Category Archives: Media Coverage

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 Industry | Leave a Comment

9 Millions Requests Per Day (Load Tested) with 120 megs of RAM. One Joyent SmartMachine. Add Hacker News and Share.

September 1, 2011 – 8:53 am

I started working at Joyent this week. My nominal title is Director of Product Marketing — Joyent Cloud. In reality, at a shop like Joyent, you wear so many hats that titles are fluid at best. But as marketing guy with a serious technical bent, one of my favorite parts of the job is seeing [...]

By alexsalkever | Also posted in Customers, Recipes, SmartOS, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Cloud Cover TV’s Interview with David Young

May 5, 2011 – 2:03 pm

Founder and CEO David Young dropped by the Cloud Cover TV studio to sit down with Search Cloud Computing Executive Editor Jo Maitland this week. David gave an overview of Joyent’s businesses, from our public cloud and SmartDataCenter to the No.de platform for Node.js. David also offered our perspective on the recent Amazon Web Services [...]

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“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 [...]

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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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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, Industry, Infrastructure, Joyent, 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, Industry, node.js | Leave a Comment

Joyent Mentioned in Forbes.com

March 28, 2008 – 8:46 pm

Andy Greenberg just wrote a piece called Tiny Firms Offer Big Computing Services in which Joyent gets a little shout out. The word ‘tiny’ in the title makes me giggle a bit as I guess five (5) billion page views a month on our infrastructure is considered tiny to some folks. Has me wondering how [...]

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