 live here at the Velocity conference, this is siliconangle.com's theCUBE, our flagship program, we go out to events to extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE, and I'm joined here, our next guest is Olivier Palmel. Welcome to theCUBE. Hello. The CEO of Datadog, my favorite name here at the show. Welcome to theCUBE. Glad to be here. So tell us a little bit about Datadog and what you guys do, so we'll get that out of the way and then we can talk about Velocity. Okay, so we are monitoring as a service company, so what we do is we connect to all the tools, services, and cloud providers it takes to write or to run an application. So we bring all the data together and we make it really easy for people, not only in operations but also in development to look at these data, alert on it, analyze it and collaborate with it. So Metrics and Analytics is obviously the hottest thing, big data. Now this is not a big data show, they have strata for that, but this is kind of a web ops, dev ops means UI, so there's a lot of software development challenges around, obviously pushing code, we had AT&T on earlier, told them about mobile optimization, there's a lot of problems with mobile apps, mobile apps by themselves are causing network problems, so I got to monitor the app, I got to monitor the network. Monitoring is one of the hot trends here, but it's not just monitoring the life cycle of coding, it's monitoring the systems performance, but that system is now integrated, dev ops with design. So I got to look at the data. So you're an analytics platform. Yes, I've been alerting analytics and collaboration, we merge everything, so our job is to make sure that it's super easy for everyone to be there in developmental operations to look at the data and to understand it. So what do you guys, what's your main problem that you solve? So the main problem is making sure that everyone has the same understanding of the data. At the end of the day, developers and operations, so they both work together, and many of the companies who work with the many of our customers have developers also create dashboards, look at dashboards, they're responsible for some of the uptime and the performance of the applications. So you're a dev ops dashboard. Yep. It's really for dev ops. Yeah, that's, I would say, even the developers and ops, same time. Exactly, exactly. What's the success that you've had? How long have you been around, and what's some of the things that you've done? So we started the company a bit more than two years ago, we went live with the product last fall, really, and we've been wrapping up since then, and we have, we deployed in anything from a handful of servers to a couple thousand servers, we have cloud providers using us, so we're doing well in the dev ops world, in the world of the people who are going on with these new architectures, new infrastructures, and new processes. Who in the dev ops community are you targeting to sell the product to? And are you an aspirin for them? Are you a pain relief, or are you a naveler, or both? Well, we're both. I mean, we're pain relief in that. It always starts with pain in the ops world. Everyone relates to the fact that they need to look at their data in so many different places, and they don't know what's going on, and they have the development team who doesn't share their views of the world, so that always starts with pain. But what we see is when we start deploying, we actually get, we enable our customers to ship faster, to do more, to do things that they didn't think they were able to do before, and also to further, the bigger companies, to further their transition to agile processes across the shop. So, Velocity Conference, talk about what's going on here. What's your take on Velocity? Why are you guys here, and what does the Velocity Conference represent in terms of the modern era? So, we actually, we've been coming to Velocity since it very started, I think, four or five years ago. It's the first time we exhibit, but we've been here before. Velocity really is the embodiment of the new specific attention that is being given to performance, to metrics, to data driven, to, I would say, operations as a trade, not just as a specialization of IT management. So, you're monitoring as a service, you're a service, you're not a download, install package. So, okay, how does someone work with you guys? Just download, I mean, just a SaaS model? Yeah, you know, the name of the game in SaaS is you have to be up and running in five minutes, and you need to see value in the product in one hour, otherwise, no, that's it. So, people go on all sides, they sign up, they get started, they get their first machines running. If they're doing well, in a couple hours, they can have hundreds of machines running on us, and that's it. So, what's the most exciting thing that you've seen here at Velocity? Well, actually, what's really exciting is to see that the velocity is seeing as many developers as operations people. So, it's not just, no, it used to be, DevOps used to be, well, it's operations people who want to be more like developers, and we're actually seeing the opposite happen right now. So, more developers who actually think that it's really cool to deal with the operational stuff and that come to the side of the world. Well, I mean, you know, Amazon really set the table for this whole mindset, and need to look at what Facebook's done, built with open source. Developers want infrastructure to be programmable, right? They want it to work. They want the stacks of all be updated, manages the SaaS, so they don't want to get in the weeds of the network configuration and provisioning. Exactly. So, do you guys assist there, or what's your view into the cloud? Where do you guys end in terms of your monitoring? Or how far do you monitor? What are your capabilities? We monitor from down to the code and the infrastructure all the way to the cloud providers and the services that help run that. So, what we do is we actually are an enabler to go to the cloud, so we actually have many customers who have a lot of on-premise servers and are starting to dabble into the cloud and want to see everything in one place, want to have one way to manage their cloud services, and that's what we offer them. Great, so I'll be great to have you on theCUBE. Quickly, put a plug in for the company. Talk about how many people you have, employees, funding, where you guys are as a company. So, we're based in New York. We are 20 right now, so we're growing fast. And we've raised a round of funding, actually two rounds of funding, the latest of which was in late 2012, from investors such as index ventures and RTP ventures. And which ones? RTP, which is a New York fund. And today, really, we're at velocity to get the word out, acquire customers, and as I said, we've been growing fast. We have tens of thousands of servers under management today, and we're here to get to the next level, basically. What's your goals for the next year? Or go to the next year, so we actually have quite a bit more things about the product I can't talk about yet. Come on, John. But our goal really is to really increase our install base. You know, that's where we are. We've been really surprised. You're going to get customers. You're going to get customers. You've got two rounds of funding. You guys got to get some customers, bring the product out, get that validation, and drive sales. Exactly. And knock out of business. You know, there's no series A crunch for you. You already had two rounds of funding, so you're good. Yeah. You're off the runway. That's it. Well, I really think you've got a compelling product. I like the monitoring. It's, again, a theme we've heard here. Anytime you have self-service, you have automation, you can help developers. That's a winning formula. If you make it easy to use and scalable, I think you're going to do well. Olivia, thanks for coming on theCUBE. This is SiliconANGLE's coverage of velocity. Datadog, datadog.com. Check them out. Again, we love talking to startups. Startups are really the ones who are going to either make or break it. And again, the developer community, this is all about developers, DevOps, kind of taking it to the next level with UI, UX. Can't have it without big data and analytics. So check out Datadog. This is theCUBE. We'll be right back after this short break.