Joyent News

Webinar: SmartDataCenter: The Nuts and Bolts of Joyent’s Private Cloud Software

May 18th, 2012 by carly

Join us for an overview of SmartDataCenter, the cloud software that runs the Joyent public cloud and is used to build and operate private, hybrid and public clouds around the world.

James Duncan, Chief Architect at Joyent, will give an overview of SmartDataCenter and cover the following topics:

  • What SmartDataCenter is
  • Where SmartDataCenter is currently in use
  • How SmartDataCenter is different from conventional cloud software
  • The basic functions of SmartDataCenter
  • Where to go for help.

If you’d like to use SmartDataCenter yourself, you can download it for free and use it for testing and production. Get it here: http://www.joyent.com/adoption/

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ChefConf 2012

May 8th, 2012 by carly

Opscode is hosting the inaugural user conference in Burlingame, CA at the SF Airport Mariott Waterfront. ChefConf will be three days of insightful demonstrations, interactive workshops, and presentations designed to help you harness the power of cloud infrastructure automation for your business.

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.

Learn more and sign up here.

MongoNYC 2012

May 8th, 2012 by carly

MongoNYC is an annual one-day conference being held at the Pennsylvania Hotel in New York City. The conference is dedicated to the open source, non-relational database MongoDB and will feature over 40 sessions from MongoDB developers at 10gen, MongoDB users from the community, and technology partners, with presentations for both the novice and expert.

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.

See the full agenda and get more information on the event here.

CloudPro: How cloud computing is set to change the face of media forever

April 29th, 2012 by carly

The media have been quick to embrace the potential of the cloud and it’s a market that will look very different in the future.

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.

Turn on: multi-channel multi-media multi-device
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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Cloud Angle: Three Open Source-Based Cloud Alternatives to OpenStack

April 24th, 2012 by carly

Maybe you’re waiting for OpenStack to mature. Maybe you’re testing OpenStack internally but want to see what else is out there. Or maybe you’re just curious. Regardless, now that we’ve taken a look at what OpenStack is up against when it comes to Amazon Web Services and VMware, here’s a look at how a few other open source projects stack up (pun very much intended).

Joyent

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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