Joyent News

Leading Cloud Provider Builds Keyless Signature Technology Into Cloud Infrastructure

Singapore and San Francisco, CA—November 15, 2010— Joyent, a leading global provider of cloud computing solutions, and GuardTime, creator of the patented Keyless Signature™ technology used to validate the world’s data, today announced a partnership that delivers unprecedented security enabling enterprises to safeguard some of their most valuable assets in the cloud: code, logs and data.

GuardTime’s Keyless Signatures provide proof of signing authority, time of the signature, and integrity of all data located in the cloud. The signature never expires and its verification is based solely on mathematics, eliminating the need for secrets, keys, or human intervention.

As part of this partnership, Joyent customers will be able to purchase GuardTime SmartMachines, allowing organizations to:

“This partnership delivers unparalleled security and authenticity in a massively-scaled cloud environment,” said Jason Hoffman, Founder and Chief Scientist of Joyent. “Organizations can now access a mathematically driven solution that cannot be compromised by human error or breached by cyber miscreants.”

“The integration of our unique Keyless Signature technology within the Joyent SmartMachine gives organizations the unprecedented opportunity to trust their applications, logs, and data in the cloud,” said Mike Gault, CEO of GuardTime. “We are thrilled to be joining forces with Joyent to provide independently verifiable proof of operating integrity in the cloud for both cloud-based service providers and cloud-consuming institutions around the world.”

The partnership was made possible by Singapore’s Infocomm Investments Pte Ltd (IIPL), which brought the two companies together. IIPL is also an investor in GuardTime. Dr Kuo-Yi Lim, CEO of IIPL, said, “The GuardTime-Joyent solution addresses a key security concern on the public, private or hybrid cloud. We believe that this collaboration will bring security in cloud computing to a new level and in turn spur the development of the cloud computing industry in Singapore.”

The GuardTime SmartMachine will be available in December, 2010.

About Joyent

Joyent is the premier Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider, offering cloud computing solutions worldwide since 2004. Delivering billions of page views per month, Joyent’s Smart Technologies improve performance, scalability, manageability and security for thousands of web and mobile applications. Serving a network of service providers and thousands of customers, Joyent is the only company that runs a major public cloud infrastructure, builds the technologies that power that infrastructure, and uses those technologies to enable multiple third-party public, private, and hybrid clouds. For more information, visit: http://www.joyent.com.

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April Conyers
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About GuardTime

Founded in 2006 by cryptography experts Dr. Märt Saarepera and Dr. Ahto Buldas along with Internet visionary Joi Ito, GuardTime provides an infinitely-scalable and completely-available Keyless Signature engine designed to deliver authenticity and integrity for the data that the world relies upon: as it sits on disk, moves throughout the network, and is used in the Cloud. Visit www.guardtime.com for more information about delivering operating integrity for your public and private clouds.

GuardTime PR Contact
Sean Martin, CISSP
sean.martin@guardtime.com
+1-650-336-5119

San Francisco, CA—October 27, 2010—Joyent, a leading global provider of cloud computing solutions, today announced its participation in Intel® Cloud Builders, which publishes best practices, hardware blueprints and software architectures on how to deploy cloud infrastructures. Among the other program participants, Joyent is the only company that brings the experience of running a major public cloud service, develops the full software stack that runs that service, and markets a complete cloud software solution for service providers and enterprise customers.

“The Intel® Cloud Builders demonstrates how to build clouds on Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers and helps to accelerate the deployment of secure and efficient cloud computing infrastructures” said Jason Waxman, General Manager, Data Center Group at Intel. “The Joyent reference architecture published by Intel® Cloud Builders demonstrates use cases for building a complete cloud infrastructure.”

By working with Intel® Cloud Builders reference architecture, Joyent’s and Intel’s shared customers will be able to reduce the learning curve for provisioning, administering, operating and maintaining their own cloud. They will also gain a foundation for building more complex, scalable, and resilient cloud computing architectures adapted to the specific needs of public, private or hybrid cloud deployments.

“For service providers and enterprise customers interested in rapidly standing up high-performance, high-ROI cloud computing solutions that are backed by the operational experience of a leading public cloud provider, the Intel® Cloud Builders reference architecture for Joyent Smart Computing is a perfect solution,” said Jonathan King, Senior Vice President, Business Development, Joyent. “We are pleased to provide our proven cloud infrastructure solution, which has been hardened by over 5 years of production-level operations of the Joyent public cloud service, to Intel®’s innovative Cloud Builders.”

Joyent provides a complete software solution, professional services and operational support for delivering high-performance cloud computing services. SmartOS provides a level of hardware utilization, virtual machine density and application performance unmatched by hypervisor-based virtualization solutions. SmartDataCenter software provides GUI and API-based fault, configuration, accounting, performance and security management for ease of use and power to the administrative user. A complete user environment with Windows and Linux options and an extensive collection of additional software systems and applications are also included. These capabilities help service providers and enterprise customers achieve higher gross margins, accelerate growth and reduce execution risks.

For more information about the Intel® Cloud Builders and to access the Joyent best practices reference architecture, please visit www.intel.com /cloudbuilders

About Joyent
Joyent is the premier Infrastructure-as-a-Service (Iaas) and Platform-as-a-Service (Paas) provider offering cloud computing solutions worldwide since 2004. Delivering billions of page views per month, Joyent’s Smart Technologies improve performance, scalability, manageability and security for thousands of web and mobile applications. Serving a network of service providers and thousands of customers, Joyent is the only company that runs a major public cloud infrastructure, builds the technologies that power that infrastructure, and uses those technologies to enable multiple third-party public, private, and hybrid clouds. For more information, visit: http://www.joyent.com

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