Joyent Supports hi5 and Open Social
MARIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA – March 13, 2008: Expands Social Networking partnerships by providing free Accelerators optimized for the Open Social platform.
Accelerator
Cloud Computing with Joyent Accelerators
Joyent provides Cloud Computing infrastructure and services to Web 2.0 developers and Fortune 500 companies. We make it possible for our clients to quickly move from idea to a web application with millions of users – without the pain of large capital outlays and long-term vendor contracts, and while still getting all the stability, security, and quality of a a dedicated private data-center.
Joyent’s Cloud
Joyent Accelerators are the fundamental building block of our cloud. Accelerators are virtualized servers deployed within an ecosystem of the highest grade networking and routing fabric available, hardware load balancing, persistent and fast storage, and a top notch systems development and operations team. Our Accelerator™ powered compute cloud provides a highly scalable on-demand infrastructure for running web sites, including rich web applications written in Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python and Java. Joyent’s cloud is open, scalable, and fast.
Proven Track Record
- We have the largest OpenSolaris installation in the world
- Joyent manages hundreds of TBs of storage in each datacenter
- We serve billions of web pages each month for our customers
- Joyent delivers and receives hundreds of millions of emails every month
Joyent’s Storage is Real, Not Virtual
OpenSolaris’ ZFS filesystem provides seamless access to as much NAS powered storage as you need. This means that if the system goes down, you do not need to suffer through a long boot as you re-instantiate an entire virtual machine, with data, from a remote data store. Instead, your data is still there on your disks and the Open Solaris means you can be up and running within 10 seconds.
Rails Applications Rock On Joyent
Joyent has a long successful history of scaling Ruby on Rails Web applications to thousands and tens of thousands of requests/second, including Linkedin’s ‘Bumpersticker,’ and our own Joyent Connector collaboration suite. If you build in Rails, Joyent’s experience can prove invaluable.
Open and Standards Based Means No Lock-In
We are going to try and get you hooked on our great support, first class infrastructure and flexibility; but we are never going to lock you in. If you become the next billion-dollar Web wonder, this means your set-up is entirely portable. Of course, you then have to invest a huge amount in off-the-shelf hardware.
Buy what you need, when you need it
We have several Accelerators plans to choose from, and as well as a variety of multi-Accelerator Scale Packs.
We are also happy to to chat with you more to assist you in your decision. Just provide us a little detail on yourself, and we’ll get you in touch with one of our knowledgeable staff.