Based in San Mateo , California , Snowflake is the only data warehouse built for the cloud . The company was founded in 2012 by three data warehousing experts – Benoit Dageville , Thierry Cruanes and Marcin Zukowski – and appointed former Microsoft executive Bob Muglia as CEO in June 2014 . Snowflake ’ s technology combines the power of data warehousing , the flexibility of big data platforms and the elasticity of the cloud . Snowflake currently employs 224 staff and has funding in the region of $ 205mn .

Sumo Logic acts as a cloud log management and metrics monitoring solution deployed by IT , security and development teams . The company ’ s cloud-based service provides customers with real-time interactive analytics at unprecedented scale – more than 100 petabytes of data on a daily basis . According to Forbes , its current funding figure stands at $ 235mn .

58 March 2018