth on, you know, data centers and applications in the data center. How do I make that transition to the cloud? How do I, you know, follow these cloud-first companies and learn from these companies? And, so, what we wanted to do was to collect this data, anonymously surface this data, and provide, you know, this insight to this community so that they can, you know, in some sense emulate, you know, these leading-edge companies and learn how to architect, build, run and secure their apps. >> Right, right, and I love this little, you know, kind of, the new stack, if you will, the architecture set-up. >> Right. >> Cake chart that you've done in the past. All right, great! So, a lot of, ton of information. I'll give you the last word as we're here at Illuminate, triple last year's numbers. A little bit about where you guys are goin' next. What's, kind of, top of your mind? >> You know, look, you know, Sumo Logic, as a company, you know, we are doing exceptionally well in this machine data analytics space. We are the only cloud-native machine data analytics vendor. We are where the market is going, right? We understand cloud; the apps are going to the cloud. We know how to manage these apps exceptionally well, but more importantly, you know, we think that it's also important and it behooves us to make sure that we take our developer community, our ops community, our security community along with us, and that's the intent of this report. >> Right. >> It's to not sell product, though we do want to sell it eventually. >> Yeah. >> But it's to provide you guys, actually I should say, provide the community with the right kinds of information so that, you know, they can do their jobs better. >> Right, right. >> That's the goal of Sumo Logic. It's all about, you know, empowering the people who power these modern apps, which is actually the theme of this event itself. >> Well, very good. Well, we'll leave it there, and thanks for taking a few minutes of your time. >> Thank you very much, Jeff. >> All right, he's Kalyan. I'm Jeff. You're watchin' theCUBE. We're at Sumo Logic Illuminate at San Francisco Hyatt Regency by the airport. 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