Monthly Archives: August 2009

Phones to Challenge iPhone

August 24, 2009 – 1:50 am

For the past month I’ve been using four different cell phones behind the excellent Google Voice service. One phone number, four phones. The four phones are the Apple iPhone 3G (iPhone OS), the Nokia N97 (Symbian), the HTC G1 (Android), and the Palm Pre (Web OS). I use the iPhone on the AT&T network, the [...]

By grassonthefield | Posted in Industry, Reviews | Comments (1)

On Benchmarking Databases: MySQL on Joyent versus AWS (part 1)

August 17, 2009 – 8:48 am

Last week we announced the MySQL accelerators and scalable architecture offerings. Like the Zeus Accelerators, this is a continuation of our goal to offer individual servers and entire architectures of known performance. What one really wants from an entire infrastructure is for it to simply do what you need it to do. Not to be [...]

By jason | Posted in Benchmarks, Industry, Infrastructure | Comments (2)

Joyent Sells Strongspace and Bingodisk to ExpanDrive

August 13, 2009 – 5:00 pm

Joyent was one of the first companies to offer storage as Strongspace (Summer, 2005). Strongspace was a multi-user SFTP drive in the sky. A piece of trivia: Strongspace was the first product to use ZFS in production (ouside of Sun). We introduced Bingodisk in the Fall of 2006 to provide dead-simple WebDAV-based storage. It was [...]

By grassonthefield | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (5)

Why Netbooks are Deadly for Apple and Microsoft

August 11, 2009 – 5:45 pm

Whether or not Apple releases a Netbook (=sub $500 fullish keyboard portable), this class of device is ultimately deadly to the likes of Apple and Microsoft. Why? Netbooks aren’t mini-powerful laptops. The are powerful browser-app platforms and they accelerate the adoption of browser-based applications. No one (really) uses a netbook to run Photoshop, or even [...]

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New Joyent MySQL Solution is 3X Faster than Amazon EC2

August 11, 2009 – 4:24 pm

Today we launched the Joyent Virtual Appliance for MySQL. They come with MySQL pre-installed and optimized to take full advantage of all the local RAM available. We worked directly with the team at MySQL to develop a MySQL solution that could get you up and running as fast as possible, with all the best practices [...]

By Rod Boothby | Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , | Comments (4)

Why Apple (Probably) Had to Reject Google Voice for iPhone

August 3, 2009 – 8:29 am

I just installed Google Voice on my T-Mobile Google Phone. (I’m sure that’s not the technical description of the model. I think it’s HTC something or other.) What stands out immediately is that Google Voice takes over the phone and does all the calling. All of it. When I call people from the phone, they [...]

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