Comments on: Want to be part of the Microsoft Cloud Team? http://joyeur.com/2008/04/09/want-to-be-part-of-the-microsoft-cloud-team/ Joyent's Weblog Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:03:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Andrew http://joyeur.com/2008/04/09/want-to-be-part-of-the-microsoft-cloud-team/#comment-3103 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:23:17 +0000 http://joycomad.joyent.us/blog/uncategorized/want-to-be-part-of-the-microsoft-cloud-team/#comment-3103 Since Amazon EC2 now have: static IPs, persistent local storage and geographic zoning – what differentiates Joyent Accelerators from Amazon EC2 … besides the huge price (unfavorable) difference?

http://tinyurl.com/6gtud2

]]> By: Doug http://joyeur.com/2008/04/09/want-to-be-part-of-the-microsoft-cloud-team/#comment-3102 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:37:28 +0000 http://joycomad.joyent.us/blog/uncategorized/want-to-be-part-of-the-microsoft-cloud-team/#comment-3102 I agree with everything John said, including his last statement about getting tired of what seems to be a complete sense of arrogance on Joyent’s part.

What we, customers, need is the follow:

* An API for Accelerators where I can auto-start/stop Accelerators and get billed solely for the time I use. (Which also then means we need a pay to upload our configured VM image)

* A drastically improved administrative interface. Face it guys, unless you are already a UNIX admin – you won’t the current web admin interface and how to use it.

* Reduced prices for the amount of RAM given. (The bandwidth you guys give is nice, but seriously – the vast majority of people only need a small fraction of what you give … to giving even more bandwidth does make me feel better for paying double what others charge for the same amount of RAM/CPU)

]]> By: John http://joyeur.com/2008/04/09/want-to-be-part-of-the-microsoft-cloud-team/#comment-3101 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:05:19 +0000 http://joycomad.joyent.us/blog/uncategorized/want-to-be-part-of-the-microsoft-cloud-team/#comment-3101 It sounds like microsoft’s cloud team will be building an truly virtualized platform complete with dynamic or programmatic addition of processing power.

Perhaps instead of trying to insult those guys you could actually deliver on a few of your promises for cloud computing?

Right now you’re a VPS host with expensive plans and an obscure operating system. Not to mention the questionable approach you take to backups. Without an API and instant addition and removal of capacity, you shouldn’t call yourself a cloud provider.

Sorry guys, your arrogance is really really beginning to rub me the wrong way.

]]> By: Tim http://joyeur.com/2008/04/09/want-to-be-part-of-the-microsoft-cloud-team/#comment-3104 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:57:06 +0000 http://joycomad.joyent.us/blog/uncategorized/want-to-be-part-of-the-microsoft-cloud-team/#comment-3104 With the title of the post, I thought for a moment Joyent partnered with Microsoft to provide cloud computing.

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