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Dell to Deliver Public Cloud through Partner Ecosystem
May 20th, 2013
Dell is launching the Dell Cloud Partner Program to deliver public cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) through an ecosystem of partners. Acting as a single-source supplier, Dell will offer customers a choice of vendors and technology, freedom from lock-in to a single platform or pricing model and a central point of solution integration and control. Sales of Dell's current in-house multi-tenant public cloud IaaS will be discontinued in the U.S. in favor of best-in-class partner offerings. Read More ›
AWS is the McDonald’s of the cloud. Who’s the Burger King?
May 17th, 2013
Joyent, Virtustream, CloudSigma et al = In-N-Out Burger, Culvers, Five Guys et al: These cloud providers, like their analogous restaurant chains, are damn good at what they do and their patrons are loyal. They’re typically designed for maximum performance, maybe security, too, and will play around with new infrastructural or programming components in order to maintain their edge. Read More ›
The Internet is coming to your car, watch, and dishwater, but can our systems handle it?
April 26th, 2013
Another company that has come up with ways to make servers much more energy efficient isJoyent. It's Chief Technology Officer, Jason Hoffman, thinks server demands are going to get so high on our digital systems -- given all the computer chips going into computers, tablets, cars, household appliances and more -- that some grand new leap in innovation is going to have to take place. Read More ›
Opscode cooks up deals to serve Chef automation from IBM, Joyent clouds
April 25th, 2013
Jason Hoffman, CTO at Joyent, tells El Reg that Chef was a key component of the Hadoop service that the company spun up on its cloud with the help of Hortonworks back in late January, and it is natural to extend formal support of Chef Server to all infrastructure services on the Joyent Cloud. Read More ›
Opscode gains momentum with IBM, Microsoft deals
April 25th, 2013
Opscode, the name behind the Chef tools that many developers use to automate the configuration and deployment of IT, has got more than a toehold in the cloud landscape. Earlier this week Joyent, another cloud provider, said it was integrating Chef into the Joyent cloud. Read More ›
Joyent says Chef support will make cloud workloads mobile
April 24th, 2013
In Opscode parlance, Chef configurations are deployed and managed via a “cookbook.” Joyent’s support of Chef means it will be easier, going forward, for customer to move cloud deployments to and from any cloud, said Joyent CTO Jason Hoffman in a recent interview. Read More ›
The 10 Most Important Companies In Cloud Computing
April 20th, 2013
Joyent competes with VMware, OpenStack and Citrix, too, with its own cloud operating system. It's become a popular alternative for service providers needing big cloud data centers because it costs them less, Joyent cofounder Jason Hoffman told Business Insider. Read More ›
Amazon: S3 cloud contains two trillion objects
April 18th, 2013
As with all things cloud, Amazon's figure is difficult to use to compare S3 against other storage clouds: mid-level operators such as Joyent and Rackspace don't break out storage figures, and neither does Amazon contemporary Google. Read More ›
Cloud fight keeps Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Rackspace clamoring for enterprise customers
April 18th, 2013
Microsoft, for example, claims it is one of the only companies to offer a true "hybrid cloud" offering between its on-premises Windows Server and Microsoft Azure cloud. Rackspace offers "fanatical support" and has been broadening its database offerings recently; Joyent and ProfitBricks are among the cloud providers that focus on high-performance computing, while a company like FireHost emphasizes security in its cloud. Read More ›
TSO Logic Targets Power Management at the Application
April 17th, 2013
Server power capping isn’t new, and has been available for years vendors including Intel and HP. There are other software players in this space, includingEmerson Network Power, whose Trellis DCIM software is being used by Joyent to track app-level power usage. Read More ›
OpenStack Gives the Open Source Cloud a Lift
April 9th, 2013
OpenStack and other open source cloud options -- such as CloudStack, Eucalyptus, Joyent and OpenNebula -- likely will continue to coexist in the market and benefit from the increased credibility they all bring to open source cloud computing. Just as different Linux distributions and different open source hypervisors have helped drive one another in the industry, we are likely to see open clouds do the same thing. Read More ›
Promising to remake cloud databases for web scale
April 9th, 2013
However, Rugg explained, there’s a big difference between these options and what ParElastic does. Namely, while NoSQL and NewSQL options require deploying an entirely new database and likely rewriting some application code, ParElastic’s software just overlays customers’ existing cloud databases. Rugg said about half of its early users are running standard MySQL versions on Amazon Web Services, while the rest are spread across cloud providers such as Rackspace, Joyent and LiquidWeb. Read More ›
Flexiant to push its cloud orchestration tools
April 4th, 2013
Flexiant’s Cloud Orchestrator suite is aimed at service providers, mostly telcos, who want to become infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) wholesalers with minimal effort. The company’s biggest rivals are probably VMware and Citrix, althoughOnApp and Joyent also play in the same space to varying degrees. Read More ›
EMC, VMware Love Child Pivotal Poses Challenge to AWS
April 2nd, 2013
Pivotal's project management tool, Pivotal Tracker, is currently used by about 250,000 developers around the world. EMC has continued to invest in Pivotal Tracker to build out its capabilities, and now it believes Pivotal is ready to challenge the big guys in the Web services space. This not only means AWS, of course, but other established players such as Rackspace, GoGrid, Joyent, Microsoft Azure, IBM BlueCloud, Dell Cloud and HP Cloud. Read More ›
Just what is Oracle going to plop out as its golden storage egg?
April 2nd, 2013
ZFS is a RAID-using file system that's facing competition from object storage technology. Suppliers such as Amplidata (OEM'd by Quantum), Dell (Caringo), HDS, NetApp with StorageGRID, and Scality are beating the object technology drum, and Joyent has a cloud object storage service. Oracle has no object storage capability. Read More ›
Amazon adds crypto modules to AWS cloud
March 27th, 2013
El Reg is not aware of any of Amazon's competitors offering a similar service. When asked for comment on the launch, Google declined, and Microsoft and Rackspace didn't get back to us by press time. Joyent pointed to its ongoing collaboration with Estonian researchers to implement cryptographic hash functions within its own cloud as its way of reassuring enterprises. Read More ›
Stacking Your Bracket: Attracting and Maintaining the Developer Dream Team
March 26th, 2013
Too often in the IT industry we focus on technology and tools instead of their higher purpose and relationship to the rest of the world. Giving away free meals might seem nice, but the real key to attracting and retaining talent is that you must give them a higher purpose than the hammer that they’re swinging. Read More ›
Joyent Offers NoSQL Database As A Service
March 22nd, 2013
By bringing a third-party NoSQL system to its cloud, Joyent is one of the few service providers able to offer a highly scalable data management system as part of its service offering. Joyent already has a widely instrumented environment that could be useful in maintaining database operations. It makes use of DTrace, a utility within SmartOS for finding application or system problems in near real time. Read More ›
Google, LinkedIn, and Microsoft prove no cloud is too big to fail
March 22nd, 2013
Balance across multiple cloud providers. Instead of just using Amazon Web Services, use a combination of AWS with Joyent, Azure, Rackspace, and/or another provider, diverting traffic to an available cloud in the event of a failure. Read More ›
Worried your cloud service will die? Get open source insurance
March 22nd, 2013
When it comes to complex business systems, open source offers us "community escrow" -- the ability to pick a different service provider to maintain the source code abandoned by your previous supplier. This was what the OpenSolaris community did when Oracle pulled out, and the resulting collaboratively maintained code continues to deliver differentiating value at the core of companies like Joyent and Nexenta under the name Illumos. Read More ›
Joyent, Cloudant Launch Database Service Atop SmartOS
March 21st, 2013
The database as a service market is heating up, as cloud providers look to court application developers with promising offerings. The latest such move is the result of a deepening partnership between Joyent and Cloudant. Cloudant is now available on the Joyent high-performance cloud platform, and the two today came out today with a multi-tenant Cloudant cluster running in Joyent’s Jubilee data center in Ashburn, Virginia. Dedicated Cloudant clusters running on Joyent will be available this… Read More ›
Joyent tools up for Amazon battle
March 18th, 2013
After almost a year of continuous technical development, Cloudant is taking the wraps off of a database-as-a-service product served out of data centers operated by Joyent – a product that looks to be technically superior to its nearest as-a-service rival, Amazon's DyanamoDB. The deal was announced on Thursday and will see Cloudant make its CouchDB-based distributed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) available on top of Joyent's cloud. Read More ›
The 25 Most Creative People In Tech
March 15th, 2013
In 2005, at age 31, Bryan Cantrill set the IT world on fire by inventing something called "DTrace" a realtime way to test software problems that changed diagnostics forever. He was working for Sun Microsystems at the time. After Oracle acquired Sun, Cantrill moved to cloud company Joyent. There he became the face of "node.js" another technology setting the programming world on fire. Read More ›
Startup Strongloop brings supported Nodejs to Red Hat
March 11th, 2013
As Joyent CTO Jason Hoffman once told GigaOM, Node.js is a very good way to write high-performance servers that need to handle APIs and facilitate very fast data ingress and egress. Those are attributes that might come in handy for enterprise developers. Read More ›
VMware confirms public cloud plans via Twitter -- then backtracks
March 11th, 2013
The infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market is already packed with a variety of providers, though, most notably Amazon Web Services, along with a bevy of competitors like Rackspace, Joyent, Terremark, HP, Google and Savvis, just to name a few. Read More ›
Bring On The Platform Wars!
March 9th, 2013
Nowadays, though, while the tools and technologies we use have improved enormously…imagine, God forbid, that you’re building some sort of web service. Should you use Ruby on Rails? Node.js? Python and Django? PHP and Drupal? .NET? Any of the panoply of Java servers? Something new and cool like Go or Scala? And how/where will you host your code? Amazon? Heroku? App Engine? Joyent? EngineYard? Force.com? How about your app? You’ll have an app, right? On which platforms? Native code? Hybrid… Read More ›
The Hadoop ecosystem: the (welcome) elephant in the room
March 5th, 2013
How big an impact has Hadoop had on the technology world? Check out our infographic on the reach of the most important big data tool of our time. Read More ›
The Real Market Size of Public Cloud Services
March 4th, 2013
This includes core infrastructure, storage and other related infrastructure. Amazon.com by far the leader in this space is estimated to have a revenue between $3.5 and $4B this year. Rackspace made a little over $1B in total revenue of which about $350 mi is estimated to be cloud revenue. There are other similar players like GoGrid, Saavis, Joyent etc. We can estimate this IaaS market to be about $5-6B in size. The long tail in this case is not statistically significant as there are a finite… Read More ›
If You Can't IPO, Telefonica Might Help
February 25th, 2013
On February 12, I interviewed Telefonica Digital’s Director of Investments, Tracy Isacke. As she explained, she is originally from the UK and lived in Italy and Israel before a career in sales at Xerox. Now her job is to “meet, advise, invest in and acquire start-ups from Silicon Valley, Israel, Europe, Latin and South America.” She led the acquisitions of TokBox and Jajah, and investments in Joyent, Boku, Addfleet, and Everything.me. Read More ›
In Battle With Amazon, Google Hardens Its Cloud Services
February 21st, 2013
[Google's] support plans are probably a move to make the services more competitive with the likes of Amazon Web Services, Joyent, and Microsoft Azure. It’s hard to say how well the Google family of cloud products has done in the market, but research conducted by cloud management vendor Zenoss found that Google App Engine was the most popular “platform cloud” among its users. Read More ›
Telefonica and FeedHenry partner up on enterprise mobile app development
February 15th, 2013
Essentially, Telefonica will start selling FeedHenry’s platform to its European enterprise customers with Instant Servers providing the hosting piece. Technologically, the two platforms are fairly well aligned — FeedHenry uses Node.js for integration with its back-end systems, and the Joyent-based Instant Servers platform uses Node.js SmartMachine virtual machines. Predictably, the two companies talk in their statement about “sharing a vision for cloud computing”. Read More ›
Is Amazon yesterday’s cloud?
February 14th, 2013
Every six months or so stories crop up about startup companies leaving Amazon Web Services in whole or in part. Heck, I’ve done a few of those stories myself. These defectors usually cite fear of vendor lock-in as their rationale. And smart competitors — OpenStack players like Rackspace as well as Joyent, SoftLayer et al, do their best to capitalize on this “Amazon-has-gotten-too-big-for-its-britches” meme. Read More ›
Should Amazon Spin Out Its Cloud Operations?
February 13th, 2013
The problem, as Horan see it, is that when retailers turn to cloud computing, they’ll have little choice but to call Amazon, which they see as a competitor. There are other options, ranging from Hewlett-Packard’s burgeoning cloud services unit to another one at IBM, to Rackspace, Joyent, and Verizon’s Terremark, to name a few. Using Rackspace for comparison, he estimates that Amazon’s AWS could be worth as much as $101 billion by 2018. Read More ›
25 Enterprise Startups To Bet Your Career On
February 7th, 2013
When a company has a really huge data center and needs to use cloud tech to make it more efficient, it comes to Joyent. Joyent's tech costs "pennies on the dollar" compared to clouds built with tech from VMware, founder and CTO Jason Hoffman says. Hoffman left a successful career as an oncologist to start Joyent and it's really paid off. Famous angel Peter Thiel was an early investor—long before he became a Facebook billionaire. Since then, Intel has invested, as has Dell and EMC. In January,… Read More ›
Building for the Internet of things (and the demise of the client-server model)
January 31st, 2013
Developers, listen up: Everything you’re doing now will be irrelevant within the next ten years. The way you think about and build applications, services, and software — along with the tools you use to do so — will soon be irrelevant. There’s a massive shift happening in technology, and we are failing to recognize its implications. While this may seem like a bold assertion, the change is actually quite straightforward: the client-server model is coming to an end. The traditional flow of… Read More ›
Joyent offers Hadoop on its cloud infrastructure
January 28th, 2013
Joyent announced a new Apache Hadoop-based solution built on the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) which allows companies to run enterprise-class Hadoop on the Joyent Cloud. The Hadoop solution is Joyent’s first entry into the big data space, the company said. According to the provider, its operating system virtualization and CPU bursting technology enable fast response times in Hadoop applications. Joyent’s Hadoop solution can be added to existing Joyent Cloud implementations. Read More ›
Joyent Launches Hadoop Cloud Service
January 25th, 2013
Cloud infrastructure provider Joyent jumped into the big data game this week, rolling out an Apache Hadoop service to let enterprises process high-performance data applications. The Hadoop offering will use Hortonworks Data Platform running on Joyent's high-performance cloud infrastructure, Jason Hoffman, Joyent CTO and founder, said Friday in an interview with CRN. "Our feeling about the cloud is that its advancement is being driven very much by big data services where people want to do… Read More ›
Joyent Offers Hadoop Solution for Big Data Challenges
January 24th, 2013
As a new entrant into the big data landscape Joyent is addressing industry demand to reduce costs and decrease query response times. Software product development services company Altoros Systems said that Hadoop clusters on Joyent Cloud produced a nearly 3X faster disk I/O response time versus identically-sized infrastructure. Read More ›
Hadoop goes to the cloud
January 23rd, 2013
Joyent meanwhile has also partnered with HortonWorks for its Hadoop offering, which it says runs with bare-metal performance in its cloud. Joyent claims it has the highest-performance hosted Hadoop offering, citing a study by Altoros Systems showing that its Hadoop clusters had nearly a three times faster disk input/output speed compared to similarly-sized infrastructure, while being one-third the price. Like SkyTap's offering, Joyent customers only pay for the IaaS resources, not the Hadoop… Read More ›
Joyent offers up its take on Hadoop as a service
January 23rd, 2013
Cloud computing provider Joyent has entered the Hadoop era with a new offering, although it’s likely just an appetizer for a much bigger data array of data services over the next year. Offering a Hadoop service is pretty much part and parcel of being a cloud provider at this point. By rolling out its own offering, Joyent joins the ranks of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, GoGrid, IBM and, soon enough, Rackspace. Joyent’s Hadoop service is based on the Hortonworks Data Platform (as are the… Read More ›
The market for traditional servers is being enveloped by the cloud
January 16th, 2013
Supermicro, which builds energy-sipping servers, is another favorite manufacturer among big infrastructure providers like SoftLayer and Joyent, which puts out RFPs for its servers. “It’s the components and ratios that matter. We currently use three different chassis and three different boards: one chassis is Dell and two are Supermicro,” said Jason Hoffman CTO of San Francisco-based Joyent. Read More ›
Cloud load balancing needs more automation, customer control
January 15th, 2013
Joyent, a San Francisco-based cloud provider and Riverbed customer, offers its users access to virtual application delivery and load balancing from the Stingray product line via both a provider-managed service -- like Amazon's ELB -- or as a service controlled and managed by the customer, said Jason Hoffman, chief technology officer for Joyent. The shared structure of Amazon's ELB service was a contributing factor in the Christmas Eve failure, Hoffman said. "Instead of having a monolithic… Read More ›
Message Bus Taps Joyent Cloud for Quadruple Performance Gain
January 9th, 2013
The partnership between Message Bus and Joyent could be viewed as a milestone in the messaging and infrastructure world, Joyent officials said. By delivering on the promise of the real-time cloud, Message Bus and Joyent are liberating organizations from hardware dependencies that are not only costly and complex, but also limit the full potential of digital messaging across channels. Read More ›
InfoWorld's 2013 Technology of the Year Award winners: Joyent Cloud
January 9th, 2013
All cloud merchants make the servers seem like a commodity. You log in, you click some buttons, and you have root on a new machine. Sure, you can add more RAM, but other than that, a box is a box, right? Ah, it's trickier than that and Joyent Cloud is the proof. The company is selling a cloud machine, based on Solaris with some virtualization layer tweaks, that runs a bit faster than the others, which we learned when we started running basic tests. Not every one of our tests ran dramatically… Read More ›
InfoWorld's 2013 Technology of the Year Award winners: Node.js
January 9th, 2013
At the beginning, the idea behind Node.js seemed ludicrous. Who'd want to trade all the wonderful abstraction and programmer-liberating freedom of the thread model for all the drudgery of making sure your code can't deadlock? Who would want to try to keep nesting methods inside of methods inside of other methods just because that's how JavaScript loves to toss them around? Programmers may debate these issues for years to come, but Node.js will continue to gain converts as long as it offers fast… Read More ›
The best hardware, software, and cloud services of the year
January 9th, 2013
The drive for ease and flexibility is a big part of the industry's obsession with the cloud, and we were not immune to it. The various cloud services are on the list because they made things simpler than filling out the requisition forms, buying your own machines, and even configuring the stacks. You push some buttons on a Web page and you have root. Providing ease wasn't enough, though, because the industry is full of clouds that do that. We ended up awarding Joyent Cloud and Windows Azure,… Read More ›
Message Bus Leans on Joyent Cloud for Scalability, Performance
January 8th, 2013
With billions of messages going out into the cyber-ether every month, enterprise messaging is a huge market, but it's one that requires fast, reliable and high-capacity systems, said Jason Hoffman, founder and CTO of Joyent, in a prepared statement. Joyent's cloud was designed to provide high performance, dynamic bursting and infinite scalability in an elastic environment. Read More ›
Bad news for Amazon could be good news for “other” cloud providers
January 6th, 2013
Joyent CTO Jason Hoffman said the company sees lots of prospects that are AWS users. “Do we sit down and go after [AWS] in our materials? No. But we do talk about our availability from an uptime perspective and in aggregate we do less than 10 seconds of downtime per year. So from an availability standpoint we do very well and our conversations with customers touch on that.” Read More ›
Hires and promotions
December 23rd, 2012
Joyent appointed Henry Wasik as its chief executive officer. Wasik brings more than 20 years of senior leadership experience to Joyent and was previously president and CEO of Force10 Networks. Read More ›
What we learned from these seven developer stories in 2012
December 23rd, 2012
The year began with Node.js creator Ryan Dahl backing not-so-slowly away from the technology’s day-to-day operations inside Joyent, hinting on Twitter that he was a bit Node’d out. But as Node was passed into the hands of other caretakers, it was also gaining traction at larger companies and within larger applications. Walmart started using it. Google and Mozilla talked about how it can scale, and LinkedIn used it for its revamped mobile suite. And Yahoo used it to build a better mobile browser. Read More ›
Why HP, Dell and IBM Are on the Wrong Side of Internet History
December 17th, 2012
In 1956, the first modern container ship traveled from Newark to Houston. It seems like such a simple idea now: a boat carrying not random little crates, but massive containers that could easily be moved onto trains and trucks and straight into factories. The arrangement took years to construct, perfect and implement. But once it was put into use, the global shipping industry would never be the same. Containers revolutionized the shipping industry because they made it easier to transport… Read More ›
Amazon’s Public Cloud Battles IT Providers for Workloads from Big Companies
November 26th, 2012
"AWS feels that IBM entering with SmartCloud and HP with its public cloud may take away enterprise customers because [those older vendors] have much better relationships with them,” said one AWS partner. Telefonica and Joyent’s joint public cloud offering is also a problem for Amazon because telcos not only own the network, they are also known to have tight relationships with enterprises. Read More ›
Cutting Costs in the Cloud: Government Data Centers, IaaS and Cisco
November 26th, 2012
Joyent is also appealing to organizations that are looking to the cloud for IT operations. The IaaS provider unveiled Joyent7, a re-architected remote infrastructure offering that comes with a number of unique features. These include a built-in debugger for Node.js, extended workflow APIs, new DevOps tools and other functionality that aims to streamline the solution across the board. Read More ›
Review: Joyent Cloud is built for speed
November 21st, 2012
In the end, Joyent is offering a different kind of commodity than most of the IaaS cloud providers. Joyent is selling you a machine, just like they are, but Joyent's appliances are engineered to deliver Web pages and database storage as a service. Joyent has worked extensively on streamlining the connection between the incoming HTTP request and the bare metal. All that stands in between are Node and SmartOS, and both can be incredibly efficient in the right hands. Joyent is essentially… Read More ›
Amazon’s dead serious about the enterprise cloud
November 21st, 2012
Said one AWS partner: “AWS feels that IBM entering with SmartCloud and HP with its public cloud may take away enterprise customers because [those older vendors] have much better relationships with them.” Developments like Telefonica’s joint public cloud offering with Joyent is also a problem for Amazon given that telcos also have tight enterprise relationships and telcos “own the network edge,” he said. Read More ›
Joyent Gets New CEO, Preps Cloud Tools
November 21st, 2012
The updated cloud system "is for people who want to be a service provider, like us," said Hoffman in a visit to InformationWeek's office. Joyent operates a combination of its software and x86 hardware for partners in Europe, Russia, Asia and South America who are providing cloud-based services. Read More ›
Here Comes the Joyent7 – The First Fabric-based Cloud Infrastructure Platform
November 20th, 2012
Joyent recently released the Joyent7, the first fabric-based cloud infrastructure platform that will help enterprises and cloud service providers to fulfill their ever increasing cloud management needs. Joyent7 has been designed to deliver the performance required to run solutions for almost endless users, and allow enterprises of any size to become a cloud services provider within their own organization. Read More ›
Cloud computing's utility future gets closer
November 16th, 2012
Existing utility markets include ones for water, electricity, gas and, to a degree, basic internet connectivity. A utility market occurs when an item has been commoditised to the point that it becomes very hard to differentiate on a technology basis, and instead companies distinguish themselves through different levels of service, availability and support. Read More ›
Compute Midwest: Joyent CTO Jason Hoffman On The Industrialization Of Mobile
November 15th, 2012
“We’re strip mining Mongolia so we can look at pictures of cats.” That was one of Jason Hoffman’s, the CTO of Joyent, first statements in his talk at Compute Midwest. It was a stark reminder that the internet is more than code on your mobile phone or laptop. It’s made of large centers of power that consume resources. Read More ›
IT's new battlegrounds in the cloud revolution
November 15th, 2012
As the cloud market matures, effects of scale lock the industry into dependence on a few large companies. In this latest industrial revolution, new entrants will face a tough fight. Read More ›
Winners in the cloud revolution
November 13th, 2012
The growth of cloud computing will affect the economic nature of the industry as much as its technology. The huge scale at which the hardware and software of the cloud operates is having a significant effect on not only the types of technology being used in the industry, but which companies stand to benefit from its rise. Read More ›
Light after blackouts: Amazon Web Services pushes into its ninth region
November 12th, 2012
With scattered reports of customer defections in the wake of major outages, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced today that it has expanded to the Asia Pacific region after opening a new data center in Australia. AWS is a collection of web services that Amazon offers; the most well-known include Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. It’s the largest cloud computing provider in the world, but it faces heat from Rackspace, Microsoft Azure, and newcomers like Joyent. Read More ›
Joyent Names New CEO, Readies Cloud Infrastructure Upgrade
November 9th, 2012
Joyent, a San Francisco-based cloud infrastructure provider, has named a new CEO and says it plans an updated version of its Joynet6 cloud platform for enterprises. Henry Wasik, most recently president and CEO of Force10 Networks, will take over as Joyent's CEO, the company said. At Force10 Networks, Wasik increased revenue tenfold to $200 million after joining Force10 in 2004. Read More ›
Amazon competitor Joyent jumps for joy with new product and CEO
November 7th, 2012
The good news keeps on coming for cloud infrastructure up-and-comer Joyent – today, the company announced a new CEO, global expansion plans, and a new software release. Read More ›
Joyent Launches Fabric-Based Cloud Infrastructure Platform
November 7th, 2012
The widespread adoption of mobile devices is driving the proliferation of cloud applications, which need to be properly supported by enterprises. Traditional on-premises infrastructures are increasingly unable to support the demands for highly intensive mobile and Web-based applications. With this trend in mind, cloud infrastructure provider Joyent has launched Joyent7, a fabric-based cloud infrastructure platform designed to support the increasing demands of large enterprises and cloud… Read More ›
Joyent Appoints New CEO And Pushes Out Joyent7 For The Emerging Scaled Out Enterprise
November 7th, 2012
Joyent is one of those companies that seems just different from the rest. It’s not jumping on a bandwagon of any kind — the company sets its own agenda, building open-source technologies that don’t require investments in locked up, converged systems. It appears that we are just on the verge of seeing what Joyent is becoming. What emerges will depend on how carriers like Telefonica view the advantages of a smart data center running on a smart OS. Read More ›
Joyent has a new product and new CEO
November 7th, 2012
Joyent competes against other IaaS providers such as Amazon’s Web Services, but is building a fundamentally different architecture aimed at serving the compute and economic needs of cloud and webscale customers. Read More ›
Data Centers Are the New Factories, Making and Moving Bits
October 16th, 2012
The data-center business may seem like something brand new, but in many ways it is really just a virtual version of the traditional container-shipping business, Joyent founder and chief technology officer Jason Hoffman told attendees at GigaOM’s Structure Europe conference on Tuesday morning in Amsterdam. And just as the development of modern container ships and shipping technology disrupted the manufacturing business, data centers and cloud economics are doing the same to digital businesses.… Read More ›
Jason Hoffman’s quest to build the new web machine
October 12th, 2012
There are a few thousand people around the world trying to reimagine computing to make it faster and more energy-efficient so we can continue to make the web an integral part of our lives. But unlike most of them, Jason Hoffman doesn’t work at a big Internet company like Google or Facebook and he didn’t start with a background in computer science. Hoffman came to the challenge by a different path: a quest to save his mother’s life. In 2005, Hoffman’s mother was diagnosed with breast… Read More ›
Joyent Tools Cut Data Center Power Consumption
September 20th, 2012
New tools are appearing in the ongoing battle to reduce energy consumption in a data center, and some of these tools are also designed to boost a data center's power usage effectiveness (PUE) rating. Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and Microsoft compete to get to the lowest possible PUE measure in their newest data centers. PUE compares how much total electricity a data center imports to get a unit of computing done. Most older enterprise data centers have a PUE of 1.9- 2.0; they consume almost twice… Read More ›
Joyent Adds Trellis DCIM to its Cloud-Infrastructure Package
September 19th, 2012
Joyent and Emerson Network Power have added the latter’s data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solution Trellis to the hardware-and-software IT infrastructure package Joyent sells to companies that wish to provide cloud services. Read More ›
Amazon Rival Brings Nuke Know-How to the Data Center
September 18th, 2012
Joyent is best known for offering its own Amazon-like “cloud” services, but it also sells stuff that helps companies running cloudy architectures in their own data centers. On Tuesday, the company pumped up this side of its business, unveiling a partnership with electrical equipment giant Emerson meant to help companies track how much energy is consumed by their in-house cloud applications. Read More ›
Pagoda Box Is Easier Than Amazon Web Services, But More Customizable Than Heroku
September 11th, 2012
I’ve had a sense for a while that infrastructure-as-a-service (like Amazon Web Services) and platform-as-a-service (like Heroku) are converging. Developers love the idea of using a PaaS to speed up provisioning and deployment, but don’t necessarily want to completely give up control of their environments. One sign of this convergence is Pagoda Box, a PaaS that provides a deeper level of control over infrastructure while still abstracting away all the hard stuff. Read More ›
Joyent: The Application Superserver
August 15th, 2012
Jason Hoffman calls himself a ‘data center industrialist’. The 39-year-old co-founder and CTO of the San Francisco-based cloud powerhouse Joyent says his company is industrializing data centers much like mechanization and standardization transformed the shipping industry. Instead of having longshoremen carrying loads to and from ships, we now have heavily mechanized ports designed around the standard shipping container. In the same way, infrastructure cloud for Joyent is taking the… Read More ›
InformationWeek: Joyent’s Cloud Competes With Google, Amazon, InformationWeek
July 9th, 2012
By Charles Babcock Joyent's unique infrastructure design doesn't follow the path of Google or Amazon, includes built-in security and large data pipes for big business use. While Amazon and Google steal the limelight, Joyent has been hard at work off in the wings building out a competitive cloud infrastructure to compete with both of them. So far it's raised $120 million to produce an infrastructure that departs significantly from both Amazon and Google. At the same time, it competes… Read More ›
Wired: Where in the World Is Google Building Servers?
July 6th, 2012
By Cade Metz Though few realize it, Google is now one of the world’s largest hardware makers. Since 2000, the company has designed the computer servers that underpin its empire of online services, including Google Search, Gmail, and Google Docs, and since 2005, according to one former employee, it has also designed the networking equipment that connects these servers. For years, the company kept all this very quiet, seeing its hardware design efforts as perhaps its most significant… Read More ›
MarketPlace Radio: Competition heads for the cloud
July 2nd, 2012
Queena Kim Listen to the radio story: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/competition-heads-cloud Tess Vigeland: So I went to post on Instagram Friday night -- a photo of the beautiful Pasadena city hall building at night -- and I got this error message. So did everybody else who uses Instagram, Netflix or Pinterest. What mayhem was this? A storm. Which, by the way, caused all kinds of untold actual damage, as well as the horror of not being able to post pictures of what… Read More ›
GigaOm: Latest outage raises more questions about Amazon cloud
June 30th, 2012
Barb Darrow 6/30/12 Massive thunderstorms notwithstanding, the fact that Amazon’s U.S. East data center went down again Friday night while other cloud services hosted in the same area kept running raises anew questions about whether Amazon is suffering architectural glitches that go beyond acts of God. While most Amazon services were back up Saturday morning, the company was still working on provisioning the backlog for its ELB load balancers as of 5:31 p.m. eastern time, according… Read More ›
TechCloud9: Guarding BYOD in the enterprise
June 25th, 2012
Martin Banks Some people call it Bring Your Own Device, and some Bring Your Own System. But whether you opt for BYOD or BYOS, the end result is the same: the growing need to oblige organisations around the world to embrace the BYOD/BYOS approach, and allow personal smartphones and tablets to access business applications and private corporate data. And let's face it, the move makes a great deal of sense. Not only do staff get to use tools they are familiar with – and it is quite likely the… Read More ›
Mobile Enterprise: Fixmo and Joyent Partner on Secure BYOD Management in the Cloud
June 22nd, 2012
By Jessica Binns, Contributing Editor Mobile risk company Fixmo is working with Joyent, a cloud computing provider, to deliver cloud-based mobile security and corporate data protection solutions to enable secure, managed and compliant BYOD deployments in a scalable cloud environment. The companies will jointly offer Fixmo’s defense-grade mobile solutions for BYOD security, device management, data loss prevention (DLP) and compliance assurance through Joyent’s carrier-grade SmartOS… Read More ›
CloudPro: How cloud computing is set to change the face of media forever
April 29th, 2012
The media have been quick to embrace the potential of the cloud and it's a market that will look very different in the future. As cloud computing now passes from what we might perhaps call its adolescence into full adulthood, the industry as a whole is starting to refine its messages with regard to specific industry verticals. With clear advantages in terms of operational flexibility, quick start up with low capital-expenditure and back end serviceability, cloud computing is arguably well… Read More ›
Cloud Angle: Three Open Source-Based Cloud Alternatives to OpenStack
April 24th, 2012
Maybe you’re waiting for OpenStack to mature. Maybe you’re testing OpenStack internally but want to see what else is out there. Or maybe you’re just curious. Regardless, now that we’ve taken a look at what OpenStack is up against when it comes to Amazon Web Services and VMware, here’s a look at how a few other open source projects stack up (pun very much intended). Joyent In a relatively shameless grab for customers and developers, service provider Joyent spread… Read More ›
Computerworld UK: Joyent launches public cloud in Europe
April 19th, 2012
Joyent, a cloud provider that counts LinkedIn among its customers, is launching its services in Europe today. The launch of Joyent Cloud Europe is driven by demand from the company’s North American customers looking to grow their European business, it said. “Many of our Joyent Cloud customers have experienced significant growth based on the superior user experience and performance we deliver on Joyent Cloud,” said Steve Tuck, executive VP and general manager of Joyent Cloud. Read More ›
ZDNet UK: Joyent infrastructure cloud touches down in Europe
April 19th, 2012
Joyent has brought its cloud to Europe to meet demand from local companies, using a Dutch datacentre to cut latency on services previously provided by its US facilities. The European expansion, launched on Thursday, comes after the San Francisco-based company closed a £54m round of funding to give it the resources to expand globally and take on cloud incumbent Amazon Web Services. Joyent also plans to open datacentres in Singapore and Tokyo to meet demand there, Steven Tuck, general… Read More ›
InfoQ: Operating Node.js in Production, with Bryan Cantrill
March 9th, 2012
Summary Bryan talks about the challenges of operating Node.js in real production environments and the experiences he had working with it at Joyent. He also talks about DTrace, SmartOS, V8 and compares with other platforms. Bio Bryan Cantrill is VP of Engineering at Joyent, where he has led development of Joyent's SmartOS and SmartDataCenter products. Previously a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, Bryan has spent over fifteen years working on system software, from the guts of the… Read More ›
InfoTech Spotlight: Joyent Extends Real-Time Public Cloud Offering to Asia
March 6th, 2012
Joyent will extend its real-time public cloud offering to Asia in the second quarter of 2012. This move is made to help Joyent customers expand their businesses into the two regions. The extension will also aid its partners like Telefonica (News - Alert) who have to deliver real-time infrastructure that can handle the increasing need for machine-to-machine and real-time mobile communications. Joyent, a global provider of cloud computing software and services, will begin the… Read More ›
CIO: How Cloud Computing Is Forcing IT Evolution
March 2nd, 2012
I had the privilege of chairing the infrastructure track at last week's Cloud Connect conference. Three of the presentations were particularly interesting, offering a good perspective on just how dramatic an effect cloud computing is having on IT. Summed up, the capability and agility of cloud computing is forcing an extremely rapid evolution. In a sense, these effects are akin to what would happen to an established living ecosystem were significant change to occur within. One could expect… Read More ›
CloudTweaks: What’s Special about the Joyent Funding Round?
February 27th, 2012
There is nothing special about small companies or startups getting funding, other than the obvious vindication of the opportunities in cloud computing. In fact, such funding stories have been the focus of several articles here (See the latest one: Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 8). However, there’s something different, and in my opinion, special, about the $85 million round of funding closed by San Francisco cloud services provider Joyent (http://www.joyent.com/). … Read More ›
InfoWorld: The rise of Node.js: JavaScript graduates to the server
February 7th, 2012
Although it is just three years old, Node.js is gaining traction as an application development platform, letting developers extend JavaScript beyond the browser and into servers. But questions remain about JavaScript's appropriateness on servers and developers' readiness to use it. Invented by Joyent developer Ryan Dahl, Node.js -- or simply Node -- is getting endorsements from established companies such as Microsoft and Yahoo, as well as from smaller ventures. Geared to network… Read More ›
Structure Research: Joyent raises $85m; building out footprint through partners, direct
February 7th, 2012
Summary: We had a chance to speak with Joyent about some of its latest developments. Details: Joyent recently raised an $85m funding round, with the majority investment provided by European group Weather Investment II. Weather Investment II is a strategic investor in telecommunications companies. Telefónica Digital also participated in the round. Telefónica Digital is a strategic arm of the telco (of the same name). Telefónica: Joyent is working with… Read More ›
Silicon Angle: Joyent CEO Tells How Node.js Fits Into Mobile Strategy
February 6th, 2012
Joyent, the California-based cloud computing startup founded by Jason Hoffman, caught up with John Furrier and Alex Williams at the Cube to talk about Node’s strategy and technical impact. He discussed everything Node.js at the first NodeSummit in San Francisco. In a conversation with own our John Furrier and Alex Williams, Hoffman discussed his company’s history, the recent massive funding round of $85 million, Node.js and its evolution in both the future of computing and today’s… Read More ›
VentureBeat: How a teen-founded company won the Node Jam
January 28th, 2012
January 28, 2012—- Five years ago, a fifteen-year-old student built a website; this week, the same website won the Node Jam at Node Summit, the conference focusing on all things Node.js. Quizlet is a site you might never have heard of unless you were a teen or an educator, yourself. The flashcard-focused site helps millions of students who need to memorize information and prepare for tests by making learning both fun and effective. The teenage founder, Andrew Sutherland (pictured), built… Read More ›
ITworld: The Grand /usr-fication of Linux
January 27th, 2012
January 27, 2012—- The Fedora Project is currently mounting a concerted effort to merge Linux filesystem directories into a more organized structure, an effort known as /usr merge. This is not really new news: I covered this back in November. But a new posting on FreeDesktop.org from systemd developer Lennart Poettering is seeking to dispel many of the arguments against such a merge, while touting the merger’s advantages. Poettering is not the initial proposer of /usr… Read More ›
Mobile News: Telefónica signs deal with Joyent for cloud services deployment
January 24th, 2012
January 23, 2012—- Telecoms provider also makes equity investment in the company for use of its technologies and software as it looks to boost its product offering Telefónica has signed an agreement with cloud and systems software provider Joyent to give it access to Joyent’s latest technologies and software for the deployment of cloud services. Telefónica, which has also made an equity investment in Joyent, said cloud-based services are a key focus area for its new Digital unit, and… Read More ›
Business Insider: This Company Just Raised $85 Million To Beat Back Amazon
January 23rd, 2012
January 23, 2012—- Amazon Web Services isn’t the only cloud computing game in town, and one of its competitors just got a lot stronger: Joyent has rasied $85 million from a surprising source—Spanish phone company Telefonica. European private equity firm Weather Investment II also participated. Joyent actually began offering its public cloud service a few months before Amazon, according to CEO David Young—“although we didn’t call it cloud.” While AWS is… Read More ›
Cloud Pro: Joyent snags round of funding to boost cloud attack
January 23rd, 2012
January 23, 2012—- Cloud company Joyent boosted by $85m of venture funding for range of new services Joyent is set to get some big funding in its move on Amazon’s cloud market. The San Francisco-based company has just snaffled a whopping $85 million in funding in its bid to ramp up its cloud offering. The European venture capital firm Weather Investment II, advised by Accelero Capital, is providing the bulk of the funding, with Spanish telco Telefonica also participating as a strategic… Read More ›
CNN Money: Venture capital deals
January 23rd, 2012
January 23, 2012—- Joyent, a San Francisco-based provider of cloud computing software and services, has raised $85 million in new VC funding. Weather Investment II led the round, and was joined by Telefonica Digital and return backers El Dorado Ventures, Epic Ventures, Greycroft Partners, Intel Capital, and Liberty Global. The company previously raised over $27 million. Read more Read More ›
GigaOM: Cloud provider Joyent gets $85 million for global expansion
January 23rd, 2012
January 23, 2012—- Updated: Joyent has netted $85 million in new venture funding to fuel a global expansion of its cloud services. Most of the new money comes from Weather Investment II Group and Accelero Capital, but Telefonica Digital is also investing. Existing Joyent backers include Intel Capital, Epic Ventures, Liberty Global, Greycroft Partners and El Dorado Ventures. San Francisco-based Joyent fields public cloud services itself but also sells cloud technology to businesses wanting… Read More ›
TechCrunch: Cloud Computing Software Company Joyent Raises $85 Million To Pursue Global Growth
January 23rd, 2012
January 23, 2012—- Cloud computing software and service provider Joyent has secured an $85 million round of new funding, the company is announcing today. The round was led by European group Weather Investment II. It also included Telefónica Digital, the growth arm of global telecom giant Telefónica, which participated as a strategic investor. Weather II is a strategic shareholder in telecommunications companies. Most notably, it holds a 20% stake in Vimpelcom, the world’s sixth… Read More ›
The Wall Street Journal: The Daily Start-Up: Home Depot Buys Red Beacon In Newest Project
January 23rd, 2012
January 23, 2012—- In its first acquisition since 2006, Home Depot has acquired home services specialist Red Beacon, which has a software platform that lets pre-screened home service professionals–plumbers, painters, house cleaners and so on–bid for jobs. Home Depot will use Red Beacon to connect its own customers, which include both consumers and professionals. The race to supply companies with the software they need to build an Amazon-style cloud service is heating up, with $85… Read More ›
VentureBeat: Joyent grabs $85M from Weather Investment II, Telefonica to take on Amazon in cloud com
January 23rd, 2012
January 23, 2012—- Cloud computing startup Joyent has raised a humongous $85 million round of funding, which will help the company with its plan of out-innovating Amazon in cloud computing technology. Joyent provides infrastructure cloud computing services for customers like LinkedIn, THQ, Gilt Groupe and Kabam. The company’s core offering will now be enhanced with a wide-ranging partnership with Telefónica Digital, the global business division of London-based telecommunications… Read More ›
Wired: Google’s Chrome Browser Sprouts Programming Kit of The Future
January 23rd, 2012
January 23, 2012—- Chito Manansala is the reason you and about 2 billion other people can instantly pay with a Visa card in shops across the planet. As chief system architect at Visa, Manansala designed the communications system at the heart ofVisaNet — a worldwide network of shops, ATMs, banks, and websites that handles 130 million payments a day. In other words, he knows how to build a contraption that juggles ridiculous amounts of information with each passing second. In 2007, after… Read More ›
Portfolio.com: Joyent Shoots for “Star Alliance” of the Cloud
January 22nd, 2012
January 23, 2012—- David Young plans to use $85 million to build his cloud computing company into a global force. A San Francisco company that provides cloud computing power for businesses has pulled in $85 million in funding and a partnership with one of the world’s largest telecommunications company. “You need to think of this as almost a Star Alliance for the cloud,” Dave Young, chief executive of Joyent, said of his company’s deal with Telefonica Digital, which participated in… Read More ›
Techvibes: Joyent Partners with Vancouver’s NodeFly to Bring Node.js Analytics Services to the Cloud
January 22nd, 2012
January 23, 2012—- Joyent Cloud, a high-performance public cloud, and NodeFly, an provider of cloud application and infrastructure monitoring services, have announced a partnership to offer Node.js analytics services to Joyent customers. Vancouver-based NodeFly is the first monitoring services company to integrate Node.js analytics into its offering. NodeFly CTO Eugene Kaydalov and his team developed the analytics service by pulling data from Joyent Cloud Analytics, a unique analytics… Read More ›
