September 15, 2011 — IDG News Service — Joyent is upgrading its public cloud service with better analytics and the ability to run Linux and Windows, as it hopes to persuade CIOs to move more applications to the company’s cloud, it said on Thursday.
So far, enterprises that want to run their applications on Joyent’s cloud have had to rewrite their software to run on Joyent’s SmartOS. But now the company has added the ability to run applications on Windows or Linux, as well.
“There are a lot of developers out there that say, ‘I just want Linux or I just want Windows. I don’t want to worry about a couple of small differences, even if they are minor, before I code,’” said Steve Tuck, general manager for Joyent Cloud. Read more
