Category Archives: Industry

On Cascading Failures and Amazon’s Elastic Block Store

April 22, 2011 – 9:29 am

This post is one in a series discussing storage architectures in the cloud. Read Network Storage in the Cloud: Delicious but Deadly and Magical Block Store: When Abstractions Fail Us for more insight. Resilient, adjective, /riˈzilyənt/ “Able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions”. In patients with a cough, you know what commonly causes [...]

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Facebook’s Open Compute: The Data Center is the New Server and the Rise of the Taiwanese Tigers

April 7, 2011 – 12:57 pm

Today Facebook took the great step of openly talking about their server and datacenter designs at the level of detail where they can actually be replicated by others. Another reason why I call it “great?” Well, it’s interesting that the sourcing and design of these was done by Facebook and with Taiwanese component makers. Nothing [...]

By jason | Also posted in Infrastructure, Joyent, Software | Comments (6)

Top 5 Lists Featuring Joyent — Includes Bonus List!

April 4, 2011 – 1:01 pm

Everyone loves listicles — sites love to publish them because people love to click on them! Joyeur is certainly no exception. Recently, we’ve been featured in a number of lists, so here they are in order of exclusivity — along with some tips that might help you get past some editorial velvet ropes. 5. 2011 [...]

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Upcoming Webinar: Why I/O Matters in the Cloud

March 25, 2011 – 12:03 pm

Next Thursday, March 31st, our Chief Architect James Duncan and Joyent Cloud General Manager Steve Tuck will discuss the critical role I/O plays for applications running in the cloud, and how Joyent’s SmartDataCenter software and public cloud services solve real problems which on other systems have lead to downtime and frustrated users. The discussion will [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in Infrastructure, Webinar | Comments (1)

Events: Node.js in Sunnyvale, OpenSolaris User Group and David Young at Cloud Connect

March 7, 2011 – 3:43 pm

You’d think we’d slow down a little after our Node.js community event and Game Developers Conference appearance last week, but you’d be wrong. Tomorrow, Tim Caswell is hosting the Node.js Meetup Sunnyvale at the Firehouse Grill, and plenty of Joyeurs will be on hand. Folks are being asked to arrive between 6pm and 7pm, with [...]

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

ps pipe grep: Episode 24 (Reverse Groupon)

February 22, 2011 – 11:59 pm

Bryan Cantrill makes his first appearance with Ben still on the road, and along with David and Jason takes a long, circuitous route from computing history to the computing future by way of elegant nachos. A moment of silence for Ken Olsen, Bryan boasts he can take Watson in a fistfight, David buys a Blackberry [...]

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They Used to Say “Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM”

January 28, 2011 – 6:30 am

The old adage in Corporate IT held that nobody ever got fired for buying IBM. That might not hold true anymore, at least as far as cloud computing, according to this article in TechTarget. It’s worth the read if you’re getting into or just want to learn more about the cloud computing market. The first [...]

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Joyent’s Secret Sauce?

January 27, 2011 – 1:33 pm

GigaOm published an article on Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk in which Derrick Harris referenced Joyent and our “secret sauce”. Here is the full paragraph: Joyent doesn’t have a managed hosting business like GoGrid and Rackspace, but it is differentiating itself by catering to conservative customers that want to build private clouds. Joyent’s SmartDataCenter software brings the [...]

By Nima | Also posted in General, Infrastructure, Joyent, Media Coverage, Software | Leave a Comment

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

December 14, 2010 – 2:00 am

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 [...]

By Nima | Also posted in Announcements, General, Media Coverage, node.js | Leave a Comment

Conference Videos: Brendan Gregg at LISA, Ryan Dahl at YUI

December 2, 2010 – 3:00 pm

Last month, we brought you the slides from Ryan Dahl’s Node.js Roadmap presentation at the Yahoo UI Conference. The YUI team has thankfully posted the video in case you missed it. Brendan Gregg (pictured) also gave a presentation on Visualizations for Performance Analysis at the LISA ’10 conference, which they have thoughtfully made available to [...]

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