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DATADOG Inc, the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, has plans for a new data centre to be located in Australia and it is getting the ‘thumbs-up’ from major Australian clients including Flight Centre Travel Group and the employment platform Seek.
The data centre, which will be built on AWS, will be Datadog’s first in Australia and adds to existing locations in North America, Asia, Europe and AWS GovCloud. The Australian data centre will store and process data locally, creating sovereign capacity to help Datadog’s customers meet local privacy and security requirements and preferences. 
“As the ANZ chief technology officer at Flight Centre Corporate, I am watching Datadog unite our entire technology ecosystem into a single pane of glass — transforming us from reactive to proactive and elevating outcomes for every level of the business,” Grant Currey said.
Datadog currently works with more than 1,000 organisations in Australia and New Zealand. This includes companies in the banking and financial services, retail and ecommerce, software-as-a-service and technology industries, with public sector, healthcare and higher education representing key expansion verticals.
“With Datadog’s end-to-end observability, we can detect and address service quality across multiple business units. Ensuring we are proactively resolving issues before they become business critical for us,” Seek technology division group executive, Lisa Tobin said.
The new data centre will have Datadog’s full range of services available and is expected to open mid-year.
“Australia is a high-priority market for Datadog; we already have a strong employee base in-region and aim to create new jobs across various practices this year,” Datadog vice president for Asia-Pacific and Japan, Rob Thorne said.
“Datadog has experienced surging demand in Australia and New Zealand. Analysts forecast IT spend will reach A$147 billion this year, with cybersecurity, generative AI and cloud services to receive significant attention. We are poised to support this appetite for advanced digital capabilities across the private sector, alongside the Australian Government’s ambitions to become a top three digital government,” Mr Thorne said.
Datadog chief product officer, Yanbing Li said Datadog was continuing to invest in Australia and New Zealand, with the recent opening of the Melbourne office and the expansion of teams there “as well as in Sydney and Auckland”.
“Australian companies are innovating rapidly and rely on Datadog to support their continued cloud investments, digital transformations and AI projects. For businesses in highly regulated industries like healthcare and financial services, hosting data locally is critical—a need we’re addressing with this new data centre.”
Ms Li said Datadog was used by organizations of all sizes and wide-ranging industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration; drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams; accelerate time to market for applications; reduce time to problem resolution; secure applications and infrastructure; understand user behaviour; and track key business metrics.
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