Category Archives: For Business

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 Joyent Cloud Customers, Industry, Joyent, Joyent Cloud, Partnerships | Comments (1)

eBay chooses Node.js as the runtime stack in ql.io: a data-retrieval and aggregation gateway for HTTP APIs

November 30, 2011 – 9:40 am

Today eBay announced their release of ql.io, a declarative, evented, data-retrieval and aggregation gateway for HTTP APIs. Subbu Allamaraju, an Architect at eBay, explains, “Through ql.io, we want to help application developers increase engineering clock speed and improve end user experience. ql.io can reduce the number of lines of code required to call multiple HTTP APIs while simultaneously bringing [...]

By Eric Braun | Also posted in Benchmarks, For Developers, Games, Mobile, node.js, Open Source, Use Cases | Comments (1)

Game Marketing 101: Getting Play, Getting Noticed, Getting Social

November 2, 2011 – 1:11 pm

A few weeks ago I was buttonholed by an upstart game developer at one of Joyent’s Node Office Hours in San Francisco. He knew how to code up his game. Obviously. What he wanted to ask me about was marketing his game. It was something he had never done and not surprisingly. Rare are developers [...]

By alexsalkever | Also posted in For Developers, For Joyent Cloud Customers, Games, Tutorials, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Joyent Cloud Promo: Start at Just Nine Cents an Hour

August 10, 2011 – 11:20 am

Not all clouds are created equal. Joyent Cloud was architected from the ground up for high availability with no data loss. So if you’re frustrated with your current situation, we want to help. For a limited time, you can get started on Joyent Cloud for only nine cents an hour. And this is a full-featured [...]

By Nima | Also posted in Analytics, Announcements, Benchmarks, Special Offers | Leave a Comment

Joyent SmartMachine vs. Amazon EC2 Instance Benchmarks Overview

June 9, 2011 – 11:05 am

Last fall, Pazugo ran a series of benchmark tests to compare CPU and IO performance between our SmartMachines and Amazon EC2 instances. If you don’t have time to examine all the details, there’s now a handy overview summarizing the results. From the conclusion: The benchmark results demonstrate that Joyent considerably outperforms the baselines established by [...]

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

Riak SmartMachine Benchmark: The Technical Details

October 31, 2010 – 10:00 am

Recently Basho and Joyent entered into a comprehensive partnership to deliver Riak Smartmachines to Joyent customers. We had been experimenting with Riak since early in 2010 and were eager to benchmark its performance on Joyent and ultimately offer a robust NO-SQL solution to our customers. Along the way, we were pleasantly surprised how well the [...]

By Nima | Also posted in Benchmarks, Industry, Infrastructure, Long Format, Partnerships | Comments (5)

On Benchmarking Databases: MySQL on Joyent versus AWS (part 1)

August 17, 2009 – 8:48 am

Last week we announced the MySQL accelerators and scalable architecture offerings. Like the Zeus Accelerators, this is a continuation of our goal to offer individual servers and entire architectures of known performance. What one really wants from an entire infrastructure is for it to simply do what you need it to do. Not to be [...]

By jason | Also posted in Benchmarks, Industry, Infrastructure | Comments (2)
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