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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
September 13th, 2012
Joyent Cloud Architecture Boosts CPU Capacity Up to 400 Percent While Improving Gamer Experience and Cutting Infrastructure Costs in Half. San Francisco – September 13, 2012 – Joyent, the high-performance cloud infrastructure company, today announced a partnership with Digital Chocolate, a leading provider of social games across growing platforms, to dramatically improve overall gameplay while cutting infrastructure costs in half. By moving its social and mobile games to the Joyent Cloud,… Read More ›
September 11th, 2012
Enables carriers to expose their networks to developers and build Mobile OTT Services to drive return on cloud investments and engage developers. 11 September, 2012 — NEW DELHI — Voxeo Labs, a San Francisco-based technology company leading the industry in real-time carrier APIs, today announced that it has joined the Global Cloud Network (GCN); an alliance of mobile carriers who run their cloud on Joyent’s SmartDataCenter fabric. In joining the GCN, Voxeo Labs is helping to deliver the… Read More ›