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Donal Power for readwrite | June 22nd, 2016
Samsung is pumping up its cloud-based capabilities with the acquisition of San Francisco-based Joyent for an undisclosed amount. Information Week reports that Joyent's private and public cloud computing services will support the South Korean electronics giant's Internet of Things (IoT), mobile and cloud-based lines of business. "Samsung evaluated a wide range of potential companies in the public and private cloud infrastructure space with a focus on leading-edge scalable technology and talent," said Sa… Read More ›
Oliver Rist for PCMag | June 16th, 2016
Samsung stepped away from its usual strategy of building intellectual property in-house by announcing yesterday that it was buying cloud provider and container pioneer Joyent for an undisclosed sum, but one that should, by all accounts, be significantly less than the $26 billion that Satya Nadella promised to LinkedIn earlier this week. The move makes sense for Samsung, which up until now has been heavily dependent on Amazon Web Services at Amazon to provide its cloud infrastructure and… Read More ›
C.K. Oliver for The New Stack | May 31st, 2016
In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, The New Stack founder Alex Williams sat down with Jamie Dobson, CEO of Container Solutions and Ken Owens, chief technology officer of cloud infrastructure services at Cisco Systems to discuss Minimesos, the challenge of orchestrating microservices, and the future of the enterprise stack. This episode was recorded at Joyent's Container Summit in Las Vegas earlier this month: Read More ›
Business Cloud News for BCN | May 12th, 2016
Joyent has launched its next generation container-native (G4) and KVM-based (K4) instance package families, which are now available on its Triton-powered public cloud platform. The company's cloud platform runs on containers, as opposed to traditional VM's which the majority of other cloud platforms run on, which it claims will notably improve efficiency. The software used to run the Triton Cloud service is 100% open source and available for customers to use to operate in their own private data cen… Read More ›
Etienne de Bruin for 7CTO's | May 9th, 2016
We found an interesting interview with Bryan Cantrill, CTO of cloud infrastructure provider Joyent, in eWeek last week. Cantrill is also a founding member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which was formed last summer to promote the development and adoption of container technologies, so when he floats ideas about what's coming in the way of cloud computing, it's smart to listen. Cantrill's view is that the industry has reached a point where cloud computing is no longer about reducing cost … Read More ›
Scot Petersen for eWeek | May 5th, 2016
Bryan Cantrill is a busy man these days. The CTO at cloud infrastructure provider Joyent is a member of the Technical Steering Committee of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, formed last summer to promote the development and adoption of container technologies. He also spends a lot of time on the road evangelizing containers and the rise of the developer in the cloud-native world. I caught up with Bryan following the Container Summit at Interop in Las Vegas. Read More ›
Chris Williams for The Register | January 27th, 2016
Some heralded Docker's acquisition of UK-based Unikernel Systems last week as the golden dawn of a post-container era. Others showed healthy skepticism. One person firmly in the latter camp is Bryan Cantrill, who typed up a long blog post on why he believes unikernels are "unfit" for production. Cantrill is chief technology officer of San Francisco-based Joyent, which builds software to manage containers across whole data centers. You might think the post was a cheeky pop at a rival technology… Read More ›
InfoWorld Staff for InfoWorld | January 20th, 2016
Joyent Triton. You've never heard of it before, right? However, if you want a manageable, container-oriented architecture that is production ready and proven today, Joyent is a name to know. Joyent is a company with an impressive technology portfolio, and Triton -- software for running Docker-compatible containers on bare metal -- is the cornerstone. Read More ›
Luke Lefler for The New Stack | January 20th, 2016
For this podcast, Bryan Cantrill assumed the role of historian and explained how technologies such as AJAX, JSON, COBRA and SOA contributed to the rise of monolithic systems. From this historical vantage, Cantrill discussed legacy providers and also how the idea of "microservices" is significantly older than the word itself. Cantrill also talked about creating optimal development environments for microservices, the CAP Theorem, and about the "Uber-ization" of software-driven enterprises. Read More ›
Peter Wayner for InfoWorld | January 13th, 2016
The world of cloud computing is dominated by Tyrannosaurus Rex-sized corporations like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, big companies that have used their prowess and might to build giant data centers full of racks and racks of machines. Then there's Joyent, a small but nimble competitor that might be called mammal-sized, if only for the sake of a metaphor. It deserves notice for shaking up the cloud marketplace with clever mods of the operating system layer that are producing great results. The m… Read More ›
Joab Jackson for The New Stack | January 11th, 2016
Next month, container-based infrastructure provider Joyent will hold a one-day Container Summit in New York City. The aim of the conference is to bring together the developers of container technologies with users deploying them for daily operations. We caught up with Joyent's loquacious chief technology officer Bryan Cantrill to learn more about Joyent's own container-base cloud services, as well as to hear what the always-articulate Cantrill has to say about what is happening in the sti… Read More ›
Brandon Butler for Network World | January 7th, 2016
The big three cloud providers – AWS, Azure and Google – performed relatively well compared to the rest of the market in this limited testing though. In 2015, newcomer Digital Ocean (12.26 hours), long-time managed services vendor Rackspace (12.5 hours) and IBM's SoftLayer (17 hours) each had worse downtime statistics than Microsoft and Google. One of the worst major cloud providers for downtime was CenturyLink, which had only 15 outages recorded by CloudHarmony -- but they lasted for 31.29 hours… Read More ›
Susan Hall for The New Stack | December 30th, 2015
The year 2016 will be the year for Containers-as-a-Service (CaaS), according to Docker. Not only that, but "Ops-led Container-as-a-Service." Joyent CTO Bryan Cantrill says those things have already been happening. He sees the real challenge as clearing up the confusion surrounding containers, the work taken on by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. "The more I talk to practitioners, the more I believe this, the greatest impediments to containers are all these seemingly rival solutions in all the… Read More ›
Chris Swan for InfoQ | December 20th, 2015
Chris Swan interviews Bryan Cantrill at QCon. Bryan Cantrill is the CTO at Joyent, where he oversees worldwide development of the SmartOS and SmartDataCenter platforms. Prior to joining Joyent, Bryan served as a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he spent over a decade working on system software, from the guts of the kernel to client-code on the browser. In particular, he co-designed and implemented DTrace. Read More ›
Susan Hall for The New Stack | December 17th, 2015
If you believe Bryan Cantrill, CTO at Joyent, we've yet to reach the peak of confusion about containers. "Everyone I talked to said, 'We're not even close.' Confusion is accelerating and is actually pretty overwhelming for a lot of folks," he said about attending KubeCon last month. "I think it's being exacerbated a little bit by people feeling like it's a land grab. Vendors are announcing things that are still being made … It's like the repo is 25 minutes old and hasn't had any commits. Things are very aspirational. … Read More ›
Trevor Jones for TechTarget | November 25th, 2015
Joyent Inc. has run OS containers in production for nearly a decade and when Docker exploded on the scene it was one of the early vendors to hitch itself to the technology. Late last year the cloud provider reframed itself around "container-native infrastructure" and has since released products including Triton, a container infrastructure for managing Docker containers; and Containerbuddy, which containerizes traditional applications to allow them to run anywhere. Read More ›
Andrew C. Oliver for InfoWorld | November 5th, 2015
One of the privileges of writing for InfoWorld is that I get to meet some of the brightest minds of the industry -- and they actually talk to me. In October I met Bryan Cantrill, the CTO of Joyent, while attending Couchbase Live NY. Cantrill is one of those people who could give a truly entertaining technical or technomarketing talk no matter what the content happens to be. He weaves in computer history and pops off the stage at you whenever he speaks. The last person I met who could present on… Read More ›
Alex Handy for SD Times | September 3rd, 2015
Containers were the only thing anyone could talk about at VMworld this week, and yet the discussions were not about how great they are. Rather, the discussions were about, "How do we use this stuff in an enterprise?" In the longer run, however, there is at least one detractor saying that running containers inside a virtual machine misses the point entirely. Late last year, Joyent began releasing the source code for its Smart DataCenter Project, the software that runs its hosting platform. Bryan Can… Read More ›
Jennifer Cloer for Linux.com | September 3rd, 2015
I recently caught up with Joyent CEO Scott Hammond at LinuxCon in Seattle. Joyent has been a leader in supporting the growth and diversity of the Node.js community and was a founding member of the Node.js Foundation. I was interested to learn more about Scott and his work at Joyent, as well as more about the company's contributions to Linux and open source. Below I include a Q&A with him on these topics. I'll also be sharing a video interview with Scott a little later this fall. Read More ›
Jeff Meyerson for Software Engineering Daily | August 26th, 2015
Container infrastructure has benefits of security, scalability and efficiency. Containers are a central component of the DevOps movement. Joyent provides simple, secure deployment of containers with bare metal speed on container-native infrastructure Bryan Cantrill is the CTO of Joyent, the father of DTrace and an OS kernel developer for 20 years. Read More ›
Daniel Bryant for InfoQ | August 5th, 2015
InfoQ recently sat down with Bryan Cantrill, CTO of Joyent, and asked about his thoughts on container technology, running Docker on bare metal, and how Joyent is driving technical innovation within this space through the development of their Triton platform. Cantrill is a regular on the software development and operations-focused conference circuit, and has recently presented "Running Aground: Debugging Docker in Production" at DockerCon 2015, "Building and Scaling Container Driven Cloud… Read More ›
Brandon Butler for Network World | July 22nd, 2015
Bryan Cantrill, CTO of cloud provider Joyent, is excited about being on the technical committee that will help steer the Linux Foundation's newest project: The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). But he doesn't want it to be like another popular open source project: OpenStack. To Cantrill, who spoke for himself and not for the broader CNCF, says he hopes the new foundation can use OpenStack as an example of what not to do. Read More ›
Frederic Lardinois for TechCrunch | July 21st, 2015
Kubernetes, the open-source container management tool Google launched last February, hit version 1.0 today. With this update, Google now considers Kubernetes ready for production. What's more important, though, Google is also ceding control over Kubernetes and is donating it to a newly formed foundation — the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) that will be run by the Linux Foundation. Other partners in the new foundation include AT&T, Box, Cisco, Cloud Foundry Foundation, CoreOS, Cyc… Read More ›
Alex Barrett for TechTarget | June 26th, 2015
Joyent has announced a partnership with Canonical to provide certified container-native Ubuntu images optimized for Triton, its platform that allows containers to run on bare metal while eliminating the VM abstraction layer. Joyent's Triton Elastic Container Service, announced in March, became generally available on Tuesday after the completion of an early access program that involved 2,500 participants. Read More ›
Rob Marvin for SD Times | June 18th, 2015
Canonical and Joyent have announced a partnership enabling container-native Linux images to run directly on bare-metal Ubuntu using Joyent's Triton Elastic Container Infrastructure. Triton, Joyent's container stack announced back in March to extend Docker deployments directly on bare metal, was released with general availability earlier this week. Triton is compatible with all major Linux distributions, according to Joyent, but this partnership with Canonical optimizes the infrastructure for the… Read More ›
Jason Verge for Data Center Knowledge | June 18th, 2015
Joyent announced the ability to run container-native Linux images directly on bare metal with Joyent Triton, its bare metal container cloud. While running Docker is a focus of Triton, Joyent is extending its capabilities beyond Docker, its first major partnership being Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, the popular Linux distribution. With container-native Linux developers can leverage operational efficiency of containers and run legacy applications and other data-intensive services without… Read More ›
Susan Hall for The New Stack | June 18th, 2015
Joyent has announced a partnership with Canonical to provide certified container-native Ubuntu images optimized for Triton, its platform that allows containers to run on bare metal while eliminating the VM abstraction layer. Joyent's Triton Elastic Container Service, announced in March, became generally available on Tuesday after the completion of an early access program that involved 2,500 participants. Read More ›
Serdar Yegulalp for InfoWorld | June 18th, 2015
For some businesses, containers seem too new and thorny, while VMs seem too antiquated and slow. So now vendors are exploring a sweet spot between the two. Joyent's Triton Elastic Container host uses SmartOS's (from Solaris) native containerization functions to run containers on bare metal instead of in VMs. It now allows Canonical Ubuntu Linux to run as a "container-native Linux image," says Joyent. Read More ›
Charles Babcock for InformationWeek | June 16th, 2015
Joyent has opened the doors to all comers to try running containerized workloads on its bare metal infrastructure, managed by its Solaris-derived SmartOS operating system. Joyent's Triton Elastic Container service became generally available on Tuesday after the completion of an early access program launched last March 24. Other cloud suppliers, including Google, with its extensive container operational experience, insist on running containers in a virtual machine in their multi-tenant cloud… Read More ›
Peter Wayner for InfoWorld | June 10th, 2015
It's been more than a year since Docker began taking over the mind of every devops team in the world with the seductive promise of a special mechanism for bundling software in a lightweight collection of only the essential files. The emphasis here is on "lightweight" and "essential" because this service is redefining how light "light" can be. Now Joyent is one of the first companies to bring Docker to the cloud marketplace by offering a service called Triton, which lets users start up a Docker… Read More ›
Daniel Bryant for InfoQ | April 18th, 2015
At the inaugural O'Reilly Software Architecture conference, Bryan Cantrill shared lessons learnt from building a business around the early adoption of OS-virtualised containers. Core advice included; don't innovate in too many directions at once; identify the technical differentiators, and focus on ease of use/adoptions for everything else; and don't give up - technological revolutions happen much slower than people think they should. Cantrill, CTO at Joyent, began the talk by stating that for nearl… Read More ›
Brandon Butler for Network World | April 15th, 2015
"There is a structural disruption happening right now," says Bryan Cantrill, the CTO of cloud provider Joyent, which is a heavy user of container technology. "We're now doing to VMs what VMs did to physical machines." Containers are not a new technology: the earliest iterations of containers have been around in open source Linux code for decades. But in the past year they've captured the hearts and minds of many developers for building and running applications. Containers isolate specific code, applicati… Read More ›
Rob Marvin for SD Times | April 9th, 2015
Containers are changing the way developers architect, build, test and deploy cloud-based applications. At the Container Summit held yesterday in New York, the convergence of Docker, microservices and OS-level virtualization was front and center. "Containers are eating the world," said the event's emcee, Joyent CEO Scott Hammond, borrowing from Netscape founder Marc Andreessen's famous declaration about software. "Everyone is using containers, learning about them, experimenting with them, and… Read More ›
Clint Boulton for Wall Street Journal | April 8th, 2015
It's not magic, but software containers, a technology dating to the early 2000s, is now underpinning a growing number of enterprise application development efforts. "Containers allow us to simplify and accelerate the development process of getting all of our software bits together and getting them from development to test to runtime very fast and in an efficient way," said Joyent CEO Scott Hammond. He said that "containers are eating the world," modifying the "software is eating the world" m… Read More ›
Serdar Yegulalp for InfoWorld | March 30th, 2015
Conventional wisdom holds that containers are fast on their way to remaking everything from application deployment to the design of ultralean Linux distributions. That last part raises a question, though: Could container technologies like Docker be used to solve Linux's long-standing conundrums with package management? Might containers provide a path away from dependency hell and competing (and incompatible) package standards? Read More ›
Mike Vizard for Talkin' Cloud | March 25th, 2015
Now that Docker containers have emerged as a disruptive alternative to virtualization, the debate over where they should actually run is starting to get fierce. As one of the earliest proponents of making use of containers in the cloud, Joyent has always made the case for running containers on physical servers; an argument it extended this week with the unfurling of a Triton Elastic Container Infrastructure cloud service for Docker containers that organizations can invoke as either a private or… Read More ›
Rob Marvin for SD Times | March 24th, 2015
Consisting of a cloud-based service along with Triton Enterprise for on-premises deployment, Triton virtualizes the data center as a single, elastic Docker host, removing orchestration layers for more streamlined scaling and deployment of Docker applications. Joyent looked to address community concerns about some of the shortcomings in the popular emerging container technology, implementing its existing SmartOS container runtime for multi-tenant Docker security with native Linux binaries. Read More ›
Frederic Lardinois for TechCrunch | March 24th, 2015
Joyent today announced the launch of Triton, its new container infrastructure for making Docker deployments in on-premise clouds and on its own cloud architecture easier. This announcement comes about half a year after the company raised $15 million with the stated goal of releasing exactly this kind of service (after previously raising $120 million). Joyent argues that while Docker brings lots of new efficiencies to the development and deployment process, it also introduces new complexities,… Read More ›
Charles Babcock for InformationWeek | March 24th, 2015
Cloud service provider Joyent bids for Docker workloads by claiming a more secure container environment, with an option for use in on-premises data centers as well. Joyent's SmartOS-based cloud environment can run Linux containers more efficiently and securely than Linux can. At least that's the assertion of Bryan Cantrill, CTO of the cloud service provider. Read More ›
Yevgeniy Sverdlik for Data Center Knowledge | March 24th, 2015
Virtualization impedes performance of applications running in Docker containers, according to Bryan Cantrill, CTO of Joyent, a San Francisco-based cloud service provider. The company announced today a new Docker cloud architecture, which takes that virtualization layer out of the equation. Read More ›
Maria Deutscher for Silicon Angle | March 24th, 2015
Joyent Inc. hopes to speed the adoption of containers with a new service that promises to remove the main barriers to mainstream acceptance in one fell swoop. The launch is the culmination of a several-year investment in the lightweight virtualization format that originally rose from internal operational needs. The effort saw the San Fransisco-based provider develop a homegrown orchestration system that now powers its data centers and has recently been contributed to the open-source community… Read More ›
Serdar Yegulalp for InfoWorld | March 24th, 2015
With its latest project, Joyent joins the ranks of vendors offering large-scale solutions for Docker's problems: a way to run containers directly on bare metal without the additional layer of management and technological hassle attributed to VMs. The Triton Elastic Container Infrastructure is built on Joyent's open source SmartOS product and can be installed on anything from a developer's notebook to an entire datacenter's complement of servers. Instead of managing containers by way of VMs,… Read More ›
Neil McAllister for The Register | March 24th, 2015
Cloud outfit Joyent has launched Triton, a new software and service offering that provides what Joyent describes as "container native infrastructure," where the Linux container – not a server or a VM – is the atomic unit of hosting. "In a sentence (albeit a wordy one), Triton lets you run secure Linux containers directly on bare metal via an elastic Docker host that offers tightly integrated software-defined networking," Joyent CTO Bryan Cantrill wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. Read More ›
Mitch Pronschinske for DZone | March 24th, 2015
Bryan Cantrill, the CTO of Joyent, was speaking at O'Reilly's Software Architecture Conference in Boston last week about some new technology from his company. If you've ever had a chance to hear him speak, you know that his energy goes up to 11. For years, Joyent has been all-in on OS-based virtualization being the future of computing, and with the Docker/container revolution in full swing, they think that the rest of the industry is starting to realize this too. Read More ›
Eric Knorr for InfoWorld | March 23rd, 2015
In a presentation at a Docker Seattle meetup, Joyent CTO Bryan Cantrill, who worked on the Solaris kernel at Sun, offered a colorful critique of conventional virtualization vs. containerization: It is horrifying how humanity's precious energy has been diverted to making hardware virtualization actually perform, and the number of kittens that need to be slaughtered every time you perform I/O in the cloud -- it's disgusting, actually. It's horrifying. It's amazing that it works ever, at all, let… Read More ›
Simon Phipps for InfoWorld | February 20th, 2015
The news that broke at the Node Summit last week -- that Joyent and others are proposing to create a Node.js Foundation -- came as no surprise to anyone who has been watching the controversy around everyone's favorite server-side JavaScript platform. It's been clear for a while that Node.js has outgrown its roots and become an important structural tool for the software industry. Read More ›
James Chesters for InfoQ | February 17th, 2015
Industry heavy hitters IBM, Paypal, Microsoft and The Linux Foundation have joined with Node.js stewards Joyent to set up the Node.js Foundation. The independent foundation is intended to oversee the production and development of Node.js. The announcement follows the release of Node.js 0.12 earlier this month. Joyent describe the foundation as being "committed to the continued growth and evolution of Node.js, while maintaining a collaborative environment to benefit all users." Read More ›
Sean Cameron for WinBeta | February 12th, 2015
Microsoft, following the lead of many others, has moved to help create the Node.js Foundation. Redmond joins Joyent, the corporate steward of the open source project, along with Fidelity, IBM, The Linux Foundation and PayPal in the creation of this independent nonprofit open-source development organization. The establishment of this organization is intended to advance community engagement with regards to Node.js, which is a popular runtime for low latency, high performance applications.… Read More ›
John K. Waters for ADTmag | February 11th, 2015
Node.js, the popular open-source, server-side JavaScript runtime project, will soon be governed by an independent foundation, its chief commercial sponsor announced this week. Joyent, the container infrastructure software company behind Node.js, says it plans to work with IBM, PayPal, Microsoft, Fidelity, and SAP to establish the Node.js Foundation, which will be "committed to the continued growth and evolution of Node.js, while maintaining a collaborative environment to benefit all users." Read More ›
Nancy Gohring for FierceDevOps | February 10th, 2015
Joyent plans to create an independent foundation to steward Node.js, the popular open source runtime used for server-side applications that has come under fire in the past couple of years for its opaque governance model. IBM, PayPal, Microsoft, Fidelity and The Linux Foundation are all involved in starting up the new foundation. Read More ›
Michael Vizard for ProgrammableWeb | February 10th, 2015
In the interest of making sure that all the stakeholders in Node.js have an equal say in both the technical and business dealings of the framework, Joyent today announced that it, along with IBM, Microsoft, SAP, PayPal, Fidelity and The Linux Foundation, is establishing a Node.js Foundation. The foundation was announced at the Node Summit conference. Joyent CEO Scott Hammond says that while the existence of a nonprofit Node.js Foundation would not affect how the technical committee that… Read More ›
Jordan Novet for VentureBeat | February 10th, 2015
The trendy open source project Node.js could soon be getting a lot more open. Often referred to simply as Node, the server-side JavaScript framework has been influenced by corporate sponsor by Joyent for years. But that could be changing. Today Joyent announced that it's teaming up with the Linux Foundation, IBM, Microsoft, PayPal, and Fidelity to launch the Node.js Foundation, to introduce open governance to the project. "What we're really focused on is we want to make sure that the whole proje… Read More ›
Rob Marvin for SD Times | February 10th, 2015
Node.js is moving to an open governance model under the auspices of the newly announced Node.js Foundation. Cloud infrastructure company Joyent, the corporate steward behind the open-source runtime technology, announced the establishment of an independent Node.js Foundation with Fidelity, IBM, Microsoft, PayPal and The Linux Foundation as founding members. Under the open governance model, the foundation will work to add members from within the Node.js ecosystem and hold open deliberations on… Read More ›
Jonathan Vanian for Gigaom | February 10th, 2015
Node.js, the popular server-side JavaScript framework, is getting its own open-source foundation and will no longer be governed by Joyent, the cloud-infrastructure provider plans to announce on Tuesday. It should take around two to three months before the foundation is formally established, and until then, Joyent will remain the corporate steward of the Node.js open-source project, according to Joyent. The new Node.js Foundation — which will include the founding members of Joyent, IBM, Paypal, M… Read More ›
Klint Finley for Wired | February 10th, 2015
Node.js—the popular open source tool for building and running websites and other online applications—is getting a new steward. Together with Microsoft, the Linux Foundation, IBM, PayPal, and Fidelity, the current steward, Joyent, is launching an independent foundation to oversee development of the project. Node.js—or Node, for short—has gained immense popularity in the five years since it was introduced, underpinning web services from both tech startups and large corporations, including Walmart and GE.… Read More ›
December 4th, 2014
Joyent this week announced two open source initiatives through which it is making it possible to securely deploy Docker containers without requiring the use of hypervisors. A new Linux Branded Zones (LXz) enables Linux applications, including those running in Docker Containers, to natively run on a layer of secure OS virtualization without the need for a hardware hypervisor layer. Read More ›
December 3rd, 2014
Following a tumultuos two days in the Docker community, Joyent has announced two open source initiatives and a container service that further its ties to Docker. With the news, Joyent CTO Bryan Cantrill also has some choice remarks about CoreOS "full-frontal assault" on Docker. First, there is the sheer brazenness of the remarks, but also reflects something that could have been predicted. Read More ›
December 3rd, 2014
This week the formerly happy world of the Docker containerization initiative was rocked by an announcement from CoreOS that it was launching a competing container standard. Rocket, the name of CoreOS' initiative, is aimed at fixing the inherent flaws (as CoreOS see it) to the Docker approach. Given this announcement, it is interesting to hear the response of different cloud vendors. Pivotal, a spin out of VMware and EMC, came out in support of Rocket, although I suspect there are some back room d… Read More ›
November 10th, 2014
Cloud infrastructure service provider Joyent is getting behind Docker containers in a big way. Late last month, Joyent raised a $15 million funding round and said it would work to make Docker containers part of its service portfolio, but the details of that integration were scant. Last week, however, Joyent CTO Bryan Cantrill wrote a blog post fleshing out the company's strategy around Docker, indicating a lot of support. Read More ›
November 8th, 2014
Earlier this week, cloud provider Joyent did a surprising thing: It shared its finely tuned cloud software, SmartDataCenter, under an open-source license. But while it might seem like the company is giving away its high-value intellectual property at a time when Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have made the public cloud market ultra-competitive, Bryan Cantrill, the company's chief technology officer, actually has some very smart justifications for the move, which he spelled out in a blog post. Read More ›
November 7th, 2014
After repositioning itself behind its years-old container-based approach to cloud infrastructure, Joyent has now open sourced the code underlying its distributed cloud infrastructure and storage systems. For a company long heralded as a tech leader, its time to shine is now or never. Read More ›
November 7th, 2014
While the OpenStack Summit in Paris has generated a lot of news this week, cloud-focused company Joyent has announced that it is open sourcing its core technology. Joyent's platform can compete with OpenStack and other cloud offerings, and facilitates efficienet use of container technologies like Docker. Read More ›
November 6th, 2014
Hoping to capitalize in the white-hot interest in containers, Joyent on Thursday made to two of its prime technology offerings open source: SmartDataCenter, its container-based orchestration software, and the multi-tenant ZFS-based Manta object storage platform. Read More ›
November 6th, 2014
Many internal IT organizations that are building private clouds today are trying to borrow structural IT concepts pioneered by public cloud service providers. As a provider of one of those services, Joyent today announced it will make it easier for internal IT organizations to do just that by making the container orchestration and object storage software it developed available under an open source Mozilla Public 2.0 license. Read More ›
November 6th, 2014
In a bold move, cloud specialist Joyent has announced it's open-sourcing its core technology. That includes software that competes directly with OpenStack and enables high-performance use of container technology like Docker. The newly open projects enable easy management of containers at scale. Read More ›
November 4th, 2014
As an early advocate for the usage of the containers in the cloud, Joyent is among the cloud service providers with the most amount of actual experience running containers in the cloud. Fresh off raising another $15 million in financing, Joyent CTO Brian Cantrill said that part of the company's strategy from here will be to optimize the company's cloud platform to run Docker containers. Read More ›
October 31st, 2014
Joyent has primarily focused on pushing its SmartOS operating system that uses "zones" for securely running applications, based on Sun's once-open source operating system, Solaris. SmartOS skips the virtualization technology of the sort enterprise software company VMware made popular, which uses a hypervisor to creates multiple virtual machines for running applications on each server. But while Joyent may have been then earlier, in the past year and a half, the startup Docker has gotten credit for s… Read More ›
October 31st, 2014
Joyent is also now participating in the conversation around containers, which really gained popularity earlier this year with Docker. Joyent told Gigaom that it has "long used containers built atop its custom operating hypervisor." Joyent CEO Scott Hammond also said that its cloud platform is compatible with Docker's container technology, something it will release more details about in the next few weeks. Read More ›
October 31st, 2014
"I know I can say with confidence that Joyent has attracted people who have tried to violate the integrity of SmartOS containers. We have never had a problem. There has never been a security notification on zones," Cantrill said. Joyent's operation over the years has included a free service to developers, and such offerings are known hotbeds of attempted security violations. Joyent is now engaged in "building a bridge to Docker containers" that implement the same secure features, said Cantrill.… Read More ›
October 31st, 2014
Joyent plans to use this money to capitalize on the current trends around Docker and container-based infrastructure (of the software kind, not the shipping one). Joyent has been running a platform based on containers for more than 10 years now, but it really wasn't until Docker emerged as a cloud infrastructure darling in the last year or so that people really took notice of this technology. "Our customers are rapidly adopting Docker to create application containers, and they are seeking to use thi… Read More ›
October 31st, 2014
In the past, Joyent differentiated its IaaS from the likes of Amazon Web Services by saying it had a different architecture that made the cloud perform better. It's still saying that, except it is now emphasizing that what makes its platform perform better is the use of application containers. "Joyent has always been container-focused, and the way we've been high-performance is because of containers," the company's CTO Bryan Cantrill said. "We were way too early, and people didn't see the same advantages th… Read More ›
August 22nd, 2014
It was a side stop of the Node.js on the Road tour, which resulted in a much more intimate and technical talk about Node.js. Fontaine shared a ton of valuable information for a room full of MeetMe developers, and others, who use Node.js for work...Fontaine showed a lot of enthusiasm for his role in the Node.js project, spending most of his talk on very technical, application-specific functions. Read More ›
August 22nd, 2014
July 25th, 2014
Some companies offering cloud services—including Microsoft, VMware and Joyent—also are offering software to help enterprises that want to keep some computing operations on their own premises. AWS believes "that any enterprise that continues on-premise computing is a walking dinosaur," said Bryan Cantrill, Joyent's chief technology officer. "We just don't believe that." Read More ›
July 13th, 2014
While the term big data is vague enough to have lost much of its meaning, today's storage systems are growing more quickly and managing more data than ever before. Read More ›
July 1st, 2014
The hybrid cloud is the combination of a public cloud provider (such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, or Joyent Compute) with a private cloud platform — one that's designed for use by a single organization. Read More ›
June 30th, 2014
If there's one thing that Joyent has, it's solid technology. Gartner says that Joyent is "exceptionally innovative" and has been purpose-built to be a cloud computing provider. Read More ›
June 30th, 2014
Joyent is releasing its time-tested private and hybrid cloud management platform SmartDataCenter 7, which the company believes has a big edge over OpenStack as a way to build cloud for enterprise. Read More ›
June 24th, 2014
Joyent argues that it's in a unique position, particularly against OpenStack, in that the software it offers customers for use in private clouds is the same software it uses in its public cloud offering. "The difference between us and OpenStack is we use our software ourselves to run our own public cloud," Cantrill said. "Customers have the confidence that they're not the first to do this." Read More ›
June 24th, 2014
Joyent is relatively unknown, at least to the mass majority cloud adopters who are busy comparing Microsoft MSFT -0.6%, Google GOOGL +0.82% and IBM Softlayer with AWS. The release of SmartDataCenter could very well change that, especially for organizations who are looking for a rock solid and completely seamless hybrid cloud story. Read More ›
June 24th, 2014
Most folks who know the name Joyent associate it with Node.js. But it's also a cloud provider with a custom-built, in-house platform that's been quietly competing with Amazon and Google. Read More ›
June 24th, 2014
For Joyent, hybrid clouds are the way of the future, said Cantrill, and it's this combination of public and on-premise configurations that he believes makes Joyent stand out as a cloud provider against big, rich competitors like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. A startup is more likely to begin its days operating in the public cloud and as it matures, it's likely to want to keep its data secured on premise. Read More ›
June 18th, 2014
It may seem like everyone and their mother is using Amazon's public cloud these days, but Joyent CTO Bryan Cantrill recently had a conversation with a big enterprise company where the mere mention of Amazon resulted in stone-faced silence. Cantrill initially didn't understand this stark response, and then he remembered the business that company was in: retail. Read More ›
June 12th, 2014
Henry Wasik, CEO at Joyent, a leading cloud provider and corporate steward of Node.js, said, "Modulus is an important partner in the Joyent and Node.js ecosystems and we are helping developers create and deploy today's most demanding real-time web and mobile applications with a platform designed for rapid scale, efficiency, and performance." Read More ›
June 11th, 2014
What brought this change on? Developer feedback, mainly. According to TJ Fontaine, project lead for Node.js, the issue surfaced time and again when talking to people in the Node.js development community. Fontaine found that "having to sign the CLA could at times be a stumbling block for a contribution." Read More ›
June 11th, 2014
Node.js, the software platform used for scalable server side and networking applications, is shedding contributor license agreements (CLA), according to cloud computing company Joyent, the platform's corporate stewart. By removing the need for a developer to have to sign a CLA before contributing to the open source project, the barrier to entry for developers looking to hack will supposedly be weakened, wrote Joyent CTO Bryan Cantrill in a blog post on the company's website. Read More ›
May 9th, 2014
Node.js's maintainers at Joyent share insights into how Node and its apps are debugged, and the most common issues they see with deployments in the wild. "One of the more widely publicized deployments of Node.js that experienced problems was Walmart's. There, a memory leak in Node.js turned out to be the culprit, but Fontaine believes such things are the extreme exception. The majority of the time, he claims, the problems lie in the way Node.js and JavaScript are used and how they are unlike… Read More ›
April 25th, 2014
Joyent, the public cloud company that has designed its own variant of Solaris called SmartOS to underpin its system, is the sponsor of the Node.js project and Bryan Cantrill, chief technology officer at Joyent and formerly a Solaris kernel and Java engineer as well as the co-inventor of the DTrace dynamic tracing tool that makes Solaris so useful, went on a bit of a rant about how JavaScript is perceived in the datacenter at a local Node on the Road user meeting in New York City this week. Read More ›
April 25th, 2014
At the "Node.js on the Road" event in New York City last night, Joyent developers and Node.js community members talked about the new features in the forthcoming 0.12 release, and shared experiences about implementing and running the platform. Read More ›
April 21st, 2014
How must our architectures change? When the data becomes not merely "big" but truly colossal, we must consider its inertia: data at rest should remain at rest. That is, instead of backhauling data from storage to transient computing, we must bring our computing to our data. We must be able to run ad hoc queries directly on the (scale out) infrastructure that stores our data. Read More ›
March 24th, 2014
Last week, application-performance monitoring service provider New Relic launched an offering that allows customers to mine its operational data for business intelligence. The new beta offering, called Insights, has been a big hit, according to the company. The service has been fielding queries that, on average, consult 60 billion metrics a minute, with an average response time of 58 milliseconds. Read More ›
March 13th, 2014
Clustrix, provider of scale-out SQL database engineered for the cloud, announced Thursday a partnership with Joyent, a cloud infrastructure and big data analytics company. As a result of the partnership, ClustrixDB, its scale-out database for real-time analytics on live operational data, will be available to Joyent customers who need scale-out SQL and real-time analytics. Read More ›
March 13th, 2014
Infrastructure as a service provider Joyent announced a partnership with Clustrix Thursday that will see the public cloud provider deploy ClustrixDB to add SQL database capabilities and real-time application monitoring analytics for customers. Read More ›
March 11th, 2014
February 21st, 2014
The deal was announced on Thursday and means that developers who want to run Ubuntu on Joyent's advanced SmartOS-based infrastructure can now do with greater confidence in getting regular updates from Canonical, and performance guarantees. Read More ›
February 20th, 2014
As part of the Certified Public Cloud programme, Canonical and Joyent worked together to optimise Ubuntu performance and take advantage of customisation and configuration enhancements in Joyent's platform, letting users deploy secure and highly performant workloads. Read More ›
February 20th, 2014
Users of the Joyent Cloud platform now have access to platform-optimized and fully supported Ubuntu server images thanks to a partnership between Joyent and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux. Read More ›
February 20th, 2014
The idea behind the specially crafted distribution is to allow Joyent users to take advantage of the many tools and software programs available for Linux, as well as for Ubuntu users to fully utilize the Joyent infrastructure. Read More ›
February 20th, 2014
Joyent, well-known on the cloud computing scene and a growing player in Big Data analytics, announced a partnership with Canonical today to provide customers with optimized and supported Ubuntu server images in the Joyent Cloud. Read More ›
February 6th, 2014
Joyent started up a ZFS-based object store, the Manta Storage Service. Read More ›
February 6th, 2014
AT&T (service provider), Joyent (stingray partner), and Dimension Data (platform partner) were among the other worldwide winners. Read More ›
February 3rd, 2014
Manta is an object store like Amazon's Simple Storage Service, but it also allows users to run compute operations directly on top of the objects. Translation? You can have your cake and eat it too. The compute could be on demand. Read More ›
January 23rd, 2014
In June Joyent unveiled its Manta Storage Service, object storage in the cloud, with strongly consistent writes, highly available reads, no object size limits, and per-object replication policies. Joyent CTO Jason Hoffman described is as, "It's S3 with EC2 and Elastic MapReduce bolted on top of it." Read More ›
January 17th, 2014
But unless you work at Joyent, the company that stewards the framework, you probably won't notice a thing. According to new project lead TJ Fontaine, there's no directional change in sight. "We're just trying to continue our goal to make sure we can enable users to innovate with Node," Fontaine said. Read More ›
January 15th, 2014
Four years later, Node.js has become a whole programming stack and infrastructure of its own, powering not only Web apps but desktop apps as well. Read More ›
January 15th, 2014
"Node is bigger than the software, than me, than Joyent, than the core team. It's also the community and businesses and ecosystem. It's all of that, and it will persist and continue on." Read More ›
December 6th, 2013
Other companies have run across benefits of using Node.js, and now that Joyent has announced commercial support for it, more companies could feel compelled to follow Groupon's lead. Read More ›
December 6th, 2013
Reaffirming a migration pattern that has been pondered for a few years now, developers at major Web properties Groupon and LinkedIn recently championed their companies' selection of Node.js over Ruby on Rails. Read More ›
December 4th, 2013
When a reputable cloud service provider such as Joyent Inc. elbows its way into the media and entertainment space -- with the intention of establishing a performance advantage over other providers -- it deserves some attention. Read More ›
December 4th, 2013
Joyent boasts of having deep expertise in Node.js. It currently manages the code base and employs a number of the software's maintainers, including, up until recently, Ryan Dahl, who originally created it. Read More ›
December 4th, 2013
An open source project, Node has been maintained and supported by cloud computing company Joyent, which this week offered paid support for Node. Read More ›
December 4th, 2013
Joyent's new service provides developers who are building production-grade Node.js applications access to Joyent's years of experience in running its own Public Cloud. Read More ›
December 3rd, 2013
Tuesday's announcement marks the first time the company has extended its support to Node.js users who prefer to host their applications in private data centers or on other companies' clouds. Read More ›
December 3rd, 2013
Joyent, the company that helped develop and nurture Node.js, will now offer commercial support for the popular server-side JavaScript language. Read More ›
November 21st, 2013
How the wunderkind framework grew up, from the perspective of one of its earliest contributors. Today Node.js is a hot topic. It's the server side programming environment de rigueur for fast, lightweight development. But that hasn't always been the case. Node.js inventor Ryan Dahl, saw Node.js as a personal experiment more than anything else. Developers scoffed at the idea of JavaScript, a formerly strictly client-side language, running on the server side. Read More ›
November 17th, 2013
Joyent is the high-performance cloud infrastructure and big data analytics company, offering organizations of any size the best public and hybrid cloud infrastructure for today's demanding real-time web and mobile applications. Read More ›
November 16th, 2013
Many businesses still rely on round-robin DNS to distribute load due to its simple setup, but getting behind a proper load-balancing solution takes very little time and is worth every penny. Remember, this is the first thing in-bound customers will hit, so make sure you have invested the small amount of time and money to do things right. Read More ›
November 14th, 2013
It's been well documented that software is eating the world, but what might not be as obvious is that developers are the ones serving up the meal. Given the networked computer and the Internet, older business models and operational assumptions are becoming less relevant. Software engineers who are feeding the beast need tools to deliver the next tasty morsel to ravenous end users. This model has turned the mobile and web app markets into instant, competitive feature bake-offs. So the question y… Read More ›
November 8th, 2013
Brendan Gregg, lead performance engineer at cloud provider Joyent, has developed a visualization technique called a flame graph that can be effective for charting how system resources such as CPUs and memory are used. Read More ›
November 5th, 2013
A new performance reference was needed, and I eagerly waited for something that thoroughly covered modern, distributed computing performance issues from the ground up. Well, there's a new classic now, authored yet again by Brendan Gregg, former Solaris kernel engineer at Sun and now Lead Performance Engineer at Joyent. Read More ›
November 5th, 2013
Joyent hired Brett Newsome as chief financial officer. Newsome was previously CFO at GoGrid. Read More ›
November 2nd, 2013
Yes, you can come to DevBeat and get up and hacking with Node in about an hour. We'll give you everything you need to get started, and you'll also get some truly helpful "homework" to take away from the show. For the seasoned polyglot, this crash course, taught by Joyent's training director, will be invaluable. Read More ›
October 30th, 2013
Joyent built its high-performance cloud service with an unusual set of powerful components, starting with its own SmartOS. Find out what makes it tick. It's hard to make a cloud technology stack handle the extreme scale-out loads of cloud computing. It takes a brave company to make things harder by choosing less common components, even if that does mean building a better service. But that's what Joyent did with SmartOS and SmartDataCenter. Read More ›
October 18th, 2013
"This week's infographic looks at the expectations of this year's most hyped online shopping days along with a warning about the impact of site downtime on sales and customer satisfaction. Compiled by Joyent and New Relic, tips for staying alive this holiday include..." Read More ›
October 9th, 2013
Meanwhile, a new infographic out from Joyent is a reminder that, with the upcoming holidays, etailers need to make sure their websites will stay up - even during peak traffic times. According to the data 86% of etailers have experienced downtime; being down even one minute can cost an etailer $5600. What's more, more than half (56%) of shoppers say they won't return to an online store after experienced downtime or other issues. Read More ›
October 2nd, 2013
The two companies have extended their partnership to create an on-demand content delivery service using Joyent's cloud infrastructure and Riverbed's Stingray ADC software. Will it cause headaches for CDN service providers? Read More ›
September 19th, 2013
Recently Joyent, a cloud infrastructure and big data analytics company, and Riverbed Technology entered an alliance to launch the Riverbed Stingray and Joyent content delivery cloud (CDC), a fast and efficient content delivery platform. Read More ›
September 19th, 2013
The companies have created the Riverbed Stingray & Joyent Content Delivery Cloud (CDC), uniting the Joyent cloud infrastructure with Riverbed's Stingray Application Delivery Controller (ADC (News - Alert)) software. The offering is designed to help customers take control of their video services content delivery as well as save money. Read More ›
September 18th, 2013
Node.js was founded by Ryan Dahl; its second contributor was Isaac Schlueter. The project has a total of 447 core contributors to date. Dahl was employed by Joyent during much of Node's development, and Joyent continues to sponsor Node. Read More ›
September 18th, 2013
Joyent and Riverbed (RVBD) announced an alliance to launch the Riverbed Stingray and Joyent Content Delivery Cloud (CDC), a fast and efficient content delivery platform that will improve performance and flexibility of content delivery. Read More ›
September 17th, 2013
When Joyent became the corporate steward of Node.js, we wanted to find a way of monetizing Node.js that would serve to strengthen the community instead of dividing it. Read More ›
September 17th, 2013
The joint solution gives customers more flexibility with control features such as auto-scaling, content caching, bandwidth management, performance monitoring, and content compression. Joyent and Riverbed say the solution also offers customers better security through visibility into where the content is stored. Read More ›
September 17th, 2013
V3 Technology Awards: Manta named one of five best storage services, Joyent named one of six best cloud computing providers. Read More ›
September 16th, 2013
Dell is offering three flavors of public cloud from partners Joyent, a battle-tested proprietary cloud used by large telcos; Zerolag, a VMware-based cloud; and Scalematrix which is strong in small and medium sized companies. Read More ›
September 16th, 2013
Cutting-edge experiment No. 2: The Node.js Web stack ... Joyent, the major sponsor, also offers cloud machines with images, including all of the necessary libraries and tools. Read More ›
September 12th, 2013
[Joyent] was a pioneer in the field, and in some ways, its services and software exceed, at least technologically, what's on offer elsewhere. Hoffman was a big part of that. Plus, he's that rare C-level tech exec who's unafraid to say exactly what he thinks — and in wonderfully eloquent fashion at that. Read More ›
September 10th, 2013
Manta is an analysis tool for small businesses and was introduced by Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider Joyent in June. It represents a new direction for handling large swaths and a wide variety of data in public clouds. Read More ›
September 6th, 2013
Node.js has without question been Joyent's biggest standalone success in the developer community. While the company has filled its client roster with big-name enterprises, it also fostered the growth of this open-source programming technology by employing its creator, Ryan Dahl, and several other core contributors. In maintaining the project over the years, Joyent has stabilized the project from a hacker's plaything to an enterprise-ready power tool. Read More ›
September 3rd, 2013
DTrace developer Brendan Gregg recently posted a quick and interesting post that goes over ten recent improvements that he's made working on the Joyent cloud. Read More ›
August 28th, 2013
"There will absolutely be fewer buyers of physical machines," predicts Bryan Cantrill, a senior vice president at Joyent Inc., another company that hosts computing operations. "But we don't know if there will be fewer physical machines sold." Read More ›
August 26th, 2013
"Why they have a shot: Joyent is a pure-play cloud company known for its engineering prowess." "In June, Joyent rolled out its newest service called Manta, which allows processing and data analytics to be done without having to transfer data from a storage system into a compute engine, speeding the transaction time." Read More ›
August 20th, 2013
Brett's appointment as CFO follows the release of the Joyent Manta Storage Service, a next-generation cloud object store and big data analytics platform. He will focus on developing business operations that scale with a growing customer base. Read More ›
August 19th, 2013
Joyent got props for its 'unique vision for cloud IaaS and is exceptionally innovative from a technology perspective. It is developing an integrated technology stack and its infrastructure offerings verge into the platform space. It is making deep investments in fundamental technologies, including its own SmartOS operating system, based on Illumos Solaris and its x86 hypervisor.' Read More ›
August 8th, 2013
To show off the capabilities of number-crunching tool Manta, programmer Dave Pacheco explains how he wired a system for recording matches from the Nintendo 64 racing-game classic Mario Kart 64. The post is a little on the wonky side, but more or less, Pacheco's system records what's happening on-screen (through a gadget called an iGrabber) and translates it into numbers. Read More ›
August 7th, 2013
This week on the New Tech Forum, we're taking a look at the challenges of traditional storage and compute in the world of big data -- and the growing role of object storage and integrated compute resources. Jason Hoffman, CTO and founder of cloud service provider Joyent, details how combining object storage and parallel compute clusters can make working with big data easier and faster by eliminating bottlenecks. Read More ›
August 1st, 2013
"I don't cargo cult often, but when I do, I do it with Node.js." This is one of our favorite Node jokes. Node is, briefly, server-side JavaScript. The development of this open-source technology is sponsored by cloud company Joyent. In addition to its big data and infrastructure-as-a-service offerings, Joyent also offers enterprise-grade Node support. The company's latest product, Joyent 7, is intended to help Fortune 500 companies with data center management, Node debugging, and workflow APIs. Last ye… Read More ›
July 26th, 2013
Joyent Founder Jason Hoffman discusses the future of cloud computing with Deirdre Bolton on Bloomberg Television's "Money Moves." Read More ›
July 25th, 2013
Joyent is another AWS alternative with an additional option that many businesses may prefer. It has customized machines and calls them appliances. The company's customized machines can often outperform most other servers when executing typical tasks such as Web page requests and data return. Joyent uses SmartOS -- a derivative of the Solaris system. If you really loved the old Solaris system, Joyent's custom-built machines may be your best bet. Many reviews claim the Joyent system provides… Read More ›
July 25th, 2013
While the Utah data center could play a key role in the operation of the NSA's PRISM program after it opens at the end of September, it has gotten a lot more attention since PRISM was first discovered earlier this year, and since then it has become a sort of symbol for the fears some companies have that the data they store in certain clouds could get sucked up into the NSA's hands. My colleague David Meyer will be digging into this subject with Jason Hoffman, the chief technology officer at Joy… Read More ›
July 24th, 2013
Dell's shareholders are holding off on taking the company off the public market. As a cloud provider, Dell has adopted first OpenStack for its private cloud offering and then a cloud brokerage tactic by packaging offerings from Joyent, ScaleMatrix and ZeroLag. Nnamdi Orakwue, Dell's VP of cloud, will discuss the reception of the two-pronged strategy and his experiences from the world of Dell in transition. Read More ›
July 23rd, 2013
As SDN takes hold, engineers will design networks that are subservient to the application and that provide "app-centric visibility, management, automation, provisioning and orchestration," he said. In this new scenario, software interacts with and automatically modifies the network layer, said Ben Rockwood, director of cloud operations at San Francisco-based cloud service and infrastructure provider Joyent. "VM A wants to connect with network B, and the software enables that to happen… Read More ›
July 19th, 2013
The subject of API security raises some debate. Halliday and Shaw feel that new security protocols such as OAuth have become a drag on the original excitement of consuming APIs with command line tools such as curl. However Cavage counters that security must align with the value of the API you are protecting and that HTTP basic authentication is often not sufficient. Cavage introduces HTTP Signatures which he says is better than passwords but "easier than the other [protocols]". HTTP Signatures… Read More ›
July 17th, 2013
I'm more intrigued by Heroku, Engine Yard, Joyent, Red Hat's Open Shift, VMware's Cloud Foundry andnewcomers like DigitalOcean, which went from 100 to 7,000 servers between December and June. How could the oligarchs allow it to get away with that? Read More ›
July 10th, 2013
Log processing is one of the chief use cases that Cantrill says Manta is currently being used for. Transcoding multimedia is another, said Cantrill, who explained that with Manta, because the tenant doesn't need to pull their images into transient compute, they can transcode them at rest and create new Manta objects as a result. Read More ›
June 26th, 2013
Laura DiDio, an analyst with Information Technology Intelligence Consulting, said that this availability of computing with object storage is "where the industry is going," and added that Joyent is "playing at the leading edge of the market." Read More ›
June 26th, 2013
Joyent combines computing, storage in one service. Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider Joyent announced a new service that allows customers to compute in the same location where their data is stored. Many cloud providers, such as Amazon Cloud Services, keep storage and compute services separate, notes GigaOm'sJordan Novet. Read More ›
June 25th, 2013
Manta gives you the capability to execute compute tasks including log analysis, search index generation, financial analysis and other data-intensive tasks without moving data or setting up compute clusters and processing software. Cantrill explains that code is brought in parallel to physical servers in secure containers while data is automatically merged using the industry-standard MapReduce pattern. Read More ›
June 25th, 2013
Manta sounds like a cloud service optimized for rapidly processing large volumes of unstructured data — so much that relying on DRAM for it all is out of the question. Expect the list of possible applications to multiply as companies kick Manta's tires and resolve their doubts about big-data possibilities on public infrastructure. Issues around speed and cost could fall by the wayside. Read More ›
June 25th, 2013
Thus, Manta Storage Service will be able to do a single job or a series of jobs, some of them batch, some of them near real-time analytics. Manta, in fact, could fit a Hadoop job into its compute and object storage system, and run a wide variety of other applications as well, depending on what its users want to do. As a service from Joyent, customers will be charged -- by the second -- for the Manta services they use. Read More ›
June 25th, 2013
The idea of the Manta Storage Service, is to make use of a type of virtualization that differs from what is typically seen in the marketplace. This is what is known as hardware virtualization, where platforms like VMware, Zen and KVM emulate an entire server - the hardware - so that apps will run on top of the guest operating system, which in turn runs on top of the hypervisor (the "machine" in virtual machine). Read More ›
June 25th, 2013
The new service is the latest move in Joyent's focus on cloud services, an area it started to accelerate last year with the addition of Henry Wasik, Joyent CEO. Recently, Joyent added 13 new instance types to mimic Amazon's most popular virtual server types, and began offering a database-as-a-service on its cloud platform. Read More ›
June 25th, 2013
By removing the need to manage infrastructure and move data, the service speeds up processing of big data and lowers the cost of such processing, the provider said in a statement. The compute tasks include log analysis, search index generation, financial analysis and many other data-intensive tasks that normally require data movement or setup of separate compute clusters and processing software. Read More ›
June 25th, 2013
Manta is a pretty intriguing idea and one which, frankly, strikes me as entirely logical. The benefit of processing close to data storage, and the ability to derive insights as quickly as possible from the ever increasing amount of data that is extant is a no-brainer. I'd expect other infrastructure vendors to follow Joyent's lead and begin to offer converged storage/compute offerings to customers. Read More ›
June 25th, 2013
The twist is that objects stored in the service can be coupled with compute via the MapReduce framework via use of the ZFS filesystem, so any analysis of the information can be done locally – giving a proximity of calculation unavailable on AWS (unless using its wobbly EBS block store). Read More ›
June 25th, 2013
The ramifications of the Manta service are considerable and make Joyent more relevant as an infrastructure and a services provider. In an interview last week, CTO and Co-Founder Jason Hoffman said Joyent will make a number of announcements in the coming months about new data services. Read More ›
June 25th, 2013
Here's what each company brings to the deal. Panzura provides its global file system for worldwide storage consolidation and distributed file sharing. Joyent's contribution is the Manta Storage Service for unstructured data storage. Read More ›
June 25th, 2013
Joyent engineers are no strangers to shaking up the cloud industry. Under the radar of even some in the cloud community, the company has developed its own SmartOS infrastructure stack, which includes an open source in-memory hypervisor. Joyent sells its SmartDataCenter as a public cloud IaaS option, or for users to install on their own premises. Read More ›
June 25th, 2013
There's an old saying from Wayne Gretzky that great hockey players "skate to where the puck is going" rather than where it's been. Joyent believes the intersection of cloud computing and Big Data is where the puck is going. Towards that end, the company today rolled out Manta, a new object storage service that allows Joyent customers to bring together compute and data analysis on the same cloud infrastructure. Read More ›
June 19th, 2013
But Hoffman is also eager to see how to make this trend "democratized" or accessible to not just the internet behemoths of the world like Facebook and Google. What could smaller companies, founders, and developers do with this brand new opportunity? Read More ›
May 28th, 2013
Plus Joyent added more than 60 new options for its customers including 13 of the same offerings that Amazon sells. (In geek speak: it added new virtual server types, so customers can opt for a faster/pricier server, or a smaller/cheaper one, or one with more storage, etc.) Read More ›
May 28th, 2013
With its pricing models, Joyent has added one- and three-year reserved capacity pricing options. Using reserved capacity, customers can purchase the Joyent service with a one-time fee to receive a discount on hourly charges for the instance over the entire contract term. Read More ›
May 24th, 2013
Joyent is actually increasing its virtual server selection with additional choices, 71 in all, to make its cloud service more attractive to customers. That means Joyent now has a match for AWS Store Eight Extra Large and AWS High-CPU Extra Large, along with many other options. Read More ›
May 24th, 2013
As for Joyent, which may be one of the most compelling cloud services that many people have not heard of, the company this week rolled out a major expansion of its offerings. It went from having 10 virtual machine instance types to now having 71 different combinations of compute and storage users can configure in its cloud. Read More ›
May 23rd, 2013
With the rejiggering of its cloud, Joyent is not only cutting prices, it is also forging server slices that are more or less the same as the most popular configurations offered by Amazon Web Services and offering dozens of additional configurations not available (yet) on AWS. Read More ›
May 23rd, 2013
As for Joyent, which may be one of the most compelling cloud services that many people have not heard of, the company this week rolled out a major expansion of its offerings. It went from having 10 virtual machine instance types to now having 71 different combinations of compute and storage users can configure in its cloud. Read More ›
May 23rd, 2013
Joyent seeks to differentiate itself on how well it runs high-performance applications on its own SmartOS (or on Linux or Windows); the tooling it provides; its service and support; and its ability to offer the hybrid cloud option that many companies prefer. Read More ›
May 21st, 2013
At launch, the new program has new partners: Joyent, an IaaS provider for real-time web and mobile applications. Joyent's technology is also compatible with Enstratius, a cloud management software and services vendor acquired by Dell earlier this month. Read More ›
May 20th, 2013
Dell is launching the Dell Cloud Partner Program to deliver public cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) through an ecosystem of partners. Acting as a single-source supplier, Dell will offer customers a choice of vendors and technology, freedom from lock-in to a single platform or pricing model and a central point of solution integration and control. Sales of Dell's current in-house multi-tenant public cloud IaaS will be discontinued in the U.S. in favor of best-in-class partner offerings. Read More ›
May 20th, 2013
Joyent offers IaaS solutions for both private and public clouds. ZeroLag offers hosting services based on VMware technology, while ScaleMatrix sells cloud services through its TruCore Performance Cloud hosting platform. Read More ›
May 17th, 2013
Joyent, Virtustream, CloudSigma et al = In-N-Out Burger, Culvers, Five Guys et al: These cloud providers, like their analogous restaurant chains, are damn good at what they do and their patrons are loyal. They're typically designed for maximum performance, maybe security, too, and will play around with new infrastructural or programming components in order to maintain their edge. Read More ›
April 26th, 2013
Another company that has come up with ways to make servers much more energy efficient isJoyent. It's Chief Technology Officer, Jason Hoffman, thinks server demands are going to get so high on our digital systems -- given all the computer chips going into computers, tablets, cars, household appliances and more -- that some grand new leap in innovation is going to have to take place. Read More ›
April 25th, 2013
Jason Hoffman, CTO at Joyent, tells El Reg that Chef was a key component of the Hadoop service that the company spun up on its cloud with the help of Hortonworks back in late January, and it is natural to extend formal support of Chef Server to all infrastructure services on the Joyent Cloud. Read More ›
April 25th, 2013
Opscode, the name behind the Chef tools that many developers use to automate the configuration and deployment of IT, has got more than a toehold in the cloud landscape. Earlier this week Joyent, another cloud provider, said it was integrating Chef into the Joyent cloud. Read More ›
April 24th, 2013
In Opscode parlance, Chef configurations are deployed and managed via a "cookbook." Joyent's support of Chef means it will be easier, going forward, for customer to move cloud deployments to and from any cloud, said Joyent CTO Jason Hoffman in a recent interview. Read More ›
April 20th, 2013
Joyent competes with VMware, OpenStack and Citrix, too, with its own cloud operating system. It's become a popular alternative for service providers needing big cloud data centers because it costs them less, Joyent cofounder Jason Hoffman told Business Insider. Read More ›
April 18th, 2013
As with all things cloud, Amazon's figure is difficult to use to compare S3 against other storage clouds: mid-level operators such as Joyent and Rackspace don't break out storage figures, and neither does Amazon contemporary Google. Read More ›
April 18th, 2013
Microsoft, for example, claims it is one of the only companies to offer a true "hybrid cloud" offering between its on-premises Windows Server and Microsoft Azure cloud. Rackspace offers "fanatical support" and has been broadening its database offerings recently; Joyent and ProfitBricks are among the cloud providers that focus on high-performance computing, while a company like FireHost emphasizes security in its cloud. Read More ›
April 17th, 2013
Server power capping isn't new, and has been available for years vendors including Intel and HP. There are other software players in this space, includingEmerson Network Power, whose Trellis DCIM software is being used by Joyent to track app-level power usage. Read More ›
April 9th, 2013
OpenStack and other open source cloud options -- such as CloudStack, Eucalyptus, Joyent and OpenNebula -- likely will continue to coexist in the market and benefit from the increased credibility they all bring to open source cloud computing. Just as different Linux distributions and different open source hypervisors have helped drive one another in the industry, we are likely to see open clouds do the same thing. Read More ›
April 9th, 2013
However, Rugg explained, there's a big difference between these options and what ParElastic does. Namely, while NoSQL and NewSQL options require deploying an entirely new database and likely rewriting some application code, ParElastic's software just overlays customers' existing cloud databases. Rugg said about half of its early users are running standard MySQL versions on Amazon Web Services, while the rest are spread across cloud providers such as Rackspace, Joyent and LiquidWeb. Read More ›
April 4th, 2013
Flexiant's Cloud Orchestrator suite is aimed at service providers, mostly telcos, who want to become infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) wholesalers with minimal effort. The company's biggest rivals are probably VMware and Citrix, althoughOnApp and Joyent also play in the same space to varying degrees. Read More ›
April 2nd, 2013
Pivotal's project management tool, Pivotal Tracker, is currently used by about 250,000 developers around the world. EMC has continued to invest in Pivotal Tracker to build out its capabilities, and now it believes Pivotal is ready to challenge the big guys in the Web services space. This not only means AWS, of course, but other established players such as Rackspace, GoGrid, Joyent, Microsoft Azure, IBM BlueCloud, Dell Cloud and HP Cloud. Read More ›
April 2nd, 2013
ZFS is a RAID-using file system that's facing competition from object storage technology. Suppliers such as Amplidata (OEM'd by Quantum), Dell (Caringo), HDS, NetApp with StorageGRID, and Scality are beating the object technology drum, and Joyent has a cloud object storage service. Oracle has no object storage capability. Read More ›
March 27th, 2013
El Reg is not aware of any of Amazon's competitors offering a similar service. When asked for comment on the launch, Google declined, and Microsoft and Rackspace didn't get back to us by press time. Joyent pointed to its ongoing collaboration with Estonian researchers to implement cryptographic hash functions within its own cloud as its way of reassuring enterprises. Read More ›
March 26th, 2013
Too often in the IT industry we focus on technology and tools instead of their higher purpose and relationship to the rest of the world. Giving away free meals might seem nice, but the real key to attracting and retaining talent is that you must give them a higher purpose than the hammer that they're swinging. Read More ›
March 22nd, 2013
Balance across multiple cloud providers. Instead of just using Amazon Web Services, use a combination of AWS with Joyent, Azure, Rackspace, and/or another provider, diverting traffic to an available cloud in the event of a failure. Read More ›
March 22nd, 2013
By bringing a third-party NoSQL system to its cloud, Joyent is one of the few service providers able to offer a highly scalable data management system as part of its service offering. Joyent already has a widely instrumented environment that could be useful in maintaining database operations. It makes use of DTrace, a utility within SmartOS for finding application or system problems in near real time. Read More ›
March 22nd, 2013
When it comes to complex business systems, open source offers us "community escrow" -- the ability to pick a different service provider to maintain the source code abandoned by your previous supplier. This was what the OpenSolaris community did when Oracle pulled out, and the resulting collaboratively maintained code continues to deliver differentiating value at the core of companies like Joyent and Nexenta under the name Illumos. Read More ›
March 21st, 2013
The database as a service market is heating up, as cloud providers look to court application developers with promising offerings. The latest such move is the result of a deepening partnership between Joyent and Cloudant. Cloudant is now available on the Joyent high-performance cloud platform, and the two today came out today with a multi-tenant Cloudant cluster running in Joyent's Jubilee data center in Ashburn, Virginia. Dedicated Cloudant clusters running on Joyent will be available this m… Read More ›
March 18th, 2013
After almost a year of continuous technical development, Cloudant is taking the wraps off of a database-as-a-service product served out of data centers operated by Joyent – a product that looks to be technically superior to its nearest as-a-service rival, Amazon's DyanamoDB. The deal was announced on Thursday and will see Cloudant make its CouchDB-based distributed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) available on top of Joyent's cloud. Read More ›
March 15th, 2013
In 2005, at age 31, Bryan Cantrill set the IT world on fire by inventing something called "DTrace" a realtime way to test software problems that changed diagnostics forever. He was working for Sun Microsystems at the time. After Oracle acquired Sun, Cantrill moved to cloud company Joyent. There he became the face of "node.js" another technology setting the programming world on fire. Read More ›
March 11th, 2013
As Joyent CTO Jason Hoffman once told GigaOM, Node.js is a very good way to write high-performance servers that need to handle APIs and facilitate very fast data ingress and egress. Those are attributes that might come in handy for enterprise developers. Read More ›
March 11th, 2013
The infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market is already packed with a variety of providers, though, most notably Amazon Web Services, along with a bevy of competitors like Rackspace, Joyent, Terremark, HP, Google and Savvis, just to name a few. Read More ›
March 9th, 2013
Nowadays, though, while the tools and technologies we use have improved enormously…imagine, God forbid, that you're building some sort of web service. Should you use Ruby on Rails? Node.js? Python and Django? PHP and Drupal? .NET? Any of the panoply of Java servers? Something new and cool like Go or Scala? And how/where will you host your code? Amazon? Heroku? App Engine? Joyent? EngineYard? Force.com? How about your app? You'll have an app, right? On which platforms? Native code? Hybrid HTML5? Cross… Read More ›
March 5th, 2013
How big an impact has Hadoop had on the technology world? Check out our infographic on the reach of the most important big data tool of our time. Read More ›
March 4th, 2013
This includes core infrastructure, storage and other related infrastructure. Amazon.com by far the leader in this space is estimated to have a revenue between $3.5 and $4B this year. Rackspace made a little over $1B in total revenue of which about $350 mi is estimated to be cloud revenue. There are other similar players like GoGrid, Saavis, Joyent etc. We can estimate this IaaS market to be about $5-6B in size. The long tail in this case is not statistically significant as there are a finite… Read More ›
February 25th, 2013
On February 12, I interviewed Telefonica Digital's Director of Investments, Tracy Isacke. As she explained, she is originally from the UK and lived in Italy and Israel before a career in sales at Xerox. Now her job is to "meet, advise, invest in and acquire start-ups from Silicon Valley, Israel, Europe, Latin and South America." She led the acquisitions of TokBox and Jajah, and investments in Joyent, Boku, Addfleet, and Everything.me. Read More ›
February 21st, 2013
[Google's] support plans are probably a move to make the services more competitive with the likes of Amazon Web Services, Joyent, and Microsoft Azure. It's hard to say how well the Google family of cloud products has done in the market, but research conducted by cloud management vendor Zenoss found that Google App Engine was the most popular "platform cloud" among its users. Read More ›
February 15th, 2013
Essentially, Telefonica will start selling FeedHenry's platform to its European enterprise customers with Instant Servers providing the hosting piece. Technologically, the two platforms are fairly well aligned — FeedHenry uses Node.js for integration with its back-end systems, and the Joyent-based Instant Servers platform uses Node.js SmartMachine virtual machines. Predictably, the two companies talk in their statement about "sharing a vision for cloud computing". Read More ›
February 14th, 2013
Every six months or so stories crop up about startup companies leaving Amazon Web Services in whole or in part. Heck, I've done a few of those stories myself. These defectors usually cite fear of vendor lock-in as their rationale. And smart competitors — OpenStack players like Rackspace as well as Joyent, SoftLayer et al, do their best to capitalize on this "Amazon-has-gotten-too-big-for-its-britches" meme. Read More ›
February 13th, 2013
The problem, as Horan see it, is that when retailers turn to cloud computing, they'll have little choice but to call Amazon, which they see as a competitor. There are other options, ranging from Hewlett-Packard's burgeoning cloud services unit to another one at IBM, to Rackspace, Joyent, and Verizon's Terremark, to name a few. Using Rackspace for comparison, he estimates that Amazon's AWS could be worth as much as $101 billion by 2018. Read More ›
February 7th, 2013
When a company has a really huge data center and needs to use cloud tech to make it more efficient, it comes to Joyent. Joyent's tech costs "pennies on the dollar" compared to clouds built with tech from VMware, founder and CTO Jason Hoffman says. Hoffman left a successful career as an oncologist to start Joyent and it's really paid off. Famous angel Peter Thiel was an early investor—long before he became a Facebook billionaire. Since then, Intel has invested, as has Dell and EMC. In January, J… Read More ›
January 31st, 2013
Developers, listen up: Everything you're doing now will be irrelevant within the next ten years. The way you think about and build applications, services, and software — along with the tools you use to do so — will soon be irrelevant. There's a massive shift happening in technology, and we are failing to recognize its implications. While this may seem like a bold assertion, the change is actually quite straightforward: the client-server model is coming to an end. The traditional flow of data (end us… Read More ›
January 28th, 2013
Joyent announced a new Apache Hadoop-based solution built on the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) which allows companies to run enterprise-class Hadoop on the Joyent Cloud. The Hadoop solution is Joyent's first entry into the big data space, the company said. According to the provider, its operating system virtualization and CPU bursting technology enable fast response times in Hadoop applications. Joyent's Hadoop solution can be added to existing Joyent Cloud implementations. Read More ›
January 25th, 2013
Cloud infrastructure provider Joyent jumped into the big data game this week, rolling out an Apache Hadoop service to let enterprises process high-performance data applications. The Hadoop offering will use Hortonworks Data Platform running on Joyent's high-performance cloud infrastructure, Jason Hoffman, Joyent CTO and founder, said Friday in an interview with CRN. "Our feeling about the cloud is that its advancement is being driven very much by big data services where people want to do… Read More ›
January 24th, 2013
As a new entrant into the big data landscape Joyent is addressing industry demand to reduce costs and decrease query response times. Software product development services company Altoros Systems said that Hadoop clusters on Joyent Cloud produced a nearly 3X faster disk I/O response time versus identically-sized infrastructure. Read More ›
January 23rd, 2013
The post, The Next Phase of Node.js, discusses TJ's significant contributions to the project over the past year and also discusses Isaac's plans for the future. According to Isaac, TJ has been effectively leading Node for some time, and this move is just making the change official. Read More ›
January 23rd, 2013
Joyent meanwhile has also partnered with HortonWorks for its Hadoop offering, which it says runs with bare-metal performance in its cloud. Joyent claims it has the highest-performance hosted Hadoop offering, citing a study by Altoros Systems showing that its Hadoop clusters had nearly a three times faster disk input/output speed compared to similarly-sized infrastructure, while being one-third the price. Like SkyTap's offering, Joyent customers only pay for the IaaS resources, not the Hadoop… Read More ›
January 23rd, 2013
Cloud computing provider Joyent has entered the Hadoop era with a new offering, although it's likely just an appetizer for a much bigger data array of data services over the next year. Offering a Hadoop service is pretty much part and parcel of being a cloud provider at this point. By rolling out its own offering, Joyent joins the ranks of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, GoGrid, IBM and, soon enough, Rackspace. Joyent's Hadoop service is based on the Hortonworks Data Platform (as are the Mic… Read More ›
January 16th, 2013
Supermicro, which builds energy-sipping servers, is another favorite manufacturer among big infrastructure providers like SoftLayer and Joyent, which puts out RFPs for its servers. "It's the components and ratios that matter. We currently use three different chassis and three different boards: one chassis is Dell and two are Supermicro," said Jason Hoffman CTO of San Francisco-based Joyent. Read More ›
January 15th, 2013
Joyent, a San Francisco-based cloud provider and Riverbed customer, offers its users access to virtual application delivery and load balancing from the Stingray product line via both a provider-managed service -- like Amazon's ELB -- or as a service controlled and managed by the customer, said Jason Hoffman, chief technology officer for Joyent. The shared structure of Amazon's ELB service was a contributing factor in the Christmas Eve failure, Hoffman said. "Instead of having a monolithic… Read More ›
January 9th, 2013
All cloud merchants make the servers seem like a commodity. You log in, you click some buttons, and you have root on a new machine. Sure, you can add more RAM, but other than that, a box is a box, right? Ah, it's trickier than that and Joyent Cloud is the proof. The company is selling a cloud machine, based on Solaris with some virtualization layer tweaks, that runs a bit faster than the others, which we learned when we started running basic tests. Not every one of our tests ran dramatically… Read More ›
January 9th, 2013
At the beginning, the idea behind Node.js seemed ludicrous. Who'd want to trade all the wonderful abstraction and programmer-liberating freedom of the thread model for all the drudgery of making sure your code can't deadlock? Who would want to try to keep nesting methods inside of methods inside of other methods just because that's how JavaScript loves to toss them around? Programmers may debate these issues for years to come, but Node.js will continue to gain converts as long as it offers fast… Read More ›
January 9th, 2013
The partnership between Message Bus and Joyent could be viewed as a milestone in the messaging and infrastructure world, Joyent officials said. By delivering on the promise of the real-time cloud, Message Bus and Joyent are liberating organizations from hardware dependencies that are not only costly and complex, but also limit the full potential of digital messaging across channels. Read More ›
January 9th, 2013
The drive for ease and flexibility is a big part of the industry's obsession with the cloud, and we were not immune to it. The various cloud services are on the list because they made things simpler than filling out the requisition forms, buying your own machines, and even configuring the stacks. You push some buttons on a Web page and you have root. Providing ease wasn't enough, though, because the industry is full of clouds that do that. We ended up awarding Joyent Cloud and Windows Azure,… Read More ›
January 8th, 2013
With billions of messages going out into the cyber-ether every month, enterprise messaging is a huge market, but it's one that requires fast, reliable and high-capacity systems, said Jason Hoffman, founder and CTO of Joyent, in a prepared statement. Joyent's cloud was designed to provide high performance, dynamic bursting and infinite scalability in an elastic environment. Read More ›
January 6th, 2013
Joyent CTO Jason Hoffman said the company sees lots of prospects that are AWS users. "Do we sit down and go after [AWS] in our materials? No. But we do talk about our availability from an uptime perspective and in aggregate we do less than 10 seconds of downtime per year. So from an availability standpoint we do very well and our conversations with customers touch on that." Read More ›
December 23rd, 2012
Joyent appointed Henry Wasik as its chief executive officer. Wasik brings more than 20 years of senior leadership experience to Joyent and was previously president and CEO of Force10 Networks. Read More ›
December 23rd, 2012
The year began with Node.js creator Ryan Dahl backing not-so-slowly away from the technology's day-to-day operations inside Joyent, hinting on Twitter that he was a bit Node'd out. But as Node was passed into the hands of other caretakers, it was also gaining traction at larger companies and within larger applications. Walmart started using it. Google and Mozilla talked about how it can scale, and LinkedIn used it for its revamped mobile suite. And Yahoo used it to build a better mobile browser. Read More ›
December 17th, 2012
In 1956, the first modern container ship traveled from Newark to Houston. It seems like such a simple idea now: a boat carrying not random little crates, but massive containers that could easily be moved onto trains and trucks and straight into factories. The arrangement took years to construct, perfect and implement. But once it was put into use, the global shipping industry would never be the same. Containers revolutionized the shipping industry because they made it easier to transport… Read More ›
November 26th, 2012
"AWS feels that IBM entering with SmartCloud and HP with its public cloud may take away enterprise customers because [those older vendors] have much better relationships with them," said one AWS partner. Telefonica and Joyent's joint public cloud offering is also a problem for Amazon because telcos not only own the network, they are also known to have tight relationships with enterprises. Read More ›
November 26th, 2012
Joyent is also appealing to organizations that are looking to the cloud for IT operations. The IaaS provider unveiled Joyent7, a re-architected remote infrastructure offering that comes with a number of unique features. These include a built-in debugger for Node.js, extended workflow APIs, new DevOps tools and other functionality that aims to streamline the solution across the board. Read More ›
November 21st, 2012
Said one AWS partner: "AWS feels that IBM entering with SmartCloud and HP with its public cloud may take away enterprise customers because [those older vendors] have much better relationships with them." Developments like Telefonica's joint public cloud offering with Joyent is also a problem for Amazon given that telcos also have tight enterprise relationships and telcos "own the network edge," he said. Read More ›
November 21st, 2012
The updated cloud system "is for people who want to be a service provider, like us," said Hoffman in a visit to InformationWeek's office. Joyent operates a combination of its software and x86 hardware for partners in Europe, Russia, Asia and South America who are providing cloud-based services. Read More ›
November 21st, 2012
In the end, Joyent is offering a different kind of commodity than most of the IaaS cloud providers. Joyent is selling you a machine, just like they are, but Joyent's appliances are engineered to deliver Web pages and database storage as a service. Joyent has worked extensively on streamlining the connection between the incoming HTTP request and the bare metal. All that stands in between are Node and SmartOS, and both can be incredibly efficient in the right hands. Joyent is essentially… Read More ›
November 20th, 2012
Joyent recently released the Joyent7, the first fabric-based cloud infrastructure platform that will help enterprises and cloud service providers to fulfill their ever increasing cloud management needs. Joyent7 has been designed to deliver the performance required to run solutions for almost endless users, and allow enterprises of any size to become a cloud services provider within their own organization. Read More ›
November 16th, 2012
Existing utility markets include ones for water, electricity, gas and, to a degree, basic internet connectivity. A utility market occurs when an item has been commoditised to the point that it becomes very hard to differentiate on a technology basis, and instead companies distinguish themselves through different levels of service, availability and support. Read More ›
November 15th, 2012
"We're strip mining Mongolia so we can look at pictures of cats." That was one of Jason Hoffman's, the CTO of Joyent, first statements in his talk at Compute Midwest. It was a stark reminder that the internet is more than code on your mobile phone or laptop. It's made of large centers of power that consume resources. Read More ›
November 15th, 2012
As the cloud market matures, effects of scale lock the industry into dependence on a few large companies. In this latest industrial revolution, new entrants will face a tough fight. Read More ›
November 13th, 2012
The growth of cloud computing will affect the economic nature of the industry as much as its technology. The huge scale at which the hardware and software of the cloud operates is having a significant effect on not only the types of technology being used in the industry, but which companies stand to benefit from its rise. Read More ›
November 12th, 2012
With scattered reports of customer defections in the wake of major outages, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced today that it has expanded to the Asia Pacific region after opening a new data center in Australia. AWS is a collection of web services that Amazon offers; the most well-known include Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. It's the largest cloud computing provider in the world, but it faces heat from Rackspace, Microsoft Azure, and newcomers like Joyent. Read More ›
November 9th, 2012
Joyent, a San Francisco-based cloud infrastructure provider, has named a new CEO and says it plans an updated version of its Joynet6 cloud platform for enterprises. Henry Wasik, most recently president and CEO of Force10 Networks, will take over as Joyent's CEO, the company said. At Force10 Networks, Wasik increased revenue tenfold to $200 million after joining Force10 in 2004. Read More ›
November 7th, 2012
The good news keeps on coming for cloud infrastructure up-and-comer Joyent – today, the company announced a new CEO, global expansion plans, and a new software release. Read More ›
November 7th, 2012
Joyent is one of those companies that seems just different from the rest. It's not jumping on a bandwagon of any kind — the company sets its own agenda, building open-source technologies that don't require investments in locked up, converged systems. It appears that we are just on the verge of seeing what Joyent is becoming. What emerges will depend on how carriers like Telefonica view the advantages of a smart data center running on a smart OS. Read More ›
November 7th, 2012
Joyent competes against other IaaS providers such as Amazon's Web Services, but is building a fundamentally different architecture aimed at serving the compute and economic needs of cloud and webscale customers. Read More ›
November 7th, 2012
The widespread adoption of mobile devices is driving the proliferation of cloud applications, which need to be properly supported by enterprises. Traditional on-premises infrastructures are increasingly unable to support the demands for highly intensive mobile and Web-based applications. With this trend in mind, cloud infrastructure provider Joyent has launched Joyent7, a fabric-based cloud infrastructure platform designed to support the increasing demands of large enterprises and cloud… Read More ›
October 16th, 2012
The data-center business may seem like something brand new, but in many ways it is really just a virtual version of the traditional container-shipping business, Joyent founder and chief technology officer Jason Hoffman told attendees at GigaOM's Structure Europe conference on Tuesday morning in Amsterdam. And just as the development of modern container ships and shipping technology disrupted the manufacturing business, data centers and cloud economics are doing the same to digital businesses. T… Read More ›
October 12th, 2012
There are a few thousand people around the world trying to reimagine computing to make it faster and more energy-efficient so we can continue to make the web an integral part of our lives. But unlike most of them, Jason Hoffman doesn't work at a big Internet company like Google or Facebook and he didn't start with a background in computer science. Hoffman came to the challenge by a different path: a quest to save his mother's life. In 2005, Hoffman's mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. His gra… Read More ›
September 20th, 2012
New tools are appearing in the ongoing battle to reduce energy consumption in a data center, and some of these tools are also designed to boost a data center's power usage effectiveness (PUE) rating. Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and Microsoft compete to get to the lowest possible PUE measure in their newest data centers. PUE compares how much total electricity a data center imports to get a unit of computing done. Most older enterprise data centers have a PUE of 1.9- 2.0; they consume almost twice… Read More ›
September 19th, 2012
Joyent and Emerson Network Power have added the latter's data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solution Trellis to the hardware-and-software IT infrastructure package Joyent sells to companies that wish to provide cloud services. Read More ›
September 18th, 2012
Joyent is best known for offering its own Amazon-like "cloud" services, but it also sells stuff that helps companies running cloudy architectures in their own data centers. On Tuesday, the company pumped up this side of its business, unveiling a partnership with electrical equipment giant Emerson meant to help companies track how much energy is consumed by their in-house cloud applications. Read More ›
September 11th, 2012
I've had a sense for a while that infrastructure-as-a-service (like Amazon Web Services) and platform-as-a-service (like Heroku) are converging. Developers love the idea of using a PaaS to speed up provisioning and deployment, but don't necessarily want to completely give up control of their environments. One sign of this convergence is Pagoda Box, a PaaS that provides a deeper level of control over infrastructure while still abstracting away all the hard stuff. Read More ›
August 15th, 2012
Jason Hoffman calls himself a 'data center industrialist'. The 39-year-old co-founder and CTO of the San Francisco-based cloud powerhouse Joyent says his company is industrializing data centers much like mechanization and standardization transformed the shipping industry. Instead of having longshoremen carrying loads to and from ships, we now have heavily mechanized ports designed around the standard shipping container. In the same way, infrastructure cloud for Joyent is taking the job of pro… Read More ›
July 9th, 2012
By Charles Babcock Joyent's unique infrastructure design doesn't follow the path of Google or Amazon, includes built-in security and large data pipes for big business use. While Amazon and Google steal the limelight, Joyent has been hard at work off in the wings building out a competitive cloud infrastructure to compete with both of them. So far it's raised $120 million to produce an infrastructure that departs significantly from both Amazon and Google. At the same time, it competes on price… Read More ›
July 6th, 2012
By Cade Metz Though few realize it, Google is now one of the world's largest hardware makers. Since 2000, the company has designed the computer servers that underpin its empire of online services, including Google Search, Gmail, and Google Docs, and since 2005, according to one former employee, it has also designed the networking equipment that connects these servers. For years, the company kept all this very quiet, seeing its hardware design efforts as perhaps its most significant advantage o… Read More ›
July 2nd, 2012
Queena Kim Listen to the radio story: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/competition-heads-cloud Tess Vigeland: So I went to post on Instagram Friday night -- a photo of the beautiful Pasadena city hall building at night -- and I got this error message. So did everybody else who uses Instagram, Netflix or Pinterest. What mayhem was this? A storm. Which, by the way, caused all kinds of untold actual damage, as well as the horror of not being able to post pictures of what you're eating. Bu… Read More ›
June 30th, 2012
Barb Darrow 6/30/12 Massive thunderstorms notwithstanding, the fact that Amazon's U.S. East data center went down again Friday night while other cloud services hosted in the same area kept running raises anew questions about whether Amazon is suffering architectural glitches that go beyond acts of God. While most Amazon services were back up Saturday morning, the company was still working on provisioning the backlog for its ELB load balancers as of 5:31 p.m. eastern time, according to the AWS da… Read More ›
June 25th, 2012
Martin Banks Some people call it Bring Your Own Device, and some Bring Your Own System. But whether you opt for BYOD or BYOS, the end result is the same: the growing need to oblige organisations around the world to embrace the BYOD/BYOS approach, and allow personal smartphones and tablets to access business applications and private corporate data. And let's face it, the move makes a great deal of sense. Not only do staff get to use tools they are familiar with – and it is quite likely the b… Read More ›
June 22nd, 2012
By Jessica Binns, Contributing Editor Mobile risk company Fixmo is working with Joyent, a cloud computing provider, to deliver cloud-based mobile security and corporate data protection solutions to enable secure, managed and compliant BYOD deployments in a scalable cloud environment. The companies will jointly offer Fixmo's defense-grade mobile solutions for BYOD security, device management, data loss prevention (DLP) and compliance assurance through Joyent's carrier-grade SmartOS and Sma… Read More ›
April 29th, 2012
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… Read More ›
April 24th, 2012
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 Conferenc… Read More ›
April 19th, 2012
Joyent, a cloud provider that counts LinkedIn among its customers, is launching its services in Europe today. The launch of Joyent Cloud Europe is driven by demand from the company's North American customers looking to grow their European business, it said. "Many of our Joyent Cloud customers have experienced significant growth based on the superior user experience and performance we deliver on Joyent Cloud," said Steve Tuck, executive VP and general manager of Joyent Cloud. Read More ›
April 19th, 2012
Joyent has brought its cloud to Europe to meet demand from local companies, using a Dutch datacentre to cut latency on services previously provided by its US facilities. The European expansion, launched on Thursday, comes after the San Francisco-based company closed a £54m round of funding to give it the resources to expand globally and take on cloud incumbent Amazon Web Services. Joyent also plans to open datacentres in Singapore and Tokyo to meet demand there, Steven Tuck, general manager of … Read More ›
March 9th, 2012
Summary Bryan talks about the challenges of operating Node.js in real production environments and the experiences he had working with it at Joyent. He also talks about DTrace, SmartOS, V8 and compares with other platforms. Bio Bryan Cantrill is VP of Engineering at Joyent, where he has led development of Joyent's SmartOS and SmartDataCenter products. Previously a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, Bryan has spent over fifteen years working on system software, from the guts of the… Read More ›
March 6th, 2012
Joyent will extend its real-time public cloud offering to Asia in the second quarter of 2012. This move is made to help Joyent customers expand their businesses into the two regions. The extension will also aid its partners like Telefonica (News - Alert) who have to deliver real-time infrastructure that can handle the increasing need for machine-to-machine and real-time mobile communications. Joyent, a global provider of cloud computing software and services, will begin the extension with a p… Read More ›
March 2nd, 2012
I had the privilege of chairing the infrastructure track at last week's Cloud Connect conference. Three of the presentations were particularly interesting, offering a good perspective on just how dramatic an effect cloud computing is having on IT. Summed up, the capability and agility of cloud computing is forcing an extremely rapid evolution. In a sense, these effects are akin to what would happen to an established living ecosystem were significant change to occur within. One could expect to… Read More ›
February 27th, 2012
There is nothing special about small companies or startups getting funding, other than the obvious vindication of the opportunities in cloud computing. In fact, such funding stories have been the focus of several articles here (See the latest one: Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 8). However, there's something different, and in my opinion, special, about the $85 million round of funding closed by San Francisco cloud services provider Joyent (http://www.joyent.com/). What's spec… Read More ›
February 7th, 2012
February 7th, 2012
Summary: We had a chance to speak with Joyent about some of its latest developments. Details: Joyent recently raised an $85m funding round, with the majority investment provided by European group Weather Investment II. Weather Investment II is a strategic investor in telecommunications companies. Telefónica Digital also participated in the round. Telefónica Digital is a strategic arm of the telco (of the same name). Telefónica: Joyent is working with Telefónica Digital to service Telefónica's interna… Read More ›
February 6th, 2012
Joyent, the California-based cloud computing startup founded by Jason Hoffman, caught up with John Furrier and Alex Williams at the Cube to talk about Node's strategy and technical impact. He discussed everything Node.js at the first NodeSummit in San Francisco. In a conversation with own our John Furrier and Alex Williams, Hoffman discussed his company's history, the recent massive funding round of $85 million, Node.js and its evolution in both the future of computing and today's deployed syste… Read More ›
January 28th, 2012
January 28, 2012—- Five years ago, a fifteen-year-old student built a website; this week, the same website won the Node Jam at Node Summit, the conference focusing on all things Node.js. Quizlet is a site you might never have heard of unless you were a teen or an educator, yourself. The flashcard-focused site helps millions of students who need to memorize information and prepare for tests by making learning both fun and effective. The teenage founder, Andrew Sutherland (pictured), built the p… Read More ›
January 27th, 2012
January 27, 2012—- The Fedora Project is currently mounting a concerted effort to merge Linux filesystem directories into a more organized structure, an effort known as /usr merge. This is not really new news: I covered this back in November. But a new posting on FreeDesktop.org from systemd developer Lennart Poettering is seeking to dispel many of the arguments against such a merge, while touting the merger's advantages. Poettering is not the initial proposer of /usr merge—that designation goes … Read More ›
January 24th, 2012
January 23, 2012—- Telecoms provider also makes equity investment in the company for use of its technologies and software as it looks to boost its product offering Telefónica has signed an agreement with cloud and systems software provider Joyent to give it access to Joyent's latest technologies and software for the deployment of cloud services. Telefónica, which has also made an equity investment in Joyent, said cloud-based services are a key focus area for its new Digital unit, and that Joyen… Read More ›
January 23rd, 2012
January 23, 2012—- Amazon Web Services isn't the only cloud computing game in town, and one of its competitors just got a lot stronger: Joyent has rasied $85 million from a surprising source—Spanish phone company Telefonica. European private equity firm Weather Investment II also participated. Joyent actually began offering its public cloud service a few months before Amazon, according to CEO David Young—"although we didn't call it cloud." While AWS is used by a lot of high-profile startups, Joyent has mo… Read More ›
January 23rd, 2012
January 23, 2012—- Cloud company Joyent boosted by $85m of venture funding for range of new services Joyent is set to get some big funding in its move on Amazon's cloud market. The San Francisco-based company has just snaffled a whopping $85 million in funding in its bid to ramp up its cloud offering. The European venture capital firm Weather Investment II, advised by Accelero Capital, is providing the bulk of the funding, with Spanish telco Telefonica also participating as a strategic inv… Read More ›
January 23rd, 2012
January 23, 2012—- Joyent, a San Francisco-based provider of cloud computing software and services, has raised $85 million in new VC funding. Weather Investment II led the round, and was joined by Telefonica Digital and return backers El Dorado Ventures, Epic Ventures, Greycroft Partners, Intel Capital, and Liberty Global. The company previously raised over $27 million. Read more Read More ›
January 23rd, 2012
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 r… Read More ›
January 23rd, 2012
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 telec… Read More ›
January 23rd, 2012
January 23, 2012—- In its first acquisition since 2006, Home Depot has acquired home services specialist Red Beacon, which has a software platform that lets pre-screened home service professionals–plumbers, painters, house cleaners and so on–bid for jobs. Home Depot will use Red Beacon to connect its own customers, which include both consumers and professionals. The race to supply companies with the software they need to build an Amazon-style cloud service is heating up, with $85 million in new fundi… Read More ›
January 23rd, 2012
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 Tele… Read More ›
January 23rd, 2012
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 of VisaNet — 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 Vis… Read More ›
January 22nd, 2012
January 23, 2012—- David Young plans to use $85 million to build his cloud computing company into a global force. A San Francisco company that provides cloud computing power for businesses has pulled in $85 million in funding and a partnership with one of the world's largest telecommunications company. "You need to think of this as almost a Star Alliance for the cloud," Dave Young, chief executive of Joyent, said of his company's deal with Telefonica Digital, which participated in the funding round. Sp… Read More ›
January 22nd, 2012
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 t… Read More ›