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Samsung agrees to buy US cloud provider Joyent

2016-06-16 08:39:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) Samsung has announced an agreement to acquire Joyent, a US-based public and private cloud provider founded in 2004, for an undisclosed amount. In a statement, Samsung said the deal will give it access to its own cloud platform capable of supporting its range of mobile, Internet of Things and cloud-based software and services. Joyent will join Samsung's mobile communications business while continuing to operate as a standalone company and continuing to provide cloud infrastructure and software services to its customers. Leading Joyent executives including CEO Scott Hammond, CTO Bryan Cantrill and VP of Product Bill Fine will work on Samsung's company-wide cloud initiatives.

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Joyent vows to beat OpenStack at its own game

2014-06-24 17:00:00| InfoWorld: Top News

Most folks who know the name Joyent associate it with Node.js.

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Joyent makes it easier to contribute code to Node.js

2014-06-11 18:31:15| InfoWorld: Top News

Node.js, the JavaScript-based server that commands a strong developer audience, has been open source from the beginning. Now it's about to get a little more open.

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Outage caused by single admin mortifies cloud provider Joyent

2014-05-28 14:25:09| InfoWorld: Top News

Cloud provider Joyent suffered an outage on Tuesday after an administrator was able to simultaneously reboot all virtual servers hosted in the company's US-East-1 data center. "It should go without saying that we're mortified by this. While the immediate cause was operator error, there are broader systemic issues that allowed a fat finger to take down a datacenter," said Bryan Cantrill, CTO at Joyent, in a post on Hacker News.

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