Category Archives: OpenSolaris

Notes from SCALE10x — More I/O for the Cloud, Please

January 22, 2012 – 10:23 pm

A crew of Joyeurs went to Los Angeles to attend SCALE 10x – the 2012 Southern California Linux Expo over the weekend. We went for a number of reasons. First, we were invited. Two of our engineers, Brendan Gregg and Robert Mustacchi, were on the speaker schedule. Second, we have been eagerly working with other [...]

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Events: Joyent Cloud Webinar, Solaris Family Reunion, Node.js Office Hours

October 3, 2011 – 2:27 pm

Tomorrow morning, Tuesday, October 4th, Joyent Cloud General Manager Steve Tuck will be presenting the details of the new and improved Joyent Public Cloud for our webinar tomorrow at 10:00am PDT. Registration is entirely free, and we look forward to fielding your questions about new features, benefits and pricing. Tomorrow evening, the SmartOS team is [...]

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KVM on illumos

August 15, 2011 – 6:01 am

This post originally appeared on DTrace.org and can also be found on the new SmartOS.org blog. By Bryan Cantrill A little over a year ago, I came to Joyent because of a shared belief that systems software innovation matters — that there is no level of the software stack that should be considered off-limits to [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in Announcements, Joyent, Open Source, Software | Comments (1)

The Backchannel: Dell Storage Forum, File System Latency, Illumos, Velocity and Node News

June 24, 2011 – 12:51 pm

As you might have noted from our events listings, it’s been a busy couple of weeks for team Joyent. Ed Saipetch was in Florida representing Joyent at the Dell Storage Forum, where he sat down with John McArthur and Cali Lewis for a Silicon Angle TV segment. For more of his thoughts on the conference, [...]

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Events: Open Solaris, Velocity Conference and Office Hours

June 14, 2011 – 7:38 am

The San Francisco Open Solaris User Group is meeting up in sunny Menlo Park for a discussion of Illumos tomorrow, Wednesday, June 15th. Garrett D’Amore will offer an update on the project, follwed by a panel with D’Amore, our own Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal. Whether or not you can make it, if you’re looking [...]

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How to Use vmstat for Performance Analysis

April 28, 2011 – 3:00 pm

Deirdre and Brendan took the time to put together some video guides to using vmstat to monitor systems for performance analysis. Brendan explains key fields in the video above, but also covers all the data output and how to scope for inquiries in multi-tenant environments. The examples should come in handy for anyone working with [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in Analytics, DTrace, Open Source, Video | 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, Industry, node.js | Leave a Comment

Get Your Solaris SmartMachine Discount While it Lasts

February 15, 2011 – 4:44 pm

If there’s one thing we love more than OpenSolaris, it’s Solaris users. And we decided to show our love this February with a special offer on 1GB Solaris SmartMachines for only $45 a month. Think of it like a gift box that’s highly optimized to deliver phenomenal chocolate performance. Or not. Anyway, take this chance [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in Announcements | Comments (1)

SFOSUG and Promo for Solaris Users

February 8, 2011 – 12:20 pm

The San Francisco OpenSolaris usergroup meeting is tonight at Joyent’s HQ in San Francisco. Bill Pijewski has graciously offered to give an introduction to the new Kstat virtualization in OpenSolaris — build 147! There’s still time to RSVP to myself. Go ahead and email myself shannon at joyent dot com to RSVP. And totally cool, [...]

By safiume | Also posted in Events, Open Source | Comments (4)

San Francisco OpenSolaris User Group Meeting Tomorrow

February 7, 2011 – 5:41 pm

Joyent is happy to be hosting the next San Francisco Open Solaris User Group meeting, which will be landing on the second Tuesday of every month going forward. This week, the plan is to drink some beer, talk about the latest release and listen to our own Bill Pijewski present on kstat virtualization developments. The [...]

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