October, 2010

Joyent Releases Reference Architecture for Intel® Cloud Builders

Thursday, October 28th, 2010 by ginger

San Francisco, CA—October 27, 2010—Joyent, a leading global provider of cloud computing solutions, today announced its participation in Intel® Cloud Builders, which publishes best practices, hardware blueprints and software architectures on how to deploy cloud infrastructures. Among the other program participants, Joyent is the only company that brings the experience of running a major public… Read more ›

eWeek — Joyent Expands Windows Capabilities in Cloud Platform

Monday, October 25th, 2010 by adrian

October 25, 2010 — The new Windows capabilities allowed the company to move from a Windows/Linux environment to a Windows/SmartOS environment, which reduced the number of machines required while increasing scalability, performance, and stability Read More

Barron’s — A Private Party: Big companies are quickly adopting new computer networks known as “private clouds.”

Saturday, October 23rd, 2010 by ginger

October 23, 2010 – Corporate adoption of efficiency-enhancing, virtualized computer networks, known as “private” clouds, is going so well that big companies may be ready for the next phase of cloud computing years sooner than either Wall Street or Silicon Valley expected. Read more.

Dr. Dobbs — Joyent’s Optimized Windows and Linux Cloud

Saturday, October 23rd, 2010 by adrian

October 22, 2010 — The cloud power behind both Facebook and LinkedIn, Joyent’s new Windows and Linux virtual machines provide a development environment for high-traffic web apps on both Enterprise and Standard editions of the Windows, CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu operating systems. Read more…

CIO.com — Joyent adds Windows, Linux support

Friday, October 22nd, 2010 by adrian

October 21, 2010 — The move may put Joyent in direct competition with market leaders like Amazon Web Services and Rackspace, which also support applications built on Windows and Linux. But customers that are primarily looking for a service that hosts Web applications will find that Joyent is less expensive because of its SmartOS… Read… Read more ›