Joyent
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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Computer Software |
| Genre | Cloud infrastructure |
| Founded | 2004 |
| Key people | David Young (CEO) Jason Hoffman (CTO) Bryan Cantrill (SrVP Engineering, Product and Services) |
| Employees | 100 (Aug 2011) |
| Divisions | Cloud Software, Cloud Hosting |
| Website | www.joyent.com |
Joyent is a cloud computing software and services company based in San Francisco, California, since 2004. Joyent provides application virtualization.
JoyentCloud, Joyent’s hosting business unit, offers Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) for large enterprises.
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[edit] History
[edit] Founding
Founded in 2004, Joyent originally focused on providing a hosted suite of applications (mail, calendar, contacts, etc.).[1] Over time the company has evolved into a cloud computing software and hosting services provider. Cloud services are provided to many well-known companies including Social Game Universe, Traffic Marketplace, THQ and the company hosted Twitter in its early days.[2] Recently,[when?] Joyent has evolved into offering a cloud computing software stack.
[edit] Enlargement
In 2005, the company bought TextDrive, gaining an ASP platform.[3][4]
In 2009, Joyent acquired Reasonably Smart, a cloud startup company with products based on JavaScript and Git.[5] It also licensed its Smart software to Dell.[6] In 2009, it sold off both Strongspace and Bingodisk to ExpanDrive.[7]
In 2010, Joyent purchased LayerBoom, a Vancouver-based startup that provides solutions for managing virtual machines running on Windows and Linux.[8]
Customers of the company include LinkedIn, Gilt Groupe, and Kabam.
Joyent is using a multi-pronged strategy and developing in several directions The JoyentCloud hosting business is focusing on large enterprises and one of the fastest growing segments, online social gaming.[9] Joyent has taken the software stack that evolved over time in the running of their hosted business and is now licensing that software to large hardware companies such as Dell.[10] Joyent uses and supports Node.js.[11][12]
In August, 2011, Joyent open sourced SmartOS, its specialized distribution of Illumos, along with its port of KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine).[13]
Joyent is a supporter of open source projects including Node.js, Illumos and SmartOS.[14]
[edit] Financing
In January, 2012, Joyent announced a new round of funding[15] totalling $85 million from Weather Investment II and Telefónica Digital. Earlier investors include El Dorado Ventures, Epic Ventures, Peter Thiel (Seed Round)[16], Intel Capital (Series A, B Rounds)[17], Greycroft Partners (Series A, B Rounds)[18], Liberty Global (Series B Round)
[edit] References
- ^ http://techcrunch.com/2005/10/05/the-companies-of-web-20-part-1/
- ^ http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201202195
- ^ http://www.thealarmclock.com/mt/archives/2005/11/joyent_buys_tex.html
- ^ “TextDrive Sold to Joyent” http://www.blogherald.com/2005/11/30/textdrive-sold-to-joyent/
- ^ http://gigaom.com/2009/01/13/joyent-to-buy-reasonably-smart-creating-scalable-open-source-cloud/
- ^ http://gigaom.com/2010/03/24/joyent-dell-cloud/
- ^ “Startup Joyent Sells BingoDisk and Strongspace” http://gigaom.com/2009/08/13/startup-joyent-ends-bingodisk-and-strongspace/
- ^ http://gigaom.com/2010/07/15/joyent-buys-layerboom-to-offer-enterprises-easier-transition-to-the-cloud/
- ^ http://gigaom.com/cloud/new-joyent-packages-target-large-scale-online-gaming/
- ^ http://bizcloudnetwork.com/2010/dell-to-provide-joyent-cloud-software-solution-to-service-providers/
- ^ “Node.js Moves to Joyent” http://jaxenter.com/node-js-moves-to-joyent-32530.html
- ^ http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/03/joyent-relaunches-nodejs-servi.php
- ^ http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/joyent-announces-smartos-with-kvm-an-open-source-modern-operating-system-1549602.htm
- ^ http://www.smartos.org/
- ^ http://www.joyent.com/2012/01/joyent-secures-85m-in-venture-funding-to-fuel-global-growth-and-continued-innovation/
- ^ http://www.crunchbase.com/company/joyent
- ^ http://venturebeat.com/2010/09/14/joyent-lands-another-15m-for-cloud-computing-services/
- ^ http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/joyent-secures-15-million-in-series-c-funding-102849299.html
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