Logentries Alters Cloud Storage Equation

Grazed from TalkinCloud.  Author: Mike Vizard.

Big data is supposed to generate massive amounts of demand for storage, but it’s not at all clear how all that storage is going to actually be paid for. Conventional wisdom says IT organizations will pay for storage on a usage basis, but the folks at Logentries have a very different idea.

Logentries, a provider of a log analytics application delivered as a service, has unfurled a Logentries Unlimited, On Demand Log Management service that starts at $429 per month, which includes logging unlimited data from up to 40 hosts. To make that even more enticing the company is also making available a free 30-day trail offer…


Company CEO Andrew Burton said the issue that Logentries is trying to get at is the costs associated with using rival log analytics services that charge customers exorbitant fees to access storage in the cloud that they themselves are paying very little for. The simpler fact of that matter is that most of these applications are leveraging cloud service providers to store data. Those cloud service providers are providing that storage for pennies per gigabyte…

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