February 8, 2011 — At the end of 2010, IaaS provider Joyent decouple its software stack to sell as a packaged offering to service providers seeking to create their own clouds. The company’s SmartDataCenter software is now at release 6.0.
Joyent’s proposition is pretty clear: to help service providers take on Amazon Web Services. It’s taken only a short time for Joyent to start appearing on consideration lists, and it already expects that licensing its stack will account for more than 50% of revenue in 2011. It’s certainly a validation of the cloud-enablement market, and we expect to see additional service-provider customers named shortly. As the cloud-enablement opportunity unfolds, the competitive universe is expanding rapidly too. Download the PDF
