Datadog has announced plans for a new data centre to be located in Australia.
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. Datadog currently works with more than 1,000 organisations in Australia and New Zealand.
Datadog’s vice president for Asia Pacific and Japan, Rob Thorne, said Australia is a high-priority market for the company.
He said Datadog has a strong employee base in-the region and aim to create new jobs across various practices this year.
IT analysts forecast IT spend will reach $147 billion this year.
“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,” Thorne said.
Datadog continues to invest in Australia and New Zealand with the opening of new offices in Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland.
The data centre will open in the middle of this year.