Category Archives: Announcements

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)

Joyent Cloud Promo: Start at Just Nine Cents an Hour

August 10, 2011 – 11:20 am

Not all clouds are created equal. Joyent Cloud was architected from the ground up for high availability with no data loss. So if you’re frustrated with your current situation, we want to help. For a limited time, you can get started on Joyent Cloud for only nine cents an hour. And this is a full-featured [...]

By Nima | Also posted in Analytics, Benchmarks, Special Offers | Leave a Comment

StackMob Plus Joyent Equals Love in the Mobile Clouds

July 19, 2011 – 8:20 am

2011 marks a major step-change in game and app development as the audience moves away from consoles and personal computers and goes mobile. Apple alone has sold a cumulative 200 million iOS devices. With over 425,000 apps in the App Store surpassing 15 billion downloads, the mobile market is growing bigger and faster than the [...]

By Nima | Also posted in Customers, Mobile, Partnerships | Comments (1)

SmartDataCenter: Analytics and Introspection

June 27, 2011 – 12:00 pm

Introspection is defined as the “contemplation of one’s own thoughts, impressions and feelings”, but if you’re an application running in the cloud, introspection reflects “why” as much as “how”. Moving from managed infrastructure to cloud-based solution often involves a big tradeoff in transparency – transparency in the control layers, visibility into how systems are setup, [...]

By Nima | Also posted in Analytics, Infrastructure | Leave a Comment

Joyent Partners with Microsoft to Port Node.js to Windows

June 23, 2011 – 7:50 am

Joyent is pleased to announce a partnership with Microsoft to port Node.js to Windows. The result will be official binary node.exe releases on nodejs.org, which will work on Windows Azure and other Windows versions as far back as Server 2003. From Ryan Dahl on the Node Blog: I’m pleased to announce that Microsoft is partnering [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in node.js, Open Source, Partnerships | Comments (3)

Joyent Customer Kabam Secures $85m as Leader of Hardcore Social Gaming

May 27, 2011 – 9:02 am

Congratulations to the our friends at Kabam for an epic achievement! The Joyeurs here have been longtime fans of Kingdoms of Camelot and we’re delighted to see the company succeed and grow at what they love to do.

By Nima | Also posted in Customers, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

New Relic Standard now Free for Joyent Customers

May 20, 2011 – 8:00 am

So a few months ago I walked over to South Park to meet An Le, New Relic’s business development superstar. Over scones at Town’s End, we talked about the challenges facing application developers — specifically the lack of good introspection tools to illustrate for developers what is broken and why — and what we could [...]

By Nima | Also posted in Analytics, DTrace, Partnerships, Special Offers, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Aware of issue with New Relic PHP Agent. Working on Fix.

May 18, 2011 – 3:36 pm

We have been made aware of a technical issue with the new PHP Agent for New Relic – we are are working with New Relic team to fix the problem as quickly as possible. Thank you for your patience and understanding while we fix the awesome sauce.

By Nima | Also posted in Partnerships | Comments (1)

Live VMware Webcast About Cloud Application Development

April 8, 2011 – 3:27 pm

Please join VMware and friends (e.g. Joyent) on April 12th for a special live webcast about cloud application development. Each new era of computing changes the way we build applications. Current and aspiring cloud developers are invited to learn more about the next step in building cloud applications. The live webcast will feature leaders in [...]

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Node.js Job Board: Get Paid to Code in Node

March 23, 2011 – 4:08 pm

If you’re a Node.js developer looking for cool projects to work on that also happen to pay the rent, check out the new jobs board at jobs.nodejs.org. Voxer, Yammer, adservice and TWAR are all offering opportunities ranging from innovative mobile communications to game development work. On the other hand, if you’re looking for developers with [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in Joyeurs, node.js | Leave a Comment
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