Google’s Flash Mistake

Google made a mistake supporting Flash on Chrome and Chrome OS. A better solution may have been to allow customer to decide to install a plug-in. But content developers need to be pushed to HTML5, CSS, Javascript. Chrome OS was a “pure play” statement that “open” is the future of operating systems and the web, [...]

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What does it mean that Dell chose Joyent to power the cloud?

Today is a very important day for Joyent, and for software development.
Joyent recognized early on that Web development was unlocking transformative new capabilities for software developers. We were founded with the idea of building applications to make business more productive, and we knew that Joyent needed infrastructure that could scale quickly to satisfy user [...]

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Joyent Raises Institutional Money: Why We Did It

Today we announced that we recently closed a round of funding from Intel Capital. As entrepreneurs who founded and nurtured Joyent since 2004, and with a company that has funded itself entirely from revenues from selling products to our customers (with the exception of early seed capital put in by Peter Thiel, myself, and other [...]

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25% Discount Reminder – Sun Startup Essentials Members

For the past few years Joyent has worked with the Sun Startup Essentials Group to offer its members a 25% discount on Cloud Hosting on Joyent.
Sun Startup Essentials is an excellent program for those building a new business and/or launching a new idea. Becoming a member allows startups to leverage many program benefits including 25% [...]

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Unity 3D Skills Development Workshop – Montreal

10 Free Tickets Available for Each of the Following. Act Fast!
Workshop

Monday, November 16, 2009 from 12:30 PM – 4:00 PM (ET)
Montreal, Quebec | Concordia University, Engineering, Computer Science, and Visual Arts Complex (EV)

Networking Event

Monday, November 16, 2009 at 5:30 PM (ET)
Montreal, Quebec | Soupesoup

Joyent is sponsoring the Upcoming dimeRocker, Unity Workshop and Networking event [...]

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Introducing Joyent China

Joyent, Inc. is very happy to announce that today we are beginning operations within mainland China.
http://www.joyent.com.cn
Today, we have opened a limited service of the Joyent Cloud to customers within mainland China and will be opening to the general public later this year. We are happy to be working with Intel and the Qinhuangdao Economic and [...]

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On Cloud Standards, Transparency and Data Mobility

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?”.
To which I asked, “What do you mean?”
“Well, what do you think about API [...]

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Joyent and Yahoo! Launch Free Developer Program

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! user experience by building and deploying new experiences for them [...]

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Read/Write Load Balancing for MySQL with ZXTM in the Joyent Cloud

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. When implementing a scale out architecture for MySQL, replication is the [...]

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Webinar: Innovative Tools Being Used in the Cloud to Improve Security

Date & Time

30 Sep 2009 5:00pm PT

Register Here

Description:
During this web cast you will learn about some of the most innovative tools being used in the cloud to manage security. You will also find how the cloud is changing the business models for traditional software and network appliances so that customers now can leverage their features [...]

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