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.

Research Note: Dynatrace & AWS New Strategic Collaboration

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Dynatrace and AWS announced a multi-year strategic collaboration agreement, deepening their decade-long partnership that began in 2014. This expanded collaboration aims to address enterprise challenges in digital transformation through enhanced AI-powered observability and security solutions.

Infrastructure News Roundup: January 2025

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January isn’t usually a big month for announcements related to enterprise infrastructure, but then this isn’t a normal January. Let’s look at what happened.

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: Dynatrace FQ1 2025 Earnings

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Dynatrace released its Q1 FY25 earnings report, showcasing a strong start to the fiscal year. The company’s performance highlights its resilience and leadership in the rapidly growing observability market.

Quick Take: Dynatrace FQ4 2024 Earnings

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Dynatrace wrapped up its fiscal year 2024 with robust financial performance and strategic advancements. The company’s ARR exceeded expectations, crossing the $1.5 billion mark, growing 20% year-over-year. This growth is bolstered by significant deals, including a landmark 9-figure TCV deal, highlighting Dynatrace’s competitive edge in the observability and AI ops markets.

Quick Take: Dynatrace Runecast Acquisition

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Earlier this month, on the eve of its annual Perform customer conference, Dynatrace announced the definitive acquisition of Runecast, an AI-powered security and compliance solutions provider, including Cloud Security Posture Management.

Observability’s Now Strategic for IT

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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.

Dynatrace’s Kubernetes Experience for Platform Engineering

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Dynatrace recently announced its new Kubernetes Experience for Platform Engineering. Dynatrace built the new solution in response to the growing need for organizations to manage and monitor their Kubernetes-based containerized environments more efficiently.