David Young

CEO & Co Founder at Joyent, Inc

David founded Joyent in 2004 to provide a comprehensive suite of internet-delivered software and on-demand infrastructure for small to medium organizations. Prior to Joyent, David worked at Moody’s Investor Service (1989-1999) in the Structured Finance, International, and Digital Media groups as General Manager and corporate Vice President and was co-founder and CTO of manageStar (2000-2004), an enterprise services management software company whose customers included TimeWarner, Sodexho, and Global Signal. David was the principal architect of manageStar’s Harmony platform for service delivery and managed a team of 80+ developers in San Francisco and Bangalore, India. David holds a BA in Classics (Greek), cum laude, from Indiana University. He lives in the joyent lifestyle in Marin County with his wife Maria and their two daughters.

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Is the Cloud Broken?
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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Contributions
Cloudbook Video: An Introduction to Joyent
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.


Cloudbook Video: Is Cloud Computing as we know it broken?
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.


Video: Sun Server Infrastructure: Joyent, Inc
Contributors: Jason Hoffman & David Young
David Young and Jason Hoffman from Joyent discuss how their Sun server infrastructure has contributed to their success.


Video: Joyant on Cloud Computing at eBay
eBay invited Joyent's CEO, David Young, to come in and speak to them about Cloud Computing.


Article: Google App Engine: Cashing in on the User Data
Google App Engine: Cashing in on the user data


Video: Sun Success Story: Joyent
Contributors: Jason Hoffman & David Young
Joyent discusses their experience with Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 systems with CoolThreads technology.


Article: Joyent A-Twitter Preaching its Shared Infrastructure
Joyent A-Twitter Preaching its Shared Infrastructure




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