May, 2011

Architecting a Drama Free Cloud: A Joyent Webinar

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011 by ginger

On Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 10:00AM (PT) join Mark Mayo, Joyent’s Chief Technology Officer, for a discussion on how to plan and build out your cloud architecture, and then how to respond if and when an outage occurs. We’ve been there, and we have several practical suggestions for how to think about your architecture… Read more ›

Tier1 Research: Joyent forms alliance with ClusterTech; a Joyent-modeled cloud in China

Monday, May 23rd, 2011 by ginger

May 23, 2011 — Joyent and Cluster Technology (ClusterTech) have formed a strategic alliance in order to provide gaming, media, social network and mobile service providers throughout Greater China with cloud infrastructure services. ClusterTech will use Joyent’s SmartDataCenter software as the basis for its service provider offering, tailored to the specifications of Joyent’s own product stateside… Read more ›

Joyent and ClusterTech to Provide Public Cloud Services and Support to Gaming, Media, Social Network and Mobile Service Providers in Greater China

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011 by ginger

Alliance Delivers SmartDataCenter 6, Includes Autoscaling and Instrumentation Hong Kong and San Francisco — May 16, 2011 — Joyent, the global provider of cloud computing solutions, and ClusterTech, the leading provider of grid and cluster computing solutions, today announced a strategic alliance in which ClusterTech will become the professional service provider of public cloud and… Read more ›

Constant Thinking: How to Render the Mandelbrot Set in the Joyent Cloud with Node.js

Sunday, May 15th, 2011 by ginger

May 15, 2011 — First of all: Apologies for not posting for a long time. The reason? I was having too much fun with node.js and the Joyent Cloud . What started as a small experimental hack turned quickly into an exciting new pet project involving the good old Mandelbrot Set, as a web service, running… Read more ›

Cloud Cover: Joyent CEO David Young, Episode 15

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011 by ginger

May 4, 2011 — Joyent CEO and co-founder David Young was in the studio this week. He discussed Amazon versus Joyent and why he thinks Amazon’s cloud architecture is flawed. He questioned why Amazon.com does not run on AWS and yet admitted that Joyent cannot complete with Amazon from a capital standpoint. Young said MSPs will… Read more ›