Thanks Nicole! Your take on it is consistent with what I had suspected from what I have been able to read and see with a bit of web surfing.
Thus far I am very happy we have made the choice to go with LEM as our service platform for log management and SIEM. I just found out today we are beginning work on a new PCI environment which will be another LEM appliance that I get to deploy. That will make 6 in production so far!