Joyent News

Joyent connects the academic community with open source system software and support to run modern compute centers that enable richer research and development

San Francisco — December 15, 2011 —Joyent, the global provider of cloud computing software and services, today announced the launch of its Academic Program, giving academic and research organizations free access to the most modern computing infrastructure available for teaching and research projects that require intensive compute capacity and performance.  Educators, researchers and students worldwide can leverage Joyent’s cloud infrastructure software to teach advanced courses, conquer large compute research initiatives and explore new, challenging projects.

Organizations that participate in the Joyent Academic Program will gain access to Joyent’s SmartDataCenter, the cloud infrastructure platform that runs Joyent Cloud and numerous other global private and public clouds.

“With growing demand for complex research in labs around the world, we believe academic and research institutions need a more modern and powerful alternative to existing computing infrastructures,” said Jason Hoffman, founder and CTO of Joyent. “SmartDataCenter with SmartOS and Node.js will help them meet the challenge.”

SmartDataCenter includes SmartOS, the operating system developed and optimized over six years by Joyent that includes highly efficient use of hardware through operating system virtualization, native 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.

Joyent’s Academic Program addresses three groups:

For Institutions
Joyent will make SmartDataCenter and infrastructure designs freely available to qualified academic and research organizations. Joyent will also allow these academic compute environments to be used for unrestricted commercial offerings targeting the academic and research communities.

For Academic Researchers
Academic researchers need to accelerate research and study in fields that require massive compute power.  The Joyent Academic Program offers research grants and funded student and post-doc positions that use SmartOS, Node.js and Smart Datacenter. Grants and funding are available in the areas of “empirical” computer science, instrumentation, telemetry and data harvesting, data mining, SML, workload analysis and metrics, algorithm refinement and development, and data governance and security.

For Professors
Joyent will offer teaching grants for courses and course development that use SmartOS, Node.js and SmartDataCenter, with particular interest in operating system, instrumentation and “empirical” computer science programs.

To learn more about the Academic Program, please visit www.joyent.com/education.

About Joyent

Joyent is a global cloud computing software and service provider that offers an integrated technology suite designed for service providers, enterprises, and developers. JoyentCloud.com delivers public cloud services to some of the most innovative companies in the world, including LinkedIn, Gilt Groupe and Kabam. Joyent licenses its cloud software to service providers that include Dell, FirstServer, XYBase, ClusterTech and Uniserve. Joyent offerings also include Platform-as-a-Service based on Node.js, the open source server-side JavaScript development environment that has been embraced by enterprises around the world, such as Microsoft. Joyent is also the key contributor to and sponsor of Joyent SmartOS, an open source project dedicated to the complete, modern operating system. 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.

Joyent Media Contact

Scott VanSickle

The Hoffman Agency

+1-408-835-7547

svansickle@hoffman.com

Purpose-Built Cloud Server for Rapid Deployment of Highly-Scalable Database Makes It Push-Button Simple to Service Massive Mobile, Gaming and Social Apps

San Francisco — December 9, 2011 — Joyent, the global provider of cloud computing software and services, today is launching its SmartMachine Appliance for MongoDB to serve the fast growing market for MongoDB products in the online game, mobile, social network and e-commerce sectors. Designed to run applications with the lowest possible latency and the highest possible availability and reliability, this purpose-built NoSQL cloud appliance is being developed by Joyent with guidance from 10gen. 10gen is the initiator, contributor and continual sponsor of MongoDB, providing unmatched production support, training consulting and online management services for this innovative open source database.

“We’re excited to work with Joyent to improve the experience of running MongoDB in Joyent’s Cloud,” said Max Schireson, President of 10gen. “Joyent’s Cloud is enjoying great success and we are happy to be an important part of that ecosystem.”

The new appliance for MongoDB runs as a database on top of Joyent’s SmartOS cloud operating system, the only carrier-grade, high availability operating system in the cloud. SmartOS offers customers deploying cloud applications a number of unique features including:

• Instant capacity bursting of up to 800%.
• On the fly MongoDB resizing with no reboot
• 100% data integrity through the use of the ZFS file system, which provides default copy-on-write snapshotting
• Joyent Cloud Analytics with DTrace for point-and-click root cause analysis of latencies
• Security through the use of Zones, which protect vCPUs from other cloud users

Joyent Cloud and 10gen are developing this new product in response to customer demands for unique combinations of low latency, high scalability, ease of use, and rapid deployment. The release is part of a growing partnership between 10gen and Joyent Cloud to jointly promote their technology offerings and provide market education on how to design and build cloud applications running on MongoDB and the Joyent Cloud.

“We chose to release this product during the week of the MongoSV conference to respond to requests from customers for this solution, and to underscore the strategic importance of our partnership,” said Steve Tuck, general manager of the Joyent Cloud. “MongoDB is a data store that is on the cutting edge of Web applications technology and we are very excited to be working with 10gen.”

About Joyent Cloud
Joyent Cloud is the highest performing, most reliable, and most feature-rich public cloud environment in the world. With over 12,000 live customers in the U.S. and six data centers, Joyent Cloud is the fourth-largest public cloud in the U.S. and the fastest growing cloud in terms of gross sales and customer acquisitions. Leading customers of the Joyent Cloud include LinkedIn, Kabam, Gilt Groupe, StackMob, and Shopzilla. For more information, visit http://www.joyentcloud.com.

Joyent Media Contact
Scott VanSickle
The Hoffman Agency
+1-408-835-7547
svansickle@hoffman.com