Joyent erects ‘first major hypervisor’ in half decade
August 15, 2011 — In the summer of 2008, Google flipped the switch on its App Engine, letting outside developers build applications atop its state-of-the-art online infrastructure – and it soon got a lecture from Jason Hoffman.
Hoffman – the founder and chief technology officer of Joyent, a San Francisco outfit offering a (somewhat) similar service to developers and enterprises – joined a Google engineer on stage at a “cloud computing” conference in San Francisco, and he proceeded to chide the web giant for not open sourcing its BigTable distributed database and other top-secret software underpinning its back-end infrastructure. Read more
