August 16 — Cloud software developer Joyent announced that its SmartOS platform, which was once only a component of its SmartDataCenter and public cloud offerings, is now available under an open-source license. Joyent CTO Jason Hoffmann refered to the server platform as the ““only modern OS” developed in the past decade during an interview with GigaOM.
“Joyent SmartOS is the first hypervisor platform to emerge in five years, and it’s the only cloud server solution that can manage both KVM hardware virtualization and operating system-level virtualization on a single OS,” said Jason Hoffman, founder and chief scientist of Joyent.”
SmartOS puts an emphasis on some of the trends we’ve been seeing in the enterprise space. Read more
