Joyent Cloud Features
Joyent Cloud provides the essential features to develop, launch and scale web and mobile applications. Our high-performance cloud is designed to improve the productivity and success of application development teams and administrators. Rely upon the stability and reliability of Joyent to create your next innovation.
High-performance machines
Joyent Cloud uses fresh Nehalem/Westmere processors and 15k RPM HDs in our data centers. I/O throttling ensures that “noisy neighbors” won’t cause your application to perform poorly.
Dynamic CPU scaling
Dynamic, real-time CPU scaling. Vertical bursting CPU capacity without user intervention or additional fees. Advance caching to free up memory, enhance disk I/O and minimize CPU utilization.
Hadoop
Joyent's big data servers for Hadoop offer bare-metal performance allowing you to run nearly 3x faster or at 1/3 the cost of other cloud offerings. The Joyent solution for Hadoop includes the Hortonworks Data Platform to help you install, configure, and provision your Hadoop deployments.
Copy-on-write file system
Copy-on-write file system architected on ZFS. Resiliency for the entire application stack, data integrity checks (for Linux, Windows and SmartOS).
Runs Linux, SmartOS, and Windows
Flexibility to run SmartOS, CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Linux or Windows operating systems. Full details for Linux machines in our Dev Center.
Pre-defined database packages and appliances
Optimized machines for CouchDB, Hadoop, MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle, PostgrSQL and Riak. Integration with leading database-as-a-service offerings from MongoLabs.
Real-time analytics and visualization
Cloud analytics provides visualization of the entire system landscape. Point-and-click root cause analysis. Server and application analytics and system visualization tools can be integrated.
Secure Zones and Data Centers
Zones provide steel-wall security to prevent other tenants from accessing or impacting your VM. Support for VLAN, dynamic and dedicated IP addresses, local storage and SSL certificates. Data centers are SSAE16 certified, with multi-layer physical security, redundant power and early warning fire suppression.
API and integration
True REST APIs, includes SSH insertion for M2M or secure management and “live key” rotation for easier management across multiple VMs.
Broad Eco-system of partners
Complete library of images, tools and application add-ons available.
Self-service provisioning
Be up and running in seconds. Add new capacity at a click of a button. Customer can permanently resize production applications on SmartOS VMs with no reboot or downtime.
Networking, Bandwidth and SLAs
All Tier-1 ISPs, 10gbs/40gbs fully-meshed network. 20TB per month as part of service. SLAs have exceeded 99.9999% targets for compute, network and connectivity uptime for entire history of the services.
