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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 Cloud Supports Social and Mobile Gaming Evolution
January 30th, 2013
Cloud-Native Architecture Helps Gaming Companies Meet Rigorous Scaling and Performance Demands San Francisco, CA -- (January 30, 2012) - Joyent, the high-performance cloud infrastructure company, today released new metrics that highlight its continued dominance in the world of mobile and social gaming. Built for performance, reliability and real-time elastic scaling, Joyent is the only provider able to meet the demands of today’s modern gaming providers. New case studies from Digital… Read More ›
