Category Archives: Announcements

Joyent Gets New Funding

January 23, 2012 – 5:26 am

We’re pleased to announce that Joyent has some new investors. Weather Investment II and Telefonica Digital have together invested $85 million into Joyent. We’d like to welcome Weather II and it’s advising company Accelero, along with Telefonica Digital, to the Joyent family. How will the new funds be spent, you may ask? Please read the [...]

By Ginger Tulley | Also posted in For Business, For Joyent Cloud Customers, Industry, Joyent, Joyent Cloud, Partnerships | Comments (1)

Node on Azure and SDK Release

December 16, 2011 – 1:08 pm

Earlier this week you may have seen word from Corporate Vice President Scott Guthrie or the Interoperability Team at Microsoft, but today the Azure team released their announcement regarding Node on Windows Azure and the Windows Azure SDK for Node.js. After many months of hard work between the Azure team and the core team here [...]

By Eric Braun | Also posted in node.js, Open Source | Comments (3)

A Brand New MongoDB Appliance with Pre-Installed, Tuned Up Mongo Goodness

December 9, 2011 – 7:31 am

We’re down in Santa Clara for the annual MongoSV show and simultaneously announcing the launch of our brand new SmartMachine for MongoDB. This new virtual machine comes pre-loaded with a fully tuned, optimized, and ready to deploy instance of MongoDB, the NoSQL database that is becoming a key player in mobile, e-commerce, game and other [...]

By alexsalkever | Also posted in For Developers, Games, Joyent Cloud, Mobile, node.js, SmartOS, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Circonus: Copper Plan Free for 90 Days to Joyent Cloud Clients and the Rise of DevOps

December 8, 2011 – 10:59 am

We’ve known Theo Schlosnsnagle (@postwait)for a quite a while and we respect him greatly. Which is one of the reasons why we have supported a partnership with Circonus, the company that he founded and runs. But also we have a shared vision that some people call DevOps. That is, the line between software development and [...]

By alexsalkever | Also posted in Analytics, For Joyent Cloud Customers, For Sys Admins and Dev Ops, Joyent Cloud | Leave a Comment

First Server and Joyent Announce SmartDataCenter-powered cloud in Japan. Oh, and Node Ninja, a Node.js Service

October 25, 2011 – 8:18 am

Earlier today Joyent Founder and CTO Jason Hoffman and Isobe-san, CEO of Yahoo! Japan subsidiary First Server, announced the launch of First Server’s SmartDataCenter-powered public cloud service, named Z Cloud, at a press conference in Tokyo. Isobe-san also unveiled First Server’s Node.js service, named Node Ninja, just in time for NodeFest (also known as 東京Node学園祭2011), a conference [...]

By Ginger Tulley | Also posted in For Developers, Joyent, node.js | Leave a Comment

Introducing Joyent SmartDataCenter Customers

October 25, 2011 – 8:01 am

We’re proud to introduce our cloud software customers today in this announcement. As you can see from the map above, our customers are spread across the globe. Despite the geographic diversity, at least one thing they have in common is their use of SmartDataCenter to provide cloud services to their customers. Thank you ClusterTech, First [...]

By Ginger Tulley | Also posted in Customers, For Sys Admins and Dev Ops, Joyent Customers | Leave a Comment

Welcome NavLink

October 11, 2011 – 8:40 am

We are pleased to welcome a new customer-partner to our global community of service providers running Joyent-powered clouds: NavLink. NavLink is an AT&T affiliate based in the Middle East and providing managed Information Communication Technology (ICT), enterprise networking and cloud services to telecom operators and medium and large enterprises in over 17 countries throughout EMEA. [...]

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First Public Cloud in Taiwan Powered by Joyent

September 21, 2011 – 9:04 am

We’ve been working with the good people at MiTAC, a Taiwan-based global systems integrator, to introduce the first public cloud in that country. Joyent founder and chief scientist Jason Hoffman and the Joyent APAC team were in Taipei on Monday for the announcement. As you can see, the hardware heart of MiCloud, as MiTAC’s public [...]

By Ginger Tulley | Also posted in Infrastructure, Joyent, Press Release, Software | Comments (1)

Facebook OAuth 2.0 and HTTPS Requirements

September 8, 2011 – 2:00 pm

Back in May, Facebook announced their plan to improve overall site security by transitioning authentication to OAuth 2.0 and moving to HTTPS for secure browsing. All externally served sites and apps on Facebook must migrate to OAuth 2.0, process the signed_request parameter, and obtain an SSL certificate by October 1. The migration to OAuth 2.0 [...]

By Nima | Also posted in Facebook, Joyent Cloud | Leave a Comment

KVM on illumos

August 15, 2011 – 6:01 am

This post originally appeared on DTrace.org and can also be found on the new SmartOS.org blog. By Bryan Cantrill A little over a year ago, I came to Joyent because of a shared belief that systems software innovation matters — that there is no level of the software stack that should be considered off-limits to [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in Joyent, Open Source, OpenSolaris, Software | Comments (1)
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