Joyent

Accelerator

Cloud Computing with Joyent Accelerators

Software previously installed on personal computers is being shifted or extended to be accessible via the Internet. The term for this is “cloud computing”. In the cloud, you run your application on one (or many) virtual computers. The advantages to this approach include reduced up front hardware costs, reduced maintenance and administrative costs, the ability to match hardware and software capabilities and, most importantly, the flexibility to scale your site up and down depending on demand.

Joyent’s Cloud

Our Accelerator™ powered compute cloud provides a highly scalable on-demand infrastructure for running web sites, including rich web applications written in Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python and Java. Joyent Accelerators are next-generation virtual computers that can grow and multiply (or shrink and consolidate) depending on the real world demands faced by your Web application.

Accelerators are built on OpenSolaris, multi-core (8+), RAM-rich servers (32GB+ each) and vast amounts of NAS storage. Accelerators are deployed in the best routing and switching fabric (Force 10) and the best load-balancers (F5 Networks) available (and always will be).

Proven Track Record

Joyent’s Storage is Real, Not Virtual

OpenSolaris’ ZFS filesystem provides seamless access to as much NAS powered storage as you need. This means that if the system goes down, you do not need to suffer through a long boot as you re-instantiate an entire virtual machine, with data, from a remote data store. Instead, your data is still there on your disks and the Open Solaris means you can be up and running within 10 seconds.

Rails Applications Rock On Joyent

Joyent has a long successful history of scaling Ruby on Rails Web applications to thousands and tens of thousands of requests/second, including our own Joyent Connector collaboration suite. If you build in Rails, Joyent’s experience can prove invaluable.

Open and Standards Based Means No Lock-In

We are going to try and get you hooked on our great support, first class infrastructure and flexibility; but we are never going to lock you in. If you become the next billion dollar Web wonder, this means your set-up is entirely portable. Of course, you then have to invest a huge amount in off the shelf hardware.

Buy what you need, when you need it

We have several Accelerators options to choose from to suit any need.

We are also happy to to chat with you more to assist you in your decision. Just provide us a little detail on yourself, and we’ll get you in touch with one of our knowledgeable staff.