http://www.joyent.com/joyeurblog Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:19:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today we announced that we recently closed a round of funding from Intel Capital. As entrepreneurs who founded and nurtured Joyent since 2004, and with a company that has funded itself entirely from revenues from selling products to our customers (with the exception of early seed capital put in by ... http://www.joyent.com/joyeurblog/2009/11/17/joyent-raises-institutional-money-why-we-did-it/ For the past few years Joyent has worked with the Sun Startup Essentials Group to offer its members a 25% discount on Cloud Hosting on Joyent. Sun Startup Essentials is an excellent program for those building a new business and/or launching a new idea. Becoming a member allows startups to leverage ... http://www.joyent.com/joyeurblog/2009/11/16/25-discount-reminder-sun-startup-essentials-members/ 10 Free Tickets Available for Each of the Following. Act Fast! Workshop Monday, November 16, 2009 from 12:30 PM - 4:00 PM (ET) Montreal, Quebec | Concordia University, Engineering, Computer Science, and Visual Arts Complex (EV) Networking Event Monday, November 16, 2009 at 5:30 PM (ET) Montreal, Quebec | Soupesoup Joyent is sponsoring the Upcoming dimeRocker, ... http://www.joyent.com/joyeurblog/2009/11/11/unity-3d-skills-development-workshop-montreal/ Joyent, Inc. is very happy to announce that today we are beginning operations within mainland China. http://www.joyent.com.cn Today, we have opened a limited service of the Joyent Cloud to customers within mainland China and will be opening to the general public later this year. We are happy to be working with Intel ... http://www.joyent.com/joyeurblog/2009/10/28/introducing-joyent-china/ I was on a panel last week talking about the role of infrastructure and "The Cloud" in online gaming (and I'm talking "fun" games, like Farmville, not online gambling). One of the questions was "What do you think about cloud interoperability and standards?". To which I asked, "What do you mean?" "Well, what ... http://www.joyent.com/joyeurblog/2009/10/15/on-cloud-standards-transparency-and-data-mobility/ Joyent is very excited to partner with Yahoo! to create its newest Free Developer Program! Joyent is offering developers a Launch Accelerator optimized for the Yahoo! Application Platform free for one year! The Yahoo! Application Platform allows you to reach our users and improve the Yahoo! user experience by building and ... http://www.joyent.com/joyeurblog/2009/10/07/joyent-and-yahoo-launch-free-developer-program/ Update: Rescheduled: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Register Here! Join us for this informative technical webinar with Raja Srinivasan - Zeus Technology, Rod Boothby - Joyent, and Jimmy Guerrero - Sun Microsystems, where we will explore how to load balance MySQL in the Joyent Public Cloud with ZXTM. When implementing a scale out architecture ... http://www.joyent.com/joyeurblog/2009/10/06/readwrite-load-balancing-for-mysql-with-zxtm-in-the-joyent-cloud/ Date & Time 30 Sep 2009 5:00pm PT Register Here Description: During this web cast you will learn about some of the most innovative tools being used in the cloud to manage security. You will also find how the cloud is changing the business models for traditional software and network appliances so that customers ... http://www.joyent.com/joyeurblog/2009/09/24/webinar-innovative-tools-being-used-in-the-cloud-to-improve-security/ Joyent is excited to announce the newest addition to our Virtual Appliance product line-up, the Joyent NetScaler VPX Accelerator. The Joyent NetScaler VPX Accelerator makes the complete NetScaler load balancing, application acceleration and security feature set available as an on-demand, virtual appliance running within the Joyent Public Cloud. The NetScaler VPX ... http://www.joyent.com/joyeurblog/2009/09/23/joyent-launches-the-joyent-netscaler-vpx-accelerator/ Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 10:00 Pacific Time (America) Join us for this informative technical webinar with Jason Hoffman, CTO and Founder at Joyent, and Rafi Jacoby, Director of Engineering at Context Optional. In this presentation we'll get an overview of the technical and business benefits of deploying MySQL-backed web applications ... http://www.joyent.com/joyeurblog/2009/09/15/webinar-best-practices-for-deploying-and-scaling-mysql-in-the-joyent-cloud/