Vega actually earns its Next-Gen label
Analyst Andrew Green has spent years calling out “next-gen” SIEM labels that change the pricing and not the product. In this independent whitepaper he defines what makes an architecture next-generation, places Vega furthest to the right on that axis, and explains why: distributed queries across object storage, data lakes, cloud, SaaS, and the SIEM you already own, in place; schema-on-read to OCSF; index-in-place for hot-search speed at cold-storage cost.
What's inside
Why five years of “next-gen” SIEM claims changed the price, not the product. A working definition of architectural next-genness: legacy, industry standard, and actual next-generation territory. Vega measured against it: bring-your-own storage and indexing, microservices, one query across every source, deterministic detection with AI triage and tuning, and the Anthropic case study numbers (1 billion+ CloudTrail events across 17 AWS regions in 41 seconds; up to 82% lower data costs). Where Vega can still improve. Why you cannot refactor your way to next-gen.