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CLOUD HOSTING

– Joyent Cloud Review

Product Snapshot

Product Pricing

Starting at 8.5 cents/hour

Technology

Joyent uses a powerful, enterprise-grade ZFS file system to ensure data integrity and security. The Joyent Cloud also deploys a fully-meshed 1-/40 Gbps network to ensure fast response times.

Customer Focus

Joyent provides cloud hosting solutions to a wide array of companies in a variety of industries.

Select Customers

Kabam, Gilt Groupe, LinkedIn, AKQA, Social Game Universe, TVDCO, Neverbug Entertainment & ZooLife

About Joyent Cloud

The Joyent Cloud provides proven cloud computing infrastructure and cloud hosting technology. It delivers virtual servers with advanced cloud security to businesses who want to run their applications in the Cloud. The Joyent Cloud is built with pre-configured virtual appliances to enable rapid application delivery and scaling. The Joyent Cloud can quickly have critical business applications up and running in the Cloud, freeing companies to run their organizations rather than managing their infrastructure.

About Joyent
Founded in 1994, Joyent is a global provider of cloud computing and systems software. Joyent provides cloud hosting solutions that are built on a complete cloud software stack. It is a proven, carrier-grade cloud infrastructure platform that allows companies to run their applications in a public, private, or hybrid cloud.

Joyent Cloud Key Features

SmartMachines

Dynamically scale in real-time, up to 16 CPUs
Get Full VNIC control
Configure to custom specifications
Leverage an enterprise grade file system and volume manager (ZFS)
View granular insights into real time latency from kernel to application with Joyent Cloud Analytics
Get public/private IP addresses
Intelligently cache data
Use premier Disk I/O and Network I/O to run Linux and Windows SmartMachines at a rapid rate

MongoDB SmartMachine

Leverage a high-performance, scalable, open source NoSQL database
Store JSON-style documents using dynamic schemas
Index any attribute
Mirror across LANs and WANs
Leverage flexible data processing and flexible aggregation
Store files of any size without overloading your stack

Node.js SmartMachine

Deploy data-intensive real-time (DIRTy) applications
Scale to millions of users and support concurrent connections
Get a unique IP address for each appliance, unrestricted Web sockets, and Port 80 access
Support personalization, geolocation, and dynamic data use in appliances for gaming, ecommerce, and social networking
Get JavaScript application code end-to-end and back-to-front
Simultaneously deploy to multiple servers
Specify dependencies with npm integration

Percona SmartMachine

Use SmartCache to reduce I/O latency
Get lightweight container-based virtualization with CPU bursting
Conduct non-blocking backups with XtraBackup
Improve memory use efficiency
Consolidate servers and run MySQL queries faster
Delay or avoid sharding
Create detailed query logs using per-query statistics
Perform latency root cause analysis
Measure performance per index, table, user or host counters
Use HandlerSocket to implement NoSQL protocol

Riak SmartMachine

Scale both horizontally and elastically
Operate in highly distributed environments
Read/write across all live nodes
Automatically replicate data
Instantly add a node to a cluster, with no downtime
Perform deep, complex queries with a robust MapReduce engine
Access full-featured client libraries for PHP, Java, Erlang, Ruby, and Python

Stingray SmartMachine

Enable application acceleration to improve performance
Cache content to increase response times and lower server load
Use TrafficScript to get real intelligence to traffic management rules
Add Java extensions to traffic management rules
Improve end-to-end security and SSL encryption and decryption
Use traffic clusters to scale the traffic management solution to any requirement
Use the Stingray Art of Defense as an application firewall
Cluster multiple Stingray load balancers