Category Archives: Infrastructure

Joyent Cloud Expands in the East: New Data Center Lights Up in VA

February 24, 2012 – 1:41 pm

Summary Greetings and happy Friday! We’re expanding eastwards with a new data center in the Mid-Atlantic. It’s live with customers and available for either API-based or portal-driven new provisioning of virtual compute resources.

By alexsalkever | Also posted in For Joyent Cloud Customers, For Sys Admins and Dev Ops, Joyent, Joyent Cloud, News | Leave a Comment

Report and next steps on today’s customer interruption

November 18, 2011 – 2:37 pm

At approximately 13:38 PM EST today Joyent customers in one of our East Coast datacenter locations were no longer able to connect to their services.  While the Joyent platform remained up and fully operational, a network event at one of our upstream providers brought down all BGP peers for just over an hour. This unfortunate [...]

By sdtuck | Also posted in For Joyent Cloud Customers, Joyent Cloud | Leave a Comment

How a Major Mobile PaaS Builds a Platform in the Cloud

November 4, 2011 – 12:02 am

“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, [...]

By alexsalkever | Also posted in Customers, For Developers, Joyent Cloud, Joyent Customers, Mobile, Partnerships | Leave a Comment

Cloud DNS: How to Speed Up Your Cloud Apps at No Extra Charge

October 31, 2011 – 10:40 pm

Note: This is a guest post from Cory von Wallenstein, the VP of Engineering for Dyn - a Joyent Cloud partner that provides  enterprise DNS and email delivery services. Follow Cory and Dyn on Twitter at @cvonwallenstein and @DynInc, respectively. When it comes to the Joyent Cloud, most site owners and operators are familiar with the benefits of powering their applications via Infrastructure-as-a-Service: Pay for what [...]

By alexsalkever | Also posted in For Developers, For Sys Admins and Dev Ops | Comments (1)

The Internet of Things and the Remaking of the Cloud

October 21, 2011 – 4:20 am

We are in the early stages of the Internet of Things, the much anticipated era when all manner of devices can talk to each other and to intermediary services. But for this era to achieve its full potential, operators must fundamentally change the way they build and run clouds. Why? Machine-to-machine (M2M) interactions are far [...]

By alexsalkever | Also posted in Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Building SHOPULARITY: One Dude, A Lot of Coding, and a Rock Star’s Couch in LA. Nuff?

October 20, 2011 – 6:05 am

I tend to build little one-off, ridiculous web projects all the time in an effort to learn new skills or techniques that can help me in larger projects. Because I’ve been a “lifetime” customer of Joyent for the past ten years, I’ve been very satisfied using a shared hosting environment where I can pretty much [...]

By alexsalkever | Also posted in For Developers, For Joyent Cloud Customers, Games, SmartOS, Uncategorized | Comments (1)

Visualizing the Joyent Cloud with DTrace

October 5, 2011 – 11:19 am

(This is a repost of a blog put up this morning by Joyent’s Brendan Gregg over at the DTrace blog. It’s a very nice visualization of the Joyent Cloud using DTrace to map out our world.) Visualizing the Cloud I’ve worked on visualizations for a while, most recently with heatmaps for Joyent’s Cloud Analytics (here’s a link to a great introduction [...]

By alexsalkever | Also posted in Analytics, DTrace | Leave a Comment

First Public Cloud in Taiwan Powered by Joyent

September 21, 2011 – 9:04 am

We’ve been working with the good people at MiTAC, a Taiwan-based global systems integrator, to introduce the first public cloud in that country. Joyent founder and chief scientist Jason Hoffman and the Joyent APAC team were in Taipei on Monday for the announcement. As you can see, the hardware heart of MiCloud, as MiTAC’s public [...]

By Ginger Tulley | Also posted in Announcements, Joyent, Press Release, Software | Comments (1)

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, Industry, 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 Industry | Comments (1)
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