ScienceLogic Leads the Spot

April 3rd, 2008 by Julia Lim

Washington, D.C. has its share of leaders and executives who know how to succeed in business. The Leader’s Spot by Rebecca Blacksmith is a radio show with a mission of interviewing top leaders in the area and have them share what’s worked and what hasn’t. The interviews demonstrate the life philosophy, determination, and hard work that are a part of becoming some of the nation’s capital’s most innovative and successful businesses.

Early in March, our CEO, David Link was highlighted on the Leader’s Spot. He discussed the founding of ScienceLogic in 2003, which began with the simple notion that frustration was the mother of innovation. Between them the founders all have decades of IT Operations Management experience under their belts. Before starting the company, they took a look around at the tools to help them get their jobs done and found the existing solutions too expensive, too complex and the deployments took too long. If you get enough IT Operations people in the same room, they tend to agree on what the problems are; it was the solutions that were letting everyone down. Hence the birth of ScienceLogic and the EM7 Meta-Appliances.

If you’ve ever been part of a rapidly growing technology startup, you know how hard and how crazy it can get at times. Take a moment to listen to the interview and discover more about the history of ScienceLogic and David’s views on leadership and entrepreneurship that have driven - or maybe I should say “gently herded” - the company to where it is today. If you have a passion for finding solutions to complex IT problems, this is certainly a case study in which you will be interested.

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April 3rd, 2008