Press Room
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 ›
