INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
There used to be two cultures in the enterprise around technology
On one side were software engineers, who built out the applications needed by employees to conduct the business of their companies
needed to power all of that software
Many a great comedy routine has been made at the interface of those two cultures, but they remained divergent.That is, until the cloud
Suddenly, there was increasing overlap in the skills required for software engineering and operations, as well as a greater need for
collaboration between the two sides to effectively deploy applications
Yet, while these two halves eventually became one whole, the software monitoring tools used by them were often entirely separate.New York
City-based Datadog was designed to bring these two cultures together to create a more nimble and collaborative software and operations
team to track and analyze deployments and developers to instrument their applications
than 600 people across its various worldwide offices
IPO prospects.The real story though is just how much luck and happenstance can help put wind in the sails of a company.Pomel first met
cultural differences they witnessed between their respective teams
At the same time, they noticed that companies were increasingly talking about building on Amazon Web Services, which in 2009, was still a
They incorporated Datadog in 2010 as a cloud-first monitoring solution, and launched general availability for the product in 2012.Luck
Datadog was among the first cloud-native monitoring solutions, and the superlative success of cloud infrastructure in penetrating the
enterprise the past few years has benefitted the company enormously
York for decades, enterprise infrastructure was in many ways in a dark age when the company launched, which made early fundraising difficult
connect with customers much earlier and more often than it might have otherwise
outcompete its rivals on the West Coast.More success is likely to come as companies continue to move their infrastructure onto the cloud
Datadog used to have a roughly even mix of private and public cloud business, and now the balance is moving increasingly toward the public
Even large financial institutions, which have been reticent in transitioning their infrastructures, have now started to aggressively embrace
cloud as the future of computing in the industry, according to Pomel.Datadog intends to continue to add new modules to its core monitoring
toolkit and expand its team
As the company has grown, so has the need to put in place more processes as parts of the company break
continue to give back to the New York startup ecosystem by bridging the gap between technical startups and venture capital
He has made a series of angel investments into local emerging enterprise and data startups, including Generable, Seva, and Windmill
Hard work and a lot of luck is propelling Datadog into the top echelon of enterprise startups, pulling New York along with it.
