Category Archives: Announcements

Node SmartMachines

August 26, 2010 – 10:23 am

In June of 2008 Reasonably Smart was launched – it was a server side JavaScript environment that
let you develop your web application for a PaaS environment, and deploy that code using git. The pedigree has continued with Joyent’s latest product, the Node SmartMachine.

By James A. Duncan | Leave a Comment

Confidentiality Integrity & Availability – the troika of an IT security trocha

August 24, 2010 – 2:23 pm

Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) has been the foundational IT security troika of distributed IT security trochas for years, and as cloud computing is a natural evolution of distributed computing that is where we will begin in our conversation about security in public and private cloud computing infrastructures. Join Jason Hoffman (Chief Scientist) and Ryan [...]

By iryanb | Also posted in Cloud Computing, Community | Leave a Comment

Grand Joyeur.com Unification

August 15, 2010 – 1:43 pm

The entire export of the old version of joyeur.com (http://v1.joyeur.com/) should be complete. If something looks out of date, let me know. Thank you!

By jason | Leave a Comment

Introducing Joyent China

October 28, 2009 – 3:01 am

Joyent, Inc. is very happy to announce that today we are beginning operations within mainland China. http://www.joyent.com.cn Today, we have opened a limited service of the Joyent Cloud to customers within mainland China and will be opening to the general public later this year. We are happy to be working with Intel and the Qinhuangdao [...]

By grassonthefield | Also posted in Cloud Computing | Comments (4)

100,000 Joyent Accelerators

July 2, 2009 – 7:55 pm

We just delivered the 100,000th Joyent Accelerator to a customer. That’s a big milestone. Congratulations to the Joyent team. And congratulations to our customers who are doing such interesting things with Joyent Accelerators, everyone from Prince (the artist known as), to all the Facebook developers, to the many enterprise shops removing the barriers of IT [...]

By grassonthefield | Also posted in Cloud Computing | Comments (2)

Control Yourself

July 2, 2009 – 2:47 pm

We’re pleased to announce that Control Yourself, Inc. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), producer of Open Source Twitter alternative Laconica and host of the popular microblogging site identi.ca, launched a private beta of a new microblogging hosting service, status.net. The new service will be hosted on Joyent Accelerators to provide high-availability, highly-scalable microblogging sites to enterprises and [...]

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Customer Feedback

April 1, 2009 – 5:13 pm

It’s nice to get great customer feedback: This weekend, I wrote a humorous piece entitled “Moses is Departing Egypt: A Facebook Haggaddah.” Not having easy access to any other hosting service, I stored it on my Joyent Accelerator account. (I am very glad that your terms of service permit this, so long as my Facebook [...]

By grassonthefield | Also posted in Community | Comments (3)

Facebook Haggadah on Joyent

March 31, 2009 – 2:29 pm

We’re pleased that the Facebook Haggadah is running on a free Joyent Accelerator as part of our program for social network developers. The Haggadah is the telling of the events of Passover and the liberation of the Israelites from Egypt as described in the book of Exodus of the Torah. The Haggadah itself is a [...]

By grassonthefield | Also posted in Events | Leave a Comment

Contestant Winners, Free Social Apps Infrastructure, Upcoming Events

March 17, 2009 – 6:48 pm

The “Answer Questions about Jason” contest was a success and all the contest winner received a free entry-level Joyent Accelerator. Congratulations. I was proud to give away Accelerators to celebrate the launch of JSBin on Joyent. Keeping with the free theme, we will be expanding the number of free slots we have open for developers [...]

By grassonthefield | Also posted in Industry | Leave a Comment

Light-weight, Collaborative Javascript Debugging: JS Bin on Joyent Accelerators

March 11, 2009 – 9:17 pm

JS Bin is a very useful utility offering collaborative JavaScript debugging. From the About section: JS Bin allows you to edit and test JavaScript and HTML (reloading the URL also maintains the state of your code – new tabs doesn’t). Once you’re happy you can save, and send the URL to a peer for review [...]

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