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Joyent takes on Google

Joyent takes on GoogleGoogle yes...Amazon?I could possibly see the lock-in with Googles setup since you have to write Python and it seems like your apps sit inside of their framework...I could be wrong. But with Amazon you're uploading your own home grown server image and if you just stick with...

Tags: Joyent, Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-01-14

Joyent takes on Google

In what many will see as a bold move, cloud computing infrastructure provider Joyent is taking on Google. Today it announced the acquisition of Reasonably Smart, a Canadian open source infrastructure provider based on JavaScript and Git. Rod Boothby, Joyent's VP of platform evangelism said this is the first...

Tags: Google Inc., Environment, Joyent, Capital Structures, Open Source, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-01-14

Ruby on Rails: scaling to 1 billion page views per month

While a lot of attention has been focused on Twitter with questions about whether Ruby on Rails scales, LinkedIn has been quietly running a RoR application on Facebook that is beating down around 1 billion page view per month. Bumpersticker, a relatively trivial Facebook application that allows you to create...

Tags: LinkedIn, Ruby, Joyent, Ruby On Rails, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-23

Why Twitter's failing

Right now, Twitter is a mess. Most of today, European users have experienced outages of varying length and even hard core Twitter fans are saying they've had enough. Some have talked of jumping ship to Pownce or Jaiku. Louis van Proosdij, in answer to TechCrunch France's Ouriel Ohayon offered: ...

Tags: Twitter, Marshall, Joyent, Rod Boothby, Patience, Manufacturing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-01-31

Back channel communications and blogging

Last week a guy named Ben Rockwood, whom many of you will know as a key player at Joyent, published a personal blog harshly critical of Suns hardware and services delivery process. His title: Getting Fed Up With Sun: Cant Get Systems, Breaking...

Tags: Sun, General

Blog posts 2007-04-23

Why open source works for Solaris

Why open source works for SolarisBut nobody said they wereSo I don't grok ...(and, by the way, ZFS is running on MacOS X/Darwinwith variations in the "playing with" stage at least for a couple of other BSDs. )DTrace and ZFS are *not* user level appsFor user level applications (eg a...

Tags: Operating systems, Servers, Unix, Sun Solaris, Joyent, open source

Discussion threads 2006-05-09

Additional Resources

Cloud may complicate SOA load balancing act

Shine your own light in the cloudLori is correct to suggest that the cloud can obscure what you see. Cloud offerings tend to be basic, covering CPU, bandwidth and storage, and are very much of a 'one-shape-fits-all' nature. This is a consequence of building the offering on multi-tenanted...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Lori, SOA

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

Comparing infrastructure as a service providers: Amazon, Rackspace emerge

Amazon Web Services has the best pricing based on dollar per virtual machine, but Rackspace fills in a few gaps---especially with persistent instance data, according to a report from JMP Securities. In the report, JMP analyst Patrick Walravens surveys the infrastructure as a service providers. The report,...

Tags: Rackspace, Amazon Web Services, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Pricing Strategy, Walravens, Cloud Computing, Pricing, Virtualization, Web Services, Marketing Research, Marketing, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-06

SAP snags Coghead

SAP has acquired the assets of Coghead minus any of its customers following Coghead's demise. As Rafe Needleman says over at CNet, this paves the way for others to swoop in and sweep up stranded customers although there is some doubt whether this will work. I received a 'safe harbor'...

Tags: SAP AG, Coghead, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Firewalls, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Networking, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-02-19

News to know: Black market zero days; Microsoft security; BlackBerry Bold; SAP

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Dancho Danchev: Black market for zero day vulnerabilities still thriving Spammers targeting Bebo, generate thousands of bogus accounts Larry Dignan: Microsoft: Third party apps...

Tags: Security, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Information Technology, Dana Blankenhorn, SAP AG, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., BlackBerry Bold, Microsoft Windows, Smart Phones, Cloud Computing, Linux, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-11-03

No recession in Joyent's cloud

  Rod Boothby at Joyent (disclosure: Rod is also a fellow Irregular) sent me the above graph showing how Joyent is profiting from the downturn in the economy. The reasons are not hard to fathom. Despite the economic downturn, organizations still need to get...

Tags: Financial, Recession, Data Centers, Financial Accounting, E-mail, Cloud Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-31

First MISO, then GISMO, next GOAT?

Awhile back my Irregular chums came up with MISO as the acronym to describe the main enterprise players of the time: Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle. We also quipped that could change to include Google and so with a little creative thought we ended up with GISMO. Last week's Apple...

Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Steve Gillmor, Apple Inc., 3G, Operational Planning, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-14

"Reliability is a management issue" [podcast]

The Enterprise 2.0 conference currently being held in Boston reminds us that mission-critical web-based applications require high availability. Unfortunately, some enterprise 2.0 application vendors take development shortcuts resulting in poor reliability, which angers users and damages the developer's credibility. In  this podcast, I speak with Rod Boothby,...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Podcasts, Cloud Computing, Internet, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-06-12

Why social software won't dethrone the incumbents

Why social software won't dethrone the incumbentsThose are all smart arguementsApple, Salesforce.com, Google, VMWare, Amazon:They're companies who were supposed to die and/or who grew from nothing. If it's a forgone conclusion that the big IT guy landscape is cemented, then we should all just give up and go home. The...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Groupware, social Software, incumbent, software, Sig Rinde, Social Software

Discussion threads 2008-04-30

Twitter turmoil: when does it end?

The news that Twitter's lead architect Blaine Cook and Lee Mighdoll, VP engineering have left should be no surprise. Let's be blunt. Despite the  neutral language used in various posts, they were fired. One has to wonder whether Jack Dorsey is next, especially as he doesn't seem to understand the...

Tags: Twitter, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Manufacturing, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-04-24

Is Facebook a PaaS contender?

Nate Westheimer's observation about Google's App Engine: Aiming At Facebook, Not Amazon set me thinking. Should Facebook's F8 platform be considered a contender in the platform-as-a-service wars? Since my perspective is firmly on PaaS in the business world rather than as a consumer play, Facebook isn't really...

Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Facebook, PaaS, App Engine, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-04-11

Ever been Oprah'd?

One of the measures of success for a tech website or blog is getting TechCrunched, Dugg or 'slashdotted' â€" the sudden surge of visitors that comes as a result of being highlighted by one of these big-traffic sites, often crashing the target site (it happened to one of...

Tags: Cloud Computing, Oprah Winfrey, Web Site, Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-03-29

A plethora of PaaS options

About that show of hands. I didn't expect my straw poll at last week's SaaS Summit would produce only two hesitant supporters for Salesforce.com's Force.com platform-as-a-service model out of a room full of two or three hundred ISVs. But this was a conference organized by specialist SaaS hoster OpSource, and...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, PaaS, OpSource, Application Infrastructure, Application Builder, Software As A Service (SaaS), Web Hosting, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-03-06

SaaS and the global virtual stack

When people argue that SaaS is just another deployment option for software, they really are missing the bigger picture. It's as hopeless as a carriage-builder in the early 20th century saying that using motors instead of horses is just another locomotion option for carriages. It ignores the wider revolution that's...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Stack, Enterprise, Service Aggregation, Application Composition, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-02-27

Gartner's top 10 predictions on IT futures

Gartner researchers have identified 10 areas that IT professionals should pay attention to this year. Gartner: By 2011, Apple will double its U.S. and Western Europe unit market share in computers. Our take: Gartner correctly assesses that Apple's gains are a reflection of failure...

Tags: Software, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-01-31