VirtualMetric Featured as Next-Gen Solution in the 2025 Comprehensive Market Guide: Rising Data Pipeline Security

Over the past year, much of cybersecurity’s attention has centered on the promise of AI-powered SOCs. But as the Market Guide 2025 by Francis Odum reveals, the true foundation of modern security success lies in the data layer. “Without clean, well-routed telemetry, even the smartest AI is starved of context,” points out the researcher. And that’s where Security Data Pipeline Platforms (SDPPs) have become essential. 

The report highlights how Security Data Pipeline Platforms (SDPPs) have emerged as essential infrastructure for modern SOCs. Traditional SIEMs, with their volume-based pricing and rigid architectures, can’t keep pace with today’s data explosion. Billions of events flow in daily from cloud, endpoint, and network sources. SDPPs solve this by cleaning, enriching, normalizing, and routing data in real-time before it reaches SIEMs or data lakes.  

This preprocessing not only cuts costs and reduces noise but also enables security teams to focus on high-value alerts, speed up investigations, and stay compliant with rising regulatory demands. As Odum notes, “Pipelines now pay for themselves. Median SIEM-ingest savings of 40–65% shift budget from storage to analytics in the first year.” 

The Market Guide 2025 clearly states: the future of effective security starts at the data level. As SOCs face growing volumes of telemetry and the limits of legacy SIEMs, the key difference is clean, structured, high-value data that supports faster, smarter detection and response. This is exactly where VirtualMetric stands out.  

VirtualMetric’s DataStream platform was built with this new reality in mind. As a next-generation Security Data Pipeline Platform (SDPP), DataStream directly addresses the challenges highlighted in Francis Odum’s report. These include cost overload from unnecessary data ingestion, the complexity of normalizing diverse data formats, and the urgent need for precise, real-time telemetry to feed modern SIEMs like Microsoft Sentinel. 

Where traditional SIEMs fail to cope with data volume, VirtualMetric enables security teams to take back control. DataStream’s agentless, vectorized pipeline architecture processes security telemetry across 20+ OS and device types, reducing overhead and complexity. By filtering and enriching data at the source, DataStream ensures that only the most valuable logs are ingested.  

With pre-ingest filtering, parsing, and compression, DataStream can cut ingestion costs by up to 80%. On top of that, our proprietary VMF-3 format delivers 99.9% compression — outperforming industry standards like JSON and Parquet. With data storage and ingestion fees skyrocketing, this gives security teams the ability to scale without compromise. 

VirtualMetric’s inclusion in the Market Guide 2025 underscores our role as a key driver of innovation in the security data space. With our deep Microsoft integrations, high-performance pipeline infrastructure, and zero-loss architecture, we give security teams the tools they need to control cost, improve detection, and future-proof their SOC. 
 
“In a space where most vendors try to serve broad use cases, VirtualMetric’s depth in Microsoft integrations, paired with high-performance pipeline infrastructure and zero-loss architecture, gives it a strong early mover advantage.” 

We invite you to explore the full SACR 2025 Market Guide and see how security data pipeline platforms are reshaping the SOC. Ready to see DataStream in action? Contact our team to discuss further.