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Congratulations to LinkedIn

May 19, 2011 – 11:41 am

LinkedIn went public today, with an IPO that valued the company at more than $10 billion, and that value has since more than doubled thanks to the stock’s price climb on the day’s trading so far. We always knew they would be this successful. LinkedIn is a brilliant company with a novel and aggressive approach [...]

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Politics, Religion and the Cloud

November 3, 2010 – 4:31 pm

Three weeks ago, a small business owner told me she had gone $20,000 into debt buying hardware to run their website. She and her partners run a catering business and their new web site is a combination of brochure and ordering portal. “We’ve been in business for 8 years. This is the first time we [...]

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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 [...]

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Final Schedule for Enterprise Cloud Computing Seminar

November 14, 2008 – 10:20 pm

We have finalized the schedule for Monday’s Enterprise Cloud Computing Seminar. If you are in the BayArea, please join us for what will be an extremely interesting and useful event. You can sign up here Seminar Schedule: 5:30PM – Enterprise Class Cloud Computing Presentation by Dr. Jason Hoffman, Joyent Co-founder and CTO Separating the hype [...]

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Enterprise Cloud Computing Seminar

November 5, 2008 – 10:57 pm

Join us on evening of Nov. 17th for a free Enterprise Cloud Computing Seminar . The seminar will include participation and presentations for SolutionSet, Aptana , and a series of other companies who have had experience deploying on the cloud. We are going to address the practical questions of enterprise CTOs and CIOs CTOs and [...]

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Running Glassfish on Joyent

October 9, 2008 – 7:16 pm

Joyent is the ideal cloud computing platform for running Sun’s brilliant Glassfish server. Why? Because, on Joyent, you can run Glassfish at 64-bit straight out of the box. Today, Kent Langley threw together a quick wiki page entitled How to Install GlassFish on Joyent Accelerator to help you get up and running.

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Dave Young at eBay

October 1, 2008 – 4:39 am

Yesterday, Dave gave an introduction to Joyent to the people attending eBay’s ResearchFest event in San Jose. Here’s a video of Dave’s talk. The event was also covered by Paul Krill over at infoworld.com

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EC3: Enterprise Class Cloud Computing

August 22, 2008 – 9:42 pm

Yesterday I talked with the head of Enterprise Architecture for a Fortune 500 company. Late last week, it was the VP of Operations for a Fortune 100 company. And, every day, I talk with many CTOs from Web 2.0 style start-ups. They are all interested in Cloud Computing. What is new is the number of [...]

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A Loving Cloud

June 27, 2008 – 4:03 am

Yesterday several members of Joyent’s team attended Structure ’08. Jason Hoffman was on a panel that produced some interesting debate about whether clouds should aim to be open. The story was even picked up by the Wall Street Journal’s Don Clark in an article entitled Finding A Friendly Cloud Jason Hoffman, founder and chief technology [...]

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What is Cloud Computing?

May 6, 2008 – 10:58 pm

We went to the Web 2.0 Expo and asked “What is Cloud Computing ?”. YouTube has a high definition version of What is Cloud Computing Check out what the following people had to say: Tim O’Reilly Dan Farber Matt Mullenweg Jay Cross Brian Solis Kevin Marks Rafe Needleman Steve Gillmor Jeremy Tanner Maggie Fox Tom [...]

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