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Joyent Secures $85M in Venture Funding to Fuel Global Growth and Continued Innovation

By dusan | January 23, 2012
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Joyent, a global provider of cloud computing software and services, has announced it has completed an $85 million funding round, with European group Weather Investment II providing the majority of the round.

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Joyent Offers SmartOS With KVM

By admin | August 17, 2011

Joyent, the global provider of cloud computing software and services, has announced that it has ported KVM to its operating system, SmartOS. SmartOS turns any server into a highly efficient, multi-tenant application hosting platform.  The open source project offers innovative tools for application developers looking for reliable, resilient storage and efficient virtualization that Joyent has [...]

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Joyent Features Casual and Social Game Customers at Game Developers Conference ‘11

By admin | March 3, 2011

JoyentCloud, a division of Joyent, the global provider of cloud computing solutions, announced today that its customers, including Oceanside Interactive, Thump Games, Mob Science and Soco Games, will be featured in the Joyent booth at Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco March 2 to March 4. Visitors will be able to see these companies’ [...]

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Joyent’s Cloud Infrastructure Consistently Outperforms Amazon’s EC2 in Independent Benchmarks

By jason | February 18, 2011

Third party tests comparing Joyent’s and Amazon’s cloud servers highlight Joyent’s speed, performance and technical innovation Joyent, the leading global provider of cloud computing solutions and technologies, today announced a series of third party benchmark results that demonstrate that its cloud services are faster and make more efficient use of cloud infrastructure than do Amazon’s [...]

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Joyent to Provide Network Automation and M2M Services

By admin | February 9, 2011

San Francisco, CA – Wednesday, February 9, 2011 – Joyent, the leading global provider of cloud computing solutions and technologies, and m2mi, (Machine-to-Machine Intelligence Corporation), a maker of network orchestration and automation products in the cloud M2M market, announced a partnership today. The combination of Joyent’s SmartDataCenter 6.0, including a native Node.js run time and [...]

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Joyent Enhances Its Leading Cloud Services Platform with Addition of Free On-Demand Application Management

By admin | February 5, 2011

Organizations that choose JoyentCloud can use free New Relic RPM to proactively monitor and troubleshoot business-critical web apps across multiple development languages JoyentCloud, the leading global provider of cloud computing solutions, and New Relic, the leading software-as-a-service provider of application performance management solutions, today announced the availability of New Relic RPM Bronze as a free [...]

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Joyent Announced SmartDataCenter 6.0

By jason | January 25, 2011

Cloud computing solutions provider Joyent announced last week  the newest version of its cloud operating system, SmartDataCenter 6. As stated in the company’s press release, the integrated suite of software and services is designed for service providers and enterprises to launch and operate public, private and hybrid clouds. Joyent was recently positioned by Gartner in [...]

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Cloud Computing to Reduce Data Center Energy Consumption

By Green Commerce Bureau | December 17, 2010

Whether cloud computing is a more sustainable and more eco-friendly way of running data centers is an ongoing debate which gets more intense as firms like Gartner and Pike Research are coming out with reports to support the claim of cloud as a green technology. According to the latest figures, data centers represent 1.5 percent [...]

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Dell to Provide Joyent Cloud Software Solution to Service Providers

By admin | November 19, 2010

New revenue streams, higher profitability and quicker time to market for telcos, data centers, ISPs and others San Francisco, CA—November 19, 2010— Joyent, a global provider of cloud computing solutions and technology, today announced availability of its SmartDataCenter cloud software solution for service providers at an event introducing the Dell Cloud Solution for Web Applications. [...]

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Joyent Webinar August 25: Security in the Cloud

By ginger | August 17, 2010

Last month we brought you a webinar on Performance and Scale in the cloud. To continue our series on the basics of cloud computing, we bring you a webinar on Security in Public and Private Cloud Infrastructures. It will take place on Wednesday, August 25 at 11 am PDT/ 2pm EDT.
This is one of those… Read more ›

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Joyent Names Bryan Cantrill Vice President of Engineering

By ginger | July 28, 2010

Former Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer Takes on Cloud OS Innovation as the Latest Addition to Joyent’s Growing Team
SAN FRANCISCO, July 28 /PRNewswire/ — Joyent, a leading global provider of cloud computing solutions, today named Bryan Cantrill as VP of Engineering. Cantrill will be responsible for overseeing worldwide development focused… Read more ›

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