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The Next Web Hack Battle….Here’s to the Winners!

May 9, 2012 – 12:58 pm

As part of the opening of our new Amsterdam data center, we sponsored The Next Web 2012, a really killer conference. So we did a bit of the corporate thing, sponsoring the networking lounge. But definitely the highlight of our trip was the Kings of Code Hack Battle. The TNW team ran the event and [...]

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Hellloooooo, Europe! We’re Live in Amsterdam, People!

April 19, 2012 – 3:11 pm

Just in case you missed our tweets and our press release (who reads them anymore?), here’s the scoop on Joyent Cloud Europe. We just lit up our first data center outside North America and its in Amsterdam! This is a Tier-4 facility with all the goodies you’ve come to expect from Joyent Cloud: all Nehalem [...]

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DevCon5: Come See Joyent Founder Jason Hoffman Speak

April 17, 2012 – 9:13 am

Folks, just an FYI: DevCon5 is an HTML5 Developer and Mobile Applications Conference will take place at The Network Meeting Center, April 25-26, 2012 in Santa Clara. This conference is for web developers, designers, architects as well as technology leaders and business strategists who want to learn how to use HTML5 to create dynamic user experiences and new mobile business [...]

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dtrace conf: April 3 in Downtown SF. Trace that, people!

April 2, 2012 – 2:02 pm

^ The original (and only) dtrace.conf in 2008 was a smash hit – even the analysts were raving! In pace with the Olympiad, it’s time once again to bring the community together for dtrace.conf 2012! This Joyent-sponsored community event will be held in downtown San Francisco (likely SoMA, but exact venue TBD) on Tuesday, April [...]

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Meetups Galore: MongoDB & Node, Monitoring, and Making Quizlet Run Fast

February 27, 2012 – 11:14 am

Hey there. So we have some great meetups coming up at Joyent HQ. They’re a good opportunity to learn, compare notes and ask questions from the pros: MONGODB + JOYENT CLOUD: THE MONGO/NODE.JS STACK WITH 10GEN AND MONGOLAB ON FEBRUARY 29 AT 6:00 PM Join this Joyent Cloud User Group (JCUG) Meetup focused on Node.js [...]

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Joyent Cloud Expands in the East: New Data Center Lights Up in VA

February 24, 2012 – 1:41 pm

Summary Greetings and happy Friday! We’re expanding eastwards with a new data center in the Mid-Atlantic. It’s live with customers and available for either API-based or portal-driven new provisioning of virtual compute resources.

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Making Joyent Cloud Even Easier to Use, Manage: Announcing Partnership with enStratus

February 22, 2012 – 9:57 am

One thing our customers have been asking for is technology to make it easier for them to scale and incorporate existing popular cloud orchestration and management tools. First we released our Cloud API to enable instantiation and management of cloud services from outside our portal. Next, Joyeur Kevin Chan built out a fog.io pull that made it [...]

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Amped Up About Amplify: Joyent Cloud Sponsoring LA Startups Like Look.io

February 16, 2012 – 11:05 am

We announced today that Joyent Cloud is the lead cloud services sponsor of Amplify. What is that? Amplify is a Los Angeles startup accelerator and venture capital fund combined based in Santa Monica. It’s a unique structure put in place by an exceptionally talented group of engineers and founders who wanted to build a new [...]

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Announcing the Second DTrace Conference on April 3: Bring Your DTrace Tech Talk

February 12, 2012 – 10:25 pm

(Note: Reposting from Deirdre Straughan’s post on the SmartOS blog. This should be an amazing conference as many more folks are using DTrace today and the community is far more developed. And this event should have some great battlefield stories for using DTrace to fine-tune Node.js. Stay tuned for more info.) The original (and only) [...]

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Notes from SCALE10x — More I/O for the Cloud, Please

January 22, 2012 – 10:23 pm

A crew of Joyeurs went to Los Angeles to attend SCALE 10x – the 2012 Southern California Linux Expo over the weekend. We went for a number of reasons. First, we were invited. Two of our engineers, Brendan Gregg and Robert Mustacchi, were on the speaker schedule. Second, we have been eagerly working with other [...]

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