Joyent News

January 23, 2012 — Updated: Joyent has netted $85 million in new venture funding to fuel a global expansion of its cloud services. Most of the new money comes from Weather Investment II Group and Accelero Capital, but Telefonica Digital is also investing. Existing Joyent backers include Intel Capital, Epic Ventures, Liberty Global, Greycroft Partners and El Dorado Ventures.

San Francisco-based Joyent fields public cloud services itself but also sells cloud technology to businesses wanting to run their own public or private clouds. This financing round will help the company push that dual cloud strategy harder and take on Amazon Web Services, the giant public cloud service provider. Read more

January 23, 2012 — Chito Manansala is the reason you and about 2 billion other people can instantly pay with a Visa card in shops across the planet.

As chief system architect at Visa, Manansala designed the communications system at the heart ofVisaNet — a worldwide network of shops, ATMs, banks, and websites that handles 130 million payments a day. In other words, he knows how to build a contraption that juggles ridiculous amounts of information with each passing second.

In 2007, after leaving Visa, he joined Sabre, the company behind the online travel agency Travelocity. At Sabre, Travelocity just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. The company offers all sorts of software that shuttles information among travel agencies, airlines, hotels, and other tourism outfits across the globe, and Manansala was hired to build a system that would drive applications running on a world of mobile phones. Think of it as the VisaNet of travel reservations. Read more

January 23, 2012 — Joyent Cloud, a high-performance public cloud, and NodeFly, an provider of cloud application and infrastructure monitoring services, have announced a partnership to offer Node.js analytics services to Joyent customers. Vancouver-based NodeFly is the first monitoring services company to integrate Node.js analytics into its offering.

NodeFly CTO Eugene Kaydalov and his team developed the analytics service by pulling data from Joyent Cloud Analytics, a unique analytics technology leveraging DTrace, to provide latency and performance measurements in real-time on production applications. NodeFly’s Node.js analytics package only works for applications running in the Joyent Cloud. Read more

January 23, 2012 — Cloud computing software and service provider Joyent has secured an $85 million round of new funding, the company is announcing today. The round was led by European group Weather Investment II. It also included Telefónica Digital, the growth arm of global telecom giant Telefónica, which participated as a strategic investor.

Weather II is a strategic shareholder in telecommunications companies. Most notably, it holds a 20% stake in Vimpelcom, the world’s sixth largest mobile telecommunications group by subscribers. Joyent states that Weather II was advised in the round by investment and management group Accelero Capital. Both Weather II and Accelero focus on telecommunication and related media and technology companies in telecom and enterprise markets. Read more

January 23, 2012 — Cloud computing startup Joyent has raised a humongous $85 million round of funding, which will help the company with its plan of out-innovating Amazon in cloud computing technology.

Joyent provides infrastructure cloud computing services for customers like LinkedIn, THQ, Gilt Groupe and Kabam. The company’s core offering will now be enhanced with a wide-ranging partnership with Telefónica Digital, the global business division of London-based telecommunications company Telefónica. With the new partnership, Joyent will be able to bring its services to more countries thanks to Telefónica data centers throughout Europe and Latin America. Read more