Category Archives: Customers

Cloud9′s Plans for Node.js Community

Ruben Daniels, CEO of Cloud9, the online environment for the development of JavaScript and HTML5 applications, has a great post over on the Cloud9 blog about all of the initiatives the company is undertaking to nurture and support the Node.js community. Take a look a the new community blog Nodebits.org, the official Node manual site Nodemanual.org, and the [...]

Case Study: Kabam in the Joyent Cloud

(This post is adapted from a Case Study published on the Joyent Cloud Website. You can also watch a video with Kabam COO Chris Carvalho) Kabam (formerly Watercooler) is a leading social games developer, with more than 60 million installations of its games around the world. By combining the most popular elements of traditional and [...]

How a Major Mobile PaaS Builds a Platform in the Cloud

“We looked in a terminal window and literally saw how much faster Joyent Cloud’s performance was than Amazon’s EC2. Our customers need that.” said StackMob CEO and Co-founder Ty Amell. This post was adapted from Case Study of how StackMob uses the Joyent Cloud. StackMob offers a comprehensive suite of services, from custom API creation to messaging, analytics, [...]

GoInstant and The Dawn of the Completely Shared Web: Manifesto from TC Disrupt Finalist and Digital Sky Funding Recipient

(Note: This is a guest post on Joyeur by Jevon MacDonald, co-founder of GoInstant. He and his team have built an amazing product that enables full two-way sharing and use in real-time of any Web page between any to Internet enabled devices on any browsers with zero noticeable latency and no downloads or config changes [...]

Introducing Joyent SmartDataCenter Customers

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 [...]

Envolve: How a YC Startup Runs its Cloud App – A Case Study

This post was adapted from a case study of Envolve posted on Joyent Cloud. Envolve is a graduate of the YCombinator program and is a fast growing provider of API driven chat-as-a-service. Envolve operates a Software-as-a-Service customizable chat solution that makes adding rich chat functionality to a website as simple as adding a few lines of [...]

Sliders, Stories and Suggestions: Eating, Listening and Learning at last Thursday’s Joyent Celebration

We celebrated the launch of the new Joyent Cloud last Thursday night with a most excellent party for some of our most excellent customers and other cloud luminaries in downtown SF. We ate a lot of sliders, swapped a lot of stories, and learned a whole lot about what our customers are doing in the [...]

9 Millions Requests Per Day (Load Tested) with 120 megs of RAM. One Joyent SmartMachine. Add Hacker News and Share.

I started working at Joyent this week. My nominal title is Director of Product Marketing — Joyent Cloud. In reality, at a shop like Joyent, you wear so many hats that titles are fluid at best. But as marketing guy with a serious technical bent, one of my favorite parts of the job is seeing [...]

Customers: Share Your Story, Win an iPad

Here at Joyent, we love to promote our customers — because when they grow, we grow. We’re looking for more great stories about how folks are using Joyent Cloud to build innovative applications and businesses — send us yours, and you could win your project not only some promotional support from the Joyent team, but [...]

StackMob Plus Joyent Equals Love in the Mobile Clouds

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 [...]

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