Category Archives: Announcements

Last Week’s Node.js Community Event Show

Download in 1080p, 720p or 360p Yes, it’s already in part on Ustream, and we’ve been putting rough cut raw footage online as soon as able so that folks didn’t miss much, but I finally got around to putting together the lean-back version of our Node.js Community Event from last week for your viewing pleasure. [...]

Welcome to Cloud Analytics

By Dave Pacheco We’ve been talking for several weeks now about our work on Cloud Analytics. Today, we’re showing the world what we’ve put together. Now available on Joyent’s Node.js Service: a first look at Cloud Analytics in action — on your very own Node.js application. Cloud Analytics (CA for short) is a tool for [...]

Relaunching our Node.js Service

Today we’re re-launching our Node.js service, with a few key enhancements. New Versions of Node.js First, in our effort to make sure our users always have the latest Node.js available to them, we now have 0.4.0 and 0.4.1 versions of Node.js available on the service.  We remain committed to making sure you can always use [...]

Get Your Solaris SmartMachine Discount While it Lasts

If there’s one thing we love more than OpenSolaris, it’s Solaris users. And we decided to show our love this February with a special offer on 1GB Solaris SmartMachines for only $45 a month. Think of it like a gift box that’s highly optimized to deliver phenomenal chocolate performance. Or not. Anyway, take this chance [...]

Two Hearts Beat as One

While U2 marches to the beat of Larry Mullen, Jr. to endure the test of time, Joyent’s software products and service offerings are driven by customers, partners, and market opportunities to evolve over time. On January 13, 2011, Joyent unveiled not one, but two new web sites as another step to better serve our customers. [...]

Salesforce and Heroku: The Dork-Side of the Force?

There has certainly been a lot of chatter around SalesForce’s acquisition of Heroku for $212 million last week, and it certainly didn’t fall on deaf ears here at Joyent headquarters. While naturally highly biased, my favorite commentary so far was James Governor‘s thoughts from Enterprise Irregulars: Heroku is currently spreading its wings, or should I [...]

A New Abode for Node

As Ryan Dahl mentions in his post, Joyent has officially become the new home for Node.js. We are excited and honored to be investing this active open source project, and we’re thrilled at the response the technology has received. We believe Node.js is a foundational technology that will enable developers to build the next generation [...]

Joyeur: Under New Management

Joyeur has been undergoing some renovations, hence the radio silence, as there’s been a change in management. Or, more specifically, it now has some management! Namely, me, Jackson West. You may remember me from such blogs as SFist, NewTeeVee and Valleywag, where clearly I didn’t write enough gossip about Joyent because they went and hired [...]

Node SmartMachines

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.

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

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 [...]

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