Category Archives: Industry

Joyent Gets New Funding

January 23, 2012 – 5:26 am

We’re pleased to announce that Joyent has some new investors. Weather Investment II and Telefonica Digital have together invested $85 million into Joyent. We’d like to welcome Weather II and it’s advising company Accelero, along with Telefonica Digital, to the Joyent family. How will the new funds be spent, you may ask? Please read the [...]

By Ginger Tulley | Also posted in Announcements, For Business, For Joyent Cloud Customers, Joyent, Joyent Cloud, Partnerships | Comments (2)

2012: The Year the Cloud has to Grow Up

January 20, 2012 – 12:48 pm

Virtual Strategy Magazine asked a number of players in the cloud computing industry for their predictions for 2012. Our CTO and Co-founder Jason Hoffman offered his thoughts on what Joyent is looking forward to in the coming year. In the cloud, we are rapidly moving from providing development environments to running critical applications in production. [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in Media Coverage | Leave a Comment

Events: IEEE Cloud 2011, Node.js Office Hours and Webinar

July 5, 2011 – 2:54 pm

Tomorrow, Wednesday, July 6th, our Chief Scientist Jason Hoffman will be participating as a panelist discussing “Enterprise Clouds vs. Commodity Clouds: Divergence or Convergence” as part of the Industry track at Cloud 2011, the IEEE’s 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing in Washington, D.C. — he’ll be joined by representatives from Red Hat and Dell, [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in Events, Infrastructure, node.js, Webinar | Leave a Comment

Amazon’s Updated Bandwidth Prices Still Can’t Beat Ours

June 30, 2011 – 4:30 pm

Amazon’s recent announcement that they have eliminated the cost of uploading data into their cloud is certainly good news to developers running their applications on Amazon Web Services. I’m glad to see that Amazon is choosing not to nickel-and-dime customers for every single thing they do. At no cost to upload and lower prices to [...]

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

The Backchannel: Node-Powered Foosball, File System Latency and Building the Cloud

May 27, 2011 – 11:22 am

When not busy updating Node.js to version 0.4.8, Ryan Dahl loves that Hamburg-based agency Sinner Schrader modified their office foosball table to keep track of games, post scores to Twitter and track “league” results over time — and powered the system with Node.js. Jealous? We are. But it’s all open source so that you can [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in DTrace, Link List, node.js | 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 Customers | 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 Customers, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

“Cloud Smacking” with the Infosmack Podcast

May 4, 2011 – 6:00 am

Infosmack Podcast hosts Greg Knieriemen, Marc Farley and Christina Weil invited our Chief Scientist Jason Hoffman on the show — along with “The Storage Architect,” Chris Evans — to discuss last week’s royal wedding. Also? The outage of Amazon Web Services, what it means for systems architects and application developers and the implications for “the [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in Media Coverage | Leave a Comment

Network Storage in the Cloud: Delicious but Deadly

April 25, 2011 – 6:00 am

This post is one in a series discussing storage architectures in the cloud. Read Magical Block Store: When Abstractions Fail Us and On Cascading Failures and Amazon’s Elastic Block Store for more insight. By Bryan Cantrill One of the persistent themes of my career has been something of a love affair with understanding systems failure [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in General, Infrastructure, Joyent, Software | Comments (2)

Magical Block Store: When Abstractions Fail Us

April 24, 2011 – 8:33 am

This post is one in a series discussing storage architectures in the cloud. Read Network Storage in the Cloud: Delicious but Deadly and On Cascading Failures and Amazon’s Elastic Block Store for more insight. Like anyone who has anything to do with the business of running applications attached to the Internet, I can’t help but [...]

By markjoyent | Also posted in General, Infrastructure, Joyent, Software | Comments (21)
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