Joyent is sponsoring and Ben Rockwood, Joyent Director of Systems Engineer, is presenting the session “Chef Behind the Cloud.” It will cover how Joyent uses Chef to manage its public cloud – the third largest on the planet in terms of RAM deployed –  and the evolution of Joyent’s Chef usage and use cases over time.

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One of those presentations will be from Jason Hoffman, Joyent CTO on the topic, “N2M: Node.js and MongoDB as the Modern Stack for the Real-Time Web.” The combination of node.js and mongodb has emerged as the framework of choice for people building real-time applications, and is on the path to becoming the replacement for the common LAMP stack. This talk will suggest some reasons why and discuss some of the observed patterns in these types of applications.

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As cloud computing now passes from what we might perhaps call its adolescence into full adulthood, the industry as a whole is starting to refine its messages with regard to specific industry verticals.

With clear advantages in terms of operational flexibility, quick start up with low capital-expenditure and back end serviceability, cloud computing is arguably well suited to the often erratic nature of the media industry across print, video and web-based new media streams.

Impacted by swinging audience trends, new fashions or crazes and globally connected world news events, cloud computing now has a special role to play in underpinning electronically delivered media services in the 21st Century.

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Exec VP & general manager of Joyent Cloud Steve Tuck explains how cloud can help new media delivery in the 21st Century model of multi-channel multi-media multi-device usage. Joyent has worked with the US Major League Baseball body as it employs cloud services to provide online interactive media services for the sport’s media streaming requirements.

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In a relatively shameless grab for customers and developers, service provider Joyent spread flyers around the OpenStack Conference’s developer lounge, promoting a special package deal designed to appeal to those in attendance who have yet to make up their mind about cloud platforms.

Basically, Joyent is reaching out with its SmartDataCenter Adoption Program, encouraging users to take advantage of a program that would give new customers a year’s license for its SmartDataCenter private cloud platform software, a main operationsserver license and two node licenses, as well as basic-level support.

Joyent SmartDataCenter is based on the open source Joyent SmartOS cloud operating system, itself a fork of Illumos, and which Joyent has based its public cloud offerings on for the better part of a decade. Digging into SmartOS’ FAQ, it appears more than possible to use SmartOS in conjunction with an orchestration platform like CloudStack, OpenStack or Eucalyptus for a free private cloud with many of the same advantages.

Joyent’s flyer says that, compared to an OpenStack deployment, SmartDataCenter can offer the same performance with half the servers, twice the security, and a third of the cost. It’s clearly designed to appeal to those who question OpenStack’s production readiness – it’s open source-based, sort of, supports KVM for any x86 OS, and it’ll turn right on.

It’s not exactly competing in the same market as Eucalyptus, CloudStack or OpenStack. But I’m including Joyent for that same audacity in going right to the OpenStack community for new customers, for building on top of the open-source SmartOS, and for the service provider’s extraordinary claim in the flyer that “once you get up and running with a Joyent-powered cloud, you’ll want to standardize on Joyent technology.”

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Amsterdam and San Francisco – April 19, 2012— Joyent, a global provider of cloud computing software and services, today unveiled Joyent Cloud Europe, an extension of the US-based Joyent Cloud that will provide high-performance real-time Infrastructure-as-a-Service in Europe, located in Amsterdam.

This launch is driven by demand from customers in North America who are expanding into Europe and need the same level of real-time performance, reliability and unmatched Cloud Analytics they receive from Joyent in the U.S.  Joyent’s Amsterdam facility will also provide Europe-based businesses and developers with access to Joyent Cloud’s superior value.

Joyent Cloud Europe uses Joyent’s SmartDataCenter, the company’s cloud infrastructure platform, to deliver in-depth analytics, reliability, performance and scalability all while ensuring data security.

Joyent’s European launch follows a recent announcement highlighting Joyent’s plans to expand its public cloud services and facilities in Tokyo and Singapore to meet surging customer demand for Joyent Cloud services in Asia.

“Many of our Joyent Cloud customers have experienced significant growth based on the superior user experience and performance we deliver on Joyent Cloud,” said Steve Tuck, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Joyent Cloud, Joyent’s public cloud line of business. “As they expand into Europe they want the same level of real-time computing performance as in the U.S. to ensure that their European user base gets only the best. At the same time, our European public cloud will give European businesses customers the opportunity to deliver a higher-quality experience to their end-users.”

“Joyent service and support is key to Voxer’s highly demanding Push-To-Talk Walkie Talkie service. We are growing rapidly and welcome the opportunity to run our service from Amsterdam as well as the US,” said Matt Ranney, CTO of Voxer. “We look forward to working with Joyent in Europe to continue providing our service to sophisticated customers.”

“We look forward to working with Joyent to provide customers in Europe with the same cloud management capabilities that we deliver together in the U.S.” said David Bagley, CEO of enStratus, Joyent partner and provider of cloud infrastructure automation and management solutions.

Joyent’s SmartDataCenter, the cloud infrastructure platform that has powered the Joyent Cloud business in the U.S. for seven years, is a living showcase that sets Joyent apart from other cloud software providers that do not run public clouds. Accompanying SmartDataCenter is SmartOS, the operating system developed and optimized by Joyent and includes highly efficient use of hardware through operating system virtualization, double-hulled security, and Node.js, the rapidly emerging server-side Javascript language and runtime that is making machine-to-machine and big data computing more efficient than ever before.

About Joyent

Joyent is a global cloud computing and systems software provider that offers an integrated technology suite designed for enterprises and developers. JoyentCloud.com delivers public cloud services to some of the most innovative companies in the world, including LinkedIn, Voxer, and Gilt Groupe. Node.js, the open source server-side JavaScript project owned and stewarded by Joyent, provides developers and enterprises such as Microsoft with the most powerful runtime for developing data-intensive, real-time apps. Joyent is also the key contributor to and sponsor of Joyent SmartOS, an open source project dedicated to the complete, modern operating system.  SmartDataCenter orchestrates Joyent’s technologies into a cohesive, reliable and distributed system that can stand up to the compute demands of the modern world. A global ecosystem of leading technology partners assists Joyent in enabling customers to leverage the performance, scalability, reliability and security inherent in the company’s cloud solutions. For more information, visit http://www.joyent.com.

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The Hoffman Agency
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The European expansion, launched on Thursday, comes after the San Francisco-based company closed a £54m round of funding to give it the resources to expand globally and take on cloud incumbent Amazon Web Services. Joyent also plans to open datacentres in Singapore and Tokyo to meet demand there, Steven Tuck, general manager of Joyent Cloud, told ZDNet UK.

“Our European public cloud will give European businesses customers the opportunity to deliver a higher-quality experience to their end users,” Tuck said in a statement. “As they expand into Europe, [Joyent Cloud customers] want the same level of real-time computing performance as in the US to ensure that their European user base gets only the best.”

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The launch of Joyent Cloud Europe is driven by demand from the company’s North American customers looking to grow their European business, it said.

“Many of our Joyent Cloud customers have experienced significant growth based on the superior user experience and performance we deliver on Joyent Cloud,” said Steve Tuck, executive VP and general manager of Joyent Cloud.

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San Francisco and Boston – April 11, 2012 – Joyent Cloud, the public cloud designed for real-time, high-performance applications, and Cloudant, provider of a scalable Data Layer as a Service for data-driven web and mobile applications, today announced a partnership to provide developers with the ability to store, analyze and distribute application data across a global network of secure, high-performance data centers. Joyent Cloud provides public and private cloud computing software and services to popular Web applications including LinkedIn, Voxer, Gilt Groupe and TaskRabbit. Aside from Cloudant, Joyent Cloud also powers a growing number of cloud platform and software services providers including Nodejitsu, StackMob, and GameSalad.

By using Cloudant, Joyent customers can scale their application data layer up or down on demand through a simple management interface. “Making the Cloudant data layer available on Joyent Cloud helps ensure that our customers’ applications run flawlessly at any scale,” said Cloudant CEO Derek Schoettle. “This is particularly important for the data-intensive, real-time applications that many Cloudant and Joyent Cloud customers run.”

The Cloudant Data Layer is a collection of multi-tenant and single-tenant (private) database clusters that are hosted and scaled across multiple top-tier data centers around the globe. Built on the Apache CouchDB document database, a RESTful JSON API, and built-in full-text search and incremental MapReduce, Cloudant delivers low-latency, highly-available data layer performance and pushes dynamic data closer to the edge.  “Running on Joyent Cloud enables Cloudant to take advantage of specific caching and data backup features in the ZFS file system and deliver outstanding data layer performance and reliability,” says Cloudant CTO Adam Kocoloski.

“This partnership creates a superior customer offering that leverages our high-performance cloud infrastructure and Cloudant’s innovative data layer service to deliver a truly scalable big data store in the cloud to end customers,” said Steve Tuck, General Manager of Joyent Cloud. “Having Cloudant offer their service on Joyent Cloud further validates our premise – that for companies seeking to deliver high-performance cloud services, building on a better, differentiated cloud infrastructure matters more than ever.”

About Joyent
Joyent is a global cloud computing and systems software provider that offers an integrated technology suite designed for enterprises and developers. Joyent Cloud delivers public cloud services to some of the most innovative companies in the world, including LinkedIn, Voxer, and Task Rabbit. Node.js, the open source server-side JavaScript project owned and stewarded by Joyent, provides developers and enterprises such as Microsoft, with the most powerful runtime for developing data-intensive, real-time apps. Joyent is also the key contributor to and sponsor of Joyent SmartOS, an open source project dedicated to the complete, modern operating system. SmartDataCenter orchestrates Joyent’s technologies into a cohesive, reliable and distributed system that can stand up to the compute demands of the modern world. A global ecosystem of leading technology partners assists Joyent in enabling customers to leverage the performance, scalability, reliability and security inherent in the company’s cloud solutions. For more information about Joyent Cloud, visit http://www.joyentcloud.com.

About Cloudant
Cloudant, the company that builds and manages The Cloudant Data Layer, was founded in Cambridge MA in 2008 by three MIT Physicists. Frustrated by the available tools for managing and analyzing Big Data in their research, the founders set out to build a distributed, fault-tolerant, globally scalable data layer for applications, a platform that would free developers to focus on their applications knowing that they would never outgrow their data layer. Cloudant’s service helps power thousands of applications in organizations of all shapes and sizes, from lone developers to the Fortune 100. The Cloudant team is composed of experts in distributed systems, database technology, web services, and Big Data analysis. It proudly counts Avalon Ventures and Y Combinator among its investors. For more information about the company, The Data Layer, or to sign up for Cloudant’s managed service, visit http://cloudant.com

Joyent Media Contact
Scott VanSickle
The Hoffman Agency
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With this partnership, Nodejitsu’s Platform-as-a-Service and orchestration tools will run in the Joyent Cloud to give Nodejitsu users the best front-end connected to the best back-end environments for running Node.js applications.

Joyent Cloud provides public and private cloud computing software and services to popular Web applications that include LinkedIn, Voxer, Gilt Groupe and TaskRabbit. Joyent is the corporate steward of the Node.js open source project and manages the Node.js code repositories.

“This partnership represents a best-of-breed Node infrastructure in collaboration with a best-of-breed Node application orchestration platform to create the best possible experience for customers,” said Nodejitsu CEO Charlie Robbins. “We are very excited about working together with Joyent to guide Node.js into the future.”

Nodejitsu has long been dedicated to the UserLand portion of Node.js, maintaining over 200 widely used open source modules that are complementary to their commercial solutions.

“Nodejitsu provides cohesive tools for managing Node.js applications in public, hybrid or private clouds. This mitigates the risk and overhead associated with integrating third party deployment, monitoring, provisioning, and scaling solutions,” said Nodejitsu CTO Paolo Fragomeni.

This partnership enables the rapid expansion of Node.js platform services to drive adoption of Node.js. It also enables more developers and operations teams to take advantage of Joyent’s unique capabilities for Quality Assurance and performance-tuning Node.js applications. In particular, Joyent Cloud Analytics, powered by DTrace, provides deep application monitoring and performance analytics equivalent to running core dumps and CPU profiling, in a dynamic environment. Until now, these types of environments have presented challenges for developers seeking deep insights into application and compute processes. Further, Joyent Cloud delivers debugging tools for Node.js that accelerate application development and reduce the cost and man-hours required to achieve stability.

“Nodejitsu is one of the leading players in the Node.js space and our team is very eager to work with them to build out additional capabilities and drive user adoption and awareness of both the Node.js environment and Nodejitsu’s tools,” said Steve Tuck, general manager of the Joyent Cloud.

About Joyent
Joyent is a global cloud computing and systems software provider that offers an integrated technology suite designed for enterprises and developers. Joyent Cloud delivers public cloud services to some of the most innovative companies in the world, including LinkedIn, Voxer, and Gilt Groupe. Node.js, the open source server-side JavaScript project owned and stewarded by Joyent, provides developers and enterprises such as Microsoft with the most powerful runtime for developing data-intensive, real-time apps. Joyent is also the key contributor to and sponsor of Joyent SmartOS, an open source project dedicated to the complete, modern operating system. SmartDataCenter orchestrates Joyent’s technologies into a cohesive, reliable and distributed system that can stand up to the compute demands of the modern world. A global ecosystem of leading technology partners assists Joyent in enabling customers to leverage the performance, scalability, reliability and security inherent in the company’s cloud solutions. For more information, visit http://www.joyentcloud.com.

About Nodejitsu
Based in New York, NY, Nodejitsu provides a Platform-as-a-Service environment for Node.js applications ranging from development environments to enterprise deployments. The company also provides a variety of tools and platforms to simplify management and orchestration of Node.js applications. Nodejitsu is an active participant in the Node.js open source project and contributes significant code to the various Node.js repositories on GitHub. For more information, visit http://www.nodejitsu.com.

Joyent Cloud Media Contact
Scott VanSickle
The Hoffman Agency
+1- 408-975-3084
svansickle@hoffman.com

Bio
Bryan Cantrill is VP of Engineering at Joyent, where he has led development of Joyent’s SmartOS and SmartDataCenter products. Previously a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, Bryan has spent over fifteen years working on system software, from the guts of the kernel to client-code on the browser and much in between.

About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community.QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

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