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| Smart Platform |
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| The Joyent Smart Platform is an open source web application development Platform as a Service (PaaS) that provides developers with an effective way to develop, deploy and auto-scale web applications. You write the code and Joyent takes care of the infrastructure, including the data store, content store, backups and software upgrades. |
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| The Joyent Cloud is an open, fully standards based, cloud computing Infrastructure as a Service with flexibility, security, and enterprise-grade performance. The Joyent Cloud offers a highly scalable on-demand infrastructure for running web sites and web applications written in Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python and Java. Its supported by high grade networking and routing fabric, hardware load balancing, and fast storage. |
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| Featured Stories |
| Smart Cloud Computing Takes Risk Out of Viral Marketing Campaigns |
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| How AKQA Utilizes Joyent's Cloud to Launch and Manage Viral Marketing Campaigns | |
| by Jeff Vance | |
| When successful advertising campaigns go viral, even cloud-based applications struggle to accommodate demand spikes and traffic bursts. Global advertising agency AKQA turned to Joyent and its Smart Computing technology to design campaigns for “Facebook scale.” | |
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| Photographic Creativity Meets Business in the Cloud |
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| ShootQ’s Customers Have Collected More Than $144 Million Through It’s SaaS Solution Hosted on the Joyent Cloud. | |
| by Vince Vasquez | |
| The more visible examples of creativity often involve stories of genius. Whether staring at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, appreciating the complexity of sending a man to the moon, or admiring an Ansel Adams blackand-white landscape, we often associate pure genius at work in creating these masterpieces. And yet, creative inspiration and delivery don’t need to be so grand: Any mother who on the spot thinks of a clever way to distract her toddler knows this to be true. | |
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| Entertainment Insurance Gets Set in the Cloud |
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| How a husband and wife team built a multmillion-dollar business that leverages Joyent’s cloud to bring new levels of automation to a very challenging insurance industry vertical. | |
| by Larry Aiken | |
| With all the numerous details that go into creating a multimillion-dollar blockbuster, calling the insurance agent to get a policy is often a producer’s have-to-have-it-today, last-minute call. Unfortunately, delivering insurance quotes for entertainment has always been a challenge to automate, meaning most players take at least three days to respond. This created an opportunity for entrepreneurs Andee Abad and Brad Hodges from the Truman Van Dyke Company and New Empire Entertainment Services, Inc. to step in and deliver an upgrade to the insurance industry, bringing new levels of automation and delivering same-day entertainment insurance quotes. They didn’t have the time, money or interest to build their own IT infrastructure. Instead, they choose Joyent’s cloud to play a starring role. | |
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| Facilitating Brand Ambassadors at Facebook Scale |
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| Context Optional Enables Brands to Socialize, While Joyent Provides the Underlying Cloud Infrastructure | |
| by David Macias & Vince Vasquez | |
| A key to becoming relevant in the world of social media is to develop brand ambassadors, people who will enthusiastically promote your brand to their friends. However, building brand ambassadors is no slam dunk. A technology-enabled service provider like Context Optional can work with your brand marketing team to develop engaging social media campaigns, including the building of Facebook applications. In parallel, a cloud computing provider such as Joyent can deliver the underlying infrastructure to enable the campaigns that go viral to scale at Facebook scale. | |
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| Is the Cloud Broken? |
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| And a Look at How a Second Generation Cloud Provider Offers a Solution | |
| by Vince Vasquez | |
| The underlying architecture chosen by first-generation cloud providers borrows heavily from the server consolidation and virtualization era. The major difference is that the pools of compute cores are now being deployed as public-facing services, versus running the previous generation of siloed applications. Unfortunately, the resulting inefficiencies prevent full realization of the cloud promise of truly low-cost, high-performing, elastic computing. In response, Joyent has emerged as a second generation provider, rethinking fundamental cloud architecture, and ushering in the era of what they call “Smart Computing.” | |
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| Resources |
Web Resource: Node.jsTM Services Datasheet  |
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July 11 2011 |
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A portfolio of services for enterprises and entrepreneurs to deliver and consume data-intensive, real-time applications across devices. |
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| Paper: The Economics of CapEx and OpEx in Cloud Computing |
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June 30 2011 |
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To date, analysis of the true benefits of moving critical computing functions into the cloud remains largely framed by a straight-up comparison between buying servers, renting portions of servers at co-location facilities, and buying computing and storage capacity in a public cloud. In any Capital Expense (CapEx) or Operating Expense (OpEx) calculations, it’s important to consider capabilities that are truly unique to cloud- based deployments that may not show up in traditional CapEx and OpEx calculations. |
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| Cloudbook Video: ShootQ on Joyent |
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September 08 2010 |
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Jonathan LaCour, VP of Product Development, discusses his company's experiences running on Joyent's cloud infrastructure. |
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| Cloudbook Video: Context Optional Runs on Joyent |
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August 26 2010 |
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Context Optional Director of R&D, Rafi Jacoby, talks about many of the benefits derived by running facebook applications on Joyent. |
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| Paper: Joyent Arista Switch Management |
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July 24 2010 |
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Joyent, a pioneer in cloud computing, and Arista Networks, the pioneer of 10 GbE cloud networking, are working together to build technology that will enable the automated management of network resources using Joyent cloud computing infrastructure. The two companies are now working together to provide users of Joyent infrastructure built using Arista switches with centralized switch management that will significantly improve the manageability, scalability and security of cloud infrastructure. |
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| Paper: Cloud Computing Overview |
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July 22 2010 |
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This paper addresses potential business concerns and prevalent misperceptions of cloud computing and offers interested businesses concrete advice for making informed decisions. Finally, this paper broadly describes the cloud computing architecture that Joyent offers in the Smart technologies. |
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| Paper: Joyent Smart Architecture for Cloud Computing |
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July 22 2010 |
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This paper examines the broad architectural differences in cloud computing products, the drawbacks to more generic approaches in cloud delivery, and the Joyent philosophy of constructing cloud computing infrastructures. The paper then describes the Joyent Smart Technologies cloud architecture from server and operating system through data center and software development platform. |
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| Paper: Performance and Scale In Cloud Computing |
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July 22 2010 |
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This paper discusses both the theory behind designing applications for scaling and performance and the practical implications of architectural decisions. Special attention is paid to the focus that cloud computing has placed on horizontal scale, and the implications that may have on application performance. |
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| Paper: Joyent Smart Technology Datasheet |
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July 19 2010 |
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A two-page overview of the Joyent Smart Technology stack providing information on SmartMachines, SmartDataCenter, and SmartPlatform. |
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| Paper: Joyent Cloud Hosting Services Datasheet |
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July 19 2010 |
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A two-page overview of the Joyent hosting services with pricing information, background on our physical data centers, and a comparison with Amazon EC2. |
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| Cloudbook Video: An Introduction to Joyent |
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June 22 2010 |
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The Founder and CEO of Joyent, David Young, gives an overview of how the Infrastructure as a Service company got started. He discusses their vision, their focus on providing great customer service, and more. |
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| Cloudbook Video: Smart Computing Overview |
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June 22 2010 |
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The former VP of Marketing, Adrian Ludwig, provides an overview of what Joyent calls Smart Computing. He begins by discussing traditional and virtual architectures, then moves on to discuss SmartMachines, SmartDataCenters and SmartPlatforms. |
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| Cloudbook Video: Smart Computing Chalk Talk |
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June 22 2010 |
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The former VP of Marketing, Adrian Ludwig, discusses Smart Computing in more detail by use of a chalk talk. He begins by discussing traditional and virtual architectures, then dives in more deeply into what Smart Computing is all about. |
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| Cloudbook Video: Is Cloud Computing as we know it broken? |
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June 22 2010 |
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The Founder & CEO at Joyent, David Young, challenges the status quo in cloud computing, asking whether customers really want to put the same old OS in the cloud, or whether they'd prefer not to worry about the OS at all and simply focus on making their applications more performant and scalable. David illustrates how Joyent's Smart Computing fixes what's broken in cloud computing and exceeds customers' needs for performance, scalability, security and economy. |
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| News |
| Joyent Announces SmartOS With KVM: An Open Source, Modern Operating System |
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| KVM on SmartOS provides entrepreneurs and enterprises highest performance and profit potential through best of breed cloud technologies | |
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August 17 2011 - Joyent, Inc |
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San Francisco — August 15, 2011 —Joyent, the global provider of cloud computing software and
services, today 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 tuned and hardened for modern, data-intensive real-time (DIRTy)
application deployment.
Joyent is the only vendor that offers enterprises and developers the best of both virtualization worlds in
a single operating system: One can employ hardware virtualization with KVM when there are operating
system dependencies, and operating system-level virtualization when the la |
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