Joyent
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| Industry | Computer Software |
| Genre | Cloud infrastructure |
| Founded | 2004 |
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Key people
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Scott Hammond (CEO) Bryan Cantrill (CTO) |
| Products | Node.js, SmartOS, Joyent Cloud, Joyent SmartDataCenter |
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Number of employees
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80 (Aug 2013) |
| Parent | Independent (2004–2016) Samsung (2016–present) |
| Divisions | Cloud Software, Cloud Hosting |
| Website | www |
Joyent Inc is a software and services company based in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in application virtualization and cloud computing. On June 15, 2016 the company was acquired by Samsung.
JoyentCloud, Joyent’s hosting unit, is designed to compete with Amazon's EC2 cloud and offers infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) for large enterprises.
This hosting business is active in the segment of online social network gaming, where it provides services to companies such as THQ,Social Game Universe, and Traffic Marketplace.
The company also hosted Twitter in its early days. Other customers include LinkedIn, Gilt Groupe, and Kabam.
In June 2013 Joyent introduced an object storage service under the name Manta and partnered in September 2013 with network appliance vendor Riverbed to offer an inexpensive content-delivery network. In February 2014, Joyent announced a partnership with Canonical to offer virtual Ubuntu machines.
Joyent uses and supports open source projects, including Ruby on Rails,Node.js,Illumos and SmartOS, which is its own distribution of Illumos, featuring its port of the KVM Hypervisor for abstracting the software from the hardware, DTrace for troubleshooting and systems monitoring, and the ZFS file system to connect servers to storage systems. The company open-sourced SmartOS in August 2011.
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