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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 Announcements, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Congratulations to LinkedIn

May 19, 2011 – 11:41 am

LinkedIn went public today, with an IPO that valued the company at more than $10 billion, and that value has since more than doubled thanks to the stock’s price climb on the day’s trading so far. We always knew they would be this successful. LinkedIn is a brilliant company with a novel and aggressive approach [...]

By Rod Boothby | Also posted in Industry | Leave a Comment

Dark Cloud Rains on Admin’s Application Parade

May 6, 2011 – 5:00 am

From time to time, I run across experiential blog posts from developers and system admins who have suffered some particularly hairy problem in the cloud. I love these stories because they are about real people with real frustrations. Their honesty provides an invaluable perspective for providers like Joyent because we can see through their eyes [...]

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

Gilt Groupe Gleans GMA Glamour

April 7, 2011 – 9:43 am

Our valued customer Gilt Groupe got to make a star turn on Good Morning America, with reporter Vicki Mabry spending some time with a shopper who zealously checks in every weekday at 12:02pm for the latest deals on designer duds — one of only 3.5 million members who regularly flood the site at the appointed [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in Video | Leave a Comment

Kabam’s “Kingdoms of Camelot” Makes Star Turn on CNBC

March 10, 2011 – 11:16 pm

The fine folks at Kabam merited a mention in a CNBC piece titled “Social Media Storm.” The lead item was the success of Angry Birds, “an investor’s dream, it cost $140,000 to make and has been downloaded 75 million times.” What’s not discussed is the fact that it was the 52nd game produced by Finnish [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in Games, Video | Leave a Comment

Why Choose Joyent?

March 7, 2011 – 9:56 pm

While we had him at the booth for the Game Developers Conference, we asked Thump Games Co-Founder and CEO Chip Overstreet why he’s a Joyent customer. Since Thump Football allows players to interact around live sports, naturally it sees big spikes in application demand on game days, so Overstreet stresses how effortlessly our systems scale [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in Games | Leave a Comment

Joyent Powers Up: Dozens of Great Games

February 28, 2011 – 2:10 pm

We’re putting the finishing touches on our booth for the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco that starts on Wednesday, and look forward to hanging out and talking all things game production, testing and publishing. We’ll also have some of our customers dropping by the booth and talking about their projects and how Joyent has [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in Games | Leave a Comment

Joyent Powers Up: ZooLife

February 25, 2011 – 2:57 pm

As everyone should understand by now, while the Internet and World Wide Web might have been intended for sharing information and research, they have collectively developed into the world’s fastest and most efficient delivery mechanisms for descriptions, pictures, movies and games involving cute animals. We might be excited about technologies like Node.js here at Joyent, [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in Facebook, Games | Comments (1)

Joyent Powers Up: Treasure Life

February 24, 2011 – 12:51 pm

Counting down to the Game Developers Conference, we’ll be highlighting one game a day powered by Joyent technology. Partly for an excuse to play games at work, sure, but also because our customers have developed some really fun, cool titles! Part Tomb Raider and part Minesweeper, Treasure Life manages to balance elements from a lot [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in Facebook, Games | Comments (1)

Joyent Powers Up: Thump Football

February 23, 2011 – 12:07 pm

Counting down to the Game Developers Conference, we’ll be highlighting one game a day powered by Joyent technology. Partly for an excuse to play games at work, sure, but also because our customers have developed some really fun, cool titles! Aaron Rodgers and the NFL Champion Packers from Green Bay are probably soaking their joints [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in Games, Mobile | Comments (1)
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