NAND Insider Newsletter: Week of May 12, 2025

Newsletter

Each week NAND Research puts out a newsletter for our industry customers taking a look at what’s driving the week, and what happened last week that caught our attention. Below is a excerpt from this week’s, May 10, 2025.

Quick Take: Datadog Acquires Log Search Provider Quickwit

Deal

Datadog announced the acquisition of Quickwit, a cutting-edge provider of search and indexing software for petabyte-scale log datasets. The acquisition should enhance Datadog’s capabilities in observability, security, and data analytics by integrating Quickwit’s cost-efficient, high-performance search technology into its product suite.

What Dynatrace and Datadog Earnings Tell Us About the Observability Market

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Recent earnings releases from observability leaders Dynatrace and Datadog provide a revealing look into the current state of the observability market. The two companies show robust demand for AI-driven observability, significant expansion into enterprise accounts, and a continued push toward platform consolidation.

Quick Take: Datadog Q2 2024 Earnings

Datadog Q2'24 Earnings

Observability provider Datadog showed continued resilience and strategic focus in Q2 2024, delivering a solid financial performance and continuing its innovation and customer growth trajectory.

Observability’s Now Strategic for IT

Observability

Observability allows IT organizations to monitor and understand the internal states of systems by examining their outputs. Observability has transcended its origins in monitoring, evolving into a sophisticated discipline that leverages AI to provide deep insights and predictive capabilities; it’s become a strategic need for enterprise IT.