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Tomer is the CEO and co-founder of Logz.io. Before founding Logz.io, he co-founded and was the CTO of Intigua, a company that developed innovative, Docker-like containers designed for large enterprises. Prior to Intigua, Tomer spent six years at CheckPoint, where he led its Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) product from concept to market, generating $100M in revenue in the second year. Tomer has an M.B.A. from Tel Aviv University and a B.A. in computer science.
The eighth of our OpenObservability Talks has Tomer Levy, CEO & Founder of Logz.io. The community is in turmoil around Elastic's announced plan to take Elasticsearch and Kibana off open source. In this episode, both Dotan and Mike have the pleasure of hosting Tomer where we discuss the recent news of Elastic moving Elasticsearch and Kibana to a dual non-OSS license - SSPL and Elastic License - and the implications that have on the open source community around it, including plans to fork Elasticsearch and Kibana, AWS announcement and more. We also talk about what Logz.io hopes to do, and how it wants the OSS to be better than ever. Tomer Levy is co-founder and CEO of Logz.io. Before founding Logz.io, Tomer was the co-founder and CTO of Intigua, and prior to that he managed the Intrusion Prevention System at CheckPoint. Tomer has an M.B.A. from Tel Aviv University and a B.S. in computer science and is an enthusiastic kitesurfer. The live streaming of the OpenObservability Talks is on the last Thursday of each month, and you can join us on Twitch or YouTube Live. Socials: Website: https://openobservability.io/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpenObserv Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLKOtaBdQAJVRJqhJDuOlPg
Bronson Healthcare Group is about 18 months along in its transition of enterprise imaging to the cloud. With nearly two years of experience under its belt, Bronson’s Ken Buechele now has much to review and share with other healthcare IT leaders. Today Ken circles up with Tomer Levy to share Bronson’s cloud transition story, including why Bronson is making the shift, challenges and successes experienced along the way, where Bronson is taking its cloud journey next, and Ken’s strategic advice for IT leaders who are evaluating a transition. Today’s episode features Tomer Levy, vice president of Global R&D and Enterprise Imaging for Change Healthcare, and Ken Buechele, vice president of Information Technology for Bronson Healthcare Group. Topics they cover include: Where enterprise imaging sits within Bronson’s IT and patient engagement strategies Why Bronson is transitioning enterprise imaging to the cloud The current stage of Bronson’s transition Short- and long-term goals Metrics for success Benefits realized so far Challenges securing buy-in and how Bronson overcame them How a cloud-native approach meets security standards Advantages and drawbacks of adopting the cloud as a platform as a service (PaaS) versus software as a service (SaaS) Steps Bronson took to shift internal processes and organizational structure to transition to the cloud How Bronson balances three key priorities in the transition: reducing organizational complexity, managing spend, and delivering support for improving patient outcomes Which priorities will become more important as Bronson’s cloud journey evolves Advice for other IT leaders interested in embarking on a transition to the cloud Episode Resources Ken Buechele’s bio Tomer Levy’s bio Enterprise Imaging Next Generation Enterprise Imaging: The Rise of Cloud Native Technology Enterprise Imaging resources Change Healthcare Industry Insights COVID-19 Updates and Resources COVID-19 Updates Newsletter Change Healthcare Insights Newsletter Show Resources SUBSCRIBE to the podcast using any podcatcher or RSS reader Suggest or become a guest Contact Change Healthcare
Tomer Levy (@TomerLevy, Co-Founder/CEO of @Logzio) talks about how open source communities have evolved to enable Observability, how teams embed Security into their DevOps processes, and tips for managing better collaborations and communications in distributed teams. SHOW: 447SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:DivvyCloud - Achieve continuous security & compliance. Request a free trial today!DivvyCloud - The best mistakes are the ones that don’t happen. Learn how IaC offers preventive cloud security.Datadog Homepage - Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsTry Datadog yourself by starting a free, 14-day trial today. Listeners of this podcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirtMongoDB Homepage - The most popular database for modern applicationsMongoDB Atlas - MongoDB-as-a-Service on AWS, Azure and GCPCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwSHOW NOTES:Logz.io HomepageWhy We Founded Logz.io VideoLogz.io: Infrastructure MonitoringLaunching the Community COVID-19 Dashboard ProjectStart your free Logz.io trial here, and receive a t-shirt, on us!Topic 1 - Let's talk about your background as both a technologist and entrepreneur, and what excites you about the open-source ecosystem (what motivated you to found Logz.io)?Topic 2 - Observability is a hot topic these days, how are we seeing the open source community and open source tools evolve in this space?Topic 3 - We've seen an explosion of application traffic and data over the last few years. What are some of the things that tools like the ELK stack and Grafana have done to help with this scale, as well as making life easier for DevOps teams? Topic 4 - You have a background in security. Is it possible to have a DevOps team these days without it being DevSecOps? What are some of the things you’ve seen that are making security more manageable in these fast-changing environments? Topic 5 - None of us know when these work-from-home conditions are going to change, or how long the impact might be on a “new normal’. Any tips or suggestions for newly remote teams to be successful around operations? How important is it for engineers to better manage complexity and costs during this time? Topics 6 - What are some of the ways that Logz is using your experience in data collection and data visualization to give back to help during these trying times? Topics 7 - Can you tell us about your upcoming online event -- OpenObservability -- and how the agenda and speakers will cover some of these items in more detail with their unique insights? FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet
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Tomer Levy. He’s the CEO and co-founder of Logz.io. Before co-founding Logz, he co-founded and was the CTO of Intigua, a company that innovated locker-like containers designed for large enterprises. Prior to Intigua, Tomer spent 6 years at Check Point, where he led its intrusion prevention system product from concept to market. He has an MBA for Tel Avi University, a BA in Computer Science, and is an enthusiastic kite surfer. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Hard Thing About Hard Things What CEO do you follow? – Jeff Bezos Favorite online tool? — Grammarly How many hours of sleep do you get?— 6-7 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – “Take it easy, you’ll figure it out” Time Stamped Show Notes: 01:20 – Nathan introduces Tomer to the show 02:06 – Logz is a logins company 02:12 – Some of their customers are Kantar Media and British Airways 02:30 – Logz solves systematic problems in web servers and databases 02:41 – Logz is a SaaS business 02:52 – Logz caters to IT operations and security team of a company 03:24 – You can subscribe to Logz’ website directly and pay monthly 03:29 – Logz has 2 main cohorts 03:32 – SMBs would pay around $10-15K a year 03:41 – SMEs would usually pay annually that can grow to hundreds of thousands 03:58 – Average pay is $10K-40K in annual contract value 04:10 – Logz was launched in 2014 and the product end of 2015 04:30 – Logz has an inside sales team 04:38 – Logz offers an open source platform like ELK which is around $500K a month 04:58 – Instead of libraries, ELK will be installed in the servers and take all the data 05:12 – ELK visualizes the data and Logz offer ELK with more capabilities 05:27 – Logz is based on the open-source community 05:55 – Logz isn’t the developer of the open source 06:05 – Logz built a solution on top of the open source for log management 06:30 – ELK is like google search for all of your log data 07:02 – There are also other companies who are doing open SaaS 07:10 – Pantheon for WordPress and similar with Cloudera are doing open SaaS too 07:38 – Github just recently offered Git open source as a service 08:03 – Tomer has been writing content even before the launch of the company 08:14 – Logz is number for ELK search and they contribute the most in the open source community 08:43 – Open source has to be good and easy enough to get started so it will have mass distribution 08:51 – But it has to get to a point that it is difficult to scale and make it production grade 09:04 – Logz currently has a thousand companies on board 09:17 – Some are paid customers and some are on free 09:35 – Logz has raised money but they could have built a lifestyle business 09:52 – Logz raised $24M and the last round was $15.6M in October 2016 10:07 – Team size is 70 10:54 – Logz started in October 2014 and ran their first product by February 2015 11:05 – Logz started with 5 non-paying customers after shifting to paid model 11:38 – As your company grow, people will realizes your company’s value and be willing to pay for it 11:49 – Logz has 0 revenue in 2014 and 2015 revenue was around 6 figures 12:44 – Logz has already broken a million dollar runway 13:02 – Logz competes mostly with engineers setting up their own open source 13:10 – The commercial side, Logz competes with AWS or Amazon Web Services 13:45 – Gross margin 14:12 – Logz pays $1-5M to Amazon for hosting 15:20 – Minimum MRR 15:46 – Team is based in Telavi, Israel 15:59 – Logz also has a team in Boston where Tomer currently is 16:11 – Gross monthly customer churn 17:07 – “We’re very much a land and expand business” 17:43 – Marketing team has 8 or 9 people and 7 sales people 18:10 – Fully weighted CAC 18:40 – Payback period 19:22 – Logz also invest in paid marketing with around $5k a month 19:50 – Logz invests massively in events this year 20:23 – Logz spends a few hundreds of dollars in sponsorships 22:17 – The Famous Five 3 Key Points: When thinking about a business model, try and create on that is “land and expand”. Starting as a free service is fine, but you need to make sure you’re built to offer your customers more value behind the paywall. Great content coupled with great keywords builds great companies. Resources Mentioned: The Top Inbox – The site Nathan uses to schedule emails to be sent later, set reminders in inbox, track opens, and follow-up with email sequences GetLatka - Database of all B2B SaaS companies who have been on my show including their revenue, CAC, churn, ARPU and more Klipfolio – Track your business performance across all departments for FREE Hotjar – Nathan uses Hotjar to track what you’re doing on this site. He gets a video of each user visit like where they clicked and scrolled to make the site a better experience Acuity Scheduling – Nathan uses Acuity to schedule his podcast interviews and appointments Host Gator– The site Nathan uses to buy his domain names and hosting for the cheapest price possible Audible– Nathan uses Audible when he’s driving from Austin to San Antonio (1.5-hour drive) to listen to audio books Show Notes provided by Mallard Creatives
We're deep into summer here in Florida - and our show for August features deep, refreshing and introspective works of jazz, by musicians from Tallahassee, Dania Beach, Tampa, Temple Terrace and Parkland. visit our Facebook pageHosts: Allison Paris & Kenny MacKenzie New twitter for Kenny - @DJKendo11. Introduction - Allison, Kenny2. "Sun Child" - Ron Miller Quartet (Dania Beach, FL) websiteDave Fernandez - sax, Jeff Carswell - bass,Steve Rucker - drums, Ron Miller - piano, composerfrom the album "Peacock Park - The Music of Ron Miller"purchase at CD Baby or Itunes3. "Wifalot" - LaRue Nickelson (Tampa, FL) website LaRue Nickelson - electric guitar, composer; Jeremy Powell - soprano sax, Patrick Bettison - piano,Joe Porter - electric bass, Steve Davis - drums.from the album "Dark Waters"puchase cd at CD Baby , Itunes or from LaRue himself! 4. Announcements - Kenny(background music from the album "Second Chances" by Allison Paris)5. "New Beginnings' - ZBT (Tallahassee, FL) websiteZach Bartholomew - piano, composerBrandon Robertson - bass, Miles Bozeman - drumsfrom the album "Out of This Town"buy cd at CD Baby or Itunes.6. "I Don't Hear Nothin'" - Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge (Temple Terrace, FL) websiteChuck Owen - composer, conductor, keyboardsTim Hagans - trumpet solo, Mike Smith - soprano sax solo;Woodwinds: Valerie Gillespie, Tami Danielsson, Jack Wilkins,Rex Wertz, Matt VanceTrumpets: John Robinson, Jay Coble, Mike Iapichino, Tom ParmerterTrombones: Keith Oshiro, Chris Clifton, Jerald Shynett, Jim HallBarry Greene - guitar, Clay Perry - piano, Mark Neuenschwander - bass, Danny Gottlieb - drumsBeth Gottlieb - percussionFrom the album "Madcap" on the Sea Breeze Jazz label.purchase cd at Amazon or the Sea Breeze Jazz website.8. Announcements - Allison, Kenny(background music from the album "There You Are" from Kenny MacKenzie Trio)9. "Only Take Three" - Perry Joslin Project (Parkland, FL) websiteGary Wofsey - trumpet, Tomer Levy - trumpet & flugelhorn, Perry Joslin - piano, composer; Lee Levin - drums, composer;Dan Warner - guitar, composer; Javier Carrion - electric bass, Richard Bravo - percussion, Ed Calle - saxophone, Tim Pitchford - trombonefrom the album "It's a Strange Thing".Purchase cd at CD Baby or Itunes10. Closing Announcements - Allison Palm Coast Jazz closing theme by Seven Octaves.produced by Kenny MacKenzie If you are a jazz musician residing in Florida with quality recordings of your original music (new or old) and would like to submit for future podcasts, please contact us at palmcoastjazz@gmail.com All recordings and compositions are the property of their respective performers and composers, all rights reserved. This podcast copyright 2012 Kenny MacKenzie. All rights reserved.
Lots of new artists appear on our show for July - and we cover the state, from the panhandle to Sarasota! Big band, Bossa-nova piano, sultry jazz vocals, exciting acoustic guitar smooth jazz and a dark & moody electric guitar afterhours jam. All hotter than July!There's still time to vote for our next bonus episode over on our facebook page - voting ends July 5th. Decide whether it should be all guitar (current leader), all vocal, classical goes jazz or another 'get lost in the music' show! visit our Facebook pageHosts: Allison Paris & Kenny MacKenzie New twitter for Kenny - @DJKendo11. Introduction - Allison, Kenny2. "Brilliant Idea" - Mark Chiriboga (Ormond Beach, FL) websiteMark Chiriboga - guitars & programmingfrom the album "Mark Chiriboga"purchase at Craig's website or at CD Baby3. "Chances" - J.B. Scott's Swingin' Allstars (Jacksonville, FL) websiteJB Scott - trumpet, Lisa Kelly - vocals, Ken Calhoun - guitar, Dave Steinmeyer - trombone,Jim Snyder - clarinet, Rick Ravelo - bassEric Mason - drums, Steve Salo - drumsfrom the album "Just Swingin'!"puchase cd at their website or at itunes! 4. Announcements - Kenny(background music from the album "Gettin' in the Groove" by Ron Pirtle Quintet)5. "Li'l Ditty" - Valerie Gillespie (Dade City, FL) websiteValerie Gillespie - alto saxophone, Keith Oshiro - trombone solo,Mike MacArthur - tenor sax solo with the Central Florida Studio Big Band:Alto Sax - David Tagliarini, Tenor Sax - Mike Gibilisco, Bari Sax - Bruce NardiTrumpets - Briand Scanlon, Chad Shoopman, Mike Iapichino, Tom ParmerterTrombones - Jerald Shynett, Matthew Buckmaster, Tony HillPiano - Rick Steuart, Bass - Mark Neuenschwander, Drums - Joe Rendafrom the album "Once Again"buy cd at Valerie's website or cd baby. 6. "Evening" - Herb Silverstein (Sarasota, FL) websiteHerb Silverstein - piano, Bob Berg - tenor saxophone,Richard Drexler - bass, Danny Gottlieb - drumsJohn Richardson - shakerFrom the album "Fridays with Maury....Just Because" purchase cd at Herb's website!8. Announcements - Allison(background music from the album "KMT II" from Kenny MacKenzie Trio)9. "Hanako Cocoa" - Gary Wofsey (Alford, FL) websiteGary Wofsey - trumpet, Tomer Levy - trumpet & flugelhorn, John Hines - trumpet & flugelhorn, Alan Ferber - trombone,Marshall Gilkes - trombone, Kristy Norter - alto saxophone,Danny Jordan - tenor saxophone (solo), Fred Scerbo - tenor saxophone, Chris Karlic - baritone saxophone, Pete Levin - piano,Jill (Allen) Wofsey - bass, Rick Donato - drumsfrom the album "Gary Wofsey in Stereo".Purchase cd at Gary's website.10. "Speakeasy" - Michael Hawley (Winter Park, FL) websiteMichael Hawley - guitar, Peter Miles - drums, Sean Tarelton - bass, Eric Brigmond - keys, Scott Rademacher - tenor saxophone, Brian Homan - pedal steelfrom the album "Tele Talk"purchase cd at cd baby. 11. Announcements - Kenny(background music from the album "Live at the Warehouse" by Dot Wilder)13. Closing Announcements - Allison Palm Coast Jazz closing theme by Seven Octaves.produced by Kenny MacKenzie If you are a jazz musician residing in Florida with quality recordings of your original music (new or old) and would like to submit for future podcasts, please contact us at palmcoastjazz@gmail.com All recordings and compositions are the property of their respective performers and composers, all rights reserved. This podcast copyright 2012 Kenny MacKenzie. All rights reserved.
Bonus all-music episode that features longer, "deep cuts" that don't fit on our regular episodes. Special, leap year episode with music from Jack Wilkins, Dreamhunter and Gary Wofsey. Our Facebook page Our BlogHosts: Allison Paris and Kenny MacKenzie 1. Introductions - Allison, Kenny2. "Two Views of the Mountain" - Jack Wilkins (Tampa) website Jack Wilkins - composer, tenor saxophone; Sara Caswell - violin, Per Danielson - piano, Corey Christiansen - guitars, LaRue Nickelson - guitar solo, Mark Neuenschwander - bass, Danny Gottlieb - drumsfrom the cd "The Blue and Green Project" on Summit Records.click to buy cd at Jacks webstore 3. "Far Away From Here, Long Time Ago" - Dreamhunter (Miami) website Gottfried Stoger - soprano saxophone; Errol Rackipov - composer, marimba, vibraphone; Robert Kainar - percussion; Matthew Hankle - drums; Matthias Pichler - bassFrom the album "Pleasures"purchase cd or downloads at CD Baby 4. Announcements - Allison, Kenny(background music from the album "Second Chances" by Allison Paris) 5. "La Mer" - Gary Wofsey (Alford) website[Claude Debussy, adapted by Gary Wofsey] soloists: Gary Wofsey - flugelhorn, trumpet; Kristy Norter - alto saxophone, Liam Sillery - trumpet, Danny Jordan - tenor saxophone. Other musicians: Tomer Levy - trumpet, flugelhorn; John Hines - trumpet, flugelhorn; Alan Ferber - trombone, Marshall Gilkes - trombone, Fred Scerbo - tenor saxophone, Chris Karlic - baritone saxophone, Pete Levin - piano, Jill Allen - bass & Rick Donato - drums. From the album "Gary Wofsey in Stereo"click to buy a cd at Gary's website 6. Closing announcements - AllisonPalm Coast Jazz closing theme by Seven Octaves.produced by Kenny MacKenzie If you are a jazz musician residing in Florida with quality recordings of your original music (new or old) and would like to submit for future podcasts, please contact us at palmcoastjazz@gmail.com All recordings and compositions are the property of their respective performers and composers, all rights reserved. This podcast copyright 2012 Kenny MacKenzie. All rights reserved.