Ep109: Sustaining Data Quality and Quantity: How Cribl is helping Customers Control Costs and Unlock Value

Cribl’s Field CISO Ed Bailey discusses how customers can manage the quality and quantity of data by providing intelligent controls between data sources and destinations.

Topics Include:

• Cribl company name origin
• Company helps organizations screen data to find valuable insights
• Ed Bailey was Cribl's first customer back in 2018
• Data growth of 25% yearly created seven-figure cost increases
• CEOs and CIOs complained about explosive data storage costs
• Users demanded more data while budgets remained constrained
• Bailey discovered Cribl through a random Facebook advertisement
• Cribl Stream sits between data sources and destinations
• No new agents required, uses existing infrastructure connections
• Reduced data growth from 28% to 8% within year
• Development cycles shortened from six weeks to two weeks
• Bailey managed global security and telemetry data systems
• Operated large Splunk instance across forty different countries
• Team spent time collecting data instead of extracting value
• Cribl provided consistent data control plane for operations
• Smart engineers could focus on machine learning solutions
• Migrated from terrible SIEM to better security platform
• Data strategy should focus on business requirements first
• Not all data has the same business value
• Tier one: Critical data goes to expensive platforms
• Tier two: Important data stored in cheaper lakes
• Tier three: Compliance data in low-cost object storage
• SIEM costs around one dollar per gigabyte stored
• Data lakes cost twelve to eighteen cents per gigabyte
• Object storage costs fractions of pennies per gigabyte
• AWS partnership provides scalable infrastructure for rapid growth
• EC2, EKS, and S3 are heavily utilized services
• Cribl Search finds data directly in object storage
• Avoids costly data movement for search and analysis

Participants:

• Edward Bailey – Field CISO, Cribl

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