Category Archives: Partnerships

Joyent Gets New Funding

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 [...]

How a Major Mobile PaaS Builds a Platform in the Cloud

“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, [...]

StackMob Plus Joyent Equals Love in the Mobile Clouds

2011 marks a major step-change in game and app development as the audience moves away from consoles and personal computers and goes mobile. Apple alone has sold a cumulative 200 million iOS devices. With over 425,000 apps in the App Store surpassing 15 billion downloads, the mobile market is growing bigger and faster than the [...]

Lessons Learned at the GamesBeat and MobileBeat Conferences

This week, the Joyent Cloud team, including General Manager Steve Tuck and I attended the MobileBeat and GamesBeat conferences here in San Francisco. Held at the Palace Hotel, it was an amazing opportunity to meet the growing community of developers, entrepreneurs and business folks in the mobile and gaming space. As we dashed madly between [...]

Joyent Partners with Microsoft to Port Node.js to Windows

Joyent is pleased to announce a partnership with Microsoft to port Node.js to Windows. The result will be official binary node.exe releases on nodejs.org, which will work on Windows Azure and other Windows versions as far back as Server 2003. From Ryan Dahl on the Node Blog: I’m pleased to announce that Microsoft is partnering [...]

New Relic Standard now Free for Joyent Customers

So a few months ago I walked over to South Park to meet An Le, New Relic’s business development superstar. Over scones at Town’s End, we talked about the challenges facing application developers — specifically the lack of good introspection tools to illustrate for developers what is broken and why — and what we could [...]

Aware of issue with New Relic PHP Agent. Working on Fix.

We have been made aware of a technical issue with the new PHP Agent for New Relic – we are are working with New Relic team to fix the problem as quickly as possible. Thank you for your patience and understanding while we fix the awesome sauce.

Riak SmartMachine Benchmark: The Technical Details

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 [...]

Video: Publish your code from Codesion to your SmartMachine

Video: How to publish your code directly from Codesion (Git or Subversion) to your Joyent SmartMachine.

Try Out Aptana Cloud for Free

Joyent has been working with the folks at Aptana for some time and we’re excited to mention that Aptana is now offering free trials of Aptana Cloud built on top of Joyent Accelerators. Aptana Cloud is an excellent service that makes development, deployment and scaling of PHP, JavaScript, and Ruby on Rails applications as automagic [...]

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