Managing data with the demands of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity has become a burden for many companies, one which Cribl Inc. hopes to alleviate.

“At our heart, we’re an integrations company, and we so firmly believe that customer data is their data,” said Abby Strong (pictured), chief market officer of Cribl, a vendor-agnostic data engine for IT and security. “Whatever tool they want to put in that makes sense for them, whatever choices they’ve made in the past and whatever choices they want to make in the future, they should be enabled to do that. That’s what our products really work together to solve for them is that choice, control and flexibility over their data.”

Strong spoke with theCUBE Research’s Dave Vellante and Shelly Kramer at the recent RSA Conference, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed Cribl’s new announcements and the state of data observability. (* Disclosure below.)

Abby Strong (right) talks about the difficulty of keeping costs down as data grows.

Keeping costs low as data grows

Cribl recently announced a deal with Microsoft Corp. that makes it easier for customers to use Cribl’s products in the Microsoft Azure system. The company will also be joining the Wiz Integration Program. These announcements underscore Cribl’s ongoing commitment to IT and security professionals, according to Strong.

“All security and IT comes down to data,” Strong said. “We want to be the experts in that type of data and then let the experts in security build the solutions that are doing those detections and responses.”

Data is growing 28% year-over-year, but companies do not have a budget growth to match, according to Strong. Cribl’s goal is to help customers both access their data and store it cheaply. Part of that is maintaining a network of partnerships with cloud and security companies.

“Alliances are the way that we make sure that we have a path for [customers] to put their data wherever they may want it and, of course, get it back in the future,” Strong said. “We have over 70 different integrations that you can mix and match with all of our solutions.”

In April, Cribl won a lawsuit filed by Splunk Inc. The outcome established fair use for building interoperable products in the tech industry. Following that result, Cribl still looks to maintain its commitment to the customer.

“Our customers love Splunk,” Strong said. “We share a lot of customers in common. It is still one of the most common tools out there for IT and security audiences. I’d love to see us partner again because we know our customers would love that too.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage of the RSA Conference: 

(* Disclosure: Crible Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Crible nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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