Comments on: How Much Money Did Joyent Really Raise?

By: Joyent Buys Layerboom to Offer Enterprises Easier Transition to the Cloud

Joyent Buys Layerboom to Offer Enterprises Easier Transition to the Cloud — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:41:19 +0000

[...] purchased Layerboom, a Vancouver-based startup, for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition helps Joyent create an easier on-ramp to the cloud for customers of its appliances and software. Layerboom, a Bootup Labs incubated company, makes [...]

By: Joyent Buys Layerboom To Offer Enterprises Easier Transition to the Cloud

Joyent Buys Layerboom To Offer Enterprises Easier Transition to the Cloud — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:08:47 +0000

By: Intel Corporation Invests Undisclosed Amount Into Joyent | Trends Updates

Intel Corporation Invests Undisclosed Amount Into Joyent | Trends Updates — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:59:31 +0000

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By: The Advertising Recovery; Debates Heat Up In Washington; Procurement Predicament Addressed By IPG’s Comonte

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:38:43 +0000

[...] Dean Takahashi of VentureBeat reports on Intel Capital's recent investment momentum. Takahashi says the computer chip manufacturer's venture arm has invested in 7 start-ups to the tune of $25 million including cloud computing infrastructure company, Joyent. Read more on VentureBeat. And, more discussion on Joyent on GigaOm. [...]

By: David Robins

David Robins — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:27:46 +0000

I don’t get what joyent advantages compared to Amazon are? We are moving our file hosting and collaboration service to Amazon (EC2, S3 and RDS) and after spending a while on Joyent could not figure out what exactly they are offering or why they are better than Amazon!

By: Adrian Cockcroft

Adrian Cockcroft — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:08:24 +0000

I find this claim rather implausible:

“Joyent plans to take cloud computing to a place where our competitors, built on virtualization foundations such as VMWare ESX, Microsoft HyperV, Xen, KVM, won’t be able to go.”

In reality Amazon is dominating the cloud computing landscape, and when I use AWS I don’t care what virtualization foundations they use. I looked at Joyent’s pricing, they start at $125/month for a small node, and Amazon EC2 starts at 0.085c/hour for a small node, which is about $62 for a month, but the point of cloud is that my nodes can come and go, so I don’t want to buy them by the month. Amazon also has recently added double and quadruple sized large nodes with more memory than Joyent, who seem to compare their services to outdated information about AWS and I don’t see any equivalent to Amazon S3 or SimpleDB, or Elastic MapReduce.

So if Joyent can actually get their feature set to where Amazon already is, they might become interesting, if the price is right…