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I was on a panel last week talking about the role of infrastructure and "The Cloud" in online gaming (and I'm talking "fun" games, like Farmville, not online gambling). One of the questions was "What do you think about cloud interoperability and standards?"...

Joyent is very excited to partner with Yahoo! to create its newest Free Developer Program! Joyent is offering developers a Launch Accelerator optimized for the Yahoo! Application Platform free for one year! The Yahoo! Application Platform allows you to reach our users and improve the Yahoo...

Update: Rescheduled: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Register Here! Join us for this informative technical webinar with Raja Srinivasan - Zeus Technology, Rod Boothby - Joyent, and Jimmy Guerrero - Sun Microsystems, where we will explore how to load balance MySQL in the Joyent Public Cloud with ZXTM...

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Joyent is excited to announce the newest addition to our Virtual Appliance product line-up, the Joyent NetScaler VPX Accelerator...

In my weekly reading of posts around this mighty collection of tubes, pipes and cans connected by shoestrings, the thing most call The Internets™, I came across "Why we moved away from “the cloud” to a “real”server" from the fellows at Boxed Ice. They have a server metrics and monitoring ...

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 10:00 Pacific Time (America) Join us for this informative technical webinar with Jason Hoffman, CTO and Founder at Joyent, and Rafi Jacoby, Director of Engineering at Context Optional...

Joyent beats the competition in price and performance! To demonstrate we have continued on with the previously completed benchmarking work (as described in 2 previous posts by both (Rod and Jason) and benchmarked a few more parameters to create a price comparison...

Sometimes the customer isn't right. Sometimes they think they can pay you some money, never enough, and abuse your team. You have to stick up for the team. I recently sent this email to someone who wanted us to reset a password because they had requested the reset via an ...

For the past month I've been using four different cell phones behind the excellent Google Voice service. One phone number, four phones. The four phones are the Apple iPhone 3G (iPhone OS), the Nokia N97 (Symbian), the HTC G1 (Android), and the Palm Pre (Web OS). I use the iPhone ...

Last week we announced the MySQL accelerators and scalable architecture offerings. Like the Zeus Accelerators, this is a continuation of our goal to offer individual servers and entire architectures of known performance...

Joyent was one of the first companies to offer storage as Strongspace (Summer, 2005). Strongspace was a multi-user SFTP drive in the sky. A piece of trivia: Strongspace was the first product to use ZFS in production (ouside of Sun). We introduced Bingodisk in the Fall of 2006 to provide ...

Today we launched the Joyent Virtual Appliance for MySQL. They come with MySQL pre-installed and optimized to take full advantage of all the local RAM available. We worked directly with the team at MySQL to develop a MySQL solution that could get you up and running as fast as possible, with ...

Whether or not Apple releases a Netbook (=sub $500 fullish keyboard portable), this class of device is ultimately deadly to the likes of Apple and Microsoft. Why? Netbooks aren't mini-powerful laptops...