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Joyent Inc. is a software and services company based in San Francisco, California. Specializing in cloud computing, it markets infrastructure-as-a-service. On June 15, 2016, the company was acquired by Samsung Electronics.
Triton, Joyent's hosting unit, was designed to compete with Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and offered infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) for large enterprises.
This hosting business was used for 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 Node.js, pkgsrc, 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.
Joyent took software that evolved over time in the running of their hosted business and licensed that software under the name Triton DataCenter (formerly "Triton Enterprise", "SDC" or "SmartDataCenter") to large hardware companies such as Dell.
The name Joyent was coined by David Paul Young in the second half of 2004, and some early funding obtained from Peter Thiel. More funding was disclosed in July 2005 with Young as executive officer.
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Joyent
Joyent Inc. is a software and services company based in San Francisco, California. Specializing in cloud computing, it markets infrastructure-as-a-service. On June 15, 2016, the company was acquired by Samsung Electronics.
Triton, Joyent's hosting unit, was designed to compete with Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and offered infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) for large enterprises.
This hosting business was used for 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 Node.js, pkgsrc, 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.
Joyent took software that evolved over time in the running of their hosted business and licensed that software under the name Triton DataCenter (formerly "Triton Enterprise", "SDC" or "SmartDataCenter") to large hardware companies such as Dell.
The name Joyent was coined by David Paul Young in the second half of 2004, and some early funding obtained from Peter Thiel. More funding was disclosed in July 2005 with Young as executive officer.